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bOOzo · Mar 23, 2003, 09:47 AM

These are the changes:
BBX Mercury X 1.2
- New brushed appearance
- New titlebar buttons
- Added a finder toolbar chevron
- Added black menu extras
- Removed the subtle gradients in menus
- Removed the alert hand

Milk 1.6.1
- Moved icons out of the theme and into an Icontainer. You will need to get Candybar to use them:
http://www.iconfactory.com/cb_home.asp
- Removed some unused files which were left in the theme
- Changed the no brushed appearance a little

Get them both + the safari skins at my homepage (click signature).

Stuphalina · Mar 23, 2003, 09:50 AM

Very nice Max! A great improvement, as usual!

solitere · Mar 23, 2003, 11:16 AM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
These are the changes:
BBX Mercury X 1.2
- New brushed appearance
- New titlebar buttons
- Added a finder toolbar chevron
- Added black menu extras
- Removed the subtle gradients in menus
- Removed the alert hand

Milk 1.6.1
- Moved icons out of the theme and into an Icontainer. You will need to get Candybar to use them:
http://www.iconfactory.com/cb_home.asp
- Removed some unused files which were left in the theme
- Changed the no brushed appearance a little

Get them both + the safari skins at my homepage (click signature).

Is my proxy server spooked ... can�t seemed to find the updated BBX 1.2 or Milk 1.6.1

bOOzo · Mar 23, 2003, 12:12 PM

Originally posted by solitere:
Is my proxy server spooked ... can�t seemed to find the updated BBX 1.2 or Milk 1.6.1

They are online, you might have to empty your cache or just hit reload.

SwarmyCurve · Mar 23, 2003, 12:27 PM

The update looks great. I added a screen shot to that never-ending thread here featuring the updated BBX!

mrbiiggy2 · Mar 23, 2003, 01:39 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:

- Moved icons out of the theme and into an Icontainer. You will need to get Candybar to use them:
http://www.iconfactory.com/cb_home.asp

Finally! This saves me from having to use Duality! I love you!

bOOzo · Mar 23, 2003, 02:46 PM

Originally posted by mrbiiggy2:
Finally! This saves me from having to use Duality! I love you!

That was the idea. I will be doing this to all my themes, except BBX Mercury X. Glad you like the change

jessejlt · Mar 23, 2003, 03:21 PM

Is there an installation package that I can uncheck in ThemeChanger that will allow me to keep the old brushed metal appearence Max?
jesse ;-)

Patcarla · Mar 23, 2003, 03:43 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
These are the changes:
BBX Mercury X 1.2
- New brushed appearance
- New titlebar buttons
- Added a finder toolbar chevron
- Added black menu extras
- Removed the subtle gradients in menus
- Removed the alert hand

Well Done Max. Just installed it and I love it.

Thanks!!

bOOzo · Mar 23, 2003, 04:35 PM

Originally posted by jessejlt:
Is there an installation package that I can uncheck in ThemeChanger that will allow me to keep the old brushed metal appearence Max?
jesse ;-)

No, there is not. If you don't like the brushed look, I recommend using Metallifizer and set the global setting to DeMetallifize. That will give you the same effect.

I'm glad you people like the update

mrtew · Mar 23, 2003, 04:59 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
No, there is not. If you don't like the brushed look, I recommend using Metallifizer and set the global setting to DeMetallifize. That will give you the same effect.

That's what I'm doing. I love the new look! BBX is my new official theme! Thanks Max, it looks fantastic. I am even using Safari now due to your Safari theme. Now how about doing iTunes and QuickTime skins to match.

mrfrost · Mar 23, 2003, 05:58 PM

Say Max, no plans for a squared version of Milk?

pixeljunky · Mar 23, 2003, 07:40 PM

hey max you forgot the autofill button on the new safari .67

Patcarla · Mar 23, 2003, 07:56 PM

Originally posted by pixeljunky:
hey max you forgot the autofill button on the new safari .67

Yep..

bOOzo · Mar 24, 2003, 02:05 AM

Originally posted by pixeljunky:
hey max you forgot the autofill button on the new safari .67

Hrm.. I use 62. I will make an update to the skin when a new offical version comes.

Say Max, no plans for a squared version of Milk?

Nope, Milk is round.

Now how about doing iTunes and QuickTime skins to match.

That is a little too much work for me, and even if I did I don't think the result would be very satisfying because the skins are so limited.

Isabella · Mar 24, 2003, 03:37 PM

Hi bOOzo

Have you seen this version af BBX at KDE?

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5404
It sure would look nice in OSX ;-)

- Isabella

swiz · Mar 24, 2003, 04:47 PM

Originally posted by Isabella:
Hi bOOzo

Have you seen this version af BBX at KDE?

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5404
It sure would look nice in OSX ;-)

- Isabella

I think Max's/W.Bart's is infinitely nicer. That brushed background idea could be made to fit in much nicer were it executed better. It feels like a patch job as is.

smoke-tetsu · Mar 24, 2003, 05:39 PM

Oh man that KDE version. To be blunt it looks bad. Most KDE themes seem to be patch jobs.

I've seen a lot of KDE ports and most of them turn out to be pretty bad to only decent. People say they love KDE because it's so configurable. Maybe it's so configurable that people don't know how to configure it to look decent. They even managed to make Luna look *WORSE*.

Just my opinion though.

SwarmyCurve · Mar 24, 2003, 07:21 PM

I agree that Max's BBX is much better than that KDE port. That patch-job reminds me of the Aqua WindowBlinds farces.

VirtualWolf · Mar 26, 2003, 03:33 AM

BBX Mercury is awesome.

One thing, though...is there a set of Finder toolbar icons for it? The default ones really look out of place.