Seriously, what is Marble? Cause I never heard Apple mention anything about Marble being a UI name.
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OS X Snow Leopard 10A402 Brings Visual Tweaks and Other Enhancements
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"...white text on a charcoal background"... please make it possible to apply this on a system-wide scale.
I would love a new OS X look.
I would love a new OS X look.
I know what they look like, but never knew it was called "Marble." I thought the UI changes in SL was just HUD styles.
I miss the way Aqua used to be...
I don't want a new GUI based on that Charcoal/HUD stuff..
Me too. I switched to Mac at the time of Tiger and I really loved the UI. Heck, I even liked brushed metal
Its been referred to as marble for over a year - ever since the first leaked rumours of a new UI coming out in Snow Leopard with grandiose claims that it'll appear at the last minute.
Me too. I switched to Mac at the time of Tiger and I really loved the UI. Heck, I even liked brushed metal
Well, you can get Leopard to revert back to the Aqua style of Tiger/Panther. It only changes the CoreUI and windows though.
My experience
I noticed, since the update, that my battery won't charge up to 100% but is stuck at 95% and saying it is "charged"...
I'm also experiencing a lot of beachball issues where my system just hangs for a minute or 2. Tried everything to fix it but haven't found a solution yet...
I really like the new HUD style... Goes well with the new designs of the laptops. Only thing I still don't like about the 3d dock is still present and had been since the release of leopard.
When using the List view... the items in the dock stay magnified when moving the mouse in the menu...
But when using Fan or Grid view... the items in the dock pop back which annoys me a lot. It's just not "beautiful". Especially when you have your items hugely magnified.
Any idea's why they haven't fixed this yet?
I noticed, since the update, that my battery won't charge up to 100% but is stuck at 95% and saying it is "charged"...
I'm also experiencing a lot of beachball issues where my system just hangs for a minute or 2. Tried everything to fix it but haven't found a solution yet...
I really like the new HUD style... Goes well with the new designs of the laptops. Only thing I still don't like about the 3d dock is still present and had been since the release of leopard.
When using the List view... the items in the dock stay magnified when moving the mouse in the menu...
But when using Fan or Grid view... the items in the dock pop back which annoys me a lot. It's just not "beautiful". Especially when you have your items hugely magnified.
Any idea's why they haven't fixed this yet?
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That's normal, if you're battery is at 90% it sometimes won't charge it all the way, but if you've been draining the battery and it won't charge above 95% you should consider re-calibrating your battery.
This was in the last build too. I can't see it being useful since you can't tell whether an app has open windows or not.
I'm not sure about the marble theme either. It looks slick, but also makes OS X less fun to use. It's almost too grey and dead looking.
There's no such thing as a "Marble" theme. It was a baseless rumor. It doesn't even make sense, because marble looks like this.
It was a rumor about a new interface revamp one of the Mac sites posted long ago when we knew little about Snow Leopard, and for some reason, nobody has let go of it.
Superficial
Changes in colors used on icons etc are unimportant at best.
Sounds like mostly very superficial changes...who uses two monitors
anyway? Maybe Day Traders if there are any of those guys anymore.
If start up is not fast enough with 10.5 now, stop drinking so much
coffee.
Changes in colors used on icons etc are unimportant at best.
Sounds like mostly very superficial changes...who uses two monitors
anyway? Maybe Day Traders if there are any of those guys anymore.
If start up is not fast enough with 10.5 now, stop drinking so much
coffee.
I was taught in design 101 never use small white text on a darker background.
It may work out just fine but it is like surfing the web and why most sites default to black text on white/off white background vs white on black. Black text is easier to read.
It may work out just fine but it is like surfing the web and why most sites default to black text on white/off white background vs white on black. Black text is easier to read.
I think it's amazing that speed increases are being reported. The WWDC Developers Build was blazing fast as it was.
One thing I didn't see in any stories were the speed increases in file transfers with the new Finder. File transfer speed to my USB drive doubled. Hard drive to hard drive speed doubled.
One thing I didn't see in any stories were the speed increases in file transfers with the new Finder. File transfer speed to my USB drive doubled. Hard drive to hard drive speed doubled.
Well using that belief, what does 'real' Aqua look like?
And what the hell would Aero be?
Aqua has polished blue controls and translucency effects, so it's somewhat related to its name. Aero Glass tries to look like glass.
The point is that Marble was something that was first mentioned in a baseless rumor long ago, and everyone now attributes any minor visual changes to being "part of Marble." Probably what happened is that someone saw the Quicktime X interface and assumed the whole operating system was going to look like that, and they invented a name out of thin air to feed the rumor sites.
Marble doesn't exist. It's a fan invention.
I've been wondering, does this new black HUD style blur objects in the background?
Fantastic! I had always wondered about this behaviour (opening System Prefs to THEN right click to open the one you wanted from the Dock Icon). This is much more intuitive. Bravo Snow Leopard Team!