I will also add that is not what we see on the Leopard website.
There is only one image preview there (a tif file), but all the icons appear to actual previews.
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I will also add that is not what we see on the Leopard website.
There is only one image preview there (a tif file), but all the icons appear to actual previews.
Good eyes. Picture01 of the Finder seems to have all of the header buttons and search field moved down a few pixels, compared to other windows.
Yes they are horrible.
I think Apple was trying way too hard to get away from the 'candy/aqua' interface to differentiate itself from Vista, and that's what they came up with. Pretty ugly for my taste. Way too flat and monotonous. Takes way too much time to glance at a folder of them and see what they represent, no colors or anything make it really dumb.
I like Leopard. Everything looks good. I really like the menu bar, new dock and consistent window look. I also hope they will add iTunes 7 scrollbars to the final version.
Wow, I hope that this isn't the final window appearance in Leopard. I don't mind the transparent menu bar, and I like the new Dock. However, the window appearance and UI widgets look very inconsistent, and in some screenshots, it looks unfinished. The button icons on the Finder's toolbar are misaligned, Coverflow for application icons is hideous, Font Book is a mess, etc. Also, I'm not a fan with the iTunes 7 interface. Anyhow, I'll leave final judgement till I have Leopard installed on this iBook in October 
On a separate note, what's with Preview and NASA owned imagery?
On a separate note, what's with Preview and NASA owned imagery?
You should see them...Up close. They are beautiful and super detailed.
They aren't bland at all..they look like...paper.
****. I shouldn't have said that
What about Spotlight?
It seems to be dead: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/313696/
I like the new icons, I like the transparent menu bar (when I first switched from Windows I was annoyed that I lost some of my screen estate to the menu bar for the exact reason Steve stated, my own collection of wallpapers now had their tops cut off), the dock looks nice but I don't use it much now anyway (maybe stacks will change that), I already had a downloads folder and I haven't heard much on Spotlight! Hope that gets some improvements, it would be great if Quick Look worked with Spotlight, anyone know if it does?
And does anyone notice any usability in the way the stacks icons arc away from the dock? I've been following the arc with my mouse as opposed to simply moving it vertically in a line, I was thinking maybe the arc was more in line with natural motion of the wrist but I can't tell. Anyone else notice a difference?
It seems to be dead: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/313696/
I like the new icons, I like the transparent menu bar (when I first switched from Windows I was annoyed that I lost some of my screen estate to the menu bar for the exact reason Steve stated, my own collection of wallpapers now had their tops cut off), the dock looks nice but I don't use it much now anyway (maybe stacks will change that), I already had a downloads folder and I haven't heard much on Spotlight! Hope that gets some improvements, it would be great if Quick Look worked with Spotlight, anyone know if it does?
And does anyone notice any usability in the way the stacks icons arc away from the dock? I've been following the arc with my mouse as opposed to simply moving it vertically in a line, I was thinking maybe the arc was more in line with natural motion of the wrist but I can't tell. Anyone else notice a difference?
Wouldn't it make sense if Apple just allowed the user to adjust all the colors/shades/etc. in the GUI as they can with Windows? A lot of people have different opinions on what looks good and what doesn't, so why not just allow individual tweaking of all the features per user request? That way, every one is happy with a fully customizable GUI. I'm very surprised Apple doesn't have that yet (and that third party applications such as ShapeShifter have to exist).
So long, lickable UI...
I was never a fan of the iTunes 7 makeover, not so much because of the loss of aqua control buttons and scroll bars, but because of what replaced the aqua controls which looks like something that was rejected around the time of Quicktime 4.
The new Leopard folders look like another casuality in the ongoing slaughter of aqua. The folders look, quite simply, hideous. What were they thinking? The darkened, sunken, washed-out icons on the folders are barely noticeable, nothing like their more graphically informative and eye-catching pre-Leopard counterparts.
But, all in all, I guess it's hard to lose when you have MS coming up with these God-awful, ridiculous, sideways folder icons for Vista...
which look like somebody dropped a folder on the floor and all of the contents spilled out in a predictably disorganized mess. Maybe MS is trying to tell us something about it's file structure.
I guess is beyond anyone outside of the folks at Candybar these days to come up with a decent, modern-looking, useful folder icon.
I was never a fan of the iTunes 7 makeover, not so much because of the loss of aqua control buttons and scroll bars, but because of what replaced the aqua controls which looks like something that was rejected around the time of Quicktime 4.
The new Leopard folders look like another casuality in the ongoing slaughter of aqua. The folders look, quite simply, hideous. What were they thinking? The darkened, sunken, washed-out icons on the folders are barely noticeable, nothing like their more graphically informative and eye-catching pre-Leopard counterparts.
But, all in all, I guess it's hard to lose when you have MS coming up with these God-awful, ridiculous, sideways folder icons for Vista...
which look like somebody dropped a folder on the floor and all of the contents spilled out in a predictably disorganized mess. Maybe MS is trying to tell us something about it's file structure.
I guess is beyond anyone outside of the folks at Candybar these days to come up with a decent, modern-looking, useful folder icon.
The amount how how much...
...you SO DON'T know what you are talking about id actually amusing the hell out of me at this point.
I think i can help you.
EDIT: I thought i could, but i can't attach a picture to a PM...and i'm not linking it. sorry. my bad. carry on
...you SO DON'T know what you are talking about id actually amusing the hell out of me at this point.
I think i can help you.
EDIT: I thought i could, but i can't attach a picture to a PM...and i'm not linking it. sorry. my bad. carry on
I had no idea that Spaces was customizable, in terms of rows and columns. I guess we'll only be limited by RAM.
Or VRAM...
What I wanted to know was why their .Mac account listed a renewal date of 1100 days and storage space of about 8GB. Was that a bug, or photoshopped or what ? Seemed odd to me.
But atleast the new Close/Minimize/Zoom buttons are more lickable than before. From the screenshots, they seem shinier than the ones in Tiger!
OS 9 on Mac laptops had the menu bar squared off, it was an odd change for me when I upgraded my old iBook from OS 9 to X and the rounded menubar came back but I got used to it fast. I kinda prefer it squared off though, dunno why. I wish they weren't squaring off *all* windows though along with the menubar.
