How did he do this to the Finder?

[Makosuke]

It's no Windows box, it's OSX with a different theme.

It's not that you couldn't mod OSX to look similar to that, but I've never seen a single mod that would cause OSX to display "D:\" at the begining of the path. Furthermore, why would you go to the trouble of modifying OSX that drastically while still distinctly trying to keep the OSX feel, yet give the Finder a Windows-style menubar with the widgets on the right AND re-write all paths to show backslashes instead of forward slashes?

Generally speaking, folks are going to go one way or the other. Having Windows still use its native paths even if everything else is heavily modified makes more sense than messing around with the color scheme of OSX yet inexplicably remapping paths to Windows-style ones.

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

And why put an Apple icon in the upper righthand corner if it's not made by Apple? It's trying to look like OSX, so of course it's going to include a Services menu--it probably even does something.

 

[ham_man]

I think it is a Window's box for a few reasons...

#1 - Finder would have to be in the dock if it was running
#2 - I have never seen that little "x" in my menu bar, ever
#3 - Macs drives aren't named via letters. They are done by what you name them..

 

[jeremy.king]

According to zorda75, himself...its windows.

He uses this http://www.tgtsoft.com/

 

[wrldwzrd89]

That's quite some theme...one of the most drastic changes I've seen for a Windows box. What makes it all the stranger is that it's half-Mac OS X, half-Windows.

 

[ekenny]

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.

It is windows, there is no D: in OS X

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

How could it be Linux? There are no drive letters in linux.

 

[zakatov]

That's quite some theme...one of the most drastic changes I've seen for a Windows box. What makes it all the stranger is that it's half-Mac OS X, half-Windows.

Still crashes just as often, and UI is still POS Windows, but with aqua controls, so make no mistake, this is 95% Winblows + (crappyfied) dock + (same as dock) menu bar + aqua buttons and stuff over Winblows GUI. No way you can make Windows any easier to use. Although to their credit, it doesn't run on top of DOS, as someone tried to sugest.

 

[cleanup]

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

Most of the items in Mac OS X ObjectBar themes serve no purpose. Click them, and the menu closes. Many of them link to the Windows equivalent (ie. System Preferences goes to Control Panel) but most of them do nothing unless it's displaying the menu of the active application.

All flash no function.

Learn more here.

 

[Cooknn]

No way you can make Windows any easier to use. Although to their credit, it doesn't run on top of DOS, as someone tried to sugest.

Oops. My bad. XP is not based on DOS anymore... Still a far cry from UNIX

 

[Ti_Poussin]

yeah, it's windows, since the producer say it, but the D:\ was in the search box not a fill path menu button. I still can type it in the search bar too in OSX. It is easy to make OSX look like this, for the finder icon, you can change it easily, boot from a CD or DVD, go in /system/library/Coreservice/Finder change the icon and reboot! done. For the side of the dot in the upper window can be change with a theme. There was not sign of windows in this, it was probably really hard to make the ? caracter for the folder, since windows doesn't support them.

Edit: even Macrumors doesn't support the apple caracter! type ALT-Shift-5 to see it, wounder how he make it under windows?!

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

click the finder icon in the dock. simple as that

D'oh!

 

[cleanup]

There was not sign of windows in this, it was probably really hard to make the ? caracter for the folder, since windows doesn't support them.

Edit: even Macrumors doesn't support the apple caracter! type ALT-Shift-5 to see it, wounder how he make it under windows?!

There is a sign of Windows-ness... right-sided gylphs. Also, in his "Finder" window (actually just a modded explorer window using FinderBar and Styler), a folder icon is visible in the top left corner. There is no top left icon for the Firefox skin because it is possible to replace the icon with a transparent icon. Some people replace it with a Safari icon.

Second of all, the font he's using, HandelGot, is originally a Mac font and contains all the necessary Mac OS X characters, such as Command, Option, Shift, Control, and the Apple logo. Windows' character map also supports typing of the Apple logo, given that you have a proper font.

 

[realityisterror]

A pretty good mod... I myself wanted to do something like that with the Windows box downstairs, but my parents wouldn't approve and I generally have better things to do with my time...

reality

 

[MisterMe]

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

Also, MacOS X does not use .ico as the file extension for icons. Windows does.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

A pretty good mod... I myself wanted to do something like that with the Windows box downstairs, but my parents wouldn't approve and I generally have better things to do with my time...

reality

Yeah - I might use Windows if it looked like that... But still, in the end, it's just a pseudo OS X.

 

[Gary King]

The desktop in general looks pretty awesome though, doesn't it?

 

[0098386]

urgh. i tried to make Windows look like OSX ages ago, just before switching. it dosnt even run like OSX, nothing does. its fake. and eats up resources.

if you seriously have to the time to really work at your PC to get it looking like that, id suggest you take that time and get another job or work longer shifts or whatever you do to get money, and buy yourself a mac

 

[joeconvert]

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

Windows absolutely has services!

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Windows absolutely has services!

Windows has services alright, they're just in a different form than the ones Mac OS X has, and, unlike Mac OS X, Windows services aren't meant to be visible to end-users.

 

[Gary King]

Windows services can be found in services.msc

Anyways, the author for the screenshot has directly told me that he is definitely running Windows

 

[esXXI]

All this debate! Two simple reasons (to add to the masses already):

• Shapeshifter cannot move the titlebar buttons to the right side.
• The font anti-aliasing (just look at it!).

 

[atszyman]

This thread reminds me of one of the restaurants I go to for lunch.

The guy behind the counter has an HP laptop tricked out to look like OSX but other than the glaring HP logo the one thing that always bugs me is he is constantly running WinAmp...

If you're going to go through all that trouble, why not downloat iTunes?