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el lindo · Feb 9, 2003, 03:08 PM

For those of you who are not using themes, what color of buttons do you use, the red, yellow and green or the graphite ones? Just curious.

MindFad · Feb 9, 2003, 03:20 PM

I'd like blue, except with the graphite, or just blue, buttons. I don't like the stoplight buttons, but I do like the blue menus and selections and such.

OpenStep · Feb 9, 2003, 03:23 PM

I have my dualie with graphite and my other systems on regular aqua. Guess I like to just make my machines look a little different

ratlater · Feb 9, 2003, 03:38 PM

I'm a graphite man. The stop light buttons look kind of tacky, but what really gets me is blue toolbar icons in apps. They are way to bright. Graphite looks nice and professional.

-matt

pliny · Feb 9, 2003, 04:03 PM

blue.

Rickster · Feb 9, 2003, 04:05 PM

I still wish we had more than two system accent colors. (It looks like Apple once planned to have Aqua variations for all six circa-1999 iMac "flavors", but apparently that fell by the wayside.)

chabig · Feb 9, 2003, 04:13 PM

I use the blue appearance, but I changed my desktop background to Aqua Graphite because the blue was too colorful for me.

Chris

MartiNZ · Feb 9, 2003, 04:37 PM

I like the blue. I've tried going with graphite a few times but I always start finding it too dull after a day or two, especially with the grey desktop as well! But I would also like to have blue rather than traffic light buttons, without having to install other themes.

SupahCoolX · Feb 9, 2003, 05:00 PM

Wow, 50/50 split as of this posting (13 votes each)! I use blue because graphite just looks too drab and boring for my tastes, especially since just about every app uses brushed metal now. Too much grey!

Giano · Feb 9, 2003, 05:21 PM

Well i use blue. I had a strange story with aqua...
first i don't like it....i stay sometime with milk...but..now i think that Apple make the good thing. A total white theme (like milk) is elegant but it hurt your eyes..when you use a dark background the difference is bad...aqua is goo, the lines "takes" your eyes, and make all more accetttable.
Yes the solution could be a grey look like 9, but i think that Apple want to sign the difference for the moment....aqua grey is boring, and i don' like it.
The only thing that i would change of aqua are the "candy bottons"...i would see them more plain....but....
hi

Developer · Feb 9, 2003, 05:32 PM

I detest the stoplights, so I have to use graphite.

Webscreamer · Feb 9, 2003, 08:36 PM

What is the safest and best application for new Themes for X? Oh, and also free!

ryju · Feb 9, 2003, 08:57 PM

i just concluded that graphite looks more profesional. switching now...

Nathan Adams · Feb 9, 2003, 09:13 PM

i use the standard blue.
unlike some designers who bitch about the colour screwing around with perception in photoshop, I realise that even on blue - there isn't a whole lot of colour to OS X. Think about it - apple menu, scroll bars, traffic lights. that's it. (XP on the other hand... )

I tried graphite for a while, but even though I'm absolutely huge on grey - I didn't like the blue tinge to the graphite scheme. If Apple did a modified one with true greys, I'd be all over it.

Liquidity X · Feb 9, 2003, 10:04 PM

hmmmm. I think I like the graphite one, but i'm not sure.

http://homepage.mac.com/liquidityx/

iPond317 · Feb 9, 2003, 10:53 PM

I think they should bring back the accent colors from OS 8-9. I would love to see a ruby or snow accent, that would just look so cool! Anyway, my 2 cents.

ibobunot · Feb 10, 2003, 01:41 AM

My favorite is the AlumiteX[A] theme it looks great on Safari. I have it on my ti Powerbook,
iMac G4, iBook and Cube.

-Q- · Feb 10, 2003, 08:45 AM

Have to go with blue on this one. Graphite was too understated for me. And then I saw XP and found out how bad it could be. Aqua was just right.

Webscreamer · Feb 10, 2003, 10:20 AM

What is a good, SAFE, app I can use themes with? Free too!

Vanquish · Feb 10, 2003, 12:44 PM

Graphite with square smoothstripes

wonderful

-Q- · Feb 10, 2003, 02:41 PM

Originally posted by Webscreamer:
What is a good, SAFE, app I can use themes with? Free too!

Try the GUI Customization Forum. They're the experts.

Anomalous · Feb 10, 2003, 03:27 PM

I use blue. I don't see why "colorful" should automatically mean "unprofessional" - I think it looks good.

jimcpherson · Feb 10, 2003, 04:43 PM

blue at home. graphite at work.

ARENA · Feb 10, 2003, 08:14 PM

Even though i think the "blue" aqua is a really nice look i can't stand that much color in my screen so i've always used graphite.

mikemako · Feb 10, 2003, 09:24 PM

Originally posted by MindFad:
I'd like blue, except with the graphite, or just blue, buttons. I don't like the stoplight buttons, but I do like the blue menus and selections and such.

I'm totally with you on this. Maybe even cooler would be clear-gel type close, minimize, and maximize buttons.

SwarmyCurve · Feb 10, 2003, 09:51 PM

Originally posted by Anomalous:
I use blue. I don't see why "colorful" should automatically mean "unprofessional" - I think it looks good.

Ditto!!

Blue is fun and pops out at you. I do understand why picky-picky artists would want a neutral graphite version though.