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Mac OS X Leopard 9a499 Visual Enhancements

Project said:
I love them.
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I second that...

I love em too!

But at this point, all of that is redundant if the system is too heavy and slow... So.. I'd rather have speed over beauty at this point. I love the new look, I really love it, but I'd like to live in a Sci Fi world where that also gives us an OS environment without any spinning beach balls and a fast UI.
 
iJawn108 said:
Do you work for apple or something?

Let's just agree to disagree on this one.
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While I do not work for Apple, I have a hard time believing those are Leopard icons (or, I guess I should be more specific and say come bundled with Apple's next opperating system, 10.5).
If so, they look absolutely grotesque.
 
I like many of the new interface elements of Leopard, but not the icons. I actually really like my current Tiger desktop with Crystal Clear dark installed and some custom icons.

I wish I knew more about performance issues with Leopard, because right now, I don't really have a compelling reason to upgrade if it doesn't have a marked speed increase on my Intel iMac.
 
Look people the only reason I'm bringing up the subject is because some ( if not a great majority ) of those icons are not in Leopard.Period.They might be in the future.Who knows.

By posting mock-ups an/or ideas from some PS geek it gives the wrong impression of Leopard.Plus the fact that MacRumors is a busy and a very high profile website.It doesn't help arn or MR to be posting stuff that hasn't been or may never be released to the public.

Lets all just wait for Apple to "officially" release any screen grabs or pics of the GUI..

It's coming in October so we don't have long to wait.

Conjecture doesn't help at this stage as Apple is working very hard at getting out some great stuff over the next couple of months.
 
I do like the new icons....but I just wonder what they will look like in real-world situations ie. when they are small. They look great at 128x128 or whatever res they are, but scale them down to the size I will look at them while I'm working...will they be as nice and easily distinguishable from one another?

Can anyone who has been testing Leopard tell us what they are like small?
 
zioxide said:
that system preferences icon is ****ing awful. talk about completely clashing with everything else.
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morespce54 said:
what's up with the "System Preferences" icon???
I'm sorry but not having an iPhone, I've never seen it before... And I don't like it :( (for now)...

I liked the old one...
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Agreed!

hotdamn said:
People still bitchin' about the transparent Menu Bar have apparently never actually used Leopard.
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I've used Leopard *ahem* and I can't stand the menu bar. I think it's a bit too transparent.
 
iJawn108 said:
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100 download limit so I ask someone else up it to share with everyone later.

Leopard Icon Set(142) Leopard Wallpapers(7) Leopard MovieTime Widget(1)

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If that's Leopard, where's the Cover Flow view option? @ WWDC, SJ showed how you can use Cover Flow in the Finder, but in your pic, they only have the old 3.
 
guzhogi said:
If that's Leopard, where's the Cover Flow view option? @ WWDC, SJ showed how you can use Cover Flow in the Finder, but in your pic, they only have the old 3.
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The user later said that he didn't have Leopard, just some icons.
 
guzhogi said:
If that's Leopard, where's the Cover Flow view option? @ WWDC, SJ showed how you can use Cover Flow in the Finder, but in your pic, they only have the old 3.
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*Sigh* ...That is NOT Leopard! It's actually Tiger, customized in the picture to make it look like Leopard. Yeah, apparently it may confuse some people. Bad idea, I'd say. :mad:

Peace said:
Lets all just wait for Apple to "officially" release any screen grabs or pics of the GUI..

It's coming in October so we don't have long to wait.

Conjecture doesn't help at this stage as Apple is working very hard at getting out some great stuff over the next couple of months.
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You made a good point and I agree 100%. I'm sick of all these images being quoted all over the place. Let's hold on for the real thing and save all the pointless blabber for that! I'm really looking forward to Leopard.
 
I'm really liking the look of Leopard. I hope it's faster on my C2D than Tiger is now. What was once snappy now feels slower. I doubt it'll run that great on my PowerBook...
 
ghall said:
I've used Leopard *ahem* and I can't stand the menu bar. I think it's a bit too transparent.
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The bigger problem with the menu bar is that when you click on a menu, the drop down menu is not translucent (which is great) but the menu bar remains translucent. It looks unfinished and jarring (as do the HUGE shadows on windows that jump out when you switch applications).

If Apple have to have the translucent menu bar (and I also don't like it) they should at least make it fade to non-translucent when the mouse enters the menu bar, and stay that way until the mouse moves away, or a menu item is selected.

That's the attention to detail you expect from Apple. Or maybe "expected" from Apple - personally I think Leopard is a mess of styles and experiments gone wrong, and that's probably because Apple took all the resources away to work on the iPhone and left a skeleton team of people to continue work on Leopard without real UI supervision.

The new folder icons look fantastic... at > 128x128. At anything smaller they are hard to distinguish from each other. That's an example of style over substance once again. As are the small lights to indicate running apps on the Dock - that's an obvious problem that has been mentioned by numerous people since WWDC, yet Apple didn't fix it for this build either...

And the Leopard background (wet grass) is awful. Wet grass has nothing to do with a desktop - which is why an abstract look was always a better initial choice. That image looks like something from XP or Vista, and the water droplets look a lot like the little lights on the Dock which add to more confusion because of the reflections in the Dock. When Steve showed the desktop at WWDC everyone laughed - me too, I thought he was making a Vista joke. That should have been a wake up call to him and the developers on Leopard, but apparently not.
 
zioxide said:
that system preferences icon is ****ing awful. talk about completely clashing with everything else.
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morespce54 said:
what's up with the "System Preferences" icon???
I'm sorry but not having an iPhone, I've never seen it before... And I don't like it :( (for now)...

I liked the old one...
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Its really aweful! I tried to like it but I still hate it! Looks much like the icon from windows services in control panel
 
I like the rounded corners on contextual menus!

Menu bar still isn't doing it for me though!

Path's in Finder, yaaaay!
 
curmi said:
The bigger problem with the menu bar is that when you click on a menu, the drop down menu is not translucent (which is great) but the menu bar remains translucent. It looks unfinished and jarring (as do the HUGE shadows on windows that jump out when you switch applications).

If Apple have to have the translucent menu bar (and I also don't like it) they should at least make it fade to non-translucent when the mouse enters the menu bar, and stay that way until the mouse moves away, or a menu item is selected.

That's the attention to detail you expect from Apple. Or maybe "expected" from Apple - personally I think Leopard is a mess of styles and experiments gone wrong, and that's probably because Apple took all the resources away to work on the iPhone and left a skeleton team of people to continue work on Leopard without real UI supervision.

The new folder icons look fantastic... at > 128x128. At anything smaller they are hard to distinguish from each other. That's an example of style over substance once again. As are the small lights to indicate running apps on the Dock - that's an obvious problem that has been mentioned by numerous people since WWDC, yet Apple didn't fix it for this build either...

And the Leopard background (wet grass) is awful. Wet grass has nothing to do with a desktop - which is why an abstract look was always a better initial choice. That image looks like something from XP or Vista, and the water droplets look a lot like the little lights on the Dock which add to more confusion because of the reflections in the Dock. When Steve showed the desktop at WWDC everyone laughed - me too, I thought he was making a Vista joke. That should have been a wake up call to him and the developers on Leopard, but apparently not.
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Stop speaking for everyone. I personally love Leopard.

I am sure there'll be enough cool .apps for the ubergeeks to change Leopard to look like they want it to. All the bitching won't change anything.
If you don't like the transparent menu bar, go paint a white strip under it with photoshop.
If you don't like the grass desktop - CHANGE IT.
How does wet grass not have anything to do with a desktop? what kind of logic is that? does someone's girlfriend have more to do with a desktop? or a picture of the earth?
I have a beach as my desktop. May I please keep it?

Oh it looks unfinished? Uhm, it's a BETA.
 
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