Comment Re:Interesting other note from the Jobs demo (Score 2) 227
Um... Go to the Apearance control panel. You can change the way windows colapse, the location of the scrole buttons, and several other things like color schemes. Apple created some wild schemes ( one of which was called "gismo" ), but didn't ship them with the OS. This didn't stop anyone from useing them, since you can download them and a million other themes that people create. The format of a theme file is well documented and it is not hard to make one.
The general pattern of apple's software is that a user who knows nothing can only do things that are not going to supprize them too much. I whould bet that the wilder themes were axed because a user who wandered into the control panel and clicked on gizmo whould probably freak out when all of the borders on every window became bright orange with yellow stripes and the menus made a loud clacking sound.
But as someone who knows what he is doing, I can make my mac look and behave any way I want. In the Ars Technica report on dp4, it was mentioned that Aqua is dependant on a bundle, and removing that bundle changes the UI to something closer to OS 9. If you were working on OS X, and had made the OS read a bunch of files to know what the UI should look like, whould you ever consider going back and hardcoding all of the data in those files into the apropreate parts of the OS? Of course not. Even if Steve insisted, the fact that they want a beta out the door in ~20 days whoud make it fairly unlikely that it will happen at least with the beta. And if everyone who runs the beta changes the interface, I doubt Steve whould risk pissing off all of his users by locking out interface changes in the final reliece.
The general pattern of apple's software is that a user who knows nothing can only do things that are not going to supprize them too much. I whould bet that the wilder themes were axed because a user who wandered into the control panel and clicked on gizmo whould probably freak out when all of the borders on every window became bright orange with yellow stripes and the menus made a loud clacking sound.
But as someone who knows what he is doing, I can make my mac look and behave any way I want. In the Ars Technica report on dp4, it was mentioned that Aqua is dependant on a bundle, and removing that bundle changes the UI to something closer to OS 9. If you were working on OS X, and had made the OS read a bunch of files to know what the UI should look like, whould you ever consider going back and hardcoding all of the data in those files into the apropreate parts of the OS? Of course not. Even if Steve insisted, the fact that they want a beta out the door in ~20 days whoud make it fairly unlikely that it will happen at least with the beta. And if everyone who runs the beta changes the interface, I doubt Steve whould risk pissing off all of his users by locking out interface changes in the final reliece.
