Comments on: Mac OS X Lion adds iOS style notifications to Dock icons

By: Greg Brown

Greg Brown — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:56:09 +0000

Just upgraded to Lion and I immediately noticed the problem with the unread count badge – it looks much worse than in 10.6 (it is basically unreadable). Seems like the appearance was designed for a retina display (which I obviously don’t have on my MBP).

By: Thadone

Thadone — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:03:52 +0000

It looks unreadable in smaller scales because a badge is changing its size with an icon. But in the end dock icon isn’t smaller then e.g. 40px and badge icon is unreadable… its really horrible and unfortunately last 10.7.1 update didn’t change it..

By: JLS

JLS — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:48:12 +0000

Agreed, the unread mail badge has been rendered unreadable.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:02:36 +0000

OS X Lion is improved in that the incoming mail sound now works consistently. However, one slight bug. Badge indicator (red outlined number on mail in dock) only works when set in preferences to “all mailboxes”. When set to “incoming mail only” the badge indicator does not function. Oh, well. Can’t have everything.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:35:48 +0000

The badge alerts in my lion dock are awful looking – I have a lot of items in my docks and so when small you can hardly read whats inside the circles! (compared to how they used to be)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:43:42 +0000

Surprisingly people point out something new but it is not really new for Lion OS rather unique feature that I personally find very and very impress and useful:

1. LaunchPad (although still buggy on beta as expected)
2. Folders like iOS 4 (although still figuring out how to categorize application as it available to select on finder under application category.)
3. FullScreen with swiping option. (my favorite)
4. User Account log in at upper right conner.
5. Mail interface alike iPad’s : This is my most favorite feature. It’s so nice and love you Apple Mail

Those are all I found amazing features so far. All we wait is bugs free fix.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:08:58 +0000

Badges for Mail and iChat have always been there. However:
1. The badges UI has been updated to look more like iOS
2. The badges are now apparently system-wide.

By: Mactacular

Mactacular — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:39:12 +0000

The notifications are not new at all. Both ichat and mail do that currently.

By: lucalolz

lucalolz — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:22:18 +0000

Well that’s a lie isn’t it.

By: Newton

Newton — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:59:29 +0000

The badges also show up on Xcode for listing the number of errors found when compiling.

By: chugwin

chugwin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:08:06 +0000

in Mail yes, but in iChat there are no badges until Lion

By: chugwin

chugwin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:07:06 +0000

the notifications on iChat are new

poster doesn’t show it but they are in Safari and most other apps

By: Adam Turetzky

Adam Turetzky — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:04:46 +0000

This screenshot shows nothing new. This functionality is currently available for both iChat and Mail in Snow Leopard and has been there since 10.0 for Mail and 10.5 for iChat.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:27:44 +0000

OS X does these notifications already for Mail, what’s new?

By: The Skeptic

The Skeptic — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:12:03 +0000

LaunchPad is interesting, and is far better than simply dragging your applications folder to the Dock.

The ability to organise your applications into Groups (folders), without affecting their physical location in the file system will make it much easier to navigate to the applications that you want.