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It's Aqua! It's Brushed Metal! It's Aqua! It's Brushed Metal! (Bias)
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Check out this screenshot. Has any application mixed GUI appearances so haphazardly? Does Apple need to lay down some serious law as to when/when not to use the brushed metal appearance?
Stop the madness!
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I'd say that the BIAS application appears to be having a bit of an "identity" crisis!
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Originally posted by Nonsuch:
Check out this screenshot. Has any application mixed GUI appearances so haphazardly? Does Apple need to lay down some serious law as to when/when not to use the brushed metal appearance?
I'm pretty sure that if Apple had some serious laws for when to use it (they have some, but nobody takes them serious - not even they themselves), well, if Apple had some laws for when to use it, I'm pretty sure the developers of this app wouldn't read them.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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Peak has always been one fugly app. Good to see they're not parting with a longstanding tradition. If anything, it looks worse than ever. How do they do it?
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Hahaha...  that's funny... they didn't see the "uglyness" of doing that...
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Apple needs to start by looking at there own apps. The new video apps have an incredibly inconstant interface. Every other widget is some random customs graphic that does not match any thing else in OS X or the app.
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Im failing to see the problem.
wtf are u guys rambling on about?
The interface looks 100% better than what it looks like in 3.2.
Hell, it was easily the ugliest looking app on OS X without any doubt using that plain white 2d interface. actually now spewbase SX is one damn ugly assed juck heap....this is just a windows hack.To me it looks just like a crappy looking windows app.
The brushed metal gives it a more defined 3d appearance for the buttons and other wigets.
If there's any app that needs an interface design its Logic Audio. Now that is an app that ignores all the Mac OS X guidelines.
eg, menu's inside the arrange window (this is like windows and should be removed an placed in the menu bar at the top of the screen)
interface buttons. when u click on a button the menu doesnt pop up, u have to hold the mouse button down for the menu to appear.... System 6 days!!!!!!!!!
http://www.emagic.de/products/ls/platinum/screen7.html
look at the sharp rectangle buttons on the mixer window. These look like cheepo windows interface widgets.
And that Font...god thats the ugliest looking piece of trash ive ever seen. Some text is some horrible pc font with crappy ailiasing and some text is the crappy same pc font without ailiasing.
talk about vomit material 
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The Mac OS has always been known for it GUI consitency. Sad to see that go. I used to make fun of Windows for this very reason.
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
The Mac OS has always been known for it GUI consitency. Sad to see that go. I used to make fun of Windows for this very reason.
Although OS X has lost some of that "consistency" I think we are moving in the right direction. I piss and moan about the GUI and how some companies need to send their designers back to school, but spend 3 mins. on a Windows XP box, and you will RUN back to your Mac.
It's XP, it's Windows 95, it's DOS, it's Windows 2000, it's the blue screen of death...
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Maybe they want you to close your eyes and concentrate on the music while using it. 
"It's a dessert topping!" "It's a floor wax!"
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"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Although OS X has lost some of that "consistency" I think we are moving in the right direction. I piss and moan about the GUI and how some companies need to send their designers back to school, but spend 3 mins. on a Windows XP box, and you will RUN back to your Mac.
It's XP, it's Windows 95, it's DOS, it's Windows 2000, it's the blue screen of death...
Actually they are moving AWAY from the right direction. Platinum was great. It was consistent. Aqua isn't very professional looking, nor is it consistent.
Hopefully Panther fixes this.
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Originally posted by malvolio:
Maybe they want you to close your eyes and concentrate on the music while using it.
"It's a dessert topping!" "It's a floor wax!"
Gotta love the "Shimmer" referrence.
RIP Gilda.
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