Leopard Screenshots: Possibly Fake

There’s several new screenshots lighting up the internet that are purportedly taken from a new Leopard build (9A410). Posted to Hackintosh, MacRumors, Flickr and elsewhere, the screenshots show a new, simple UI that’s darker and sharper than the current — note the corners of windows are no longer rounded. There’s less brushed metal, more soothing […]

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There's several new screenshots lighting up the internet that are purportedly taken from a new Leopard build (9A410).

Posted to Hackintosh, MacRumors, Flickr and elsewhere, the screenshots show a new, simple UI that's darker and sharper than the current -- note the corners of windows are no longer rounded. There's less brushed metal, more soothing grey.

The screenshots on Flickr look much more like the current UI (Tiger) ,except Mail now has a metallic look.

But there's something fishy about them. The interface is too plain and stripped back.

Many on the MacRumors' forums think the screens are fake, and one poster on Flickr is sure about it.:

"Fake! Fake! Fake!

I write themes for OSX. And, I can tell you how this was most probably done:

The file Extras.rsrc still kinda works in the betas for 10.5 although, I hope that it will be removed before release.

Anyway, Installer based themes (though out of favor in 10.4) still work by replacing Extras.rsrc among other files.

Someone swapped out the normal Extras.rsrc and took some screen shots. Since most of the guts of 10.5 do not depend upon Extras.rsrc anymore, I am confident that 10.5 would run with a 10.4 Extras file for now.

Note that you do not see any signs of resolution independence! That is what would break this fake theme (since res independence calls to images not stored in Extras.rsrc)."

More screens after the jump

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Control Panel:

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