[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Screenshot 23"
ResExcellence theme test
Download

[megabunny]

damn thats nice

[jordy1]

Gerrit,



I'm pretty excited about this one in case nobody could tell.
Thanks for the hard work put into this theme (and all your themes).
Especially iTunes!
This is absolutely perfect for my taste. It is beautiful.
Thanks a lot!

[specialk]

very cool & greatly appreciated!! ^_^

[siMac]

Excellent as always gerrit!

And the hits keep on coming...

[lesman]

Beautiful, Gerrit, beautiful!

[roosta]

aluminium spelt right! take that america!

very nice theme too. nice job gerrit.

[brazil]

you make having a mac lots of fun! thanks for working it up and hooking us up-

[bluevertical]

damn. another beauty by gerrit!
many thanks!
peace.
bv.

[Makki]

Gerrit your a genius my friend

[G0Ducks]

Oh. Fine. Just be that way. Just sit there and totally rock

R

[siMac]

Originally Posted by roosta

aluminium spelt right! take that america!

ROTFLMAO

[davdav]

Beautiful.

Have only been using your themes for the past few months. I love them.

[Ji Eun]

sucked back into the 'nn after almost a year to post my respekt and appreciation, gerrit.

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Thanks to each and everyone for the nice comments, I really, really appreciate them !
I hope you'll enjoy using Aluminium as much as I did while putting this theme together.

[videogirl]

the only way to describe a new theme from gerrit is MAXIMUM WOOTAGE

[eyevaan]

This is a beautiful theme to use. It took a couple of days to really get the feel of it but now is steadies as a fav of your builds.

[alangraham]

Originally Posted by Gerrit Vanoppen

Screenshot 23"
ResExcellence theme test
Download

Aluminum is a beautiful theme with only one drawback....its flat white sheen makes it a little difficult to see the scroll bar. Can this be modified?

[siMac]

Yes.

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Originally Posted by ericg

Aluminum is a beautiful theme with only one drawback....its flat white sheen makes it a little difficult to see the scroll bar. Can this be modified?

Thanks for your appreciation, and for sharing your ideas ericg.

Evidently, I was aware of this issue and already gave it a lot of thought myself :
- darkening the tracks sorta destroyed the aesthetic aspect,
- cap stripes were added as a visual aid,
- my beta testers didn't seem to have too much trouble with it…
- as a Mighty Mouse user myself, I'm reaching for the scrollbars/arrows less and less

All these things added up to my release version.

I'm presently working on a minor update (metal buttons, Calculator skin, Finder view glyphs), so I'd be happy to hear any more ideas I can take into consideration. TIA

[arcadi9876]

Dear Gerrit,
It is a real joy to use your themes. Thanks a lot.
Aluminium made me abandon (for a while) a Void theme.
if you are talking about suggestions... I think that selected menu items are too dark and they dont look like metallic, they are a little bit alien for the whole theme feel. I would like to see something like what you have in the word "Aluminium" in the banner of the theme. It's beautiful and its feels flat. All that is very subjective - may be because I am a big fun of the Void theme where the selected menu is just underlined.

thanks

[Oisín]

As everyone else, I obviously love this theme. Just one little bug (?) that I haven’t seen before applying Aluminium:

Sometimes (I haven’t been able to reproduce it properly), the icons on the desktop go from Normal to Bold text, but only after being highlighted and then un-highlighted (i.e., clicked on and then clicking somewhere else). I’m not even sure if it’s an Aluminium bug or a Silk bug or something completely different, but as I said, I’d never seen it before applying Aluminium.

Also, I would tend to agree with arcadi9876 that the highlighted menu points are a tad dark and stand out from the rest of the theme—this is especially noticeable in Mail, which gets an almost ‘80s Windows’-ish look.

Otherwise, I’m loving it.

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

As part of the minimalistic approach, but also to try and make the theme as clear as possible, every selected/clicked item throughout Aluminium is showing in that same gradient : dropdown menu, Mail's column selector, Finder sidebar, Safari Library, but also all the clicked buttons etc. I'm not sure (yet) about breaking up that uniformity…

The release banner sure is an option (thanks for pointing it out), but I've done an approach almost like that in albookAGV and wanted to try something new, I guess ;-)

I'm not sure what Oisin means with the Mail selection. If that would be the list highlight - I agree, it's dark. I chose to make it the same color as the System's own "Silver" highlight.

@Oisin : it would seem unlikely to me that any SS guikit would do anything to your system font. I'm puzzled, but clueless as to where in TP I should go fix it. I can't reproduce it either…

[arcadi9876]

Dear Gerrit,
It seems to me that the gradient in the title bar of the window is much softer than that of the selected menu. Also, it have a realistic, visible (and very cute) ending of aluminium sheet. I think that the gradient work there only because of this realistic ending- the aluminium sheet is realistically bent toward observer, we even see its finite width. Another thing that makes this theme beautiful is the shadowy feeling of the x-+ in the title bar and lines on some icons (for example the "All bookmarks" button in the Safari).

I think that the selected menus could be done with some side mark (like in Ayofe) or a horizontal line (with shadow, please :-) and making a font to cast a shadow. (At least that's what I would like to see :-) -- After all its a minimalistic theme.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Gerrit Vanoppen

I'm not sure what Oisin means with the Mail selection. If that would be the list highlight - I agree, it's dark. I chose to make it the same color as the System's own "Silver" highlight.

Let me be a bit more specific:

It’s the darker highlight, combined with the account and trash bin icons and the fact that the ‘frame’ containing the list of mails (unlike the ‘frame’ with the contents of each mail) has a grey background, rather than a white one; these three things come together to give Mail a look that doesn’t look much like the rest of the theme, IMO. To be honest, I think it’s really the account and trash bin icons, more than anything else, that does it. Perhaps this is because I use the VOID icons, rather than the default Aluminium icons, system-wide, but these account and trash bin icons look sort of 80s-ish to me...

@Oisin : it would seem unlikely to me that any SS guikit would do anything to your system font. I'm puzzled, but clueless as to where in TP I should go fix it. I can't reproduce it either…

I haven’t seen this since I last logged out and back in, last night; perhaps it was just a temporary fluke somewhere else in the system that caused it.

[number_six]

Ooooh I have to follow you here on Macnn to see your not so new release, .... Great job as always, .... Thanks for this and previous great themes, ....

[jbanger]

nice thanks Gerrit

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Version 1.3 UPDATE AVAILABLE

Update log :

- Finder toolbar glyphs (Views) light gray instead of black
- metal buttons themed
- Calculator app skin added
- iTunes Burn / Throb graphic element themed
- some background colours corrected
- Async Arrows ("spinner") themed

Enjoy !

[megabunny]

when azureus is behind, the scrollbars are black and it looks ugly, can you please fix this? great theme though.

[crzdc0l0mbian]

Nice, but I don't like the Safari buttons. They look ugly and are not good to read.

Greetings from Germany

[megabunny]

any chance of updating this to work with itunes 7?

[Lee33]

I have tried to look at this theme in Gerrit's first post but can't link to the image. Does anyone know how I can see this theme?

Thanks

Lee

[TheSpaz]

Where is this theme?

[Syzygy]

Originally Posted by TheSpaz

Where is this theme?

Gerrit's gone for at least a little while. The themes will be back on his mac page eventually but until then you'll just have to find someone to send it to you.

[JellyBeen]

Here is Aluminium, I uploaded to RapidShare.
This is just the GUI Theme. v1.2

RapidShare Webhosting + Webspace

Enjoy!

[G0Ducks]

Lame... These people have the WORST download service on the internet... sheesh... Try box.net?

Originally Posted by JellyBeen

Here is Aluminium, I uploaded to RapidShare.
This is just the GUI Theme. v1.2

RapidShare Webhosting + Webspace

Enjoy!

[cgc]

Is Shapeshifter reliable on an Intel Mac?

[Lee33]

Thanks, Jelly.