It is all about responsiveness I guess, minus the animations and eye candy on Leopard.
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Mountain Leopard PowerPC Theme 3.0
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It is all about responsiveness I guess, minus the animations and eye candy on Leopard.
I turn all the OS animations off anyway along with the animations in Quicksilver. It's not that I don't like eye candy but performance is just more important. Lots of small performance tweaks added together equal a decent one in the end.
The square button thing would be an eye candy/practical mix I guess because I find them more beautiful than the rounded ones while also being slightly easier to find visually when doing crazy multitasking.
I will always be the function over form type.
Im really liking the new light indicator on the Dock for apps that are open. The bezel around my LCD is glossy, and the Dock indicator lights actually reflect off my bezel for a really cool effect. I'll post a pic when I get a chance
Edit: Here's the pic. You can see the new dock actually lights up my LCD Bezel! (click to enlarge)
Edit: Here's the pic. You can see the new dock actually lights up my LCD Bezel! (click to enlarge)
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Is it strange..
...that this makes me deleriously happy? Putting this on a Powerbook G4 like a giant thumb to the nose to all the intel macbook owners out there. I showed it to a particularly obnoxious recent mac convert at a coffee shop and he was of course fooled, then thought I was certifiable once I explained it was only a hack to make Leopard look like Mountain Lion.
Many,many many thanks to Aquadock.
...that this makes me deleriously happy? Putting this on a Powerbook G4 like a giant thumb to the nose to all the intel macbook owners out there. I showed it to a particularly obnoxious recent mac convert at a coffee shop and he was of course fooled, then thought I was certifiable once I explained it was only a hack to make Leopard look like Mountain Lion.
Many,many many thanks to Aquadock.
That's a problem with the way Leopard handles the dock reflection, if you move the window away from the dock it should disappear.
Great work! Amazing theme, love the new dock.
Just a little extra thing I decided to do was to change the About This Mac Box to this,
Here's my homemade Mountain Lion OS X About This Mac picture;
http://www.4shared.com/photo/MZ0meS0O/MacOSX.html?
You'll need to replace the current MacOSX.tif (remember to back up) with the new one @
To change the OS X version to 10.8 go to
Open the plist file up in textedit and change ProductUserVisibleVersion to 10.8. Then you'll have to save as SystemVersion.plist on your desktop or wherever you can find it (can't just save due to permissions, and remember to add the plist on the end). Then simply drag the new SystemVersion.plist over and replace the old one.
It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I think it gives this awesome theme an even more authentic feel.
Just a little extra thing I decided to do was to change the About This Mac Box to this,
Here's my homemade Mountain Lion OS X About This Mac picture;
http://www.4shared.com/photo/MZ0meS0O/MacOSX.html?
You'll need to replace the current MacOSX.tif (remember to back up) with the new one @
To change the OS X version to 10.8 go to
Open the plist file up in textedit and change ProductUserVisibleVersion to 10.8. Then you'll have to save as SystemVersion.plist on your desktop or wherever you can find it (can't just save due to permissions, and remember to add the plist on the end). Then simply drag the new SystemVersion.plist over and replace the old one.
It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I think it gives this awesome theme an even more authentic feel.
The problem with changing the "About this Mac" box is that it breaks some apps, like for me, my iLife apps stopped working and I couldn't receive updates anymore.
How do I go about changing the default .jpg of the Apple? I wanted to use the older 80's multicolor Apple instead.
I love all the other parts of the theme, but I'd feel like my computer is living a lie if the "About My Mac" says I'm running Mountain Lion. In spite of this, so long as it's an option I can uncheck in the installer, I won't be complaining. I'm sure a lot of people like the idea of fooling friends with a "PowerPC version" of Mountain Lion. 
I love all the other parts of the theme, but I'd feel like my computer is living a lie if the "About My Mac" says I'm running Mountain Lion. In spite of this, so long as it's an option I can uncheck in the installer, I won't be complaining. I'm sure a lot of people like the idea of fooling friends with a "PowerPC version" of Mountain Lion.
Don't worry i'll definitely make it an option, anything that i'll add to this theme will be optional.
There is a way around this.
I agree 100%. A theme is one thing but to turn it into a silly lie like making it say 10.8 is really pushing into being lame. It's much too wannabe.
If you want about this mac to say 10.8 then have a Mac that runs it. Being a fraud is not a good thing.
maybe a little off topic but how do you turn off the animations on Leopard?
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It's okay for AQUADock to use the idea if he so wishes, I also agree in making it optional as I can understand why some people would rather keep the default Leopard About This Mac box and I can see why people are saying it's a bit 'wannabe', but at the end of the day it still gives you the specs of your PowerPC machine and I thought it just added an extra little element to the theme.
If you really wanted to be a wannabe you could stick up a dual 6 core Xeon with 64gb RAM in the about this Mac box
If you really wanted to be a wannabe you could stick up a dual 6 core Xeon with 64gb RAM in the about this Mac box
Okay guys so I posted a few weeks back about a "feels so rough" Powerbook G4 I had purchased. Well, it croaked. As luck might have it I fell into an A+ person on Craigslist who sold me a 1.47 DC PM G4 with a 120 GB Barracuda 10000 RPM AND the cinema display for $160. God is good, and thank you if you're reading this.
I digress, so I got 10.5.8 up and running, upgraded iTunes, Safari etc. and this theme was to be the finishing touch before I started upgrading some hardware.
However, I'm new to Mac and am not sure I'm holding it right. I clicked on the "installer" link, DL the file unzipped and there was a set of terminal commands I assumed to be scripts (I have some *Nix background). Well it just said "process finished" after like half a nanosecond, skeptically I rebooted and not surprisingly, nothing changed. Perhaps someone could push me in the right direction so that I can complete my self impressed "Mac Tutorial."
Thanks guys!
I digress, so I got 10.5.8 up and running, upgraded iTunes, Safari etc. and this theme was to be the finishing touch before I started upgrading some hardware.
However, I'm new to Mac and am not sure I'm holding it right. I clicked on the "installer" link, DL the file unzipped and there was a set of terminal commands I assumed to be scripts (I have some *Nix background). Well it just said "process finished" after like half a nanosecond, skeptically I rebooted and not surprisingly, nothing changed. Perhaps someone could push me in the right direction so that I can complete my self impressed "Mac Tutorial."
Thanks guys!
Hey thanks for reading, I must have had a wobbly connection because this time the file unzipped into a .pkg. The install couldn't have went easier. I love this machine!
Thank you Aqua, this is very clean work. I'm glad I didn't have to sudo apt get anything.
