I suppose one other reason why I have such a strong dislike for the brushed metal interface is that its arrival has oft coincided with the "dummying down" of the application.
QuickTime Player, for example, grew mammoth in the amount of screen real-estate needed.</strong>
On this point, I agree with you. Quicktime Player definitely could have a better designed or more professional brushed metal interface.
I think I would be most happy if they kept everything the same with the Brushed Metal windows except the actual graphic. All they should do is make it look Aquaish and everything would be a-ok, imho that is
<strong>...but it also lost two excellent features that I used quite frequently. Oddly enough, they are still available in applications that use the "standard" QuickTime interface, but isn't available in Apple's own player.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'll second this, I find it difficult to understand why the standard functionality was pulled from QuickTime player. I think anyone can see from Strfeet's screen shot how much better the non-metal version of the player looks.
You can play a movie backwards with player with cmd-leftarrow. Navigation that used to work like option-right/left arrow to start/end no longer work. And there doesn't seem to be a way to vary the speed of play.
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I suppose one other reason why I have such a strong dislike for the brushed metal interface is that its arrival has oft coincided with the "dummying down" of the application.
QuickTime Player, for example, grew mammoth in the amount of screen real-estate needed.</strong>
On this point, I agree with you. Quicktime Player definitely could have a better designed or more professional brushed metal interface.
[ 05-07-2002: Message edited by: THT ]</p>
Brushed metal/chrome == user-friendly dumbed-down one-window consumer iApplication.
Aqua == regular or pro-user OS X application.
Aqua looks better, but metal is OK in some places too.
<strong>I wouldn't be surprised if Apple broke it down in the guidelines like this:
Brushed metal/chrome == user-friendly dumbed-down one-window consumer iApplication.
Aqua == regular or pro-user OS X application.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think you're right...
That brushed metal Address Book is sure befuddling a lot of people, though.
<strong>...but it also lost two excellent features that I used quite frequently. Oddly enough, they are still available in applications that use the "standard" QuickTime interface, but isn't available in Apple's own player.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'll second this, I find it difficult to understand why the standard functionality was pulled from QuickTime player. I think anyone can see from Strfeet's screen shot how much better the non-metal version of the player looks.
You can play a movie backwards with player with cmd-leftarrow. Navigation that used to work like option-right/left arrow to start/end no longer work. And there doesn't seem to be a way to vary the speed of play.