Hi all, I've been working on this SIMBL plugin for a couple hours now and its almost ready. It uses some cocoa methods to customize text colors and theme every window unthemed by the app. I may do something shapeshifter-esque with this if I have time in the future.






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Its not ready since it has some minor bugs with Utility windows and window corners.

Would this theme be SL or L?

Also, the border gradients could handle being a tad bit darker.

It works on both i think.

jivhg wrote:It works on both i think.

awesome.

New toolbar selection highlight. Inspired by pixelmator:


EDIT: Fixed the bottom corner issues

Are you going to share your methods to do this? It'd help bring the theming community a few steps forward, considering this IS MacThemes.

As for the theme itself, I suppose it's a little bit uncreative; you kind of see attempts at it kinda often, but it doesn't look too bad. Although I'm not sure if it's possible, I think it'd help if you intensified the outline on the window a little bit... the light outline next to the very dark window kind of looks blurry. I'd also like to see traffic light buttons with a lesser highlight.

I think it's off to a good start and I'm looking forward to seeing how you did it all.

Oh, and a question: You said you think it'd work on both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Were these particular screenshots taken in Leopard, or in Snow Leopard? Just curious so I could get an idea as to how the bottom bars would work under each operating system.

These screenshots are on SL. Sorry, but I don't think I'll share just yet. Like I said I may make a shapeshifter-like application to make it customizable. I'll see what I can do about the window's outline.

jivhg wrote:These screenshots are on SL. Sorry, but I don't think I'll share just yet. Like I said I may make a shapeshifter-like application to make it customizable. I'll see what I can do about the window's outline.

Ahh, fair enough. Theming isn't one of my top priorities anyway P:

I just tested this on 10.5. Works perfectly. Only issue is that since Finder is in Carbon on 10.5, it doesn't apply to Finder/iTunes/All Carbon apps. But there aren't many carbon apps these days so that shouldn't be an issue.

what do inactive windows look like? do they have a lighter gradient or do they keep the active one like most themes today?

Chris_The_Nerd wrote:what do inactive windows look like? do they have a lighter gradient or do they keep the active one like most themes today?

...He has a screenshot of one posted on the first post...

Got it making text fields in the bottom bar white automatically

Chrome looks very sexy like that... and changing the bottom bar text colour is very nice - but is it possible to change the ichat text?

What are you doing to mod the bottom bar?

Will there be some type of support for tiled images in this Shapeshifter-esque app? I was thinking that it could allow for Hirogen to create his BlackPearl OS X theme he's been talking about.

I could see the fun in having support for tiled images, dark or otherwise.

It's looking great so far.

Tiled and stretched images are supported.

@Rhizopus This is all a SIMBL plugin. I'm using Cocoa to do all of it. And I'm working on the iChat text.

jivhg wrote:Tiled and stretched images are supported.

@Rhizopus This is all a SIMBL plugin. I'm using Cocoa to do all of it. And I'm working on the iChat text.

So, if you're using Cocoa, are you actually coding how the windows are displayed with Quartz?

New Traffic Lights. Courtesy of plizz0. And new titlebar font Thonbura.

jivhg wrote:http://cl.ly/3bd29d53201f9e1c57ab/content
New Traffic Lights. Courtesy of plizz0. And new titlebar font Thonbura.

Here are some alternate graphite ones

http://cl.ly/e14742ee1bd5cdcf20b3

Or just alternates, doesn't matter to me.

Can you provide a link for plizz0 traffic lights please?

There is no link. He made them while I was having a conversation with him on instant messaging.

Absolutely stunning, a black theme that finally looks good. If you can fix the black-text-on-black-background problems that plagued most past attempts, you'll get my eternal admiration (if that's any motivation!) :thumbsup:

Awesome! But, I can't read my name or status in iChat

I'm putting this on hold for a while so I don't get distracted on my other projects which are more important. If I'm not getting anywhere I'll just release it as is as a beta version. Sorry for the delay :O

You tease!!! You show us something exciting and then put it on hold?!?!?!

finally someone made it, you are my hero!