Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface? (flag)

www.macrumors.com — Last year, Apple announced that they will be releasing the next major revision of Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard) in 2009. The focus of Snow Leopard has been on performance and quality of the underlying codebase rather than introducing new end-user f...

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Apple's Snow Leopard may arrive with unified 'Marble' interface
AppleInsider — ... remained largely unchanged since the Mac OS X public beta in 2000 would adopt the smoother, darker style iTunes-style scrollbars, while application windows would move to a darker chrome motif alongside an inverted menubar with light text on a dark background. Although Gruber, who said the new interface theme was rumored to go by the code-name Marble, admits that his prediction was wrong again, his general claim is being backed up this week by MacRumors . The rumor site claims to have independently heard of the Marble-dubbed theme, which "will likely involve tweaks to the ...

RUMOR: Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to usher in unified ‘Marble’ user interface
MacDailyNews — ... in 2009," Arnold Kim reports for Mac Rumors. "Apple will apparently use Snow Leopard's release to tweak the overall user interface for Mac OS X and unify it across applications... The new theme will likely involve tweaks to the existing design and perhaps a 'flattening' of Aqua in-line with Apple's iTunes and iPhoto interface elements," Kim reports. "The codename for the new interface is said to be 'Marble' — though that seems likely to be an internal codename only." Full article here . Daring Fireball's John Gruber wrote earlier this month, "What I expect is for Apple to ...

Want to know what Snow Leopard's interface will look like? Look at iWork.com
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... Macrumors today reignited the long standing and falling rumor that Apple was readying a interface overhaul.  If you want to know what 10.6 Snow Leopard interface elements will look like, all you have to do is look at iWork.com. ...

'Marble' to be the next look-and-feel for Mac OS X?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Snow Leopard, the next major version of Mac OS X, will include minor tweaks to the user interface, according to MacRumors' Arnold Kim. ...

OS X Snow Leopard going for all the “marbles”?
VentureBeat — ... Specifically, Apple may be ditching the user interface design known as “aqua” and replacing it with one codenamed “marble,” sources tell both MacRumors and ...

Daily Apple: Makeover, Market Loss, Marriage, Make-Believe [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... Marble Interface To Be The New Face of OS X? - According to MacRumors, Snow Leopard could bring a facelift to OS X, one which bring a more consistent look across the operating system. They don’t name their source, but they do cite John Gruber as a corroborating piece of evidence. ...

New Interface in Snow Leopard
HardMac.com — ... However, it seems that Apple decided to introduce so changes in the GUI. IT does not seem to be radical modifications, but rather a new theme that will be unified to the system and all application running on it. So far we only know its name: "Marble". ...

OS X Snow Leopard rumored to have updated UI codenamed Marble
I4U News — ... is mostly about performance and quality. New rumors suggest that Apple is tweaking the user interface in OS X Snow Leopard. Under the internal codename Marble, Apple is supposedly unifying the UI across all applications An updated UI is good for marketing. People like to get something new that has not just internal improvements, but actually has also a shiny new look. I still very much excited on what the CUDA support would be bringing to end users in Snow Leopard. Via MacRumors . Posted on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr ...

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TechBlog — ... - The video has disappeared from Wired. • Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface - Even though Apple has said Snow Leopard's changes would be under the hood, there may be some tweaking of the look and feel. • ...

Snow Leopard may include tweaked UI codenamed ‘Marble’
Boy Genius Report — As Mac users sit patiently, for the most part, awaiting the arrival of Apple’s 10.6 OS X update, ongoing rumors of a revamped UI are starting to gain a bit more ground. Dubbed Snow Leopard, version 10.6 of OS X was previewed at WWDC 2008 quite a while ago by Apple and it is scheduled to become available sometime this quarter. Rumors originating on Daring Fireball with regards to a tweaked UI had lost steam for a while but sources close to MacRumors now claim the rumor was pretty spot on. The new UI will supposedly be more consistent across applications and ...

Windows 7 and the joy of good design
TechBlog — ... . While I'm a big fan of Mac OS X - particularly the way it looks on the bright, big, beautiful display of my 24-inch iMac - I find that I really enjoy looking at and working in Windows 7's interface. In fact, dare I say it? The Mac's desktop is starting to look staid and even boring by comparison. Of course, there are rumors that the next version of OS X - 10.6, a.k.a. Snow Leopard - will have some interface tweaks , even though Apple says it's concentrating on under-the-hood aspects of its operating system this time around. If those rumors are true, OS X's look could be ...