No Leopard until October - Page 5

nixgeek · #33 April 13th, 2007, 06:49 PM

SPeaking of MacRumors, they now have pictures of a Leopard build. From the looks of it, everything is using the Unified theme. Mind you, when you click on the picture they have there on MacRumors, it looks like the Finder window is squared off instead of having rounded corners, but apparently that's from the screen capture in that build. The windows are still rounded.

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/04/12/...rd-seed-9a410/

Qion · #34 April 13th, 2007, 07:10 PM

Some GUI developer in one of the comments calls it a fake, saying that it does not show resolution independence and can be done using a preinstalled system file.

I'm intensely disappointed if this is the final look of Leopard.

nixgeek · #35 April 13th, 2007, 07:25 PM

I actually like the Unified look. It's very clean compared to the brushed metal which was cool a few years ago when it was introduced but now just looks gaudy to me.

So long as it doesn't looks like iTunes, I'm fine with it.

Qion · #36 April 13th, 2007, 07:26 PM

I just want something completely different. I'm sick of working with Finder in any form, especially a form that resembles something I could just skin with ShapeShifter. Ugh.

nixgeek · #37 April 13th, 2007, 07:34 PM

As a Mac OS user from before OS X, I do miss the consistency of the Classic Finder. I even liked the Platinum look and being able to change the colors of the menu highlights. OS X dropped a lot of things that the old Finder did right (especially with the zoom button), but the old Finder could have benefited from some of the new stuff in the new Finder (one window navigation). These are features for me that are lacking and that I need back. I don't mind the look, but let me be able to change something to personalize it some, even if it is just a little bit. I'm happy with a Unified theme. Just a choice of menu highlight colors would suffice.

Yes, there's Shapeshifter but why change something that already looks good (with the exception of the Brushed Metal for me)? I barely used Kaleidoscope in Mac OS 9 and below since the regular Platinum look with the option for different menu highlight colors was good enough for me.

**fryke** · #38 April 13th, 2007, 08:22 PM

And even better was how Rhapsody took that Platinum look and let you change most of the colours.

Not only six or seven appearance colours, but any hue you wanted.

Of course it was more relevant back then, because there wasn't enough real productivity software. Now that I'm productive on OS X, I rarely have the time to switch around theme-stuff.

Even my desktop pictures often last for more than a month.

(Or to put it more plainly: I don't care much about themability of the OS, as long as I think Apple makes the right choices. Doing away with brushed metal certainly is an important step.)

Qion · #39 April 13th, 2007, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by fryke

And even better was how Rhapsody took that Platinum look and let you change most of the colours.

Not only six or seven appearance colours, but any hue you wanted.

Of course it was more relevant back then, because there wasn't enough real productivity software. Now that I'm productive on OS X, I rarely have the time to switch around theme-stuff.

Even my desktop pictures often last for more than a month.

(Or to put it more plainly: I don't care much about themability of the OS, as long as I think Apple makes the right choices. Doing away with brushed metal certainly is an important step.)

...but Apple has always been about individuality, expression, and originality. I believe that their fundamental product would mirror that, and with brushed metal it really hasn't. I expect a lot of the creative minds at Apple because that's what they've made for themselves, and besides that, my own creativity hungers for a UI change.

Rhisiart · #40 April 13th, 2007, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by chevy

I've just tried UNO, very good piece of software !

I agree++