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post #1 of 13
4/6/03 at 3:43pm
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Okay, maybe it is just me and I am going blind but...could we be seeing fruit of what is to come from Panther?

Take a look at this screenshot from Final Cut Pro:


That is not Brushed Metal and obviously not Aqua. Final Cut Pro ships in June, same month as WWDC...
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post #2 of 13
4/6/03 at 3:57pm
Looks like brushed-metal to me. Honestly, you can't tell just be looking at a screen-cap that is reduced in size by about 80%. It could be textureless, but so what... Shake, Final Cut and DVD Studio look nothing like typical Mac OS X apps...
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post #3 of 13
4/6/03 at 4:03pm
I think this new look is going to be used for the Pro Apps. Except for Logic.

Perhaps Apple may give the choice to run an Aqua or Pro environment.
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post #4 of 13
4/6/03 at 4:10pm
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Originally posted by Eugene
Looks like brushed-metal to me. Honestly, you can't tell just be looking at a screen-cap that is reduced in size by about 80%. It could be textureless, but so what... Shake, Final Cut and DVD Studio look nothing like typical Mac OS X apps...

No, here is a Brushed Metal window at say about 80%:


Do you see the difference?

Apple created a hacked version of Brushed Metal in iTunes and QuickTime, who's to say they are not creating another UI?

I think we will see themes in Panther....
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post #5 of 13
4/6/03 at 4:14pm
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Originally posted by hmurchison
I think this new look is going to be used for the Pro Apps. Except for Logic.

Perhaps Apple may give the choice to run an Aqua or Pro environment.

Apple? Choice? HAHAHA
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post #6 of 13
4/6/03 at 4:36pm
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Originally posted by Eugene
Looks like brushed-metal to me. Honestly, you can't tell just be looking at a screen-cap that is reduced in size by about 80%. It could be textureless, but so what... Shake, Final Cut and DVD Studio look nothing like typical Mac OS X apps...

Another comment is that Apple has had a non standard UI just for their pro application's but if you look at the new DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro it is going towards the standard UI just a different theme. It has tool bars, real tabs (as opposed to thin custom made ones in older versions of FCP and DSP), standard pull down menus.

Do you see what I mean?
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post #7 of 13
4/7/03 at 2:43am
currently FCP has a mostly plain grey GUI with only a few native-looking elements... this looks just like another dirty bastardization between the old interface and brushed metal. but i am confident that this is anything but a new interface standard. it´s rather some non-standard GUI mess.
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post #8 of 13
4/7/03 at 4:56am
look at those quick tour movies, they have the apple menu detached from the top of to screen i tell yoU!
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post #9 of 13
4/7/03 at 5:21am
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Originally posted by Nebagakid
they have the apple menu detached from the top of to screen

Err... Snatch Pro X can detach menus? Hmmm...
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post #10 of 13
4/7/03 at 6:51am
Anyone have a reduced screenshot of QT 6.1? That has a much less "brushed" appearance than other brushed apps, it might look closer to the Compressor app shown above. I took the Compressor app to be metal in another thread at MacNN. It does seem to compromise between the older FCP and Shake UIs which keep their gray color and adopt more (but not completely) Aqua-like tabs, title bars, etc.

It could be a new "metal" look in Panther. It could be just for these apps. We'll find out in a while I guess.

I said in that other thread that I think Apple isn't interested in arbitrary choices in appearances but rather interestedin making certain types of apps correlate to certain appearances; true themes. Obviously, we could let this degrade into another I hate metal/I love metal/I don't get Apple's HI guidlines for metal, but I think that's their intention in any case, even if it isn't being ade very well right now. I bet Adobe would like to have this type of appearance in their Mac apps.
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post #11 of 13
4/7/03 at 7:06am
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Originally posted by costique
Err... Snatch Pro X can detach menus? Hmmm...

I see no need to discuss prostitues on these boards... err.. unless you meat Snapz Pro?

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post #12 of 13
4/7/03 at 7:21am
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Originally posted by BuonRotto
Anyone have a reduced screenshot of QT 6.1? That has a much less "brushed" appearance than other brushed apps, it might look closer to the Compressor app shown above. I took the Compressor app to be metal in another thread at MacNN. It does seem to compromise between the older FCP and Shake UIs which keep their gray color and adopt more (but not completely) Aqua-like tabs, title bars, etc.

Compressor is just plain grey:

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post #13 of 13
4/7/03 at 7:56am
aw, common. FCP has always had a special interface.

but only now with panther on the horizon, you complain about it.

:sheesh:

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