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Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface?
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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. ...

Daily Apple: Makeover, Market Loss, Marriage, Make-Believe
TheAppleBlog — ... 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". ...

I Know What Marble Looks Like
Mac Soda — ... So if you’ve been reading Macrumors, you’ve probably read the story that Snow Leopard will give the entire UI an overhaul, replacing Aqua with something called Marble. People have been wondering what exactly it will look like, and I think I have their answer. ...

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