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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. Aqua is Ambiguous by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The term "aqua" is used by different people to refer to different bits of OS X. In this case it seems they were using it to refer to the look and feel of the UI. Since Leopard includes a resolution independent UI and taking advantage of that requires vector graphics for elements and also may warrant some other changes to take advantage of this feature, it is almost a given that Apple will update the look and feel along with the new graphics, rather than creating vector version of the old ones.

  2. Wher by Wylfing · · Score: 0, Redundant

    torrent plz kthx

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