iTunes 10 - where's the color?

Absolutely agree...

They made it monochrome but the shades of grey are too close for anyone to remotely differentiate between items. What's happened to Apple design as of late, are they so preoccupied with their iStock and iCash they've forgotten to make their consumer products aesthetically pleasing. Looks like a pro app gone wrong.

Ripcord wrote:

George Lucchese wrote:
What interface designer looks at icons and thinks "what can i do to make these indistinguishable?"

Exactly. There have been a lot of really poor decisions made in the Mac space lately. What the heck is going on over there??

Then how does Apple remain profitable quarter after quarter?

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Agree 100%. Just adding my name to the list. Please give us the OPTION to use the colored icons. It was not "broken", so why trying to fix it??? to make it look like it's a brand-new "10" version?

I also think the new icon is passable at best, by the way. Looks like it was made by someone wanting to be cool in the iApps world. At least it's instantly recognizable in my dock, which is a strong quality. But the bottom left corner looks awkward/crammed at medium sizes, and the reflection line feels amateurish. Just my 2 cents, I know it's not an icon-related thread.

Agreed

Thank you SO much for this "traffic light fix"

Ast A. Moore
terminal worked great on title bar. Any more hacks to get iTunes of the Living Dead back to life?
What is up with the flat, grey, life-less look? Come on Apple, who were the idiots you tried this out on?

Sorry apple the new icon is so cheap. Right now, i'm googling for a replacement.

And what about the new way of displaying the album names to the right of the cover art?! Not simetrical and more space consuming than in 9 with the name aligned to the middle and underneath the cover art. Apple seems to be an "all or nothing" case... either it makes great or crappy stuff. No middle region whatsoever. Pretty good since they´re in the computer business: either 0 or 1.

The new interface is a real step backwards. The fact that the icons have become colourless actually makes iTunes slower to use. Previously i could quickly glance at it and jump straight to what i wanted based on the colour.

The new icon is just nasty and the vertical maximise, minimise, close buttons are INFURIATING!

Please give us back our colour.

Totally agree with everyone else here - Apple, please at least give us the option to turn on the colors for the sidebar lists and the preferences. I don't mind the new application icon, the CD had to go at some point. I expect the new iLife icons will reflect this new "circle" look, which wouldn't be that bad.

But for iTunes - I spend a ton of time in iTunes and being able to quickly go over to the sidebar and choose what I want without "reading" each one by using colors was far easier than this grey drab. Please add the colors back!

Is there a place one can vote for the color back on the icons in itunes. The IT10 GUI truly reminds me on my first apple macintosh that had 20 years back - it had a monochrome screen!

Ast A. Moore wrote:
You can get the standard title bar and traffic-light widgets back by typing this in Terminal:

*defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean YES*

Thank you, it worked great!

Totally agree the lack of color is so BLANDDDDDDDDDD

CMON APPLE!!!

Well, I tried re-installing a UI theme I've been using, and it total screwed up the iTunes layout.
Here's a Screenshot:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BzWjgvp-fvgaNTA1ZjdhODUtMTk4My00OWFmLTg1OTctMjU yMjAzOGEyN2I0&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

I'm going to have to re-install iTunes to fix this... Btw,

Jay Carr wrote:
The only real possible solution is for someone to go and color all the icons using Photoshop, or something like that, and then have us download them and place them manually... So, any brave soul who's willing to give that a shot...

There is an App called ThemePark that I think can do that, but I'm not too sure how to use it. So if someone can help me with using ThemePark, I'm sure i could recolor iTunes... somehow.