Apple's Illuminous (Aqua v2) to Compete with Aero

tovarish writes "According to Apple Gazette Apple will replace Aqua with a new name (and hopefully looks) called Illuminous. Is Jobs scared of Aero?, does it make sense to go for a new UI now?, has Aqua run out of steam? The answers will probably come later next month(year)."

Comments

erm

[racebit]

Scared of aero? Doubtful. Aqua has been around for awhile, and a gui refresh would be a crowd pleaser. The difference between aero and illuminous is that illuminous won't be the primary reason to upgrade, unlike vista.

Arg?!

[jrwr00]

Why? what ever happened to having a UI just simple and clean at the same time, why must they slow down the systems with these next-gen UIs what ever happened to the idea of SVG UIs

By the way, Aero sucks

[Swift2001]

The translucent windows are nothing but a mighty thief of computer cycles. Only some computers can display it, while it drowns in meritriciousness even when being displayed. The proof? The little red X in the close thingy. Is it possible to make something that ugly? A number of people don't like the stop lights on Aqua windows, but at least it's well designed. The color-coding is self-explanatory, and when you hove the mouse over it, it also gives you a clue when the +, - and x appear inside the "light." By contrast, the Vista close box is a big, nasty red thing that seems pasted on. Microsoft aesthetics.

Re:Competing with XGL

[shmlco]

You could...

1) Select the update and hit the delete key.
2) Select Ignore Update from the Update menu.
3) Have clicked on the Software Update Help menu to find out how to deal with the situation.
4) Asked a Genius how to deal with it.
5) Looked it up on the support site.
6) Continue to whine about it, as you seem to enjoy doing.

No one is claiming the Mac is perfect. But the bottom line is that once the problem occurred there was a good five different ways to handle the situation, and you somehow managed to ignore all of them...