Now i think we're all farmilar with notification centre with iOS, you swipe down from the top and it reveals the notification centre, one thing that i've got to say about notification centre that even if you're in a full screen app and you swipe down from the top, it reveals a little tag that you can pull down on so that it reveals notification centre.
Mountain lion, well some of you might not have seen this, it's a notification centre from iOS built right into the base of Mac OSx. Using the Mac's trackpad and swiping left you display the notification centre, fading the entire background to the left, making the transition seem fluent.
This differs from the iOS notification centre, you pull down from the top and it displays the notification and the Mac Osx notification where you pull to the left using the trackpad, i'm sure there's several different ways to activate the notification centre but we'll stick to the main one for now.
well ever since mountain lion developer preview came out and the way that you activate it, i've always wondered why apple have taken different routes to activate notification centre. There's a new jailbreak tweak that's been released on cydia, conventialy named MountainLionCenter This basically features Mac Osx style notification centre on to the ipad including the gestures, the way it transitions and reveals itself on the device.
Thinking of it now, i've only actually seen this tweak on the iPad and in my head it wouldn't really work well with the iphone, with the iphone's small screen you wouldn't be able to utilse every gesture properly without running into any mistakes. Considering these points Apple wouldn't really want to make the user experience flat and they would want the same gestures that i found on the ipad, on every other iDevice so that a user of all 3 iDevices don't have to change the gesture depending on each device
not sure about the swiping left, as with 4 finger swipe it either moves to a new desktop or goes to the widget page.
ReplyDeleteon Mountain Lion DP4 i clock the top tight circle and the screen slides left. It also have a new 'Do Not Disturb' option on this latest DP which disables the notification so you don't get the messages while you are busy/making presentations etc. a nice option.
Clicking the bottom right of the notification bar opens the same style options as iOS has with the types of banner/alert granular control.
i installed Windows 8 on a work machine today and apart from being awful on a non touch device (so far anyway but that might change) it has lots of slide out side bars etc like OSX has had for a decade :-)