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Your top 3 os-x gui customizations?
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Mar 9, 2003, 03:19 AM
 
..i see some grate stuff from you guys , what are the top 3 hacks etc that made the biggest diff. to your x desktop ?

..i'd love to get the tabbed folders thing back
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 09:11 AM
 
1. Candybar
2. ThemeChanger
3. Tinkertool/Cocktail
4. Transparent Dock
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 10:37 AM
 
Mighty Mouse
iCeCoFeE
iChatStatus
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 10:41 AM
 
Candybar
Cleardock
ThemeChanger
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 10:58 AM
 
I cant operate without:

ThemeChanger
Fruitmenu
iChatStatus
TinkerTool ( For the Finder Quit menu while developing themes)
ASM
PTH Clock

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Mar 9, 2003, 11:10 AM
 
Tigerlaunch
CodeTek Virtual Desktops
Minimize in Place

Can't live without any of them.
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 11:14 AM
 
CandyBar
ClearDock
ThemeChanger

And more!
Minimize In Place
TinkerTool/Cocktail
iCeCoFeE
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 11:24 AM
 
- ThemeChanger (with Smooth Stripes)
- DragThing
- Minimize in Place
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 11:40 AM
 
ucontrol
(for the enter key>command key on my pismo powerbook)

mighty mouse
(& mike's cursors...nice!)

transparent dock

honorable mention:
macboot
measles! (viewing cpu usage)
cocktail

tried fruitmenu, excellent...but find that in osx i've abandoned the applemenu...
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Mar 9, 2003, 12:08 PM
 
1. Windowshade X
2. Default Folder X
3. Mighty Mouse

I also have to use SmoothStripes, or an other theme. I don't often use other themes than my own, because I like to have full control of the UI. When I first started using OS X, I used the Quicksilver theme and I could not stand the fact that the author had not changed finder back, view and path buttons..
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 02:51 PM
 
My top 3

1. Duality
2. Transparent Dock
3. Konfabulator

and after those...

4. MightyMouse
5. Windowshade X
6. Metalifizer

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Mar 9, 2003, 04:34 PM
 
Originally posted by bOOzo:


I also have to use SmoothStripes, or an other theme. I don't often use other themes than my own, because I like to have full control of the UI.
Yeah, I cant imagine a theme developer using anyone else's theme; afterall if your not making the GUI you want to use day to day it's time t get back to the drawing board eh?

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Mar 9, 2003, 05:20 PM
 
WatercolorX Theme
WindowShade X
BeOS icons

That's about it. Other than that, my desktop is pretty standard, except for a custom boot logo. Heck, I'm even using one of the Apple-supplied background images (Abstract 5) right now!


Stink different.
     
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Mar 9, 2003, 06:14 PM
 
I do most of my own hacks to get a super consistand Aqua look. I have changed icons, toolbar buttons, interfaces in IB and ResEdit etc to improve and hack my Mac.

I use (or have used) 1. Mighty Mouse (for the enhanced QE shadows on my non QE machine)
2. MacBoot (to change the boot logo screen to the Standard Blue colour and added an X look classic happy mac saying hello for startup.
3. ROOT. (to hack verything that people sholdn't)
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Mar 9, 2003, 06:48 PM
 
Ya I'd go with:
Candybar
Cleardock
ThemeChanger
click one
     
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Mar 10, 2003, 03:24 AM
 
Originally posted by swiz:
Yeah, I cant imagine a theme developer using anyone else's theme; afterall if your not making the GUI you want to use day to day it's time t get back to the drawing board eh?
Yeah, that's true. Although I have not created a original theme that I feel completely satisfied with.. Maybe I will succeed with that some time.
     
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Mar 10, 2003, 09:25 AM
 
1. MIP
2. TinkerTool
3. Themes
     
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Mar 11, 2003, 12:09 AM
 
Fluid peaked my interested, and asked me what iCeCoFeE was. Now I would like to know. I've searched for it here and on google, but nothing came up. So what is iCeCoFeE?
(Last edited by superfula; Mar 11, 2003 at 12:27 AM. )
     
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Mar 11, 2003, 12:23 AM
 
My top 3 Gui customizations would be:
1) ThemeChanger
2) CandyBar
3) FruitMenu
     
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Mar 11, 2003, 02:49 AM
 
Originally posted by superfula:
Fluid peaked my interested, and asked me what iCeCoFeE was. Now I would like to know. I've searched for it here and on google, but nothing came up. So what is iCeCoFeE?
It add Services menu into your contextual menu so you can access the services by right-click instead of dragging the mouse to Apple all the time.

ICeCofEE 1.3.1

This is something Apple should do in the first place but I'd rather them to focus on important stuffs first
     
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Mar 11, 2003, 08:28 AM
 
1- Tranparentdock
2- candyBar
3- ThemeChanger
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Mar 12, 2003, 01:50 AM
 
Simple Aqua
Mighty Mouse
     
   
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