One of the TOP SECRET features that Apple refused to disclose during Leopard’s first preview in August 2006 was the new User Interface of Mac OS X Leopard, which Apple has referred to in its marketing as the New Desktop. This includes a new translucent menubar (originally transparent, but grumbles from users got Apple to make it a little more substantive), a new reflective/3-D Dock with Stacks, and a new unified Aqua user interface which completely eliminates the pinstripe/white gradient design and the brushed metal windows. While some of these changes help to refine the Mac OS X interface as cleaner and more pulled together, many of these changes are superfluous and unnecessary, and in some cases, downright distracting.
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