“Last year, Apple announced that they will be releasing the next major revision of Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard) in 2009,” Arnold Kim reports for Mac Rumors.
“Apple will apparently use Snow Leopard’s release to tweak the overall user interface for Mac OS X and unify it across applications… The new theme will likely involve tweaks to the existing design and perhaps a ‘flattening’ of Aqua in-line with Apple’s iTunes and iPhoto interface elements,” Kim reports. “The codename for the new interface is said to be ‘Marble’ — though that seems likely to be an internal codename only.”
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Daring Fireball’s John Gruber wrote earlier this month, “What I expect is for Apple to make old features look new, by updating the system-wide appearance theme. I’ve made this prediction several times in the past and been wrong, but eventually I’ll be right: it’s time for the last vestiges of the original Mac OS X 10.0 ‘Aqua’ theme to go. Scrollbars and push buttons, for example, remain largely unchanged since the Mac OS X public beta in 2000. My bet says iTunes-style scrollbars everywhere, darker window chrome, and a light-text-on-dark-background menu bar… The name I’ve heard for the new theme: Marble.”
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