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swiz · Mar 17, 2004, 07:49 PM

Turned out pretty dern well I think:

The round titlebar version is in there too.
Check it

jerseyfreeze · Mar 17, 2004, 07:51 PM

Simply awesome.

Thank you.

quandarry · Mar 17, 2004, 07:59 PM

nice but needs an apple...

mac15 · Mar 17, 2004, 08:06 PM

Gonna check it, I was always a fan of this back on jaguar

nanovivid · Mar 17, 2004, 08:07 PM

Looks good... I second the request for an apple instead of "think"

I did find one bug -- if Graphite appearance is selected, the progress bars are Aqua Graphite instead of ChosenOS style.

Caesar2099 · Mar 17, 2004, 08:12 PM

Wow, I'm gone 3 days and you've come out with the 2 themes! Amazing work swiz

bluevertical · Mar 17, 2004, 08:16 PM

damn swiz! you are just motoring through these theme like there no tomorrow...
great job!!!
bv.

OwlBoy · Mar 17, 2004, 08:17 PM

Wow, what is that? 30 themes out in the past 2 days?

But no omega!

-Owl

ambush · Mar 17, 2004, 08:25 PM

gg swiz

Holigen · Mar 17, 2004, 08:33 PM

Wow, once again, nice work swiz!

rhythmicmoose · Mar 17, 2004, 08:34 PM

Originally posted by Caesar2099:
Wow, I'm gone 3 days and you've come out with the 2 themes! Amazing work swiz

Actually, it's three. Chosen, SimpleX, and GarageBand.

Great work. Henceforth you shall be known as Lord Swiz, SpeedThemer!

Orbital/Cappuccino is next, right?

Oh yeah, and one request for an iTunes appskin.

Holigen · Mar 17, 2004, 08:37 PM

This may be a bad time...but I really miss the old Pearl. It was sooo clean... I know that guiPod is supposed to replace it, but theres a part of Pearl that guiPod just cant fill...

swiz · Mar 17, 2004, 08:41 PM

Originally posted by Holigen:
This may be a bad time...but I really miss the old Pearl. It was sooo clean... I know that guiPod is supposed to replace it, but theres a part of Pearl that guiPod just cant fill...

Pearl always felt like it had dirty smudges everywhere.

Ive stil got it lying around, I'll have a look at it and see whati think.
The other day smeg showed me a screenshot of him running the grayscale Power theme, I totally forgot about that abhorition.

digitaljames · Mar 17, 2004, 08:42 PM

Originally posted by swiz:
Turned out pretty dern well I think:

The round titlebar version is in there too.
Check it

So....can you make me a rounded menubar? You can? Hurry up!

Holigen · Mar 17, 2004, 08:43 PM

Thanks swiz!

Kujo · Mar 17, 2004, 08:44 PM

ok Swiz this just simple owns.. but the safari buttons suck.. and finder buttons are great tho. maybe you can update when you can a change so they look more like the finder?

swiz · Mar 17, 2004, 08:47 PM

Originally posted by Kujo:
ok Swiz this just simple owns.. but the safari buttons suck.. and finder buttons are great tho. maybe you can update when you can a change so they look more like the finder?

Good eye

The Safari skin is from the original ChosenOS release, and you just reminded me that it is indeed a little different than the updated Finder toolbar buttons.
They shall be fixed and available by morning.

Holigen · Mar 17, 2004, 08:53 PM

Just noticed another thing... In the theme listing on your site, underneath Swizcore Studio guiKits at the bottom, the version number for ChosenOS is wrong. Should be 2.0 instead of 1.0

swiz · Mar 17, 2004, 09:18 PM

Originally posted by Holigen:
Just noticed another thing... In the theme listing on your site, underneath Swizcore Studio guiKits at the bottom, the version number for ChosenOS is wrong. Should be 2.0 instead of 1.0

Doh! Thanks

Holigen · Mar 17, 2004, 09:35 PM

No problem

codywalton · Mar 17, 2004, 09:56 PM

The gods of theming are smiling upon us these days... so many new themes... so little time.

Thanks Swiz! You rock.

zachs · Mar 17, 2004, 10:19 PM

Awesome work!

dtrk_shifter · Mar 17, 2004, 11:18 PM

Man you're either a work-o-holic or a glutton for punishment! either way thanks for all your work - especially these past serveral updates! cool down a little will ya?

valdur · Mar 17, 2004, 11:18 PM

at last!!!...

mdc · Mar 18, 2004, 12:03 AM

very very nice work swiz.

3 things:
rounded corners on the menubar?
apple logo?
why do non-metal windows have the _lowered_ widgets?

other than that... i seriously think you have taken me away from smooth stripes. trust me, a *huge* compliment

Holigen · Mar 18, 2004, 12:14 AM

What do you mean ... lowered?

BrianC · Mar 18, 2004, 12:44 AM

Very slick swiz, I wouldn't mind a round menu bar either.

badidea · Mar 18, 2004, 06:01 AM

I vote for NO Apple logo!
(everything is text style, so please be consistent and do NOT replace the "think")

Thank you Swiz!!!

FB Eye · Mar 18, 2004, 09:54 AM

This one was sadly missed 'till today...

Once again, excellent work

And now, when we get our hands on Orbital, it'll be theme heaven for me

bOOzo · Mar 18, 2004, 11:01 AM

Swiz, you are a machine! Keep it up

solitere · Mar 18, 2004, 11:42 AM

Originally posted by badidea:
I vote for NO Apple logo!
(everything is text style, so please be consistent and do NOT replace the "think")

Thank you Swiz!!!

Instead of "Think Different" it could be "Apple Thinks" ?

pman68 · Mar 18, 2004, 11:57 AM

Very nice!!

Keep it up!

codywalton · Mar 18, 2004, 11:58 AM

Drop the "Think" text and add an apple. Make it a pixelated Apple, so it matches the window widgets, but make it an apple.

sayonaraML · Mar 18, 2004, 12:15 PM

Count me in as someone who digs the 'think' over the apple. Nice work once again!

swiz · Mar 18, 2004, 12:20 PM

Until the Apple/Think Different debate shows more results I have updated the Safari skins as well as added the rounded menu bar to the rounded titlebar variant.
Enjoi

Stuphalina · Mar 18, 2004, 12:39 PM

I will have to go for the apple, but I don't see why we can't have the choice, ala latium. You know, blue is think and graphit is apple. Thoughts?
I mean, I completely understand why it is there and would not want it completely taken out, but just have another option.

sweatervest · Mar 18, 2004, 12:55 PM

I vote for at least having an apple variant.

notlad · Mar 18, 2004, 12:56 PM

i'm loving the changes to safari. i think i'll use this theme for more than 6 hours (i'm a theme changeaholic)

mdc · 01:57 PM

Originally posted by Holigen:
What do you mean ... lowered?

i dunno, i just find it strange why the aqua and metal widgets look different like that. i prefer the style of the metal widgets.

my vote goes to an apple instead of text

ARENA · Mar 18, 2004, 02:16 PM

great theme...i also vote for an apple instead of the text.

badidea · Mar 18, 2004, 02:37 PM

Damn, too many Apple votes here - I thought this was a designer community?

Ok then, if you change it to an Apple could you also add some stripes to the menu bar and make the finder windows brushed.......wait, I think we already have that...!?!

G0Ducks · Mar 18, 2004, 04:12 PM

My vote is not to have an apple or "think." I would rather see something more like the toolbar symbol. This gives a bunch of info without saying too much. Or maybe just a solid dark gray triangle with one of the points pointing strait down.

If the apple does win (Which I would rather have over "think") It should definitely be pixelated as someone has previously suggested. Think, atari

R

DigitalEl · Mar 18, 2004, 04:12 PM

I'll throw you some support, badidea. I vote for keeping "Think" there. Almost every other theme has the Apple. To hell with tradition!

mdc · Mar 18, 2004, 04:14 PM

compromise:
have apple written

AWShuttleworth · Mar 18, 2004, 04:15 PM

I love this theme! It's the best of all of them for getting out of your way. It's beautiful.

I have a few problems with it, though:[list=1][*]Graphite variation.I would prefer to use this with the graphite variation, so that things like focus halos and alternating colors on lists (like iChat and Acquisition) were in fact grey, but the graphite version is still a bit funky: see the Apple menu, for instance, and progress bars.[*]Wide menus. Wide menus, such as my iChat away message list, get a repeat effect with that gradient. Is there a way around this? Can the gradient just be a wider image?[*]Utility window widgets. They're not the same design as the full-size ones.[/list=1]
Anyway, that's all. Thanks!

nanovivid · Mar 18, 2004, 04:19 PM

swiz -

i think you might have missed my comment above... if graphite is selected in the appearance pane, then ChosenOS's progress bars are aqua instead of ChosenOS style. this bug is present in the most recent version i just downloaded from your site.

just fyi. :-)

mdc · Mar 18, 2004, 05:32 PM

here's my contribution.

proteus is active, even though the finder is on top. i put the finder window there for a reference to show what, my opinion of what the metal and aqua active windows should look like.

excuse the horrible quality apple logo. i don't have that apple logo photoshop shape anymore. anyone got it? i can't find it anywhere.

if i could figure out which images to change in themepark, i would do it myself

AWShuttleworth · Mar 18, 2004, 05:34 PM

Option-shift-K is the Apple logo in any font.

pman68 · Mar 18, 2004, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by AWShuttleworth:
Option-shift-K is the Apple logo in any font.

Kool! You learn something new everyday.

mdc · Mar 18, 2004, 05:43 PM

that is the coolest thing i have ever read

thanks.

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