>brushed metal windows and other app-specific background textures. You're about a decade late with this complaint... and wrong. The brushed metal look was for

>brushed metal windows and other app-specific background textures. You're about a decade late with this complaint... and wrong. The brushed metal look was for application windows that resembled "appliances", which would remain open as you loaded/saved different projects. This was to distinguish them from the normal white document windows, which are tied 1-to-1 to a file. I'm not saying they always followed this rule exactly... but there definitely was a rule. And the Apple of the era would publish detailed Human Interface Guidelines detailing all the thinking and intended practices. Third party mac software of that era was famously extremely consistent too, because of this shared base. I only have one request from Linux desktops: mac style shortcuts with meta instead of ctrl. I also know it will never happen because everyone took their cues from messy Microsoft instead of the superior Apple practices.