Skinning OS-X?

from WinCustomize Forums
I have just discovered a program for themeing Mac OSX, called Duality 3.0. It is apparently drawing a lot of fire form apple, but I think it is great, I am looking forward to what you can do with a postscript interface. Anyone tried it? The Iconic thing is that one of the most popular themes is a WindowsXP theme, talk about wird turnabout. If apple doesn’t kill this maybe we will have to make a Maccustomize site
3,000 views 6 replies
Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I can just see Mr. Jobs turning shades of beet red and Mr. Gates snickering.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

"I just want my Apple to look like the rest of the world."
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How bizarre!
Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
/me wonders if we're going to see any porting requests . . .

I'd be glad to see Blackcomb on OSX. *g*
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
no need for a MacCustomize site. there are quite a lot of them around and Duality is not the only program that can change the look of OSX. here´s a link to the themes section of resexcellence just as an example: http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/

please note: besides the OS ports and the ChosenOS ports these themes are the originals not the (often crippled) StylesXP ports.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Duality it's very cool, and free, and never crashes (at this time on my computer). Also, the original quartz interface of MAC OSX is skinneable, but Apple not provide utilities to change the aoriginal Aqua skin.
Quartz uses PDF to present graphics on screen; it uses vector graphics fort the fonts, but all (i think) othe gui parts are rasterized graphics; it uses graphics greather than are represented on screen, in this way, the bars are always in the same size if you switches resolution.
Duality is banned by Apple, but it works very well, and their skinners make great skins.
In other cases, the major skinning works for the MAC OSX are making icons. See http://www.xicons.com