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- viruz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+81Actually this is the real direct link
http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a527/ - philo23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+57Some of the detail gone into those icons is just mind boggling, like the leather effect on the address book.
- Mudcrutch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+44Looking great, but I hope the folder icons get an update before final release.
- TheSkinsFactory, on 10/10/2007, -1/+41Why didn't you just link to the Think Secret's page? Dugg down for linking to a blog that's linking to a blog.
- Angostura, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Does anyone else remember back when OS X was first unveiled, one of the Apple slogans was 'no more grey'. Aqua was gorgeous. Now look what we have - back to grey.
Humph. - adc89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21This looks nothing like vista.
- rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Just goes to show the attention to detail Apple gives their OS at every level. Both linux and mircosoft can learn something.
- adude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Check out TextEdit: it has the "Here's to the crazy ones" speech.
- johnsondaz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I for one love the fact that gray is becoming the standard. I think it makes the system look more professional and just all around cleaner. I never got into the pin striping of earlier builds, but I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
- Prod_Deity, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I agree, these new folder icons are quite a step back in terms of looks.
- cosmo7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13It's a loupe, commonly used by designers to look at transparencies (on a lightbox) or prints.
- Zippo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I'm glad to see that the menu bar is less transparent than it was in earlier builds. I like the transparency, but I like it much more subtle.
- jonvdveen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13No I don't. Then again, I was young, ignorant, and (sadly) a Windows user. However, the kind of shift that you mention is not really all that surprising. The 60's, for example, were quite colorful and bright. The 70's were more subdued. The 90's were pretty crazy with color! Apple has poked at "beige" boxes, but gone are the days of the multi-colored iMacs and Mac towers. Instead, we have three "color" options: black and white and grey. Times change. So do colors. While I hope they retain some color and bright accents in their UI, it's inevitable that what was once hated will soon be cherished. Bell bottoms anyone?
- PathDaemon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Note lack of eject buttons in Finder. Is smart mounting finally here?
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Black is the new black -- get with the times! ;)
- AmazingSyco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8ThinkSecret typically doesn't go down when they get dugg, but they do slow the hell down. That's why I resorted to shell scripting.
for a in $(for i in $(curl http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a527/index.html | grep -o 'source/.*.html'); do curl "http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a527/$i" | grep -o "../image/[a-z0-9]*.jpg"; done); do curl -O "http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a527/source/$a"; done
Make a new dir, cd into it, and run that script in a term. It'll batch download the pictures into that folder. It'll take awhile to run, but it seems to work pretty well for me. Wrote for bash, don't know about other shells. - TehDoctor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9It's a kind of hands-free magnifying glass. Kinda like the ones jewelers use.
- Goldspink, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Looks like pinstripes are out, then. They were definitely too noticeable in early OS X, but the level in 10.4 is just right. I like them as they add an ever-so-slight texture that stops things looking too 'perfect'.
- coldfusion1970, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Install a beta OS on my iMac?
No thanks. I'll keep watching for features like this until its on sale. - monospaced, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You do realize it took Microsoft over 7 years to produce Vista, which is a direct ripoff of Apple's Aqua, don't you?
- kiwifish, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Really? Are you talking about "System Restore"? Because that's pretty much nothing like "Time Machine"! The closest thing in windows, I believe, is "Volume Shadow Copy", which only got put in a non-server OS in XP I think. And how many normal people do you know who use it?
- DonCarcharo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9The icons look great -except for that awful home folder. Those icons are rotten and the more polished the rest of Leopard gets, the more they seem to stick out. I seriously hope that they're placeholders.
- Noctem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Don't feed the trolls.
- Prod_Deity, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That's one of the things that drove me to OS X (pre-Panther), the fresh aqua interface. Granted it was buggy as hell, but damn did it look nice compared to Windows
- awhiteflame, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6In the system preference's what!?!? The world may never know.
- wozley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Be the bigger fanboy, and ignore the guy above! You can do it! For the love of all that is holy, /flame PLZ!
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5...or people inspecting their printing press rasters.
- manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That's no big deal. It only takes a few clicks to change it. :)
- Pheter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Great icons in the System Preference's
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The folder icons have grown on me. They're retro:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Macintosh_System_7.5.3_screenshot.png - nodlezfodlez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I do so frightfully concur.
- Zippo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5quite so
- manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39A526 was not seeded to Mac developers, it was internal to Apple only.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The only thing that might drive me to Windows would be new Intel iMacs using the old flower power or bubbles color schemes or the return of the toilet seat iBooks...shiver...
- trunkster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Thanks for pointing out that it hasn't leaked onto pirate bay yet.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Any chance diggers could find something other to argue about than which OS is better? I give obvious Apple trolls a hard time but I never bother slamming Microsoft for any real or imagined problems or issues. Why? Because neither I nor most of the rest of the world care.
- whiteyMcBrown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Smallest issue ever, but the divider (crosswalk) on the dock is wrong. It would be correct if it was right in the middle of the dock, but it's off to the right so it should be angled more like a backslash ( ). The vanishing point should be determined by the angles at the edges of the dock. I wouldn't have mentioned it, but Apple's pretty meticulous about this kinda stuff, and they seem to have missed it... Oh.. and I'm very happy they got rid of the pinstripes, and brushed metal and went more iTunesy for the whole thing. And coverflow rocks my socks because there was a missing gap in the Mac OS for a filmstrip/giant thumbnail view and Apple did one better by letting you see enormous thumbnails and being able to sort them, via the list at the bottom. Good on ya!
- Trevahaha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I think it's cause AppleTalk is kinda retro. Seems appropriate.
- streetstealth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I don't mind the gray so much as I mind the fact that making the titlebars darker *decreases contrast* making them slightly less readable.
I have this fear that the designers at Apple are being overrun by Photoshop jockeys, replacing things that work with things that only look cool... - manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Especially the dark gray title bars: it's fine for apps like Finder or Safari, but for apps that have toolbars (with black text), it's hard to read. They need to make it lighter. My preference would be like the Finder in this image: http://jonas.seph.ws/stuff/drf_p.png
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is a new build, with new stuff
- jonvdveen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Everyone please stop trying to look at this page so that I can load the images! ;-) JK! Too bad the original gallery wasn't linked; perhaps duggmirror would have caught something.
- msgyrd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2How can you miss something you're still using?
- eleven, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4They're actually pretty nice - and work much better than the standard aqua icons in anything but icon view. Who uses icon view anyways?
- directive0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Look at the Apple Talk logo... its rainbow and Os 8-ish
- neseus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2hey yeah you're right.. they've got two vanishing points going on. good eye.
- ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8Wow i really hope those traffic light buttons (I forgot what they're actually called) aren't the final version. I much prefer the ones from Tiger.
- msgyrd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's unreleased...you might be able to change it.
- FXPooky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think the redesign isn't that bad. However, what is up with those toolbar icons? If you look at the grey buttons on top of, say, this window http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a527/image/system-preferences001.jpg , you can see that they are extremely pixelly on the edges and not round. The arrows are also not centered vertically. What the hell happened to Apple's design team? That looks horrible and XP-ish to me... those new close/maximize/minimize buttons are too colour saturated, too.
- Angostura, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1To be honest, I think that they just gratuitously change things between releases to give them a different look. Menu bars will be lighter in the release after Leopard, and we'll probably have Aqua pin-stripes back - anything to ring the changes.
Personally Panther remains my favourite iteration in terms of look and feel. -
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