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barbarian · Sep 28, 2003, 03:24 PM

I ran into a friend of mine running this theme on his PC:

http://www.jonmega.com/~iceman/vs/

My question, if you are going to go through so much trouble, why not just a mac?

MacGorilla · Sep 28, 2003, 03:33 PM

Ick thats ghastly.

Matt OS X · Sep 28, 2003, 03:36 PM

Originally posted by barbarian:
I ran into a friend of mine running this theme on his PC:

http://www.jonmega.com/~iceman/vs/

My question, if you are going to go through so much trouble, why not just a mac?

Pathetic!!!!!!!!!! this words stands for PC! And, I know Mac wont develop a software that looks like PC and PC made this.. Obvious, you know who's better. Enough said.

Superchicken · Sep 28, 2003, 03:37 PM

Not as bad as Luna.

kmkkid · Sep 28, 2003, 03:58 PM

Oh won't you all just STFU already?

Chris

mikemako · Sep 28, 2003, 04:32 PM

I think it looks cool. By far the best Mac OS on Windows I've yet seen.

DBvader · Sep 28, 2003, 05:35 PM

"My question, if you are going to go through so much trouble, why not just a mac?"

price to performance ratio, perhaps?

v0id7 · Sep 28, 2003, 05:38 PM

heinousness

Superchicken · Sep 28, 2003, 05:40 PM

Wonder if you can get an Aqua Screen Of Death...

CobraNT · Sep 28, 2003, 06:26 PM

Guess if you can have the real thing you may as well make it look like one....
I wonder what the blue screen of death looks like with that theme?

booboo · Sep 28, 2003, 07:14 PM

Originally posted by DBvader:
"My question, if you are going to go through so much trouble, why not just a mac?"

price to performance ratio, perhaps?

No the Mac would probably just look out of place with all their other ghastly items....

ambush · Sep 28, 2003, 07:18 PM

Looks more like an ugly hack.

Horsepoo!!! · Sep 28, 2003, 07:35 PM

Originally posted by kmkkid:
Oh won't you all just STFU already?

Chris

What the hell's the matter with you?

theolein · Sep 28, 2003, 09:50 PM

I think it looks damn good for a windows theme, but I have some niggling questions. AFAIK Windows doesn't support true alpha blending and the Windows XP themes all have aliased rounded corners because of that. In this guys screenshots, the corners seem well rounded. Is that for real.

But, while I don't like Windows much, I don't think I would install and use something like this. My take is that if you're using Windows then use Windows. Xp is ugly but it's functional and you can work just fine with it.

barbarian · Sep 29, 2003, 01:18 AM

The corners look decent actually but they they are just antialiased.

Stardock supports much nicer rounded corners:

http://www.windowblinds.net/t3.jpg

One of my few major complaints with X is that it's so hard to theme... while most themes look ugly, I enjoy testing things out...

bracken · Sep 29, 2003, 04:05 AM

Originally posted by theolein:
But, while I don't like Windows much, I don't think I would install and use something like this. My take is that if you're using Windows then use Windows. Xp is ugly but it's functional and you can work just fine with it.

I agree. Windows is quirky enough, let alone Windows trying to be something else.

C.J. Moof · Sep 29, 2003, 01:52 PM

Cross platform cross dressing.

*shudder*

kmkkid · Sep 29, 2003, 02:47 PM

Originally posted by barbarian:
The corners look decent actually but they they are just antialiased.

Stardock supports much nicer rounded corners:

http://www.windowblinds.net/t3.jpg

One of my few major complaints with X is that it's so hard to theme... while most themes look ugly, I enjoy testing things out...

Windowblinds doesnt antialias the windows either. That SS is just tricking the eye because the corners blend in with the wallpaper. I think stardock said that antialiased titlebars will be available in longhorn.

Most other elements in an Msstyle or WB theme can be 32 bit, just not the titlebar.

Chris

kmkkid · Sep 29, 2003, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by Horsepoo!!!:
What the hell's the matter with you?

just sick of the topic, it's been beaten to death.

Chris

hunkhuang · 03:06 PM

Well, i was a Windows user. I used Stardock and Desktop X before.
It was amazng at the first place, i can make my Windows interface theme like OS9..

But after few hours, my Windows went super slow and hang... afterall, i have to uninstall the softwares and brought back my original Windows theme.

It is 100% useless... PC users can have Mac's themes, but not for long !

OHH, i really like this preview !!

Toyin · Sep 29, 2003, 06:14 PM

Originally posted by Matt OS X:
Pathetic!!!!!!!!!! this words stands for PC! And, I know Mac wont develop a software that looks like PC and PC made this.. Obvious, you know who's better. Enough said.

I don't think that Microsoft developed this theme so I don't think it's fair to say that 'Mac' wouldn't develop a PC theme. However, if you take a look here I count no less than 2 Wiindow XP themes and 4 Windows inspired themes for *gasp* OSX!