Apple's "New" GUI

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Apple's "New" GUI  

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Grand Master

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No, no and no to the blurring. It starts to look awful the minute you start stacking up windows.

When did it became possible to stack up Menu Bars and Dock labels? HUD Panels can only be stacked up per application, because they disappear when another application takes focus. Plus it doesn't have to be anywhere as dramatic as the effect is on Vista.

In your opinion, in mine - I find the interface more subtle than OS/X.

Yup perfectly possible. Some people just prefer gigantic window borders and bright colors.

Cupertino start your photocopiers ;-)

It doesn't have to be a blur effect, some sort of dimming or different warp technique would be fine too. I believe the Menubar already makes the colors behind it more saturated, but it's a bit hard to tell for sure. :p

Yea, I have to admit I like the taskbar (except for the round orb thingy), but I don't like the transparency/UI anywhere else.

In that case, I'm pretty sure you'll like the new Menu Bar as well once you see it up close in person. With a different desktop background of course. ;)

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Yup perfectly possible. Some people just prefer gigantic window borders and bright colors.

I'd agree that the default colour is quite poor - I have mine set to a mid grey which is much more comfortable. As for the border thickness, you really don't notice it when you are working on the system, to be honest I prefer it over the borderless look of OS/X - but that is just me, and you can make them smaller.

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In that case, I'm pretty sure you'll like the new Menu Bar as well once you see it up close in person. With a different desktop background of course. ;)

Maybe once I give it a try I'll like it? I might even like the background once I've tried with the menu bar & dock?

(It's not been unknown for me to change my mind about something when I've tried it for a while :whistle: )

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It's basically just Column view in the Finder, other than not having the "breadcrumb" bar above the other folders (which you don't need in the Finder since you can scroll left and right through the columns, which you couldn't do in the NeXT file browser). In 10.2 and earlier, Finder was even more like the NeXT version since it had the favorites at the top instead of at the left as in the current version (shown below).
Yeah, but i'd like something with a breadcrumb bar and such, basically i just hate the current finder, the one in leopard might change my sentiments, but who knows.
At that stage the Dock simply didn't support real transparency, so it was just a placeholder. By the time Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah went GM it was fully transparent, like it still is today (apart from a pinstriped background).

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In the picture that was posted before, it showed that the window manager supported true transparency (title bars, sheets, menus, etc.), so it wasn't a technical limitation, they decided to add pictures for a reason.

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In the picture that was posted before, it showed that the window manager supported true transparency (title bars, sheets, menus, etc.), so it wasn't a technical limitation, they decided to add pictures for a reason.

No, the dock simply didn't support scalable transparent tiffs at the time that screenshot was released, even though much of the interface supported transparency.

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Maybe they were just busy working on other parts of the OS at the time and weren't bothered with making the Dock fully transparent.

I remember when I first saw that screenshot with one of my mates a few years ago before os x was even out in public beta and we couldn't stop lauging at how stupid the dock looked. Then they finished it and we were totally in love with it!

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Yeah, but i'd like something with a breadcrumb bar and such, basically i just hate the current finder, the one in leopard might change my sentiments, but who knows.

I'm not sure if you ever noticed, but you can sort of have a breadcrumb bar in Finder as well (I never noticed it till the other day myself). Customize the toolbar and add the Path widget.

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I'm not sure if you ever noticed, but you can sort of have a breadcrumb bar in Finder as well (I never noticed it till the other day myself). Customize the toolbar and add the Path widget.

You can achieve the same effect by holding down command and pressing the window title as such:

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