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Rumored Feature of Panther, and How Cool It Could Be |
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 According to a rumor the next version of Mac OS X, codenamed Panther, will have a new feature that could quite possibly rival Splinter Free Toilet Paper as the greatest "how could I ever have lived with out it" invention of all time.
This rumored new feature is called "Piles".
"Piles" will work just like piles of paper stacked up on a desk. Basically, you have a bunch of files on your desktop or in a folder, and you group them together in a Pile. Kind of like putting them in a folder, except it is way cooler than a folder. They get grouped together in this location, and when you select them, (I would imagine just by putting the mouse over them, but you may have to click or something), it will show you all the files in that "pile". Then by selecting an item in said pile, it will show information about that file, such as size, name, type, etc.. then, of course, you can open a file from there as well. According to rumors the order of the pile, and the way the pile looks, (neat or disheveled) will be customizable.
This is great news for people like me who have dozens of icons on their desktop, but hate the messy look of dozens of icons on their desktop.
Now, if my wonderful description isn't clear enough, or you are a visual person like me, you can visit Richard Das's home page for an absolutely awesome flash animation of how it MIGHT look. So check it out, I command it. :) |
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April 16 2003, 11:05 PM EDT, by
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| Bill |
4/17/03, 10:37 AM EDT |
Wow, good to see Steve Jobs chilling out about the work done at Apple in the 90's. I saw a demo of piles during an OpenDoc tour in '96 or '97 (my 5-year NDA is expired). Very useful idea, though a folder on the desktop isn't unbearably worse. With first Newton (InkWell) now, piles, there's still hope for OpenDoc to come back and save us.
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| Fred Mertz |
4/17/03, 10:46 AM EDT |
Saw an intersting take on 'Piles' over at MacDailyNews a few days ago: "Readers not happy with 'Piles' name suggest Panther 'Stacks' instead; link to preview 'Piles' here" was the story.
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| Kessa |
4/17/03, 11:13 AM EDT |
Forgive my lack of knowledge of its underpinnings but will Piles be similar to Hypercard?
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| The One Belly'd Rodent |
4/17/03, 11:22 AM EDT |
>Forgive my lack of knowledge of its underpinnings but will Piles be similar to Hypercard?
Your lack of underpinnings knowledge has been forgiven, grasshoppa.
Today's answer to yoru question is: No.
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| Vladmir Illytch Ulianov |
4/17/03, 11:43 AM EDT |
This is one GREAT idea.
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| Dave Hanks |
4/17/03, 11:51 AM EDT |
My extremely cluttered desktop needs this feature. With daily web downloads of word docs for printing my desktop gets a new "load" to print and toss later... a single pile of these docs per day would be very nice! As for the name, they really are piles; I flush them daily.
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| Richard Welser |
4/17/03, 11:54 AM EDT |
I don't know what has been said elsewhere but the name 'piles' make me think of a medical disease....and not a pleasant one. A different one is needed for sure....even 'stacks'
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| different computers |
4/17/03, 12:50 PM EDT |
Is there a pleasant medical disease?
But sure, I'd rather say "My computer is stacked!" than "I've got piles."
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| Mr. Ed |
4/17/03, 12:59 PM EDT |
True dat!
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| iKen |
4/17/03, 1:00 PM EDT |
I like the name stacks a lot more than piles...
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| Jedbeck |
4/17/03, 1:13 PM EDT |
How about we call them "little nuggets of love for your desktop"
i think it is kind of catchy.
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| iKen |
4/17/03, 1:29 PM EDT |
hehe... you said nuggets...
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| Smever |
4/17/03, 1:39 PM EDT |
Piles of Panther turds.
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| Jonahan |
4/17/03, 2:10 PM EDT |
plus have you heard the rumor that Apple is implementing smell-o-vision? mmmm.....smell the piles
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| thebaron |
4/17/03, 2:59 PM EDT |
reminds of a revamped database program that came with the original macs.
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| jasonM |
4/17/03, 3:24 PM EDT |
How is this supposed to work for directories/folders in directories, if everything stacks vertically?
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| rcnotes |
4/17/03, 4:08 PM EDT |
Couldn't a contextual menu and an icon indicating how "full" a folder might be achieve the same effect and be less graphic intensive?
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| Rafael |
4/17/03, 4:24 PM EDT |
I just ran into this site via MacSurfer- tight damned design (visually and technologically)! Nice layout(s), cool little extras (layout options, shout outs, the little "you're using 'X' browser...", newsfeeds and one helluva sense of humor...). This news announcement, "April 16 - We now have an RSS feed, for anyone who'd like to syndicate our content. Lord knows why you'd want to, but here it is.' is the hardest I've laughed at any announcement in awhile! Bookmarked!
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| iken |
4/17/03, 4:27 PM EDT |
Thanks Rafael!
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| Brett Johnson |
4/17/03, 9:46 PM EDT |
"Piles" is in reference to "Piles, Files, and Lists", three different organisation strategies employed my most people. The point being that different people organize themselves in diffent ways, and forcing a single organization model on all people won't work for the majority. Traditionally, computers with hierarchical file systems subscribe to the "Files" model and have forced all users to subscribe to that model. There are numerous third party applications that have To-Do List functionality ("Lists" model). Apple now provides support for the third model, "Piles". This really is a computer for "the rest of us".
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| bundles for everyone |
4/17/03, 10:20 PM EDT |
This is bundles for documents. Apple's developer tools do this and Logic just started moving in that direction. The idea is that the user is often better off working with a folder instead of a file, and navigating the folder and pulling out relevant data is going to fall on the application.
Think of a folder that contains a Web site appearing as a "Web Site Document" and opening in a browser when launched, but if you view the contents of the document, it's a folder with index.html and top.png and 300 other files.
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| Dmitry Markman |
4/18/03, 1:03 AM EDT |
well, excellent idea, only one problem
I'll have a zillion of 'piles' on my desktop
instead of of zillion files :-(
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| iKen |
4/18/03, 1:10 AM EDT |
"well, excellent idea, only one problem
I'll have a zillion of 'piles' on my desktop
instead of of zillion files"
if it isn't a zillion piles, then it is several zillion files... at least it will clean up -some- :)
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| sublime |
4/18/03, 7:15 PM EDT |
and what's going to happen to precious system performance when you've got piles of.... piles on your desktop that react to 'mouse-over' (especially with large piles)?
Can you imagine the ticker-tape parade, not to mention the 'pile hitting the fan' jokes?
I can see the advantages though - for the most part, i don't really need to see every individual file clearly all the time - i'd be happy for the implimentation if we can categorise and organise our 'piles'... it'd certainly save on digging through folder after folder to find things. It couldn't work in column view though, i wonder if it's only intended for the desktop?
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| John David Eriksen |
7/27/03, 10:55 AM EDT |
P L E E Z E D U D E S.. get a life
I have lot of Icons on my dekstop too guys...
THEY ARE CALLED.... FOLDERS... a very useful thing. and, oddly enough, they work great for holding 'collections' of documents...
who knew 8-
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