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quandarry · Jun 11, 2003, 05:47 PM

anyone want a nice project...a theme based on
Shake...any takers...will send you everything
you need...come on...guys...

i'm busy on my other 10 themes...

ps...everything you see is taken from the shake interface...
does anything look like it belongs...i
dunno...maybe YOU can make a
masterpiece...

phillryu · Jun 11, 2003, 06:30 PM

First, the apple icon looks kinda bad, green buttons should be a greener green I think like the widgets, and the menu highlights need some work in consistency. However, it looks pretty cool. Kind of XBoxy. I've never used shake, I had no idea it looked like this.

quandarry · Jun 11, 2003, 07:05 PM

detail of the scrolls...already done for you...
i tinkered around with it one day to see if
the scrolls could be done...i checked on how
apple did it and cheated like they did...
i now have working scrolls...all for YOU!

Originally posted by phillryu:
First, the apple icon looks kinda bad, green buttons should be a greener green I think like the widgets, and the menu highlights need some work in consistency. However, it looks pretty cool. Kind of XBoxy. I've never used shake, I had no idea it looked like this.

yea...some of the things are a bit rough.

fireside · Jun 11, 2003, 07:13 PM

can you please just keep typing and not hitting return? its the most annoying thing ever how you post.

quandarry · Jun 11, 2003, 07:16 PM

Originally posted by fireside:
can you please just keep typing and not hitting return? its the most annoying thing ever how you post.

no

macmike42 · Jun 11, 2003, 07:34 PM

I can't believe I am going to be the first to say that this theme looks awesome.

"This theme looks awesome"

You
can

quote

me

on

that.

However, you should consider doing something different with the titlebars (the title text will be black in Cocoa apps no matter what you do).

Sage · Jun 11, 2003, 07:44 PM

Very neat!

I fear though that, as macmike pointed out, the titlebars will have to be different, and that might ruin the green widgets...

swiz · Jun 11, 2003, 08:14 PM

Quite cool. Done well it would be a great theme.

ambush · Jun 11, 2003, 08:23 PM

Originally posted by fireside:
can you please just keep typing and not hitting return? its the most annoying thing ever how you post.

can you please stop whinning? "Its" the most annoying thing ever how your whine.

NetworkShadow · Jun 11, 2003, 08:27 PM

I REALLY like the buttons and window color. Apple menu DOES need work though.

smeger · Jun 11, 2003, 08:41 PM

I dig this a lot. I hope someone fleshes it out.

phillryu · Jun 11, 2003, 09:21 PM

Why is the slider blue? Seems kind of out of place...

SwarmyCurve · Jun 11, 2003, 09:38 PM

Originally posted by fireside:
can you please just keep typing and not hitting return? its the most annoying thing ever how you post.

I agree. Its (yes, without the apostrophe, this isn't my AP english class, come on people) like I am reading a haiku.

I
Would
Stick
To
Your
Ten
Other
Themes.

mrtew · Jun 11, 2003, 10:10 PM

Wow, that theme
looks very very
cool! I hope
someone does it
justice! Very
very hot! :-]

fireside · Jun 12, 2003, 12:19 AM

Originally posted by ambush:
can you please stop whinning? "Its" the most annoying thing ever how your whine.

atleast when you're trying to make fun of someone for poor grammer/spelling, do yourself a favor and make sure you have perfect grammer/spelling.

G0Ducks · Jun 12, 2003, 01:40 AM

Personally, I think this theme would rock, though I would rather see that blue replace the didget color...maybe in the graphite section?

Another note:
1. The title bar is a bit dark for text purposes.
2. The apple widget looks kinda poopy. Change is good.

R

mrtew · Jun 12, 2003, 06:06 AM

Originally posted by G0Ducks:
Personally, I think this theme would rock, though I would rather see that blue replace the didget color...maybe in the graphite section?

Another note:
1. The title bar is a bit dark for text purposes.
2. The apple widget looks kinda poopy. Change is good.

Yeah, I agree.... the cool redioactive green should be made "Aqua" blue, and the charoal grey should be made a lite grey or silver or even white. This world needs more blue and dove grey themes. We just don't have enough.... in fact there will NEVER be enough! All superfreakyfunkycool themes should be converted into light blue and gray as soon as possible... hopefully by the time Panther comes out anyway.

Hozie · Jun 12, 2003, 06:55 AM

Originally posted by fireside:
atleast when you're trying to make fun of someone for poor grammer/spelling, do yourself a favor and make sure you have perfect grammer/spelling.

'Grammer'

Obviously just messing with ya!

sushiism · Jun 12, 2003, 07:31 AM

id change the green to perhaps a blue or something original like a purple

haha or maybe just black, the whole black/green thing makes me think xbox then i scream myself to sleep thinking about how badly the xbox is designed when ishould be screaming about how nice the theme looks, which it does apart from the greens, and id prolly change the title bar buttons to black or to dark grey

SubGeniux · Jun 12, 2003, 04:47 PM

I'd prefer to see one based on combustion, slightly similar charcoal/dark interface, but much better looking IMO. ALso a better compositor, totally off-topic that comment.

SubGeniux · Jun 12, 2003, 04:49 PM

Another nice one would be Sotimage XSI or DS, stunning interface too.

G0Ducks · Jun 12, 2003, 06:47 PM

Originally posted by mrtew:
Yeah, I agree.... the cool redioactive green should be made "Aqua" blue, and the charoal grey should be made a lite grey or silver or even white. This world needs more blue and dove grey themes. We just don't have enough.... in fact there will NEVER be enough! All superfreakyfunkycool themes should be converted into light blue and gray as soon as possible... hopefully by the time Panther comes out anyway.

Really, mrtew... I didn't say aqua blue. I meant the blue that is already present. If you look closer aqua blue is a bit ritcher. I would call this blue a sky blue. Also, I said this out of personal taste. As for the darkness of the window...this is a practicle change request as if you have been reading in a ton of these theme threads, os x does not have the ability to make text white across the board.

This ranting (though admitedly a small bit in this case) is getting to be a tired subjec for me. I see too often when a person makes a personal statment, and they are chastized for it. I don't understand why some people feel that they can't allow people think or feel the way they want about somthing

<formal notice>Clue Served</formal notice>

R

Zimphire · Jun 12, 2003, 07:04 PM

I didn't read the rest of the thread, but nice looking theme. I like the green glow look.

snerdini · Jun 13, 2003, 08:10 AM

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DeathMan · Jun 13, 2003, 06:40 PM

You guys seriously like this theme? Or are you being nice? Not only does shake look nasty, this looks like a pretty sad copy of shake.

Sorry, someone had to say it. But at least I didn't make fun of anyone's grammar or text formatting.

smeger · Jun 13, 2003, 07:07 PM

Originally posted by DeathMan:
You guys seriously like this theme? Or are you being nice? Not only does shake look nasty, this looks like a pretty sad copy of shake.

Sorry, someone had to say it. But at least I didn't make fun of anyone's grammar or text formatting.

Yeah, I dig it hard. I'm not just being nice - I really like it and would proudly use it on my computer.

Taste is called "taste" because everyone's is different.

And it's called subjective because there's no right or wrong.

swiz · Jun 13, 2003, 07:16 PM

I still think that if it were done right it could be really good. As usual some corrections of Apples decisions would be necessary but the foundation is there for a beaut!

NetworkShadow · Jun 13, 2003, 08:30 PM

Swiz should do it to add to his collection of Apple Pro app interfaces.

It's up to you swiz, but you'd do a good job.

quandarry · Jun 13, 2003, 09:41 PM

Originally posted by swiz:
I still think that if it were done right it could be really good. As usual some corrections of Apples decisions would be necessary but the foundation is there for a beaut!

how bout it swiz...i think you may be the one...i'm just a pixel pecker...i can help by sending you what i have including many shots i've taken of all the elements...remember this is just somthing i cobbled together...you'll prolly come up with something alot better visually...there are so many differring elements 5 people would come up with 5 very different themes...

i could send you some screen shots to mull over...

swiz · Jun 14, 2003, 07:47 AM

Originally posted by quandarry:
how bout it swiz...i think you may be the one...i'm just a pixel pecker...i can help by sending you what i have including many shots i've taken of all the elements...remember this is just somthing i cobbled together...you'll prolly come up with something alot better visually...there are so many differring elements 5 people would come up with 5 very different themes...

i could send you some screen shots to mull over...

Go ahead and send me as many screenshots as you can muster. It will be a little bit before I get it out but I would like to check it all out first.

NetworkShadow · Jun 14, 2003, 01:11 PM

Originally posted by swiz:
Go ahead and send me as many screenshots as you can muster. It will be a little bit before I get it out but I would like to check it all out first.

Sweet, you just know it will be good now.

Hozie · Jun 14, 2003, 05:04 PM

Another vote for this theme. Those white-text-on-black-backgrounds 'll have to wait for Panther, if at all, though (here's for hoping!

) I just think that no dark themes on OS X will look good until we can get different colored text in the menu bar. But hell, if anyone can do it, it's swiz (or Max)...

NetworkShadow · Jun 14, 2003, 05:21 PM

Black should be readable on that color though, so apps with black text will look fine.

mrtew · Jun 15, 2003, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
Black should be readable on that color though, so apps with black text will look fine.

I thought that black would show up on that color fine too, but it's close to being too dark I think. Only people with their screens at full brightness will be able to see it very well. Or course after using DSX for about a year I can tell you that there isn't really THAT much type that you miss with dark themes.

quandarry · Jun 15, 2003, 03:07 PM

actually the real title bar is grey with a brown border with ugly ass window widgets which i chose too ignore...well i sent swiz some pics...maybe he'll figure something out...the whole thing is a monstrosity of pixel gobledygook...

quandarry · Jun 15, 2003, 03:13 PM

ah...here's what i mean...

zazou · Jun 15, 2003, 06:02 PM

can be ok.. but as always, the SS'ified version is always better than the original!

Brien · Jun 16, 2003, 11:36 AM

I can't wait to see what he does with it.