What if I'm scrubbing around looking for something in that part of the frame? Yes, you can move the controls, but what if I'm looking for something in an unknown location in the frame? Also, the title bar obscures an entire swath of the top of the frame, and this can't be moved. Second, the floating playback controls obscure the movie. Gone are the gray border and bottom-mounted playback controls from the old QuickTime Player, replaced by a frameless window with a black title bar and a floating, moveable set of controls.
Obviously, it leverages QuickTime X for more efficient video playback, but the user interface is also completely new. The new player application is a big departure from the old. But the player application, the one with the old blue 'Q' icon, the one that many casual users actually think of as being 'QuickTime,' that's been replaced with a new QuickTime-X-savvy version sporting a pudgy new icon (see above right). That item in the installer should actually read 'QuickTime Player 7.' QuickTime 7, the old but extremely capable media framework discussed earlier, is installed by default in Snow Leopard-in fact, it's mandatory. We've already talked about Rosetta being an optional install, but QuickTime 7 too? Isn't QuickTime severely crippled without QuickTime 7? Why in the world would that be an optional install?
