Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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APPENDIX A WHAT’S NEW WITH LEOPARD
Figure A-1. The default Leopard desktop
Superficial Changes
Many of the changes seem to be purely superficial, including the following:
• The menu bar is translucent now.
• The Apple and the Spotlight icons in the menu bar are now black.
• The Dock now seems to be a 3D shelf with the icons sitting upon it rather than in it.
• The active applications in the Dock now seem to have a light shining on them to indicate
they are active, rather than the small black triangle of old.
• The Window borders have changed to a more consistent, slightly different, “smoother”
gray metal theme.
• The drop-down menus now have slightly curved corners.
• The system folders have a new look to them.
• The drop shadows on everything seem a bit different.
These changes, however, are fairly insignificant. They don’t make using Leopard any different,
they just change how it looks. If we delve deeper, we can find a number of things that can
actually change how Leopard works, and more importantly how you can work with Leopard.
Stacks
Beyond changing its overall appearance, the Dock has added the Stack feature, which allows you
to create “stacks” of files and place them on the Dock for easy access. This feature makes all the
files in a directory easily accessible from the Dock. Figure A-2 shows the Stack feature.