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After what I learned from installing Leopard I'm staying well clear of all these marginal hacks...

I value the solid reliability of my Mac and I won't have it abused again!

maybe for CRT displays (eMacs), but I don't think I want rounded corners on my MacBook's display...

Will this fix the glossy screen issue?

Apple is going square.

Jeez, talk about nit picking!. Sheesh!

My monitors are snappier now!

The corners are still slightly rounded. I know mac users are detail oriented but damn, that is a small thing to annoy you.

Jay,

Leopard's corners are not "slightly rounded," they are exactly square.

Get your eyes checked.

it's the menu bar that is rounded - get a second monitor on and the corners are square anyway (tiger)

@Dave:

You can always fix the problem:

Home Depot

FG

I hope you aren't referring to programs, windows and the like, 'cos I count AT LEAST a 3 pixel radii when transitioning from vertical draws to the horizontal in Safari.

I thought something was different... Don't really give a rats ass though.

To be honest. It's so slight and not important, I didn't even notice the corners were squared off. I actually had to look at a system running Tiger to tell the difference. I think this on the top of the "Things gone from Tiger we don't need nor care about" list.

whats this about rounded corners? good thing this app came out... now i can get some work done. i keed.

i miss the rounded corners it's very obvious, i am trying the programme now and its nice to have them back, one of the Macs virtues is the attention to detail, ie nitpicking the square corners are crude and too PC.

Never noticed before, but my PowerBook running 10.3 has round upper corners and square lowers, FWIW.

unless your screen is round, there's no reason to round the edges. it looks dumb.

Guys, don't you see?
First, they square your corners.
Next, they'll rape your cows.

It'll make McHale's Navy's Ernest Borgnine look like The Poseidon Adventure's Ernest Borgnine all over again, only more.

I've used basically every version of Mac OS, and never noticed the change until reading this.

If rounded corners is the biggest problem in your life, I envy you....get over yourselves you F$&#xin;g whiners!!

How: Buy Vista. With Leopard you get to upgrade to the 5 year old Windows XP look for window corners.

You aren't very observant.

every window in Tiger has a rounded brushed aluminum frame at the top and squared at the bottom.

Damn, next Apple is going to do away with that.
Just to make Windows guys feel at home in Leopard. Why?

As for the Desktop... rounded corners is well a non-issue for me.

Really? Rounded Corners? Is *this* what we're talking about today. WTF is wrong with the world?

Pie are not round, PI r squared.

Just my $0.02

MacANAL!

I think that the rounded corners in previous versions of OS X was a truly artistic creation. It was amazing. I can't believe they would let something so beautiful just slip away...

You can tell the negative impact it has had on the company, just look at what happened to the stock today. I have a feeling it's going to continue to drop if they don't fix this in the next software update.

Greenpeace should write up another complaint about Apple not being green. I mean, look at all the extra electricity all the monitors will use now that there are 32 more pixels illuminated.

This is going to be a DISASTER.

Personally, I think the squared-off edges look sharper, especially on my iMac. To each their own, I say.

Apple/Microsoft - there's a difference? Apple has given up most of the things that made an Apple an Apple. Usability is sacrificed to gimmicks and Leopard is (whisper it) a big disappointment. No Airport TimeMachine and none of the promised 'secret' features. Meh!

With Leopard my Timbuktu broke, my Photoshop 7 broke, I cannot see my HP printer and we talk about rounded corners?
Sheesh.

Somebody say something to make me happy :-(

Just out of curiosity, did Microsuck round off the corners in Vista?

If so, that's probably the reason why Apple changed it.

I like the square corners, I always thought the rounded ones looked weird on my Powerbook. Now it looks a lot better. I don't understand why someone would want rounded corners on an LCD. It just doesn't make sense to me (nor is it a big deal).

MDN MW "major" as in this is a major issue!!!!

I cannot even believe this is a thread.

I don't mean to sound like I'm calling the kettle black but. . . boy, some of us need to get a life!

@Jenkem's juices
I'm laughing my head off

"Just out of curiosity, did Microsuck round off the corners in Vista?"

Yes, they did, in Leopard Apple is emulating the XP practice of square corners and cartoonish icons and color schemes, but the whole outer aluminum bezel around an iMac emulates a Vista window border.

Its like the new iMacs were designed to look best when running Vista.

I was thinking the other day that what with the black surround of the new iMacs the rounded corners might look better, but since I don't have one yet I can't say. I'm beginning to get a little annoyed, my replacement machine hasn't shipped yet and it has been 10 days. So much for ready in 3-5 business days.

Thanks MDN. Why don't you broadcast it. I didn't even notice. Now I'll lie awake at night juggling the pros and cons of round versus square corners.

Global warming, hello, war, hello...
Actually while i'm here. Why didn't Apple make them machines brown, you know, to try and capture a little of the zune halo oh forget it...

"Why didn't Apple make them machines brown, you know, to try and capture a little of the zune halo oh forget it..."

LOL

I'm a die hard Mac user as well... but just once in awhile I shake my head in awe at the Mac communities resistance to change.

I honestly spend very little time using my Mac, mostly just look at the sexy sleek curved screen corners. Forget that new cat, it kills the curves.

What is it with you people? Detail oriented? Anal?

Is new really better? Be afraid of change!

I thought the trolls were annoying!!!!!!!!!

I have two 30" Cinema Displays stacked one over the other. The top desktop is rounded, the bottom razor square.

Kinda cool looking.

Squircle...Squircle...Squircle...

Best snooze item of the day.

i am in yer windowz, squaring out yer corners

"I cannot even believe this is a thread."

My thoughts exactly... we "lost" hierarchal navigation off the dock but the focus is about some pixels on the upper corners???

Stacks is useless > the fanning is so Vista like. Are we becoming eye candy whores? What is going on in Redmond... Oh- I mean Cupertino.

"Oh, for Christ's sakes, stop obsessing about your thighs. If you're slim, great, if you're rounder, great." I tell my girlfriends, "If we are going to spend 25 minutes talking about our thighs we must spend an equal 25 minutes talking about world peace or we are vapid." -- Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding"), in an interview with CNN.

I would argue that the round-vs-square-corners issue is much the same. I'll start -- How 'bout that Dalai Lama!

I thought the round corners on top of the screen were dumb: just empty, blank space on my otherwise beautiful Mac.

But now 10.5 has made everything perfect!

MDN word: "history", round corners are history

I found it interesting that the menus now have rounded corners but the corners don't.

I'm more upset over the new dock "running application" indicator lights. The blue blobs under running apps are barely perceptible.

i just threw my imac out the window because the corners aren't rounded. how could apple do this to us? i mean, i can't even stand to look at the os now - it's so... so... squared!

get a life fools. go outside and talk to some humans.

You do get more pixels for you dollar with square corners.

Got home - fired up Leopard.
Realized that the discussion is about the main desktop window actually using all of the space that is available to it.
Which should be a good thing...

Yeah - this has to officially be the stupidest "dilemma" ever disussed here (and given some of the posts on MDN, that's saying something)

mw - change (as in, this change is a good thing.)