10.3 Panther Screenshot (For Real!!)

[Gregita]

Glad I got to see it last night.

I like the new look. There have to be more features to it than what we have seen, though. I guess we'll find those out on Monday. I kept looking at these pictures last night to see if I could discern whether or not they were fakes. They look pretty genuine- as far as my untrained eye can tell.

I used to sort of like the stripes back in the beginning, but they are tired now. I get bored easily with visuals, and I've been bored with the lines for a long time. I was happy when they took them out of the dock. Hopefully, Apple will take heed of my suggestion and give us an option to make the dock transparent just by clicking a radio button. I know there are apps that can do it. I've downloaded them! I would just like to be able to toggle the transparency on and off with the click of a button. I also would not be against being able to use brushed metal throughout. Some people don't like it. It doesn't bother me- not like the stripes. At least I don't get bored with the metal interface.

[scruffy]

I like the grey title bar - more minimal, less in your face. I mean, it's window elements, we don't want to look at them, we want them to work & then shut up. The increase in the use of brushed metal bugs me though - window elements should remain distinguishable from actual functional bits of application.

[Gregita]

Imagine if you could change the stripe background to any color you wanted by moving the mouse across the color wheel. You could also coordinate your desktop and fonts to match it.

Each desktop would truly be unique- because it would be set to each user's liking. They could also create an option to add the stripes in with the colors- for those that like 'em. And, they could allow users to increase or decrease the size and strength of the stripes- similar to how they allow users to set the text smoothing up or down.

I think that the ability to "theme" the gui is a very noticeable absence for those Mac users who are converting from OS 9. And I know there are ways to change things, but it should be easier. Apple should have more appearance options built right in. OS X's interface sometimes seems too rigid. It's not as user friendly- in that respect. Am I saying I hate Aqua? No. I love it, but I would also like to have options. They made some progress in 10.2, but more could still be done.

Some of us enjoy tinkering with things. We enjoy messing around with settings to get it the way we like it. There's not enough of that in OS X. Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

[Ricky]

I hate pinstripes and I'm glad they've toned them down.

[Decado]

The reason they dont allow the user to controll the look of the user interface is that there are lot of users out there with poor taste they dont want them to mess it up and post it in magazines and on tv cuz then everybody would think apple had bad taste.

[ksv]

Allright, mirrored them at http://home.no.net/macosx/103

They look rather fake to me, though. What's up with that "The Macintosh Desktop Experience" thing?
-Finder is not a desktop. Finder consists of several interface elements, the desktop is one of them.
-That sentence is very un-apple.
-The layout of that box just isn't right. The "Finder" text doesn't make up for the size of the Mac logo above it. The Mac/Finder logo is actually the 128 pixel Finder icon, Apple would know better than that. The text lines aren't properly aligned. "Finder version 10.3" is a strange string, there's nothing like it in any other Apple applications as I know.
-The Finder box of 10.2 doesn't specifically tell what version of Finder it is, only the system version in 10.x format. If you go find Finder in /System/Library/CoreServices/ and hit command+i on it, you'll see it's 10.2.1, although the About Finder box says 10.2.
-The box seems to be a mix of the About this Mac and the About Finder windows.

Don't have time to scan every one of the shots, but I noticed in the folder submenu picture, that Color Label is in the same category as Move to Trash. Err... And the X is unproperly aligned to the color dots, it should be either closer or aligned with the same gap.
In general, these shots look like a themed 10.2 with lots of Photoshop afterwork

And yes, I am an Apple beta tester.

[iMacLover]

Everyone really disses the brushed metal look, and says it really is annoying. I don't see how anyone can say that aqua or the brushed metal look is ugly. If you complain about it that much, just hold down "Command-S" at startup to boot into single user mode and you don't have to look at it. Granted you probably can't do much and there's no GUI but, maybe you'll stop putting down the look of the computer. This is the way Apple is going...get used to it. If you use the computer and stop analyzing every detail on the screen, you wouldn't have to complain.

By the way...I think the whole GUI is unbelievable. Look at other 'nix GUI's. You're telling me KDE and GNOME are better?

[dlloyd]

KSV: does that mean you have tried Panther?!