iTunes 7, released today, sports some new UI tweaks (cf. source list preview). Now, being one for consistency, I have to believe the rest of Aqua will change along with it (right? right!?), but it’s odd we didn’t see anything different in the latest Leopard preview. Although, iTunes has consistently been the earliest adopter of most UI trends.
While I haven’t seen the new UI enough yet to gauge whether or not I like it, I hope this isn’t just another “visual fork” but rather a preview of a new, consistent look for OS X.
(Oh, and I hope Apple hired or gave the author of CoverFlow some cash for integrating his app—including the name—into iTunes proper.)
it's ugly. I hope it's not a preview of what's to come; I don't want my whole OS to look like this :(.
They did buy the rights to CoverFlow, thankfully.
As for just about everything else they did to iTune's look it's just wrong. Not sure what drove them off on this tangent. From what i was seeing it looked like they were moving pretty solidly towards the 'plastic' look of mail in 10.5... which is fine by me, it's one of the simpler and cleaner looks they've had for a while.