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BlackGriffen · Jul 16, 2003, 04:43 PM

I'd make this a poll if I knew what software was available

. I used to use Duality in 10.1, but when I first got 10.2 and tried it, it ruined the system. What do you use to apply themes to Jaguar and why?

BlackGriffen

Cerbero · Jul 16, 2003, 05:00 PM

ThemeChanger, hands down. Duality is poop compared to it. I have never had any problems with it, as opposed to Duality.

honz · Jul 16, 2003, 05:36 PM

Originally posted by Cerbero:
ThemeChanger, hands down. Duality is poop compared to it. I have never had any problems with it, as opposed to Duality.

snap!

mrbiiggy2 · Jul 16, 2003, 06:31 PM

Can't believe I'm even going to respond to yet another one of these threads.

ThemeChanger.

mrmister · Jul 16, 2003, 08:43 PM

I've been using Duality 4 GT.

What's so great about ThemeChanger? I'll go download it and take a look.

mrmister · Jul 16, 2003, 08:55 PM

Yikes...that is a lot better.

Converted!

Sage · Jul 16, 2003, 09:22 PM

ThemeChanger, just like most people. Free and gets the job done.

mrtew · Jul 16, 2003, 09:44 PM

Themechanger!

(P.S.) It's donationware so send the author some money or I'm afraid he won't update it when the time comes and we'll all be forced to pay up for Duality, or switch themes manually.)

Sage · Jul 16, 2003, 10:16 PM

Originally posted by mrtew:
(P.S.) It's donationware so send the author some money or I'm afraid he won't update it when the time comes and we'll all be forced to pay up for Duality, or switch themes manually.)

Like I've said before, I would seriously pay for all of this stuff... I'd make donations to all of the major theme and icon makers, make donations and pay for the shareware software, etc., but alas, the fact that I'm 15 means that using my parent's credit card to pay some "stranger" on the Internet wouldn't please them at all. I do encourage anybody who can though to donate!

(And once I turn that wondeeful 18, I'll be sure to make many donations)

dru · Jul 17, 2003, 12:56 AM

Well, my first Themechanger experience was hair raising. When it was backing up Extras.rsrc it *deleted* it! Needless to say I wasn't... err happy.

I knew I already had a manual backup and restored that by way of cp in single user mode on a restart. After there was a good backup, Themechanger seems pretty darn good and vaguely reliable with theme switching.

I don't know why they take forever to generate a list of installed themes though. That's the #1 reason I dumped Duality: speed.

Right now I'm using Themechanger because it seems to support all the released themes that I'm interested in test driving. It's showing a generic icon but I just can't take duality anymore.

megasad · Jul 17, 2003, 02:15 AM

I use ThemePark to splice together my favourite parts of other themes (currently SmoothStripes opaque, with a square menu bar and Milk metal windows) and then the Terminal to place the theme in place..

ambush · Jul 17, 2003, 02:31 PM

We will *evetually* update ThemeChanger. Probably during fall, or sooner.

That is, if Panther does not completely kill theming. We're just waiting to see what will happen with theming in Panther GoldenMaster.

We really appreaciate your donations, and thanks for the moral support!