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How to fix Apple’s iTunes 10 for Mac’s minimize, maximize, close buttons:
1. Make sure you quit iTunes.
2. Open Terminal (Applications>Utilities>Terminal).
3. Type or Paste the following into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
4. Hit enter and quit Terminal.
5. Launch iTunes and enjoy your minimize, maximize, and close buttons restored to their proper places:
I’m sure this will be how everything looks in 10.7. iTunes usually shows future UI elements.
iTunes has always been a sort of UI testing ground. These buttons may or may not make it into 10.7, but apple seems to be thinking about it. This is one thing I hope they forget though.
How can I get all windows to have the vertical buttons. I like them and hope they become the standard.
Who knows, maybe in 10.7 it will be a system preference, kinda like the arrows on the scrollbar or the color scheme of aqua. Some people will like it, other’s will like the older style.
Me like the vertical button arrangement.
I’d like them on the right. (I’m joking.)
How about posting some instructions to restore the colors back to the sidebar icons in iTunes?
The stoplight arrangement could grow on me, not sure yet.
I don’t mind the vertical layout of the buttons, and I love the new all-grey sleeker look of iTunes, along with the new iTunes icon. Makes it modern and fresh.
FROM TERMINAL WITH ITUNES CLOSED
TO SET LEFT TO RIGHT
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean YES
TO SET TOP TO BOTTOM
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean NO
Look at them side by side objectively… The vertical arrangement is a much cleaner design. I’ll pass, and here’s hoping the rest of the OS gets it in 10.7
Actually like the vertical design.
Another vote for the new vertical design.
To me, more space efficient and graphically pleasing.
Another vote in favor of the vertical orientation.
Just updated to 10 yesterday. Wow, the speed increase is amazing! I’ll take the vertical buttons as a trade off if iTunes remains this…..err…..snappy. Sorry, just had to.
Take a quick look at the images provided. Note that the unusual vertical arrangement people are all in a fuss about uses less screen real estate than the previously standard horizontal arrangement. Well over half the height of the capitol “M”! This may not mean anything to you, but Apple engineers get a little twitchy when faced with an empty band of unusable space, especially if a modest change can recover that space at no cost other than the blown minds of a few of those who Just Don’t DO Change Well.
There is just no way it would work across the whole OS, as nice as it may be to some (or many).
Too many applications, including some of Apple’s own (such as Mail, iWork suite, the Finder windows themselves, etc) have a little ‘pill’ button in the top right corner that collapses the entire toolbar area. The only way this can be done without forcing the change of the layout of those buttons is to have buttons from left to right. This collapsing feature has been an integral part of the UI in Mac OS for a very long time, and most third-party applications take advantage of it (check Firefox, Skype MS Office, etc.). Changing this would be a major problem.
I like the new design too. If anything, I’d like the option to hide the minimize button altogether. For me, windows and applications should be hidden, never minimized because of the difficulty of bringing them back to the forefront with just the keyboard.
That or give us a single (like command+~) keyboard way of bringing back the minimized window.
Ditto the colors on the side bar.
I want them spaced left, middle then right of the entire window. Then I want the OS to randomly re-arrange them every time I launch the application. That would be fantastic!
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Still undecided about the vertical buttons. It seems like they did it so that the play/rewind/fastforward buttons would be centered vertically on the titlebar (look at MDN’s sample shots above).
However, I do like the all-gray motif. It makes the old colored scheme seem immature, for lack of a better word.
I realize that it violates UI standards, but at the same time it preserves desktop real estate. I actually prefer the new style.
The iTunes 10 GUI looks soo cool.
If iTunes really does predict the new Mac OS GUIs then I can’t wait for OS 10.7
The vertical arrangement reduces the number of vertical pixels wasted in the menu bar. Vertical pixels are at a premium in the HD 16:9 aspect ratio, especially if you keep your dock at the bottom of the screen.
I can easily adapt to these sorts of minor UI changes if Apple propagates them consistently across its OS and apps. As others have posted, I suspect that this is the new Apple layout for 10.7.
I wouldn’t have minded a fourth button to maximize to fit the display, like the Windows function. But a fourth button would not fit in the new vertical orientation without increasing the thickness of the menu bar.
Me likey vertical.