AquaLookAndFeel no more in Leopard?
June 26th, 2007 | 3 Comments »Judging by the applications coming lately from Apple (such as native controls in Safari on Apple and iPhone), Aqua is as good as dead. Here are two screenshots from the latest iTunes (taken from the activation guide just posted on Apple site). Click to see full-size images.
Does this mean that the system look and feel will no longer be apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel? Will it go back to com.apple.mrj.swing.MacLookAndFeel? Or maybe Apple JDK 6.0 will have a brand new class with a brand new name? Or maybe Apple will choose the same route as Sun did with JDK 5.0 and extend AquaLookAndFeel with a new theme (re: Metal / Ocean)?
By the way, is this the new look for tabs?
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That’s just iTunes and it’s been like this for a while. Don’t draw conclusions based on a video of a single application, especially one that’s been known for looking different. Aqua is still here. One guy from Apple also showed me the improvements in the Aqua look and feel for Java SE 6 at JavaOne.
Romain, what about Safari 3.0? It’s mostly gray (even though at least on Windows it still uses Aqua for active controls). I thought there was a talk of uniting all the different UIs in Leopard. Will it still be a mix of gray and aqua?
The “unification” was about the windows/title bars/tool bars. And Safari 3 still uses Aqua to render its own widgets. Only widgets styled with CSS on some web sites are rendered differently.