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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this is an alternative theme right?
by alcibiades on Tue 12th Dec 2006 08:21 UTC
alcibiades
Member since:
2005-10-12

Is that right? Its exactly one alternative theme? The kind of thing one finds a few hundreds, maybe a few thousands, on

http://themes.freshmeat.net/

Is this what it is, and if so, is it really supposed to be news? Sitting here shaking my head and thinking, I must have missed something here, but what?

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Anacardo Member since:
2005-10-30

If really IS a theme, that would definitely ve not much of a feature, still I believe there's probably much more under the hood. Resolution indipendence aside, the rumors concerning new full-screen modal modes for applications are interesting, and might denote a new course of action for application appearance in OSX (Maybe they'll get more apps running in frontrow, but that's just a guess)
As far as black is concerned, I tend to like black and have all my Xp boxes running a black theme. Still I really wish to have at least the twos (black an white versions of the same theme, that wouldn't be much of a problem to do) available. One side note though, have a look to "time machine". How would that work with a black theme? mmmmh...

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