The window decor has changed for Panther. Instead of the grey and white stripes on the title, each window now sports a light grey grad fill. It’s a bit of a return towards the creeping grey that eventually made OS 9 look so ugly, but for now it’s OK. The gem buttons - close, minimise, etc - are now also set back into the title bar instead of sitting on it. Again, I think I prefered the old version, but it’s not big thing.

What I do like is that they’ve chucked Sendmail out of the window and installed Postfix instead. Woo hoo for a mail server that doesn’t have to run as root!

Journalling is now enabled by default on HFS+ it seems. It can be disabled with the new disk utility.

Also SMB name resolution seems to work as well. I just asked Mart to connect to my machine and he was able to connect to \\Margaret rather than my IP. I didn’t just appear in his Network Neighbourhood though, but then neither do most of the Windows machines :-)

Here is a much better list of new stuff.