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The Theming Community and Tiger
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Hello all.
I have been noticing lately that the UI elements of Tiger have been going in a direction I really don't like. It seems like Apple is getting into the gradient fad, where EVERYTHING has a gradient. The apple menu background, spotlight, window toolbars, lots of stuff in mail, and, of course, the menu bar. I, for one, am absolutely DISGUSTED with the way this UI is going. I strongly dislike the "thick" control's that Tiger seems to love, and instead prefer the nice flat look that is Panther. The thick GUI is what makes me dislike the Windows GUI, and I would hate to see Tiger's GUI follow the same trend.
I was wondering what the theming community thinks of this. Am I way off base? Does everyone like the changes? There WILL be a ShapeShifter for Tiger, right?
Is anyone planning to release "Panther" themes for Tiger? I would love to run Max's Aqua Extreme, as it is now, on Tiger, without the annoying gradient and gloss effects.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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I wouldn't worry too much. Apple always makes huge changes to the UI within the last few builds. I still remember when Apple had that winking iMac or whatever on the startup screen for 10.2 It wasn't until the final builds it was replaced with the grey Apple. The MWSF build thats available already makes pretty big changes to the WWDC style build.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hollywood, CA
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What I REALLY wanna know (and I know I'm not alone here) is how much more, or less, modifications can be made to Tiger's GUI and will SS 3.0 (assuming that would be the version released around the time of Tiger) be able to take advantage of new things that were otherwise impossible with older versions?
I'm well aware Unsanity doesn't like to discuss features before they're made available, and I respect that, but I think safely alluding to certain features/enhancements would be a nice thing to know 
If you'd still like to stay vague - the basic question is (and really the only thing I most miss about the Kaleidoscope/OS 9 days) can we finally use dark themes with ALL apps? (photoshop - I'm looking in your direction). As I understand it, this is Adobe's fault mostly, but certainly there's gotta be a resource SOMEWHERE that we can mod to make light grey/white icons/text in PS windows so dark themes can be usable and PS elements visible.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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to me this doesnt seem at all relevant
if u use shape shifter u dont have to deal w/ the "aqua" state or w/e they gonna call it this time
just apply ur favorite theme and forget about that icky tiger
that's why we're called the themeing community
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