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CarbonG4 · 12:06 AM

For those wondering what the hell I've been doing with my almost non-existent free time since I posted the mockup of Alloy, well here it is:

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I've scrapped my Alloy design in favor of this one. After designing (and starting) Alloy, I realized it wasn't a theme I'd actually use myself... so I've been working on Meteora, which isn't too far off from being released.

Meteora is going to fill the navy blueish gap in my themes, so there won't be a deep blue or "Dark Comb" version of Watercolor since Meteora is intended to be my custom alternative to the Watercolor theme. It will use similiar flat elements and such, but still have it's own unique design.

If anyone was actually looking forward to my Alloy design I'd be fine with sending the files to anyone who'd like to make the theme their's and release it. I doubt that's the case, but feel free to shoot me an email if you're interested.

(Edit: removed the wrong files when I was cleaning out my hosting space of old images and html files, etc.... so I'll post another screenshot later

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//Carbon

SwarmyCurve · Mar 23, 2003, 03:58 PM

Wow that is unique!

Nice color selections -

as2 · Mar 23, 2003, 03:58 PM

Looks wicked.. I can't wait!

Macanoid · Mar 23, 2003, 04:24 PM

not my cup of tea - but really beautifullt done though. And really unique too!!

bOOzo · Mar 23, 2003, 04:44 PM

Very creative and unique - keep up the good work!

theoden · Mar 23, 2003, 04:57 PM

Ooh nice.

Can't wait.
Just the text area on the window title bar looks a little short or cramped imo, but very nice other than that

Stuphalina · Mar 23, 2003, 05:17 PM

A little off topic, but Carbon - where did you get the green icon for Poteus? Did you Mae it yourself?

CarbonG4 · Mar 23, 2003, 05:55 PM

Stuphalina
A little off topic, but Carbon - where did you get the green icon for Poteus? Did you Mae it yourself?

Yeah, I just modded the stock Proteus icon w/ a simply hue-shift on everything but the pencil and slapped the icon on Adium

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Thanks for the positive responses everyone, I hoped that this would go over better than Alloy.

//Carbon

Lyric OS 13.0 · Mar 23, 2003, 06:13 PM

Carbon:

I liked both this one--but I also liked the Alloy one too. I can't wait until it is released.

Gatorzx2 · Mar 23, 2003, 06:17 PM

Very nice and original Carbon. Can't wait to use it myself.

wagmedia · Mar 23, 2003, 07:09 PM

I dig it carbon. Looking good.

mdc · Mar 23, 2003, 07:39 PM

looks really good, but personally i have a thing for rounded corners on themes.

but yes, this themes does look good. nice work

RedStar · Mar 24, 2003, 12:57 AM

Wow, i have been kinda stuck on the white themes lately, but this is amazing, can't wait to use it.

mrbiiggy2 · Mar 24, 2003, 03:36 AM

I like the windows... However the menu bar is kind of odd-looking to me. Maybe it'll grow on me?

Mac_Nacho · Mar 24, 2003, 09:31 AM

Very good stuff!!
Can't wait to have it on my ibook.

fireside · Mar 24, 2003, 06:43 PM

Originally posted by mrbiiggy2:
I like the windows... However the menu bar is kind of odd-looking to me. Maybe it'll grow on me?

i find the menu bar a bit strange too

but overall, nice theme. cant wait for a beta.

Fallout · Mar 24, 2003, 10:19 PM

That is very sweet dude!!

scaught · Mar 28, 2003, 09:05 PM

i like this theme. potential release date

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bump?

SwarmyCurve · Mar 28, 2003, 10:14 PM

I realized yesterday that "Meteora" is also the name of the new Linkin Park album! So thats where I had heard the name!

theoden · Mar 29, 2003, 08:57 PM

Originally posted by SwarmyCurve:
I realized yesterday that "Meteora" is also the name of the new Linkin Park album! So thats where I had heard the name!

Duh

Good album too. I find the theme sort of has that linkin parkish look to it as well.

Brien · Mar 30, 2003, 11:22 PM

Originally posted by theoden:
Duh
Good album too. I find the theme sort of has that linkin parkish look to it as well.

Indeed, it is. I really like the theme, but I wonder what the graphite will look like?

fireside · Mar 31, 2003, 01:06 AM

** waves his hand infront of Carbon's eyes.

anybody home?

CarbonG4 · Mar 31, 2003, 03:37 PM

originally posted by fireside:
** waves his hand infront of Carbon's eyes.

anybody home?

yeah, just been really tied up with other work. it usually takes me one month after previewing a design until the initial release. also, anyone know when duality 4 gt is gonna be made public, i haven't really been following... would be nice to explore the new theme format before releasing anything.

//carbon

fireside · Mar 31, 2003, 08:29 PM

no one knows when duality gt will be released. it was supposed to come out last week but that didnt happen. so who knows?

take your time, i was just wonderin how far you were and stuff. it looks cool

pixeljunky · Apr 2, 2003, 02:37 PM

its already realsed, by the way when is this theme comming out, it looks tight, kinda getting sick of smooth stripes

Hi I'm Mike · Apr 3, 2003, 12:25 AM

post a preview of alloy. or send me stuff to mike at yibby dot com. or mike at trizera dot com or even AIM me at mpinbwzrd. it would be nice to get another themer on my aim list so we can chat about this and that. btw i made safety first. no one uses them but i have for 4 months

fireside · Apr 3, 2003, 01:09 AM

holy crap you made safety first? i was lookin for that last night. got a link to where i can download it?

OwlBoy · Apr 3, 2003, 09:22 AM

Neato! Keep working on it, very different.

-Owl

CarbonG4 · Apr 5, 2003, 06:21 PM

Thanks to Smeger for his wicked Layo mods, we can now do real Menu caps. Once I receive the latest mods to the Layo here is how the Menu caps will appear in Meteora:

Lemme know what you guys think, a lot of hard work has gone into making this work on Smeger's part. Thanks for taking the challenge and for not minding when I needed the caps to be resized yet again for the latest design of the menu caps to work

Our OS X themes just got slightly more customizable, hopefully other themers will find this to be cool and we start to see some really creative menu's

Later
//Carbon

smeger · Apr 5, 2003, 07:52 PM

Just a quick note to other themers - ThemePark 1.0 (which is still progressing nicely) will include the ability to make these menu caps.

So please don't go insane with asking me to do layo mods.

mrbiiggy2 · Apr 5, 2003, 08:52 PM

Damn, I like this theme. Simplistic, but new and creative. Hopefully we'll see a FULL ICON MAKEOVER for this theme, unlike the rest of Carbon's theme.

jessejlt · Apr 5, 2003, 08:55 PM

Originally posted by CarbonG4:
Thanks to Smeger for his wicked Layo mods, we can now do real Menu caps. Once I receive the latest mods to the Layo here is how the Menu caps will appear in Meteora:

Lemme know what you guys think, a lot of hard work has gone into making this work on Smeger's part. Thanks for taking the challenge and for not minding when I needed the caps to be resized yet again for the latest design of the menu caps to work

Our OS X themes just got slightly more customizable, hopefully other themers will find this to be cool and we start to see some really creative menu's

Later
//Carbon

Yummmmmz
Looks wonderful. I'm excited to see it on my iBook.
jesse ;-)

fireside · Apr 5, 2003, 09:32 PM

even though it looks extremely sweet, i would still like to see the menu bar stroke thing curved

Brien · Apr 5, 2003, 09:36 PM

That theme keeps looking sweeter. Yummm!

Stuphalina · Apr 5, 2003, 10:08 PM

Definitely looking great! Cannot wait!
Good work on everyone?s part!

NathanA · Apr 7, 2003, 01:33 AM

Carbon and myself have been working to flesh this theme out.

I'm hoping to get some time this week to put together some controls prototypes to bounce off of Carbon. Right now it uses a more neutral version of the control set from Watercolor. It looks pretty good as it is, but the more I think about it the more I think we could make some controls that really fit Meteora.

So far I think our collaberation and the ingenuity of smeger have really worked well thus far, and based on the feed back with respect to the menubar and menu highlights I think you all agree

I think our primary goal is to make Meteora feel as integrated and polished as possible, and to make sure that we use the tools available to make the theme as complete and interactive as possible.

Anyhow, so far this has been really exciting

-Nathan

fireside · Apr 7, 2003, 02:53 AM

fireside says that if you want it to be integrated, you should do something to the iTunes widgets. blech!

its lookin good guys. cant wait. what will the gray varation look like?

milhouse · Apr 8, 2003, 02:58 PM

NathanA is one of the most detail oriented people I know.
I'd bet this theme will rock to new levels with him on board.(no offense to others working on the project)

Brien · Apr 8, 2003, 07:07 PM

I can't wait to see the new widgets.

mac15 · Apr 9, 2003, 04:45 AM

release this now, please its the coolest theme I've seen for ages!

Jasoco · Apr 12, 2003, 03:18 AM

Smegger! If you can add caps to the menu items, is there possibly any way to do the same for the titlebar? As in make the text have caps as well? This would be a Godsend.

If you could also figure out how to make a border around menus and windows, classic Theme lovers would rejoyce. Probably not possible though. Prove me wrong!

wagmedia · Apr 14, 2003, 04:35 PM

Originally posted by mrbiiggy2:
Damn, I like this theme. Simplistic, but new and creative. Hopefully we'll see a FULL ICON MAKEOVER for this theme, unlike the rest of Carbon's theme.

I've been contemplating doing that for this theme. I've already designed the folders...so you never know.

a holck · Apr 14, 2003, 05:23 PM

Originally posted by Jasoco:
Smegger! If you can add caps to the menu items, is there possibly any way to do the same for the titlebar? As in make the text have caps as well? This would be a Godsend.

The Layo ressource which is what is modified to make the Caps is only used by Carbon Apps (The Menubar is a stand alone background Carbon app, it does not belong to the foreground app)
the window titlebar belongs to the app, so a Layo edit would only affect carbon apps....
Not cocoa ones

Jasoco · Apr 14, 2003, 05:57 PM

Ahh.. Another one of those "Carbon Only" things. Damn you, Apple!

CarbonG4 · Apr 16, 2003, 09:44 PM

"The plan goes ahead as... planned."

Just thought I'd post a quick update on the status of Meteora. Everything is going good (actually better), since Nathan and I have been really tweaking the design. Here are the new tabs and scroll thumbs, as well as the menu caps:

Still no time frame on v1.0, it's gonna take (has taken) longer than my other themes, mainly because this isn't a port, it's an original design, and the end of my Spring semester is winding down and my professors love to throw it into 5th gear when they start to run out of class time...

//Carbon

fireside · Apr 16, 2003, 09:50 PM

*drools*

Stuphalina · Apr 16, 2003, 11:54 PM

Mmmm! Looks yuuummmy!

Gatorzx2 · Apr 17, 2003, 01:22 AM

Looks very promising Carbon, can't wait.

I hear you about the "End of Spring Semester Hell", I'm in the same boat.

NetworkShadow · Apr 17, 2003, 01:39 AM

Very nice! I'd love to see a darker version of it after you get this one out.

sunrunnerfire · Apr 18, 2003, 09:30 PM

Im totally digging the theme, very nice. I second the darker version recomendation as well, nothing like a nice dark theme to banish the "Aqua Blues".