A reader just sent us this pretty little screenshot. He explained that it was forwarded to him by a friend who works for some mysterious company.
That friend apparently told this reader that the screenshot above is of the Mac OS X Lion desktop:
He explained me that in Apple they’ve been working on a new interface—and this is one of the options. It includes a new dock (the one in the picture) that has a default auto-hide function, an “opaque” effect in the back, and a new bar with direct access to LaunchPad. The icons in the right are hidden until you put the mouse over and enhancements in the window system like a pop-up effect and darker interface.
Sounds like a nice enough explanation, but there are a few things nagging us:
It’s rather odd that there is no actual tray on the dock—after all, it’s common for Apple to provide a support element of sorts throughout iOS and Mac OS X.
The lowercase “mon” instead of “Mon” or even “MON” is throwing us off.
Using “a.m” instead of “AM” would be very un-Apple-like and a deviation from what the company has been doing for years.
Those skepticisms aside, we think this is a pretty looking desktop and we could probably live with looking at it each day—assuming it’s not just the product of someone’s Photoshop dreams. [Thanks, tipster!]
