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Ji Eun · Nov 23, 2004, 11:34 AM

since Gerrit's awesome icons and screenshot here, and number_six's sweet first attempt here, plus some of the various elegant windows minimal themes i've seen lately, (most recently this one and this one and this one), not to mention some links to sweet minimal styles in this post i just can't help putting in a request to see if any of the talented mac themers are up for the minimalist thing.

eyevaan · Nov 23, 2004, 11:40 AM

may I recommend Gerrit's update of Underling.

Click his signature link to get to the GUI Goodies. It is not gray and white, has more color than that. His update from the original Jag theme is true to the original with a very complete set of widgets, navigation and menus updated for Panther.

one of the bestest - IMHO

Ji Eun · Nov 23, 2004, 11:44 AM

his Underling and Plaster mods notwithstanding...

esXXI · Nov 23, 2004, 12:00 PM

I think ports of some 4 Impressions suites would rock...

Maybe;

or

eyevaan · Nov 23, 2004, 01:38 PM

there is the ever present issue of the key to the minimal theme is the minimal font and so far - although Silk does a bangup job of altering nearly everything - we are always stuck with Lucinda Grande in the end... bummerer

d4nth3m4n · Nov 23, 2004, 11:30 PM

bummerer than what?

mac15 · Nov 23, 2004, 11:40 PM

I recently recieved a request via email to port this http://www.deviantart.com/view/10331722/ to OS X . The style is absolutely beautiful and I'd really like to fulfil the request but we'll see what happens

FB Eye · Nov 24, 2004, 01:02 AM

Originally posted by mac15:
I recently recieved a request via email to port this http://www.deviantart.com/view/10331722/ to OS X . The style is absolutely beautiful and I'd really like to fulfil the request but we'll see what happens

Yeah mac15, that was me

Man, if you port this theme I'll take the plane down under to wash your car and clean out the gutters of your house

Shaded so freakin' rocks!!!

Fonzie · Nov 24, 2004, 01:25 AM

I have a soft spot for this theme : http://www.deviantart.com/view/7252981/ it's called Drift. I used it for quite awhile whilst on Windows.

I don't know if it's minimalistic - I believe it is.

mac15 · Nov 24, 2004, 02:16 AM

Originally posted by FB Eye:
Yeah mac15, that was me

Man, if you port this theme I'll take the plane down under to wash your car and clean out the gutters of your house

Shaded so freakin' rocks!!!

I'm all for doing it, I'd love to use it myself. Is there anybody with a copy of windows so I can get the resources extracted?

As for up my house, I'm all for that too. We'll work out something later

Gerrit Vanoppen · Nov 24, 2004, 06:48 AM

Personally I'd take a "minimalistic" mac theme down towards the likes of grayhouse's 8270 and heylove's Infinite Simplicity.
Shaded, Plaster and Underling are definitely beautiful and stylish, but not truly minimalistic IMHO. Let's push the limits

mugget · Nov 24, 2004, 06:48 AM

i remember seeing Shaded a while ago. nice looking theme...

hey mac15 i might have to come down as well and mow your lawns and do your gardens.

i don't have a PC here, but i don't know how to extract the elements or anything like that but i'd give it a go if no one else wants to...?

can't wait to see that theme on OS X...

SONE doens't look bad either... kind of reminds me of some linux visual style. might work on OS X....

Ji Eun · Nov 24, 2004, 09:25 AM

a little inspiration:

mies van der rohe: farnsworth house

mies fan der rohe: german pavillion

esXXI · Nov 24, 2004, 09:34 AM

Originally posted by Ji Eun:

Guy A to Guy B: "Oi mate, someone's stuck a wafer on toppa our garage!"

eyevaan · Nov 24, 2004, 10:22 AM

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
bummerer than what?

I looked at this and was like "huh?"
HAHA! good catch

Komisar · Nov 24, 2004, 11:23 AM

Originally posted by esXXI:
Guy A to Guy B: "Oi mate, someone's stuck a wafer on toppa our garage!"

Hahahah

Ji Eun · Nov 24, 2004, 11:50 AM

freakin' macnn gui forum.
can any thread not be shat upon?

STAY ON TOPIC. poop somewhere else.

brn · Nov 24, 2004, 12:03 PM

I'm all fired up with inspiration, I started on a mockup yesterday, but I think I'll redo it

eyevaan · Nov 24, 2004, 12:30 PM

how is this for minimal?
http://www.gunfleet.com/solaris/images/opwin1_png.jpg
http://www.gunfleet.com/solaris/images/opwin3_png.jpg

It is Solaris9 for x86 and SPARC stations

brn · 02:20 PM

Originally posted by eyevaan:
how is this for minimal?
http://www.gunfleet.com/solaris/images/opwin1_png.jpg
http://www.gunfleet.com/solaris/images/opwin3_png.jpg

It is Solaris9 for x86 and SPARC stations

I think that's more Retro than minimal, but pretty cool anyway

EDIT: I've tried and tried but it's just too darn hard to make a decent minimalistic theme without having it looking too square or too Aqua-ish. Sure, you could just port over one of the windows themes, but it would be a lot cooler if the mac community started doing these kinds of themes also

FB Eye · Nov 24, 2004, 01:57 PM

How's this for minimal?

Ugh

eyevaan · Nov 24, 2004, 02:23 PM

Originally posted by brn:
I think that's more Retro than minimal, but pretty cool anyway

fair enough

FB Eye: ugh is right but you made me laugh

Gerrit Vanoppen · Nov 25, 2004, 11:10 AM

Quick mockup of what could grow further down from my favorite Plaster > PlasterAGV mod to a minimalistic theme. Feedback is highly appreciated. TIA

mugget · Nov 25, 2004, 08:23 PM

any Solaris or older OS look-alike will just probably look dated, not minimal.

it's a tricky thing to make a good minimal theme... it's got to be simple, but that doesn't mean it has to be just balck and white. getting the good mix of colors is essential. Shaded looks reall nice, because it's not just whites and grey's.

Gerrit - that looks nice... but just a bit too white for me. i think if i had my whole screen filled with white like that i'd go blind.

Ji Eun · Nov 25, 2004, 10:35 PM

i agree. it's a lovely mockup, but the white is blinding, especially in a non-fluorescent environment. i use my mac at home, under soft / low-light conditions, and such a white theme would not only be uncomfortable to work with for long stretches, imo, but perhaps even eye-damaging. now i'm thinking about traditional ceramics from korea and japan in terms of color and simplicity.

eyevaan · Nov 29, 2004, 10:19 AM

Gerrit - I am diggin that completely! Like the Underling update the white is not white a little quieter. Very nice indeed.

sushiism · Dec 5, 2004, 01:31 PM

drift would work nicely on osx assuming we can change title bar text to white these days yes?

mubach · Dec 5, 2004, 01:41 PM

I would love to see Nano (by 4imp) ported over to mac, since it was my primary theme on windows. It minamalistic yet has attention to detail that makes it appealing, so I emplore someone to port it, the 4impressions team has always been good about giving permissions and such.

As for the De Stijl concept by Gerrit, I think it's very promising, would love to see and entire guikit for that. Piet Mondrain has always been one of my favorite artits.

Ji Eun · Dec 6, 2004, 01:43 AM

4 Impressions

or

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unfortunately, themers don't seem to be interested in them.

Jasoco · Dec 7, 2004, 03:47 AM

Originally posted by sushiism:
drift would work nicely on osx assuming we can change title bar text to white these days yes?

Yes.

I like simplicity, but I can't find a single theme for ShapeShifter that appeals to me. Not even "Good Grey" which is the nicest I've seen so far. But I can't get into it.

I like Drift though. At least what I've seen of it.