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bOOzo · May 10, 2003, 02:23 PM

What do you think of it? Were gonna make a new iFix, but we are arguing about the slider.

This is how the original look and the edit looks:

Which do you prefer?

If the original slider is popular, I'm considering changing the slider to that style for the next Brushed update.

Sage · May 10, 2003, 02:35 PM

I personally think that the high-tech slider looks cooler, but the Aqua slider would fit in better with the other GUI elements. A bit of a toss-up.

Adam Betts · May 10, 2003, 02:51 PM

I like both

tiffer17 · May 10, 2003, 02:59 PM

At first I didn't like the new iTunes slider, but now that I've gotten used to it I think i like it better.

.::|:chris:|::.

MindFad · May 10, 2003, 03:30 PM

I personally like the new one Apple put in there myself. But I also like the little Aqua one. If I had to pick one, though, I'd go with the hi-tech lookin' one.

bOOzo · May 10, 2003, 03:44 PM

Ok, cool. If the hightech one is more popular, maybe we should go the other way and change the sliders in other apps for consistency.

swiz · May 10, 2003, 04:07 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
Ok, cool. If the hightech one is more popular, maybe we should go the other way and change the sliders in other apps for consistency.

That is what I would vote for.

Gatorzx2 · May 10, 2003, 04:16 PM

I'm partial to the hightech one.

Ozmodiar · May 10, 2003, 05:05 PM

Which one are you calling standard and which one are you calling edited Aqua??

I'mDaMac · May 10, 2003, 05:09 PM

The high-tech iTunes slider gets my vote

bbxstudio · May 10, 2003, 05:16 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
What do you think of it? Were gonna make a new iFix, but we are arguing about the slider.

This is how the original look and the edit looks:

Which do you prefer?

If the original slider is popular, I'm considering changing the slider to that style for the next Brushed update.

Bah! How is that new one considered hi-tech? Personally, I dislike the boring gray plastic Quicktime-style controls (including the new iTunes volume slider - talk about bad ergonomics, it's tiny and hard to see and it's one of the controls you're most likely to access frequently) - I think the new FinalCut-style flat white inset glass is the best marriage with Apple's brushed metal (like in the iFix DVD player, yo). If I had to choose between graphite aqua and the new one, I'd choose the graphite (although I seem to be the only one who feels that way).

kmkkid · May 11, 2003, 12:03 PM

I like the metal looking one, but why does it have a dot? If it's to show that it's a slider, well... what other function would a widget on a track have.

Chris

Sage · May 11, 2003, 01:33 PM

Originally posted by kmkkid:
I like the metal looking one, but why does it have a dot? If it's to show that it's a slider, well... what other function would a widget on a track have.

In iTunes 4, when you click on it, the dot "lights up" as a blue light. Sort of like what the Aqua slider does, but surrounded by metal.

kmkkid · May 11, 2003, 04:17 PM

Originally posted by Sage:
In iTunes 4, when you click on it, the dot "lights up" as a blue light. Sort of like what the Aqua slider does, but surrounded by metal.

Yeah, I know. But why?

Chris

NetworkShadow · May 11, 2003, 04:18 PM

Kill the new metal slider! That's the worst part about iTunes 4...

Brien · May 11, 2003, 04:47 PM

Either way, but the high tech slider fits the brushed look better.

tyson.r · May 12, 2003, 09:05 PM

Maybee this is a stupid question...but what is there to fix now? They have pretty much adopted the new imovie buttons in iTunes 4...or do you guys have something else in store?

Pardon my ignorance...maybee Im just not observing the differences well.

Sage · May 12, 2003, 09:20 PM

Widgets. They're going to make blue widgets to match the blue SS theme, and I imagine that they'll also come out with a traffic light widget fix, since Max's traffic light widgets are different from the normal Apple ones (and much better than Apple's, I must add!).

fireside · May 12, 2003, 09:42 PM

and for some reason quicktime 6.2 still has the old buttons.

iFix Rene · 11:21 AM

Max and me have been debating this for ever
I do not like the dot, its pointless (hahaha)
what is the function, there is none

this is my suggestion, see images
and let me know what u think

iFix Rene

chezpaul · May 13, 2003, 11:41 AM

Personnaly I think U guys have way too much time to think about this stuff. The new slider is cool. Just having the blue light is cool.. Why ask what it does.. It's cool that's all.

Rene saw that we all liked it but he (or she) still has to change it... haha...

iFix Rene · May 13, 2003, 12:19 PM

rene (he and me, LOl) is offcourse a little
fussy, else he wouldnt be doing this stuff
in the first place

I think the dot is cool, but pointless

970 · May 13, 2003, 03:40 PM

"I think the dot is pointless"

Obviously you can't see the irony in this statement. The dot is good, the dot is great. Leave the dot alone, stop the abuse. Don't you have better things in your life except to think about a little dot all day?

bbxstudio · May 14, 2003, 01:36 AM

Originally posted by iFix Rene:
rene (he and me, LOl) is offcourse a little
fussy, else he wouldnt be doing this stuff
in the first place

I think the dot is cool, but pointless

Lots of stuff in OSX is pointless (just be thankful you don't have to look at the sea of pointlessness that is Windows)... but I think the thumb without the dot is even more pointless than the one with it (which in itself was pointless - er, yeah). I just think the new thumb (is it really called hi-tech?) is a step backwards style-wise from the Aqua-fied one. At least Aqua's elements are made out of a cool virtual material (jelly/glass/lucite) as opposed to the 'Quicktime-ish' flat gray boring plastic (like trying to simulate the putty-colored plastic of the connector on the back of a washing machine).

iFix Rene · 05:37 AM

970
my statement 'the dot is pointless'
was a joke!
dont u have better things to do then
coming to a forum about a dot
complaining about people complaining
about a dot?

LOL

BBX, if u like my dotless slider, find my
email on happicon and I'll whip u up a dotless
slider res

to the all the people who care about what
happens to the dot, do not feel ashamed
LOL:

btw iFix�3.0.1 is out
WITH that stupid dot slider LOL