Re: metallized interface
Re: metallized interface
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:04:05PM +0000, Keith Pritchard wrote:
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I like the look of the metal windows (though I wouldn't like every
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window to look that way), but I worry that the once wholly
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consistent mac interface is now divided into two.
You talk about this as if it's a new thing. AppleCD Audio Player has
been around since Apple shipped the AppleCD SC in 1988 or so, and it's
had a CD player-like interface. A similar interface was used for the
Apple Video Player, and the really ugly replacement audio player
(whose name I am forgetting).
Even the old Mac four-function Calculator looked different with the
rounded-window style, squarish buttons and a patterned background.
Mac OS 7.5 introduced a 'utility background' pattern which was
user-selectable and applied to DA-type single-window apps such as the
Scrapbook and Find File.
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Once a style is available, it isn't realistic to believe it will only
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be applied to "real world device" apps...
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and single window apps.
There is a pretty consistent history of different UI treatment for real
world device and single window apps going back to the Mac's
introduction. It hasn't been available as a standard feature until
Jaguar, so it was always harder to implement, but I hope people will
continue to use the same restraint they always did.
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Problem is as a user, the metal look is pretty imposing and as I
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said above, I even like it for the odd window, but if all the
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panels, sheets, dialogues started displaying in metal, it would be
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WAY too much for me.
This is probably why Apple doesn't do it, and doesn't recommend it
either.
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Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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