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Apple, give us the colors back (please)
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I remember having the Aqua appearance set up in OS 9 because it was at the time the coolest thing ever. It reached it's peak at Tiger (which coincidentally is the best Mac OS ever) and has gone progressively downhill from there.
Give me an option to have color and you have my $30.
Give me an option to have color and you have my $30.
I loved the Leopard look. Much more polished than Tiger, but kept the colors. I'm not a fan of the grey look, and I wish they'd give us back the option. I used to have tons of custom icons, but they don't even show in the sidebar if I set them, so I just haven't bothered in a while.
jW
jW
I don't get why anyone would vote No to this... no ones trying to force you to have color, they are simply wanting the option to get the color back... You could go monochrome or lots of color before if you wanted.... now you can't.
"Oh please Apple, take options away from us!!"
"Oh please Apple, take options away from us!!"
UI elements should be unobtrusive. Easily seen, but not garrish... and uniformity is key. I don't mind the colors, but the size of those icons is ridiculous.
I want Apple to decide on a standard for their UI already. They're getting there, but you can still see remnants of previous OS versions floating about... the toolbar in Disk Utility is a good example of this. Colored icons, versus the gray, minimalist icons of, say, Mail or Safari. The iWork apps also have these colored icons, and they look horrible, out-dated.
I hate to say the M word, but Microsoft's 2007+ Office apps demonstrate a better presentation of colored UI icon elements while also maintaining high-quality and uniformity. You may not like them, but at least they don't look like icons from the days of Windows NT.
I want Apple to decide on a standard for their UI already. They're getting there, but you can still see remnants of previous OS versions floating about... the toolbar in Disk Utility is a good example of this. Colored icons, versus the gray, minimalist icons of, say, Mail or Safari. The iWork apps also have these colored icons, and they look horrible, out-dated.
I hate to say the M word, but Microsoft's 2007+ Office apps demonstrate a better presentation of colored UI icon elements while also maintaining high-quality and uniformity. You may not like them, but at least they don't look like icons from the days of Windows NT.
I dont see why they couldnt give the user the choice? I seem to remember being able to choose between two distinct themes in Tiger Aqua and Brushed Metal...Or even better all for the creation of custom created user/community UI themes without the need for 3rd party software.
Snow Leopard was the best OS for me (then again, I didn't use Tiger, only Leopard). I loved the look and the Aqua scrollbars and elements. Now it's all greyish and horrible after SL. Ugh.
That being said, you CAN get color back with some tweaks. Both in iTunes and Finder.
That being said, you CAN get color back with some tweaks. Both in iTunes and Finder.
Unfortunately not without Apple coming along and clobbering them on the next update.
swingerofbirch
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I forgot how much easier that 2D dock is to look at until I saw the picture (of Tiger, above). The 3D dock with the icons exposed really blends into background windows. Oh, I miss it all, I want it back! That's a great picture of Tiger.
You can get the 2D dock back. It's not the same look (rather, the look of the side-dock) but it's much nicer than the 3D one. Enter in terminal:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock