Well, OS X had had transparency for years, and with Core Image the glass blurring effect could be recreated easily I imagine. I just guess Apple doesn't see any use in employing these over-the-top effects, since they add nothing in terms of usability; more on the contrary. Technically OS X and Vista are on par I'd say. Apple just sticks with the useable GUI, while MS goes all out on the eye-candy front to drive sales.Having said that, having a little more animated GUI as shown in the video will be sweet.
Making the purple pointer "hover" is interesting. At first it was a big WTF, but then I realized that they float it around so you know it's something on the help layer and not part of your screen below. Extremely intuitive and clever.A tad fugly, but its utility outweighs that. I can see my mom finally realizing which pulldown menu item to use because of the big purple pointer. This is a much-improved system over Apple's abandoned red-circle method or spotlight highlights.
"Core Animation probably won't lessen processor or battery load by itself, and since more apps will use animation because of it, animation and thus processor usage will likely ramp up significantly."I think most of the work is going to be actually done by the GPU, and seeing how DMA plays quite a heavy part now, moving the data to the GPU shouldn't require much, if any, CPU time.
DirectX compose of many component, like DirectInput and DirectSound.To compare with OpenGL, please use Direct3D.edit: dont know why reply function wasnt working.
Well, Spotlight is blue because the "Blue" appearance is checked. The only other color spotlight can be is gray, and that's only if "Graphite" is selected, which affects everything else, too. My general point was that considering that all other menus are either blue or gray, a purple one that always stays purple seems jarring and inconsistent.I had actually forgotten that the help buttons are purple, so that at least explains their choice. I still maintain that having one particular menu a different color from all the others is inconsistent and strange.
sneeka2Aug 15, 2006
Well, OS X had had transparency for years, and with Core Image the glass blurring effect could be recreated easily I imagine. I just guess Apple doesn't see any use in employing these over-the-top effects, since they add nothing in terms of usability; more on the contrary. Technically OS X and Vista are on par I'd say. Apple just sticks with the useable GUI, while MS goes all out on the eye-candy front to drive sales.Having said that, having a little more animated GUI as shown in the video will be sweet.
mark1372Aug 15, 2006
Making the purple pointer "hover" is interesting. At first it was a big WTF, but then I realized that they float it around so you know it's something on the help layer and not part of your screen below. Extremely intuitive and clever.A tad fugly, but its utility outweighs that. I can see my mom finally realizing which pulldown menu item to use because of the big purple pointer. This is a much-improved system over Apple's abandoned red-circle method or spotlight highlights.
bkakesAug 15, 2006
Purple has been the color of the ? help buttons since at least Panther...
r3zonanceAug 15, 2006
"Core Animation probably won't lessen processor or battery load by itself, and since more apps will use animation because of it, animation and thus processor usage will likely ramp up significantly."I think most of the work is going to be actually done by the GPU, and seeing how DMA plays quite a heavy part now, moving the data to the GPU shouldn't require much, if any, CPU time.
windzeroAug 15, 2006
DirectX compose of many component, like DirectInput and DirectSound.To compare with OpenGL, please use Direct3D.edit: dont know why reply function wasnt working.
sladuuchAug 15, 2006
Well, Spotlight is blue because the "Blue" appearance is checked. The only other color spotlight can be is gray, and that's only if "Graphite" is selected, which affects everything else, too. My general point was that considering that all other menus are either blue or gray, a purple one that always stays purple seems jarring and inconsistent.I had actually forgotten that the help buttons are purple, so that at least explains their choice. I still maintain that having one particular menu a different color from all the others is inconsistent and strange.