[Ado]

Who here uses their mac for pro work and is sick and tired of all these transparencies, animations and other fluff that gets in the way of snap performance?
I never use expose', widgets and even the dock is getting annoying.

I nominate the Apple Pro apps UI (as seen in aperture, motion, FCP etc) as an optional choice UI in apples Finder prefs.

[Ado]

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Id take any of these over the current Toy UI.

[Cold Warrior]

Your second option is loaded. I don't see it as a hobby GUI at all. I find it more powerful and more efficient than any OS GUI I've used.

[OreoCookie]

Aperture uses plenty of transparencies (just have a look at the pics you posted). Not that I dislike Aperture, I love it, by far one of my three most favorite apps I've ever used. But I don't think it's a good idea to just use the same UI concepts everywhere: Pro UIs are complementary to Apple's usual design philosophy for non-pro apps: reduce it to the minimum, to the functions you use 80 % of the time. With Pro apps, you'd like to squeeze in as many options as you can (if you want to).

[Ado]

There is no way the Apple Ui is miminalistic.
I hate this BS when you maximise a window it becomes transparent. There is no way to turn this off. Giving users a choice like windows does, would be a great option.
I know alot of designers who are sick of apples UI and find it too bubbly.

[OreoCookie]

It is functionally minimalistic: only the most-widely used options are immediately visible.

I regard the immediate visual feedback as a huge plus. But UIs (like anything) is a matter of taste. But I doubt it's `pro' vs. `non-pro'. I think quite some people use OS X `professionally' (I do), but I use Aperture for my hobby (and not for work). It's just that what some people call `pro apps' is software that is allowed to be complex, because you need the complexity. There is no such thing for the Finder IMHO.

If you want a more `pro-like' substitute for the Finder, try Pathfinder. I've tried it and found it too `noisy'.

Regarding optical effects, those are used in pro apps as well (transparency, animations for stacks for instance in Aperture, etc.).

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Ado 

I hate this BS when you maximise a window it becomes transparent.

Huh?

Anywho. Download UNO to make you happy until Leopard hits you with it's dark greyness.

[SomeToast]

The blacks and dark grays of Lightroom and Aperture would be fine if I was doing photo retouching all day, but most of the documents I work with are largely white/light. The extreme contrast would be a pain. Leopard's dark enough as it is.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Ado 

There is no way the Apple Ui is miminalistic.
I hate this BS when you maximise a window it becomes transparent. There is no way to turn this off.

Because there's no way to turn it on. Because it doesn't actually exist.

[Ado]

I have tried many themes on mac and they're all ****.
The only ones that have lasted more than a month on my mac were photo pro and clearglass.
I long for simplicity and todays current OS's are all becoming 2.5D with all these useless effects.

[- - e r i k - -]

Uno isn't a theme. It unifies the system.

[Visnaut]

Originally Posted by Ado 

I hate this BS when you maximise a window it becomes transparent.

What?

You must have downloaded some 3rd party hack that does that; that has never existed in Mac OS X.