“Apple Gazette has received a tip from an apple insider that the Mac OS Aqua User Interface will be replaced with a new UI named Illuminous,” Michael reports for Apple Gazette.
“The source goes on to say that we will see a demonstration of Illuminous at Macworld 2007,” Michael reports.
Michael reports, “The gensis for this rumor started earlier this year when Apple posted a position on Monster.com seeking a senior visual interface designer ‘to conceive, design and develop future enhancements to Aqua, the dynamic user interface for Mac OS X.'”
Full article here.
“Apple [on Firday] seeded a new version of Leopard (build 9A326) to internal Apple employees. This latest build is reported to have fixed bugs from the last build (9A303) such as Quicktime crashing, printing problems and issues with .Mac such as iDisk synching. Apple continues to gloss over the interface, refining it even more and there is an overly presence of black gloss,” MacShrine reports.
Full article here.
Sounds sexy…we’ll see.
…but wait – how will Oreo, I mean Aero, from Microsoft be able to keep up? Not fair! Not fair!
If it looks like M$’s teh Shiny®, I won’t be happy.
Ohh! no, Redmond took 5 years to copy the aqua interface and now there is a new one? Poor microsoft….
ok this move on apples’ part to keep us waiting for ‘top secret’ features is totally unfair.
28 days and counting. . . . . . . . .
its times like this i wish i was run over by a car and was in a coma for 27.5 days
The NeXT GUI is back !!
I laways admired the clean, elegant and grey NeXT Step graphical user interface:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXTSTEP
I think, it’s time now to switch from Aque to a NeXT Step like GUI.
i guess they are better names than KDE and Gnome
I dunno. I like Aqua. I hope this isn’t “change for changes sake”.
Did someone say GREY would be the dominant color in the Leopard GUI??? NOT gonna happen!
Black gloss? Ugh.
Apple’s New UI Guidelines:
“Eh, whatever.”
ErG4000. Right on. Apple Computer today is really NeXT Computer. Its like NeXT bought Apple a few years back.
I’m suprised that Apple doesn’t sue MS for copyright infringement. Vista is a flat-out rip-off of OSX.
Hi Jake:
Just have a look at iTunes 7 (rollbar) and you will have a sneek preview on Leopard ! It’s clean, aesthetic and it’s GREY. Aqua is history…
The GUI of the Operating System shouldn’t dominate the application UI.
I see….Vista, Media Player,etc have lots of black. Apple will try to launch Leopard before Vista just to say they copied them?
Firday is my favorite day of the week.
Yes Dion, MacOS X is based on the NeXT Step. The NeXT still lives on in Steve Jobs’ heart and one day there will be a real reincarnation of the black NeXT Cube with it’s clean hardware design and GUI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
Hi, Erg4000.
That only works for iTunes, and even something similar in iPhoto, because in those programs there are bright and colorful icons as a contrast (i.e., album covers and photos). Without such a contrast, it would be terrible. At least, IMHO.
Cheers.
“Apple [on Firday]
Comes after Thrusday.
Why not brown gloss?
Oh, zune has that patent.
Carlo – I was in a coma. You don’t want to be in one. They’re not fun…
I hope they are referring to the Default look. Apple would be smart to allow theming natively in OS X’s next commercial build (Leopard).
From the MacShrine article:
“TextEdit also features support to export and open new Word 2007 documents”
Assuming this is correct, what are we to make of MBU’s claim that translators for Office 2k4 are a major pain and betas won’t be ready until spring at the earliest?
I’m not a technical person, but it seems to me that if Apple — Mr. Softie’s sworn enemy — can make translators in a month, that a unit of Mr. Softie should be able to make them happen even faster.
Am I missing something?
The grey in iTunes 7 looks like complete crap.
Have not been on here i a while
No way will they put out a whole new interface in 10.5
They gonna save that for OS 11
When you change the whole interface, it doesn’t keep the same designation.
And Firday comes right before Saturnday.
Oh man, those were the days–I wanted a NeXT cube so bad I could spit. I was learning VAX/VMS assembly at the time *lol*
I remember finding a dealer in Austin, and the whol kit and kaboodle was mine for a mere 10k or so
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