I'm looking at iTunes 7 and I don't see any Aqua.. Is Aqua dead?

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  • Reply 21 of 45
    Actually Gnome has been attractive and simple for some time. It's just a bit boring, and lacks secondary usability of OS X, like Exposé, etc.



    Man, anyone boot into OS 9 recently, and see the fugly P.O.S. that is iTunes? Or Quicktime 4? Man those apps were savagely beaten with the ugly stick. Talk about change for change's sake.



    Hopefully brushed metal is gone forever. Whoever thought that one up should be flogged.
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  • Reply 22 of 45
    GNOME is okay, I like it better than KDE, and definitely better than that weird brushed metal UI from Sherlock and iTunes in OS9....



    But I think comparing GNOME to Aqua is not even a comparison.
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  • Reply 23 of 45
    jvbjvb Posts: 210member
    At the very least let's just put an end to brushed metal for good. It looks awful.
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  • Reply 24 of 45
    irelandireland Posts: 17,801member
    Quote:
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    At the very least let's just put an end to brushed metal for good. It looks awful.



    I will.
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  • Reply 25 of 45
    jvbjvb Posts: 210member
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    I will.



    If it is in your power to kill brushed metal for eternity, please do it immediately.
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  • Reply 26 of 45
    I like the metal better than Aero.
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  • Reply 27 of 45
    irelandireland Posts: 17,801member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by jvb View Post


    If it is in your power to kill brushed metal for eternity, please do it immediately.



    Look at this;







    Now look at this;





    It happend to iTunes, it's going to happen to the Finder, Calculator, Safari etc.
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  • Reply 28 of 45
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    It happend to iTunes, it's going to happen to the Finder, Calculator, Safari etc.



    He's right. An iChat window that is not currently selected used to look like this:







    Now look at the iChat window in this Leopard picture, the brushed metal tint is gone:



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  • Reply 29 of 45
    zenatekzenatek Posts: 203member
    Look how sharp that video chat is! Who gets video chat that sharp, I mean come on I don't even think that the iSight can create picture quality that good.
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  • Reply 30 of 45
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    Look how sharp that video chat is! Who gets video chat that sharp, I mean come on I don't even think that the iSight can create picture quality that good.



    Well the background is fake I think, just the girl is actually in the chat. Steve demoed that feature at WWDC, I think.
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  • Reply 31 of 45
    slewisslewis Posts: 2,081member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by zenatek View Post


    Look how sharp that video chat is! Who gets video chat that sharp, I mean come on I don't even think that the iSight can create picture quality that good.



    I had the pleasure of watching my friend disentigrate before my Eyes in a Video Chat...



    Sebastian
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  • Reply 32 of 45
    gikkugikku Posts: 10member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cougar View Post


    I find the dark colors to be ugly and depressing.



    agreed, iTunes and Aperture are dark and gloomy, like there's no future.

    Aqua has developed nicely since 2001. The pin stripes of 10.1 and Jaguar were ok initially but became too much. The clean aqua of Tiger with blue highlights is very stylish.
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  • Reply 33 of 45
    gikkugikku Posts: 10member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gikku View Post


    agreed, iTunes and Aperture are dark and gloomy, like there's no future.

    Aqua has developed nicely since 2001. The pin stripes of 10.1 and Jaguar were ok initially but became too much. The clean aqua of Tiger with blue highlights is very stylish.



    and the brushed metal of Safari is enough to get me using Firefox and Camino.
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  • Reply 34 of 45
    slewisslewis Posts: 2,081member
    Quote:
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    and the brushed metal of Safari is enough to get me using Firefox and Camino.



    Heh, Firefox and Camino are both better browsers anyways. But if you want to kill Brushed Metal use this



    Sebastian
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  • Reply 35 of 45
    By who's standards?



    A turtle's?







    I prefer my web browser to be fast and have proper text handling.
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  • Reply 36 of 45
    slewisslewis Posts: 2,081member
    Quote:
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    By who's standards?



    A turtle's?







    I prefer my web browser to be fast and have proper text handling.



    Camino handles Text just as well as Safari, and it's faster (by the milliseconds) and handles my Gmail account better then Safari (though I hardly go into Gmail itself, Mail handles that) and every other Google Service I use such as GD&S and Google Notebook.



    Yep, Camino is the better browser.



    Sebastian
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  • Reply 37 of 45
    gikkugikku Posts: 10member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slewis View Post


    Heh, ... if you want to kill Brushed Metal use this



    Sebastian



    oh, that's nice. That freshens up Safari alright.

    I nearly installed UNO 6 months ago but decided against it. wish I had. thanks.
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  • Reply 38 of 45
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    Camino handles Text just as well as Safari, and it's faster (by the milliseconds) and handles my Gmail account better then Safari (though I hardly go into Gmail itself, Mail handles that) and every other Google Service I use such as GD&S and Google Notebook.



    I don't know about Camino's text, but Camino still uses the Firefox engine, which runs at an entire tenth of the speed of Safari.



    That's not a made up statistic.



    Only Internet Explorer is slower than Firefox. Safari and Opera smoke it.



    Quote:

    Yep, Camino is the better browser.



    If you're a turtle.
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  • Reply 39 of 45
    slewisslewis Posts: 2,081member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gikku View Post


    oh, that's nice. That freshens up Safari alright.

    I nearly installed UNO 6 months ago but decided against it. wish I had. thanks.



    Welcome
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  • Reply 40 of 45
    slewisslewis Posts: 2,081member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gregmightdothat View Post


    I don't know about Camino's text, but Camino still uses the Firefox engine, which runs at an entire tenth of the speed of Safari.



    That's not a made up statistic.



    Only Internet Explorer is slower than Firefox. Safari and Opera smoke it.







    If you're a turtle.



    The only thing they share is the Gecko Rendering Engine and Mozilla's name.

    The reason Firefox is slower then Safari is because Firefox uses a custom API for Cross Platform support called XULrunner, and Camino uses Cocoa.



    C'ya around Dr.Turtle, PhD



    Sebastian
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