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swiz · May 23, 2003, 08:10 AM

Hey Carbon, I finally found an OSX font editor so I can get work on the ChosenOS font if its not really out there. I'll do a search for the silk font first though.

EDIT-

I found the silkscreen font mentioned above. It is here:
http://eenigma.web1000.com/fonts.zip
Antialiasing in OSX kind of muddies it up a bit but it works well.

CarbonG4 · 02:03 AM

Originally posted by honz:
Looks great Carbon. How did you do the taskbar? Is it DragThing? I was sure there was a thread about how you done it on your last ss, but I can't find it now.

hey dude, yeah this time it's a combination of dragthing and konfabulator. i got kinda sick of the appearance limitations of dragthing docks, so now all the dock backgrounds are 100% transparent and the actual taskbar background you see in this version is just a .png image that is loaded by a konfabulator widget and simply floats in the background above windows/applications but not above dragthing docks. the 'start' button does nothing (and don't need it to either), it's just taken from your screenshot (hope you don't mind :) and is part of the .png image to complete the look.

nycdunz and swiz, thanks for tracking down the font! i found that it can look really nice if you set the dragthing font to silkscreen size 9 w/ 'extended' selected. then, go into system prefs and open the general pane and set the 'disable font smoothing on sizes [9] and smaller' (it was defaulted to 8 on mine, so i made it nine and it looks real nice now w/o the smoothing). also, size 9 is the point size used in the 'start' button... except 'start' is spaced out more, even if you select 'extended' for your dock fonts.

check out the look w/ the new font:

:: click here for the full screen view ::
what do guys think? stick w/ taipei or keep the new silkscreen font? the only thing i'm not sure on is the lenght of the text field in the process dock, right now each cell is 116 wide, leaving a pretty big gap between the application names w/ the really small font being used.

this setup is better than the dragthing-only dock i posted a while back, i have the dock hidden and pinned to the right-edge/bottom-corner and i have my scroll-wheel button mapped to command-m, which minimizes application windows off of the screen. command-h is also effective, but dragthing is slow at redrawing the application icons after they have been dimmed-out when the app is hidden. anyway, enough rambling... time to work.

//carbon

edit: tweaked the taskbar again, re-linked my post to the new image.

honz · May 24, 2003, 03:04 AM

Originally posted by CarbonG4:
hey dude, yeah this time it's a combination of dragthing and konfabulator. i got kinda sick of the appearance limitations of dragthing docks, so now all the dock backgrounds are 100% transparent and the actual taskbar background you see in this version is just a .png image that is loaded by a konfabulator widget and simply floats in the background above windows/applications but not above dragthing docks. the 'start' button does nothing (and don't need it to either), it's just taken from your screenshot (hope you don't mind and is part of the .png image to complete the look.

//carbon

our host server is back up now... hopefully it will stay up.

Of course I don't mind (it's for personal use anyway. Also I tried copying you as well

http://screenshots.haque.net/screens...nshot-3198.jpg

CarbonG4 · May 24, 2003, 03:39 AM

Originally posted by honz:
Also I tried copying you as well http://screenshots.haque.net/screens...nshot-3198.jpg

hehe, nice... did the qs/chosenos mod, i forgot how nice that looked

//carbon

kovacs · May 24, 2003, 05:11 AM

This is my latest desktop, I made the background picture and the chess icons in Photoshop, I use the snow-E2 system icons, synergy is showing which song is playing in iTunes, I used transparent dock 2.0.2 to modify the dock background and change the color of the triangles...

My latest desktop

Bombia · May 24, 2003, 06:24 AM

Here is a new one

Click Here For Fullsize (1440x900)

iOliverC · May 24, 2003, 07:27 AM

Bombia, where did you get that wallpaper? Its sweet, and so is your setuo (the iMac I presume?)

digitaljames · May 24, 2003, 08:27 AM

BBX Theme by Max Rudberg
Wall - Panda by me...
Squeaker Dock Icons

Engorged Size

SwarmyCurve · May 24, 2003, 09:07 AM

Originally posted by Bombia:
Here is a new one

Click Here For Fullsize (1440x900)

Yes, please dish!

ambush · May 24, 2003, 09:28 AM

Clicky!

Bombia · May 24, 2003, 09:30 AM

The theme is a mix between Simple Aqua and Smooth Stripes.

The desktop are made in Photoshop. Download The Desktop Picture Here.

The icons are SNOW.E 2.

cSurfr · May 24, 2003, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by Bombia:
The theme is a mix between Simple Aqua and Smooth Stripes.

The desktop are made in Photoshop. Download The Desktop Picture Here.

The icons are SNOW.E 2.

Where did you get the iChat icon ? I've been looking for it everywhere, and cannot seem to run across it.

Thanks,

Cs

SwarmyCurve · May 24, 2003, 12:14 PM

That is an early build of iChat. It has the smiley instead of the aol's buddy logo. I use the smiley version instead of the buddy one...

Download here!, its from RailHead Design from their package of Jaguar (then still being worked on) icons.

fireside · May 24, 2003, 03:20 PM

Originally posted by Bombia:
The theme is a mix between Simple Aqua and Smooth Stripes.

The desktop are made in Photoshop. Download The Desktop Picture Here.

The icons are SNOW.E 2.

where did you get that carracho icon? the regular one is so ugly.

fireside · May 24, 2003, 03:28 PM

i copied carbon :o.
in a way. i modified the chosenos menu fill and end bars with quicksilver's cause i really hated the endbars in chosenos. but now its very cool looking, i say.

Sage · May 24, 2003, 03:40 PM

Bombia - I just downloaded the "True Aqua" desktop, and I'm loving it! Fits so perfectly with Smoothstripes Gloss Blue Widgets and the plastic buttons on iTunes. Nice.

mrfrost · May 25, 2003, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by Sage:
Bombia - I just downloaded the "True Aqua" desktop, and I'm loving it! Fits so perfectly with Smoothstripes Gloss Blue Widgets and the plastic buttons on iTunes. Nice.

i just did the same but I think I'm going to go back to Milk. I really don't like brushed metal.

Can I find a tutorial somwhere so I can integrate brushed look from Milk into Smoothstripes?

kovacs · May 25, 2003, 01:18 PM

Originally posted by Mr_Frost:
i just did the same but I think I'm going to go back to Milk. I really don't like brushed metal.

Can I find a tutorial somwhere so I can integrate brushed look from Milk into Smoothstripes?

This is the most complete tutorial about themes that you can find on the web:
http://www.geekspiff.com/software/themepark/tutorial/

Sage · May 25, 2003, 01:37 PM

Originally posted by Mr_Frost:
Can I find a tutorial somwhere so I can integrate brushed look from Milk into Smoothstripes?

Ironically, someone asked Max that exact same question here...