How can I make Leopards menu bar look like Tigers?

[Will Cheyney]

I know there is the option to turn off the transparency of the Leopard menu bar, but I want it to look just like the Tiger one (see below):

Is there a nice app that does this for you, or am I in for some resource editing?



Thanks all!

 

[Lone Deranger]

System Preferences-->DeskTop & Screensaver--> Tick OFF Translucent Menu Bar.

Beautiful backdrop btw... Have you a link to it?

edit.. never mind... just saw you knew that already haha... (slightly inebriated here) My question still stand though. 🙂

 

[rdowns]

Onyx can do that for you, among a wealth of other useful things

 

[Willis]

System Preferences-->DeskTop & Screensaver--> Tick OFF Translucent Menu Bar.

Beautiful backdrop btw... Have you a link to it?

1) thats not what he asked

2) thats a background on your Mac.

To answer your question, I don't think you can change it without doing some mods. As I don't play around with my dock and appearance, I can't help you there

Onyx can do that for you, among a wealth of other useful things

Really? *opens Onyx*

Oh yeah =)

 

[Will Cheyney]

Thanks, but as I said, I know there is the option to switch off transparency. I am looking for a solution that make the menu bar look how it did in Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger). The menu bar is a 'glossy' white, and the Apple icon is aqua blue.

The shot above is one I found on someone's Flickr, they have managed to successfully do it [so I don't know where the desktop image is from, sorry!]

 

[Lone Deranger]

1) thats not what he asked

Yeah.. read his post incorrectly the first time... too much wine... doh 😀

2) thats a background on your Mac.

It's not the same....

 

[Willis]

Get Onyx, Click Parameters and then click 'Finder'

The option is there for Grey, Transparent or White.

It's not the same....

Oh yeah.. Hmm.. is it a Windows one then? Sure I've seen some Vista's with it

 

[Will Cheyney]

Thanks guys, but my quest is still on...
Onyx gives you the option for 'white' but this isn't the glossy white of Tiger I'm looking for...

😱

 

[vohdoun]

It's complicated, and I'd be very careful before attempting because if done wrong you can bork up Finder. As you're working with system files.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=103567

http://macthemes2.net/wiki/Extras.rsrc

http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16785767 Page 11 & 14

http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16791936

Then the problem of finding a machine with Tigers resources to extract the contents.

 

[Live Steam]

I know there is the option to turn off the transparency of the Leopard menu bar, but I want it to look just like the Tiger one (see below):

Is there a nice app that does this for you, or am I in for some resource editing?



Thanks all!

I came across a simple app that would edit the characteristics of the menu bar which allowed the used to change it's color and transparency. I'll see if I can find it again and post. It gave the ability to use multiple colors and various shading aspects.

 

[lamadude]

Beautiful backdrop btw... Have you a link to it?

I thought I saw it on interfacelift some time ago
yups, here it is
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1696/after_rain.html

 

[geoffbruno]

Magnifique!

I was able to install a theme called UNO-AE in Magnifique that almost exactly replicated the Tiger Menu Bar (to an astonishing degree). Make sure that once you install the theme you turn off transparency in system preferences and restart all of your applications (including Finder). Here are the results:

NOTE: This theme will not curve the menu bar as it is in this screen shot. To do that, I used a utility called Displaperture and set it up to run at login. It also will not give you the tiger style dock shown here. To do this, you must replace files in the resources folder of the dock in Core Services and switch the dock to 2D.