20 June 2007

A few Leopard captures

…that you should hurry and check out, if you are so inclined, before they disappear from the web.

The transparent menubar has clearly been a late addition, so there might still be some hope they’d realize the horror they unleashed:

Also, the active window’s drop shadow has become quite spectacular, if you didn’t know yet — tacky, even. Which may be in order to see where you are in the Spaces display.

I’m glad to see that you can still have icons on your desktop, despite Stacks — considering how determined Steve Jobs has been to kill the good Finder of old since the very first introduction of OS X, I really didn’t know what to expect.

Ah, and toolbar capsules are kinda dead — well, they’re not exactly gone, but they’re not ugly anymore and they actually make sense. And Leopard is such a huge step toward visual consistency that I’m not about to complain if the final release keeps rounded rectangles in some toolbars and capsules in others.