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Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface?
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Windows 7 lol? You gotta be kidding me. That UI is horrible looking. The icons, the whole look and feel are just terrible. It doesn't look very professional to me at all. Does Microsoft have graphic designers working on it at all?
Excellent Question
This is an excellent question. My personal opinion would be to let the user decide if they want Aqua as the default UI look or Marble or (as someone else said) Corian or whatever.
That said, Apple likes control of things to a pretty good extent - your system will look this way...and that is why you will not be able to choose something else if Apple decides to give everyone whatever Marble is for Snow Leopard.
This is an excellent question. My personal opinion would be to let the user decide if they want Aqua as the default UI look or Marble or (as someone else said) Corian or whatever.
That said, Apple likes control of things to a pretty good extent - your system will look this way...and that is why you will not be able to choose something else if Apple decides to give everyone whatever Marble is for Snow Leopard.
Windows 7 is building up a head of steam in the preview markets and on TV news bulletins. I suspect this may actually provide some real competition for OS X
Huh? There aren't any more metal windows with Leopard anymore. I doubt Apple would bring them back.
YES! YES! Please! Fullscreen mode is must for pro-apps! More single window apps!! A properly working maximize! maximize to content is totally useless. The OS X has a tendency to become a huge window-clutter monster, Ihope Apple comes up with something the makes the UI much more streamlined and consistent. And please let the user have more control over colour scheme...
-Tomi
I agree 100%. I hated the Zoom function on OS X, it's the most inconsistent feature ever. Also it's a pain in the butt resizing windows in OS X, you can only resize from one corner.
Sometimes you just want to block out the crap on your desktop and other windows, while still keeping the menubar and all your toolbars.
The button is fit to size, meaning when u click it the application opens up a window to the size it needs. The "inconsistancy" you speak of is just the fact that different programs use different size windows.
Not quite. It is very inconsistent.
For example, with some apps you get maximize (keynote, iPhoto) and some you get the fit size (Safari, Address Book) yet others you get something entirely different (iTunes, Calculator).
The iTunes and Calculator zoom button is especially confusing, as it transforms the app itself.
I'm not complaining of the button, in fact I never use it and I really wouldn't mind if in Leopard they got rid of the minimize and zoom buttons as they are pretty useless.
Don't change a thing
I really like the current interface. If anything continue to bring everything up to the iTunes standard. Do not make 3rd party developers change again, I don't want to wait another year to get my computer interface attractive.
I really like the current interface. If anything continue to bring everything up to the iTunes standard. Do not make 3rd party developers change again, I don't want to wait another year to get my computer interface attractive.
I would absolutely love a mobilme-like interface for everything:
Every osx upgrade so far has had some kind of gui tweak, i just hop apple goes with the dark smoke colored buttons, which they might seeing as they are moving away from the candy-like feel.
Every osx upgrade so far has had some kind of gui tweak, i just hop apple goes with the dark smoke colored buttons, which they might seeing as they are moving away from the candy-like feel.
finally here comes the interface change that we have been waiting for so long
hope they have a few more surprises for us too cant wait to see what they are and how snow leopard performs
Maybe, just maybe, we'd see the 3D desktop interface which the Apple patent was published not too long ago?
With Windows 7 stealing a lot of the good ideas from the 2005 version of OS X (Tiger), most notably common shared library, and shortcut keys UI, expose and dock and so on. Surely Apple has something good in store for Snow Leopard to put it another few years ahead of Microsoft. I mean at the casual user to power user level.
Of course at the professional level, Snow Leopard has OpenCL and Grand Central
already that Windows 8 or 9 still needs to match / copy!I would absolutely love a mobilme-like interface for everything:
Every osx upgrade so far has had some kind of gui tweak, i just hop apple goes with the dark smoke colored buttons, which they might seeing as they are moving away from the candy-like feel.
Absolutely!! The black gradient (similar to the trademark Steve Jobs (now Phil) keynote presentation background) is slick and professional!
Let's hope it happens - I think it's quite likely!! Like many have said speculating from the iWork slight tweak of GUI, most notably when you create a new document in Pages from the template chooser - the black background and elimination of any border / menu bar, and when you've clicked on a template to select it, the template zoom in (scale up) and become the document.
All for OS X core animation!! (Has Windows copied, sorry i mean "made",
something similar to the core animation framwork?)
Just as Win 7 thinks it is cool and is copying the candy look of Mac, Mac says the eye-candy was cool but we are stylishly slick now!
I was agreeing with you until you went all 'elitist fanboy' on me and started poking at MS. This discussion has nothing to do with them yet the fanboys always need to pick at them every chance they get...
Microsoft makes crappy products and they constantly copy Apple's innovations. They deserve to be laughed at. My girlfriend just got a new MacBook to replace her Windows-Piece-of-Crap computer.
People like you make me want to get violent. You are such a fanboy that you are too blinded to see that Apple copies just as many ideas from MS as MS does from Apple. The worst thing about this is the Apple misses out on copying the best features of windows while MS copies the best parts of osx.
Get your head out of Job's bum and stop being a fanboy.