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Theming OS X 10.9?

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MacDude21

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Jun 6, 2013
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I'm going to be getting a new computer very, very soon. But because I've been on Snow Leopard for so long, and how much I've grown to love all the blue stuff(Especially those scrollbars!) I don't want to loose that with my new computer. So, is there a way I could re-theme OSX 10.9 to look more like 10.6? I've looked at Flavours but it costs $20, and I spent all of my cash on my new computer. I could manually change the files myself, and I have experience with computers, given instructions.
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I think theming on OSX is pretty sparse and other then hacking some of the system resources there's not much you can do. If memory serves me, even popular candy bar app is a shell of its former self due to system changes.
 
._. What's apple's problem?
But seriously, I'm not going to loose the scrollbars and other more round buttons. I love them so much. My computer is already a Hackintosh, so I'm definitely okay with modifying it.
 
MacDude21 said:
._. What's apple's problem?
But seriously, I'm not going to loose the scrollbars and other more round buttons. I love them so much. My computer is already a Hackintosh, so I'm definitely okay with modifying it.
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I think historically most of these system hacks caused instability and that is likely why Apple has tried to make it tough to use them.
 
First of all, thank you blakeasd, and second of all, how does a theme cause instability? I know Windows and other OSes handle themes just fine.
 
MacDude21 said:
First of all, thank you blakeasd, and second of all, how does a theme cause instability? I know Windows and other OSes handle themes just fine.
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Mostly because they go into system files and container files for the system and make changes, something that Apple did not intend to do. I think there is some control issues going on as well. The older apps back in the day would install some middleware product that helped facilitate the changing of themes but that mostly caused performance issues and instability.

Windows is a completely different animal, it handles its GUI elements completely different and was more open to allowing developers to change the look and feel of the OS, Apple is not thus its much harder to do.

There was a burgeoning theming community until apple slammed the door on them with system changes that all but prevented the use of theming applications
 
MacDude21 said:
First of all, thank you blakeasd, and second of all, how does a theme cause instability? I know Windows and other OSes handle themes just fine.
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I see maflynn pretty much answered the question, and I will just add in that theming definitely does cause problems. When Mavericks first came out recently there were a bunch of threads on here from people who installed Mavericks and their Macs were all screwed up. A bunch of those problems ended up being related to a utility that changes the shade of the menu bar to a darker color (I can't recall the name of the utility). Once the utility was removed, Mavericks worked fine.
 
It is not that Apple intentionally designs the graphics rendering system of recent OS versions to fight theming. It is simply that Apple designs the graphics system for most advanced results, best image. The fact that it doesn't use PNG files and such also makes theming nearly impossible. No one at Apple has been given the project of "Redesign the graphics rendering to stop theming".
 
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