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NetworkShadow · May 10, 2003, 01:58 AM

Go grab it here: http://awguilab.ambitiouslemon.com/
Hope you all like it.

andretan · May 10, 2003, 02:36 AM

Downloading now!

Anyone have any problems with it (yet) ?

andretan · 03:52 AM

Installed it, and here's some of my first looks.

[ see my screengrab here ]

-Very nice indeed
-the "traffic lights" aren't very obvious (too dark?)
-the time and battery level in the menu bar is black, and they only turn white when I click on them

Other than these, I feel that this is a very nice theme

[edit: changed the file format to jpg so it's smaller]

TheIceMan · May 10, 2003, 03:31 AM

Originally posted by andretan:
956KB PNG file! (any idea of how to reduce file size?)

After you use Grab to take the screenshot, open the screenshot using Preview.

Under Preview, go to File -> Export and select JPEG or JPG and the file size will be reduced.

andretan · May 10, 2003, 03:57 AM

Originally posted by TheIceMan:
After you use Grab to take the screenshot, open the screenshot using Preview.

Under Preview, go to File -> Export and select JPEG or JPG and the file size will be reduced.

Okie! Done that

Vi0 · May 10, 2003, 07:15 AM

Nice for a dark theme. Problems like black text that is unreadable and high contrast. I think OS X was destined to be a light colored OS.

fisherKing · May 10, 2003, 09:12 AM

some feedback...
overall really nice. the black text IS hard to read...i'd have to install pthclock or something to change the time display to white..
the menubar, the translucent menus...great.
the widgets are okay...not crazy about the jagged edges on the top of them.

the desktop picture is cool...but would be nice to have without "dark glass" text.

great stuff!

NetworkShadow · 01:10 PM

Thanks. I'll be keeping you're feedback for an update latter on. Might get a v1.0.1 out before I start any new themes.

the widgets are okay...not crazy about the jagged edges on the top of them.

That will be one thing to be worked on for sure.

And yes PTH clock is a good idea, I've been using it for a long time now.

FB Eye · May 12, 2003, 10:52 AM

The theme looks stunning (except for the widgets), but uninstalled after 5 minutes... waaaay too dark for daily usage... text is unreadable most of the times... but these are my personnal tastes... the overall design is very nice...

Brien · May 12, 2003, 12:17 PM

Hence, is why I don't use DSX daily.

Hi I'm Ben · May 12, 2003, 03:14 PM

to dark and glossy. Looks like someone got carried away with eyecandy plugins.

smeger · May 12, 2003, 08:10 PM

Those jaggies look like they might be due to a premultiplication problem. If you didn't design 'em to look like that, check out ImagePreUnMultiplier for a possible fix.

NetworkShadow · May 12, 2003, 08:53 PM

I think it's the masking, I'll try and get that fixed before too long.

Wickedkitten · May 13, 2003, 07:42 AM

Don't get me wrong, visually it's quite an impressive theme, but as with most dark themes, the strings you have to pull to get light text to show up on a dark background just don't work out the way you expect them to, case in point:

every single instance of formerly black text in my web browser window has now magically decided it wants to be white, despite switching it to black.

I'll reinstall after the next update hopefully but for now it is unusable.

Hi I'm Mike · May 13, 2003, 07:57 AM

Originally posted by Wickedkitten:
Don't get me wrong, visually it's quite an impressive theme, but as with most dark themes, the strings you have to pull to get light text to show up on a dark background just don't work out the way you expect them to, case in point:

every single instance of formerly black text in my web browser window has now magically decided it wants to be white, despite switching it to black.

I'll reinstall after the next update hopefully but for now it is unusable.

you're wrong

Wickedkitten · 09:46 AM

Originally posted by Hi I'm Mike:
you're wrong

messages in input boxes and text in the url field in mozilla isnt showing up anymore since I installed the theme

Or is it something else that I am magically wrong about?

Hi I'm Mike · May 13, 2003, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by Wickedkitten:
messages in input boxes and text in the url field in mozilla isnt showing up anymore since I installed the theme

Or is it something else that I am magically wrong about?

use safari

NetworkShadow · May 13, 2003, 01:01 PM

That's odd I had used Mozilla with Dark Glass before... It was fine.

bOOzo · May 13, 2003, 01:18 PM

I saw that Izawa posted a fix update to Shinobi that fixed a problem like this. Maybe you could study how he has his text colors and then do the same for Dark Glass?

NetworkShadow · May 13, 2003, 02:02 PM

I'll have to take a look at that with mike.

tngland · May 14, 2003, 03:11 PM

I really like the theme, but when I am typing in a box to a forum like this using Camino, the text is white and the background is white.

Not very handy.

I've gone back to Shinobi because I do like a dark theme. Fix this problem and I will return to Dark Glass.

Thomas S. England
Decatur GA 30030
Portfolio:
http://englandphoto.com/portfolio//

christianclark · May 17, 2003, 01:27 AM

it works great...with Safari, Omniweb......BUT Camino has a probem with e-mails & text. When you want to write an e-mail, it's white text in white box. So Camino doesn't work for this dark glass theme.

It's the coollest theme since pxd.

Christian

Hi I'm Mike · May 17, 2003, 06:06 PM

Does anyone know the exact spot in the color index that makes those few apps text white? and where else it would change through out the theme if i did change it? what would turn black that i didn't want to turn black. etc.