Star Aqua To Be Replaced with Illuminous?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Dec 2006 23:03 UTC
Mac OS X Apple website Apple Gazette is reporting rumouring that Leopard will come with an all-new interface, supposedly with lots of black glossy things (similar to Vista, indeed): "Apple Gazette has received a tip from an apple insider that the Mac OS Aqua User Interface will be replaced with a new UI named Illuminous. The source goes on to say that we will see a demonstration of Illuminous at Macworld 2007." I have never heard of this website, so I cannot make an assessment of its reliability, but suffices to say that it is highly debatable. Interesting nonetheless. Update: More info.
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That would not be very surprising..
by NicolasRoard on Mon 11th Dec 2006 23:22 UTC
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2005-07-16

Frankly, considering that the current developer release doesn't sport a new UI, I think I'm not alone to have thought during the last keynote that they were preparing a completely different UI, but were hiding it until the final release next year (and vista would be a good enough reason to do so...)

After all, they did exactly the same thing with rhapsody -- the API were the same than OSX, but the UI profoundly changed (aqua).

Perhaps we'll simply have a slightly more refined UI theme with "dark gloss" as previously reported, but I would more expect something really different, not just a new theme. (and hopefully they'll trash the finder while they are here)

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