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why is itunes 10 grey?
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Oh dude thanks, it works like charm. I tried it on Snow Leopard (updated) and its working very good.
One small request, how do you open the rsrc file and tweak it? Was that using XCode?
I like the color in the old builds. This is kinda annoying. I use iTunes all day and having everything one color makes it harder to use- a little.
Grey Powell was removed from the iPhone team and transferred to the iTunes 10 design team. He was given the important task of picking the color scheme... what color did you expect him to pick?
Enjoy, and feel free to let me know if you see an icon that should be fixedI didn't check that they all look normal.
- Small size only.
- Some may be broken.
- No guarantees.
Thanks, this is awesome! The only icons I saw that didn't get changed are the device icons, but that's not too big a deal.
ThemePark 3. I'm on my iPhone right now so I cant get you a link but you can find it easily. Great little program.
I have grown to like it. At first I thought it looked really ugly and hard to read. It does seem to be "snappier" when searching and scrolling through music. The icon looks like Microsoft. Why would they make it with a blue background when there isn't any color in the application?
iTunes 10, sidebar
Surly the new mono-chrome side-bar is an error? Steve Jobs said some things had changed, like the iTunes icon. This is ok, the new icon, looks fine, doesn't really change anything though.... it doesn't make it harder or easier to find - in many ways this is an indifferent change: but the black and white side-bar icons, iCon, I've been conned by the powers of Job's reality distortion bubble !
The monochrome side bar makes iTunes harder to use. I am not a long in the tooth iTunes guy, just started using it a lot when i got an iPhone 4..... i used it before but by copying files to my phone via bluetooth... iTunes is really good.... started liking it, started using the iTunes store ... got the hang of all the different folders' music, movies, apps podcasts and audio books ... even started making my own movies and ringtones ...... but where has all the colour gone..?... what made it easy to learn was the colours!!!! what made it nice to use was the colours..... 'ping' ok I was prepared to have a look at 'ping', but this makes me not want to bother!!! really it's so bad!
Apple bring back the colours, ok, please!? .... pretty please ..... with knobs on?
and not to diminish my plea ....... do you know how many people miss the colourful old G3 clamshell design ..... lots! that's how many! I would like to say that I'm feeling 'Blue' but that be an exaggeration !?
Surly the new mono-chrome side-bar is an error? Steve Jobs said some things had changed, like the iTunes icon. This is ok, the new icon, looks fine, doesn't really change anything though.... it doesn't make it harder or easier to find - in many ways this is an indifferent change: but the black and white side-bar icons, iCon, I've been conned by the powers of Job's reality distortion bubble !
The monochrome side bar makes iTunes harder to use. I am not a long in the tooth iTunes guy, just started using it a lot when i got an iPhone 4..... i used it before but by copying files to my phone via bluetooth... iTunes is really good.... started liking it, started using the iTunes store ... got the hang of all the different folders' music, movies, apps podcasts and audio books ... even started making my own movies and ringtones ...... but where has all the colour gone..?... what made it easy to learn was the colours!!!! what made it nice to use was the colours..... 'ping' ok I was prepared to have a look at 'ping', but this makes me not want to bother!!! really it's so bad!
Apple bring back the colours, ok, please!? .... pretty please ..... with knobs on?
and not to diminish my plea ....... do you know how many people miss the colourful old G3 clamshell design ..... lots! that's how many! I would like to say that I'm feeling 'Blue' but that be an exaggeration !?
I like the new grey look but then I always hated it when a menubar icon used colour instead of the Mac black & white look. If I ever see iTunes 9.x again I'll probably wondered how I lived with all those XP-like colours.
Scrolling in 10 seems smoother and the other interface tweaks are generally effective. The vertical traffic light seems like a good idea to save vertical space until you double click a playlist to open a new window. I wonder if they will develop this idea for other apps which don't need a title along the top of the window? (admittedly most windows do rely on a title, but there is still a lot of empty space between the traffic lights and the pill)
Steve said syncing was improved but there didn't seem to be any new options, just a much more OS X-like interface when devices are connected and more detailed feedback during the sync process.
I like the new icon - it is distinctive in my busy (auto-hiding, too many colours!) dock.
Scrolling in 10 seems smoother and the other interface tweaks are generally effective. The vertical traffic light seems like a good idea to save vertical space until you double click a playlist to open a new window. I wonder if they will develop this idea for other apps which don't need a title along the top of the window? (admittedly most windows do rely on a title, but there is still a lot of empty space between the traffic lights and the pill)
Steve said syncing was improved but there didn't seem to be any new options, just a much more OS X-like interface when devices are connected and more detailed feedback during the sync process.
I like the new icon - it is distinctive in my busy (auto-hiding, too many colours!) dock.
+1 for hating the gray. I now have to squint at the icons to distinguish between them by shape, whereas I now realize that before, I was searching for icons mainly by their color -- hit the blue square to look at my apps, for example. And as other people have said, the gray makes it look like all the options are deselected or disabled. *And* it makes me feel depressed. 
Not a huge fan of the colors scheme either; as someone else said it makes me feel colorblind!
Also not a fan of the placement of the red/yellow/green buttons. However, these preference reverts it back to the old arrangement:
Source: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20015428-263.html
Also not a fan of the placement of the red/yellow/green buttons. However, these preference reverts it back to the old arrangement:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean TRUESource: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20015428-263.html
I remember when I first downloaded iTunes9 and thought, "Wow, this is ugly!"
Now I'm glad just to get its theme back. Thanks, OutThere, for making such a thing possible.
The icon is terrible, the interface it terrible, the vertical buttons...
Occasionally, Apple does something to disappoint me... but this is really bad. I'm worried about what Apple is going to do next.
You hit it on the nose. Last night I kept clicking on the iTunes window to try and bring it to the front.
The icon is weird, the storage indicator is definitely ugly (the old one had some flair to it) and the list view harder to read (and takes up more space).
But the vertical traffic lights are fine with me, they anyway don't really have any function (I never used the minimized interface and there is no point in a close button).