I want to change the Macs default theme (Lion). How do i do this?

[mrmister]

"Steve is not holding a gun to your head making you use it."

Of course not. But that doesn't change that he's a dick.

"No, it's because an interface like OS X's shouldn't need theming in the first place. Apple actually puts work into the design. That's why Apple has the best-designed consumer OS in the industry."

Exactly. They know better than we do, always and forever. That's why Launchpad is so fantastically implemented.

I'm not saying he's not sharp and brilliant. But he is also a dick.

 

[podsorcerer09]

Quite frankly I don' understand why you would want to do that. I realize that some people want to skin their computer to a personal preference, but honestly most of the time it just looks ugly. Applications on OS X have the benefit of having a common Human Interface Guideline and most (not all, looking at you iCal and Address Book) conform to them. It makes the whole operating system look nice and unified and pretty clean. The short answer, you can't change it without changing the system graphics and you never know if a program is depending on something being a certain way.

 

[AdrianK]

...during my time with Windows XP...

Does anyone else find it hard to imagine LTD using some beige-box XP machine?

 

[derbothaus]

Quite frankly I don' understand why you would want to do that. I realize that some people want to skin their computer to a personal preference, but honestly most of the time it just looks ugly. Applications on OS X have the benefit of having a common Human Interface Guideline and most (not all, looking at you iCal and Address Book) conform to them. It makes the whole operating system look nice and unified and pretty clean. The short answer, you can't change it without changing the system graphics and you never know if a program is depending on something being a certain way.

It's about tweaking. I don't mess with the Window gradients. I change buttons, sliders, Icons, Docks, widgets etc. On top of skinning my favorite apps. Apple has stolen many ideas from the artistic mod community as you see tweaks in later OS's that mirror what artists did 2 years earlier.

 

[araah]

Lion Theme

Hi guys, does anyone know how to get a more 'sharper' boxier theme for apple. I have been a regular windows user for the last 7+ years and the main reason i stuck to it was because of the sharp, crisp and box kind of menus, tabs etc. Is there anything i can do to change it? its so round and looks like everything has been bevelled and embossed in photoshop lol

Thank You

 

[maflynn]

OSX doesn't really do themes, at least not as easily as windows does.