Take ordinary Aqua, pull out the gloss, and give it a touch of iTunes goodness. This is more or less the purpose of iLeopard, a new theme by Guillaume Campagna and several other contributors. iLeopard is one of the first full-fledged “themes” for 10.5, by providing a complete installer, extras, and a sense of ongoing development. Overall, it holds up pretty well; while there are niggling little problems that will turn away the pickiest of UI connoisseurs, the attempt holds up as a very usable iTunes skin.

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Six months ago, Mac OS X Leopard was released to the public, bringing with it new technologies, features and problems for customization enthusiasts, and the issue of theming has been a complex one. Discoveries by forum members and other enthusiasts have made theming possible once again in 10.5, but to restore the culture of customization to Leopard, it will need something accessible to the masses.

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New member ghall has released a theme for Leopard. He calls the theme iLeopard and it can be found at this forum thread. The theme itself isn’t overly flashy or different from default Leopard, replacing scroll bars and buttons with ones that emulate the iTunes 7 style.

A key component which allows this theme to be installed is a short Terminal command to disable CoreUI, which could be the key to picking the lock on the door to more extensive Leopard themes. All of us here at MacThemes are looking forward to seeing where these developments lead the world of Leopard theming.