'Marble' to be the next look-and-feel for Mac OS X?

Snow Leopard, the next major version of Mac OS X, will include minor tweaks to the user interface, according to MacRumors' Arnold Kim.

"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 writes.

AppleInsider's Kate Marsal posted a screenshot of some controls purported to be part of the new interface, dubbed "Marble." It's unclear where the screenshot came from, as Kim writes that development builds have so far used Leopard's version of the Aqua theme. They could easily be Photoshopped screenshots of iPhoto or iTunes, so take that with a grain of salt.

Daring Fireball's John Gruber wrote that Marble was the codename for the new interface scheme in his Macworld predictions roundup, but said later he was wrong when it was not announced during the keynote. He wagered that the look would feature "iTunes-style scrollbars everywhere, darker window chrome, and a light-text-on-dark-background menu bar."

Snow Leopard is rumored to be released before the end of March.

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aaron

Hopefully not. The first thing that hit me when I upgraded to itunes 8 was how bad the new interface looks. The black reflective elements next to the flat grey looks really tacky and unconvincing IMHO. Big design booboo.

January 16 2009 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve Gates

PHOTOSHOP!!! 1sT!!!! OMGLOLZORZ u r all n00bs. iÂ´ve heard windows 7 has more uber marbles!

January 15 2009 at 8:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shunnabunich

Man, I hope the UI doesn't just keep getting darker and darker. Eventually the screen will just be black and everyone will think all Macs ship with Doom 3.

January 14 2009 at 9:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

2shae

Well this could still be a theme for Snow Leopard.

Just like there are currently 2 themes, Aqua and Graphite. This could be a third theme.

January 14 2009 at 4:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Danny

Try this

http://www.ileopard2.co.cc/index.html

January 14 2009 at 4:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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dorian

good call. I've been using that for a little while and have been real happy with it.

January 14 2009 at 6:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nocuts

Seriously, that looks like something out of Ubuntu. I can't see Apple changing the look of the GUI that much in Snow Leopard. Isn't Snow Leopard just for performance and stability anyway?

January 14 2009 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremiah Moon

That pic is definitely shopped .... look at the top of the scroll bar, right underneath the bigger square. But I think it would be reasonable to expect something along those lines for the main UI...

January 14 2009 at 2:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

Some foolish part of me still holds hope that they will someday attach the menu bars to the window they belong to instead of the top of the main screen. (which is a multi-monitor nightmare)

January 14 2009 at 1:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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schroef

It's just this part of iTunes 8:

http://crew.techzine.nl/good-fella/dump/iTunes8crop.png

January 14 2009 at 1:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JedixJarf

This looks like a screenshot of iTunes 8

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