[benign]

Do you switch regularly, occasionally or never?


A) I theme change as often as possible.

B) Only one or two favorites and switch back
and forth between them.

C) Use Apple's Aqua only.

[MacDog]

I love themes. The ones in my theme folder are for the most part there just for show, unfortunately. I have found that very few are useable for me on a daily basis. I pretty much stick with Max's Brushed theme and switch to Aluminum Alloy and regiaiii once in a while.

I love the dark themes, but find that they are so contrasty with finder windows and application windows though. Shinobi and Neos are great dark themes - especially since the font color fix came out with SS, and Xi-MX7 isn't bad either - but I just like the readability of the more neutral themes.

[Patcarla]

I usually try all the new themes when they are released but
always go back to my four favorites (milk, guipod, fatal and Xi-MX7 )

[Frisbee]

Depends how good the theme is... the more I like it, the longer I use it. The only one I think I've gone back to after a while is Aluminum Alloy... I used Mac OS XP for quite a while, and I've been using Xi-MX7 since I got that first beta copy... What, Feb 7 I think...

[NetworkShadow]

I try almost every new theme that comes out, then ether stay on it for a good long time, if I like it, or go back to the favorites. NEOS is #1 right now.

[Fonzie]

I usually to a few. Titanium7 is my favorite right now. Although I have been using Patcarla's Xi-MX7 for a day or two. I switch all the time, I think.

[codywalton]

70% of the time I leave it on SmoothStripes (glossy, round, blue). It makes Aqua 110% better. The rest of the time is split farily evenly between the other Max themes, Swiz themes, Izawa and a few others.

[mac15]

I change themes every 1-2days, at the moment I can't leave Powermetal alone

[bluevertical]

i switch too damn much... i sometimes switch daily... lol! i enjoy so many of them and hardly ever use aqua due to it's overly candy look within pro apps.... esp in the evening.
i find that i switch a lot in the morning to lighter theme and dark in the evening.

themes used:
aqua pro, aqua slate, brushed, digital device, dsx, good grey, guipod, milk, neos, power metal

[justinp]

If I find a theme I like, I use it for a while usually, but I always end up back with Aqua. Every theme has flaws and I'm too lazy to change them to what I think they ought to be.

I'm currently using AquaPro, I'll probably be using it a while longer; even though it has its own problems most of them aren't major and can be ignored.

[Frisbee]

Originally posted by bluevertical:
...aqua slate...

What is this "aqua slate" you speak of... where is it?

[justinp]

It's a theme made by quandarry, he posted a pic of it in the Screenshots thread. I'd guess he probably got the theme backchannel since as far as I know it hasn't ever been made publically available like the rest of q's themes.

[Lateralus]

I switch themes every few weeks or so. The one thing that I change on a daily basis would be the background color for the Finder. I can't seem to decide on a color and stick with it.

[Fellow2000]

I have been using the same theme (Milk) ever since I switched to Mac in Jag days. Good enough for me until Rhap Ivory comes out.

[DigitalEl]

Switch back & forth between Brushed, Aluminum Alloy Toxic and Aqua. When you've been on a theme for awhile, Aqua can be a refreshing change.

[cgc]

Switch all the time from Aluminum, Smoothstripes, XP, but my favorite is ProPlastic.

[tiredraven]

I generally stick to one theme for a long time, until such time as I find something else I like more. I'll try other themes that I like the look of, but usually not for longer than a few minutes before switching back to whatever my default is at the time. I'm currently using Neos, before that it was Shinobi, and I think I was using SS tuxedo before that. I'm a big fan of dark themes, and have been since the days of Kaleidoscope (mmmm, Ink).

[Cerbero]

I usually stick to either Aqua Extreme or FatalE, and occasionally Aluminum Alloy. Lately, however, I've been using Milk alot, especially the Chocolate variant.

[Holigen]

I keep around 10 themes in my theme folder but most of them are there just to impress my PC friends . I used to use Kevin Macleod's Pro Plastic for a while, although it seems like hes stopped upgrading it. Now, however, I use Chocolate Milk. Changing themes again would be a lot of work for me as I have a lot of theme-specific extras and customizations on. For instance, Adium, MenuMeters, Safari, iChat, system icons, application icons, the works. Im too lazy to go and change all that stuff too .

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