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Mac Themes Garden

223 点作者 speckx3 天前

19 条评论

rhet0rica3 天前
It blows my mind how diverse these are, and how diverse their creators were. One single artist, Martha Royer, made over two hundred themes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macthemes.garden&#x2F;authors&#x2F;martha-royer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macthemes.garden&#x2F;authors&#x2F;martha-royer&#x2F;</a> (They&#x27;re not all <i>amazing</i> in quality, but the sheer industriousness is staggering.)<p>I was lurking around the equivalent Windows community in roughly the same era (well, a couple of years later) and it was nothing like this. Far fewer people had the patience for WindowBlinds (the Kaleidoscope equivalent) or deep OS modding, and they tended to all be the same few types of person with more-or-less the same tastes—mostly the kind of guy who thought that an RGB fan in a brushed aluminum tower PC was the height of self-expression. (Basic Windows Plus themes were way more primitive than what was possible with the right tools.) It&#x27;s astonishing to see what looks like the entirety of the pre-dot-com-crash web&#x27;s wonderful, weird diversity reproduced in perfect miniature over in the Mac space.<p>Although I keep scrolling, and I haven&#x27;t found a legit NeXT theme yet. There are a few that get close but nothing with the actual UI assets. Maybe this is an opportunity...<p>EDIT: For those curious, here&#x27;s roughly what themes on OS X looked like in the 2000s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macgui.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;?cat_id=10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macgui.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;?cat_id=10</a>
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cosmic_cheese3 天前
Back in the day, Kaleidoscope schemes and later appearance manager themes were one of my favorite things about owning a computer. Combined with Classic Mac OS extensions it seemed like there was nothing you couldn’t do when it came to customization. Even modern desktop Linux, as vaunted as it is for its customizability, struggles to compare.<p>Now of course Classic Mac OS was a security nightmare but I wish that a modern OS would try to replicate that incredible level of flexibility in a more secure manner. Will it be difficult? Sure, but I don’t think it’s impossible. I believe that something resembling the “app extension” architecture employed by modern macOS which runs extensions as sandboxed processes which are given access to special APIs would be a good starting point.
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red_admiral2 天前
I miss the times, across all platforms, when you could just pick an accent color or two for things like window borders, filled radio buttons and so on. On GTK you could take someone&#x27;s window theme, someone else&#x27;s widget theme, and go &quot;that, but in orange&quot;.<p>You could even, if it didn&#x27;t come by default already, have the active title bar in a different color.<p>Maybe 99% of people didn&#x27;t use this. Maybe they hired an authoritarian at GNOME to make the adwaita &quot;one theme to rule them all&quot;. But it used to feel like I the style choices for my own computer&#x27;s gui belonged more to me as a user.<p>Often, that meant picking a theme that I liked, from the very active theme-design community (the garden lists more than 3000 themes, although I&#x27;m not a mac person) and then just tweaking a color here or there.
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Lammy3 天前
I miss this era so much.<p>&gt; Turns out this action didn&#x27;t have a keyboard shortcut until Mac OS X? Didn&#x27;t know that!<p>Edit your Finder and&#x2F;or System with ResEdit and you can add or change any keyboard shortcuts you want.
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rf152 天前
I remember theming my mac and windows machines as a kid! Somehow all we&#x27;re left with is corporate sponsored blandness and a user base who does not care about having fun with what they own, they just want a basic tool to browse the web. (and I guess ownership is much more muddied now anyway)
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hoistbypetard3 天前
I&#x27;d totally pay to have these (especially a good vanilla Mac OS 8&#x2F;9 theme) in a usable from on a Linux box today. I liked them then, and I&#x27;d still like to have them now. Anyone want to make one that works on Plasma&#x2F;GTK and take my money?
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bix63 天前
I would do anything to have Monkey Paradise on my current computer.
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milesskorpen3 天前
Such a blast from the past. Had so much fun with these back in the day, along with Winamp themes. I can&#x27;t tell if I&#x27;ve aged or tech has aged such that this kind of thing isn&#x27;t really around any more. Probably both.
WillAdams3 天前
There was one theme, which had a feature which I _really_ wish had become a standard --- the title bar collapsing down to the size of the text when &quot;window-shaded&quot; by double-clicking --- I never liked that feature until that theme came along, and it is about the only thing about Mac OS 9 and earlier that I miss.
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doodpants2 天前
I miss the days of Kaleidoscope. I even created a couple of themes myself; the one I&#x27;m proudest of is Crayon OS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macthemes.garden&#x2F;themes&#x2F;a83c1d81e770-crayon-os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macthemes.garden&#x2F;themes&#x2F;a83c1d81e770-crayon-os&#x2F;</a>
antfarm2 天前
Good memories! Back in the days I used Kaleidoscope to style my PowerMac (System 7.5) to look like BeOS, but most importantly, I had an extension that gave me the column browser in the Finder that I had seen on the NeXT Cubes at university. In most courses, I was the only student who used a Mac for homework assignments.
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betterThanTexas3 天前
I didn&#x27;t have root access to my family computer during this era, and I will forever be angry at apple for not allowing us to continue this fun until today.<p>EDIT: actually it looks like this is significantly older than that. I definitely didn&#x27;t know enough to theme OS 9 when it was my main driver.
ugh1233 天前
Can these be installed on modern macs?
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theresistor3 天前
Kid me absolutely ran The Bug on an old PowerMac G3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macthemes.garden&#x2F;themes&#x2F;8191e1471dc9-the-bug&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;macthemes.garden&#x2F;themes&#x2F;8191e1471dc9-the-bug&#x2F;</a>
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davidmurphy3 天前
As a lifelong Mac geek (I work for the Computer History Museum, where I organized our Macintosh 40th Anniversary and Lisa 40th events), I just want to say love this :)<p>The nolstalgia is real. Thanks for your hard work!
eabeezxjc2 天前
Ideal for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beyondloom.com&#x2F;decker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beyondloom.com&#x2F;decker&#x2F;</a>
egypturnash3 天前
I was so hyped for a moment when I thought that maybe this was a site for a new MacOS theme program. I miss Kaleidoscope.
emremremr3 天前
Looks like they’re missing the greyscale original Mac one.
sprash3 天前
Seems like somebody forgot to read the pamphlet[1].<p>1.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stopthemingmy.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stopthemingmy.app&#x2F;</a>
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