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Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface?
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agree'd, However, I did downgrade back to Tiger for a while and as beautiful as it was it was just too white and snowy after a while, so I went back to Leopard and the dull grays where a welcome change for my eye balls.
I do hope they DO NOT go with the iTunes look, dull blue w/ gray is fugly and I'll never understand why people here crave it so much. Instead of the GUI looking like itunes or whatever program you favor they should just give us the option of a few themes, it really isn't that hard or expensive to implement and would shut up a lot of complainers, like myself
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You're absolutely correct, allowing us a preference option to select our favorite them would be easy to do and would be best for us users. But Apple's marketing department wouldn't like that, so we're stuck with whatever appearance theme Apple choses to give us.
I agree options would be great…
However since when has what "would be best for us users" been of any concern to Apple, Inc.?
It won't happen as long as Steve Jobs lives and breathes and has any control over Apple's decisions.
So probably not happening… (for a while yet).
I agree options would be great
However since when has what "would be best for us users" been of any concern to Apple, Inc.?
It won't happen as long as Steve Jobs lives and breathes and has any control over Apple's decisions.
So probably not happening (for a while yet).
The funny thing is... if we ALL got our way... the OS would be so bloated and buggy and full of crap. 95% of user wouldn't use them anyway. If Apple gave us EVERYTHING we wanted... Mac OS X would be like Windows... and we all know what Windows is like. Another weird thing is... Apple may come out with a new design or "way of doing things" and I'll hate it at first... but, give it a few months and I LOVE it and can't imagine life without it. Everytime I use Tiger now... I think (man, I wish I was running Leopard right now). Change is good people... Looks are equally as important as function. Why do you think the iPhone is so popular?
Great! Cant wait for Snow Leopard. Hope to hear of new features that are better than Leopard soon...
You misunderstood me.
I am not advocating bloatware but a few more Apple designed themes would be great.
Remember OS9?
It looks like I wasn't too optimistic when I predicted the possibility of some visible tweaks to Snow Leopard. I'm sure Apple will use the new GUI as a selling point.
I have always hoped for a black GUI ("Illuminous") like Time Machine and the iWork Adjust Image HUD. I always thought this GUI would be what Apple would use in Leopard. I was disappointed when the WWDC 2007 preview showed a GUI halfway between Aqua and the iTunes 7 GUI. I'm not sure how good a systemwide mostly black GUI would look though. I like the iTunes 7 GUI and I'd like it to be in Snow Leopard. I'm quite sure that that GUI will come to Mac OS X some time, since many new Apple apps are using it in the last few years. I guess another possibility is the MobileMe interface (I haven't seen it though, is it the one where buttons turn blue when depressed?). The GUI may be an opportunity for Apple to put resolution independence in the OS.
The other possibility is something more than a GUI change. I can see the scroll bars changing to something like the iPhone's, with a thinner width and transparency. They could stay almost transparent when not used, then go almost opaque when scrolling. Or they could just work like regular scroll bars but a lot thinner.
Didn't Steve Jobs claim that Leopard was going to have the unified user interface? So, basically, he lied?
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Marble is a metamorphic rock derived from limestone with roughly the same chemical composition (CaCO3), but a different physical appearance.
Leopard = Limestone
Snow Leopard = Marble
Prepare for the metamorphosis of Leopard
Marble is a metamorphic rock derived from limestone with roughly the same chemical composition (CaCO3), but a different physical appearance.
Leopard = Limestone
Snow Leopard = Marble
Prepare for the metamorphosis of Leopard
I don't get it, what do you mean? The entire UI will be unified, everything will have the marble appearance theme.
Sounds good. Impatiently waiting for 10.6.
Looks like a summer release
Summer sounds good, especially considering that Windows Train Wreck 2.0 will be released "earlier", as it seems by the never-to-be-trusted statements issued by Microshoddy.
As is already the case with Leopard, SL is gonna mop the floor with that crap and put the last nails in the coffin of a dying behemoth. GO APPLE!
This is weird. Just the other day I was looking at the new iLife/iWork pages and noticed Apple changing the appearance of windows etc. There seems to be a lot more black transparent floating windows and a more refined app 'tool bar' to their latest stuff. Maybe a nod to whats in store.
Yup - it owes a lot to Aperture's UI, which I really like.
I did notice in the iPhoto 09 demo for books etc, it still has an older, more dated aqua dialogue box.
He's talking about Leopard originally meant to have a unified UI. But it didn't.
It uses Aqua, yet iPhoto and iTunes don't.
It's also big, bloated, sleepy, and slow, as big cats go. Not exactly the poster child for an OS that's supposed to be sleek and fast.
Snow Leopard is exactly Leopard with a bunch of new features and stuff recoded. No way will 10.6.0 be as stable as 10.5.whatever-we're-at-when-10.6.0-comes-out.
WOW, okay people we are not running on 15 inch screens anymore. why is the scroll bar such an annoyance? Its not a real estate eater, lol.
Bloat for different themes? give me a break, a few themes does not create bloat . A theme is basically a few PNGs or whatever graphics file OSX calls up to skin the window and menus, ect. If snow leper had 3 themes (light, gray, and dark) what would that take up on the HDD? 5mb? OMG BLOAT!!!!
sorry, I dont mean to come across as mean, I'm just sayin' is all.
Bloat for different themes? give me a break, a few themes does not create bloat . A theme is basically a few PNGs or whatever graphics file OSX calls up to skin the window and menus, ect. If snow leper had 3 themes (light, gray, and dark) what would that take up on the HDD? 5mb? OMG BLOAT!!!!
sorry, I dont mean to come across as mean, I'm just sayin' is all.
As opposed to all the white panthers out there and the marketing of 10.3 as White Panther, so as to have some differentiation, right?
WOW, okay people we are not running on 15 inch screens anymore. why is the scroll bar such an annoyance? Its not a real estate eater, lol.
Bloat for different themes? give me a break, a few themes does not create bloat . A theme is basically a few PNGs or whatever graphics file OSX calls up to skin the window and menus, ect. If snow leper had 3 themes (light, gray, and dark) what would that take up on the HDD? 5mb? OMG BLOAT!!!!
sorry, I dont mean to come across as mean, I'm just sayin' is all.
I'm running a 13.3 inch screen. Stop trying to get someone to talk to you so you can go "lololol I has 2 30 inch displays lololol"
Also, scroll-less windows would look cool.
OH! Since Snow Leopard was the thread topic my mind just interpreted his mention of Leopard to mean Snow Leopard. This reminds me of the MacBook / MacBookPro / MacBookAir naming confusion.
Maybe it should be called Leopard Classic
We all know it's going to be Snow Leopard, but anyway... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_Cat
Well... Snow leopard is called "snow panther" (śnieżna pantera) in Polish, though it is neither a leopard nor a panther, while leopard is a panther. These cats are confusing, aren't they?
Well... Snow leopard is called "snow panther" (śnieżna pantera) in Polish, though it is neither a leopard nor a panther, while leopard is a panther. These cats are confusing, aren't they?