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

Posted by Hemos on from the the-rumour-mill-starts-twitching dept.

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)."

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  1. Is this the new theme for iTunes 7? by jZnat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since iTunes 7 doesn't follow the rest of the Tiger application themes, this might have something to do with that theme. Maybe they're going to make all the apps consistent regardless of use? Or maybe they're going to introduce even more categories to use when designing the UI for your app so that you Windows themers can't copy the OS X theme? :P

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  2. Want Finder improvements by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Finder is the one thing I would like to see improvements in. For example rewriting it to be a Cocoa app and actually being smarter at noticing file changes, especially with SMB volumes. There is no f5 (refresh key on Windows), so I don't want to have to wait a minute until it notices.

    One other thing I would love to see, related to AppleShare volumes: server side folder size calculation, since it would be easier to cache and reduce unecessary network traffic because the client wouldn't be interogating each and every file.

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  3. Re:Pinstripes by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nah, it'd look like this! : )

    (Of course, a wallpaper showing the circuitry on the inside of my iMac would be really cool... I wish I could find one.)

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  4. Re:Who's responding to who? by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, what is really odd is that people thinks that people is "scared" of Aero. Mac OS X was released on 2000, in 2001 the interface got hardware acceleration. Vista is being released....NOW.

    In other words, while MS has player catch up, Apple has had plenty of time to think on the "Next big thing". Why wouldn't they improve Aqua? They've the lead for years so if someone can do it, that's apple.

    It's a interesting thing that they're doing it but saying that they're "scared" is stupid. It's microsoft who should be scared of needing to play catch up with the next Mac OS interfaces.