How did he do this to the Finder?

Gary King · Jul 6, 2005

In this image:

http://images3.deviantart.com/i/2005/152/9/1/Shinobi_in_action_by_zorda75.png

How did he make the address bar show in the Finder, and how did he make the typical close/minimize/maximize buttons to be in the top-right instead of top-left?

beige matchbox · Jul 6, 2005

I'm thinking it's a Windows box, the buttons on the top right, and the address saying D: both indicate this

ZicklePop · Jul 6, 2005

Also the Quit the Finder option is kinda a hint too.

beige matchbox · Jul 6, 2005

You can turn that on on the mac too, with tinker tool

Like so -

acedickson · Jul 6, 2005

beige matchbox said:
I'm thinking it's a Windows box, the buttons on the top right, and the address saying D: both indicate this

I don't think it's a windows box. The dock has an Adium icon in it. I don't think there's Adium for a windows box.

Cooknn · Jul 6, 2005

beige matchbox said:
I'm thinking it's a Windows box, the buttons on the top right, and the address saying D: both indicate this

Whoa. That is the best fake OS X I've ever seen

Too bad beneath it all they still have DOS. UNIX Rocks

evil_santa · Jul 6, 2005

ZicklePop said:
Also the Quit the Finder option is kinda a hint too.

& D:\Custom\icone\edo might be a give away

munkle · Jul 6, 2005

Most likely a skinned Windows job or it could be a ShapeShifter theme.

GodBless · Jul 6, 2005

This GUI theme is one of the most custom I've ever seen. It looks like he is using FireFox as you can see in the browser title but the browser features look like they came from Safari.

Something that is really strange is that one of the windows has the close, minimize and zoom buttons on the right-hand side where as the other two have the buttons on the left-hand side.

I have seen many different types of custom docks so there is nothing new here.

Many of the GUI aspects contradict both what Windows and OS X offer by default so I would assume that it could be Photoshopped. It is just a screenshot you know. There is no moving images that tell us this is a real theme.

It looks like an enhanced OS X.

Software titles that he could have used if he is running OS X are the following:
- ShapeShifter
- TinkerTool
- Konfabulator (which you can see in the Menu Bar)
- (Some kind of dock enhancement program)

FF_productions · Jul 6, 2005

its either a really-really-really modified windows or its linux...

munkle · Jul 6, 2005

acedickson said:
I don't think it's a windows box. The dock has an Adium icon in it. I don't think there's Adium for a windows box.

Just because the icon shows Adium doesn't mean it is Adium...much like the Apple icon on the top left of the screenshot doesn't necessarily mean it's OSX!

Phazer80s · Jul 6, 2005

A primer

For those unfamiliar with modifying the look of OS X, here are some basic resources.

The best program for applying "themes" to the system is Shapeshifter. You can get it at http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter/

You can find themes for OS X here (among other places

http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/

There's discussion about UI modification on OS X here: http://forums.macnn.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=94

Enjoy.

Plymouthbreezer · Jul 6, 2005

beige matchbox said:
You can turn that on on the mac too, with tinker tool

Like so -

Just wondering, what happens when you quit Finder?

acedickson · Jul 6, 2005

munkle said:
Just because the icon shows Adium doesn't mean it is Adium...much like the Apple icon on the top left of the screenshot doesn't necessarily mean it's OSX!

Understandable, seems like alot of work for no reason, lol.

cleanup · Jul 6, 2005

I used to be a Windows user that emulated OSX. Ask me anything. That is Windows. He's using ObjectBar for the menubar, Safarifox for the Safari clone, and Styler and FinderBar for the Finder clone. If he used a program called WindowBlinds he would have left-sided glyphs. He's also using Konfabulator with the following widgets: Widescape Weather, Timezonabulator, iTunes Companion/Sputnik.

The lone window with the left sided glyphs has left sided glyphs because it's a modded Trillian skin. He's also using AveDesk for the Mac OS X-like desktop icons.

See? Ask me anything.

For more information on poor Windows people emulating Mac OS X as I used to, visit http://www.aqua-soft.org.

[Edit]: He's also using either YzShadow or WindowFX for the window shadows.

dubbz · Jul 6, 2005

evil_santa said:
& D:\Custom\icone\edo might be a give away

Yup. That should be the most obvious giveaway...

That theme actually exists for both Windows and OS X (ShapeShifter). It's done buy a talent guy named Takashi Izawa.

michaelrjohnson · Jul 6, 2005

cleanup said:
I used to be a Windows user that emulated OSX. Ask me anything.

Wow! Thourough. Thanks for the confirmation!

Just for the record, I believe it's Windows (modified ad nauseum).

4409723 · Jul 6, 2005

Plymouthbreezer said:
Just wondering, what happens when you quit Finder?

Desktop icons go away, background image/dock remain, that's about it; and you can't open finder windows obviously.

Plymouthbreezer · Jul 6, 2005

Wes said:
Desktop icons go away, background image/dock remain, that's about it; and you can't open finder windows obviously.

Cool... How do you get it back?

biohazard6969 · Jul 6, 2005

click the finder icon in the dock. simple as that

Ti_Poussin · Jul 6, 2005

It's no Windows box, it's OSX with a different theme. I made this too, I got tire of Aqua and it's white interface, I prefer dark interface.

Tool:
-Shapeshifter (change theme apparence, icon set)
-Thinkertool or Clix(enable the quit in the finder, or use the terminal with this command to enable it: defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -boolean true;killall Finder
to turn it off is this command: defaults delete com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem;killall Finder
-few freeware to make transparent dock help too

I personnaly enjoy the Shinoby theme. Make a little search of this in google: "osx theme -XP" to get real osx theme, not XP skin. You should found some nasty one

matticus008 · Jul 6, 2005

Ti_Poussin said:
It's no Windows box, it's OSX with a different theme. I made this too, I got tire of Aqua and it's white interface, I prefer dark interface.

No, it is absolutely a Windows box.

IJ Reilly · Jul 6, 2005

matticus008 said:
No, it is absolutely a Windows box.

With a Services menu? Why emulate a Services menu when Windows doesn't have any Services?

Orlando Furioso · Jul 6, 2005

matticus008 said:
No, it is absolutely a Windows box.

oh damn. if there is confusion about this, i cannot imagine the kinds of identity issues the mac x86s will bring.

PlaceofDis · Jul 6, 2005

Orlando Furioso said:
oh damn. if there is confusion about this, i cannot imagine the kinds of identity issues the mac x86s will bring.

i fail to see why that will change anything myself

How did he do this to the Finder?

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