Which of the Mac OS X theme is the best and realistic?


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Most realistic would be a Window the Aqua pack (also by Disciple)

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It's for WindowBlinds (it can put the buttons on the left and alpha blend scrollbars).

Another one that I like and am currently running is by John T. Folden (one of the founders of WinStep).

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It's a Graphite based one.

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[heh]tried the majority of them, and have to disagree with you all :) [/heh]

i think that Liquidus is the nicest interpretation of OSX out for XP right now. best case scenerio - try all three of the suggestions and see which one you like the best.

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Remember BeOS? Apparently they were working on a V6. Of it. Aqua's gotten a lot of credit for being cool looking but here's a screenshot of BeOS 6 (WB skin also made by John Folden).

I really like the tabbed title bar design. What they improved in v6 it looks like is in putting the buttons on the right edge which makes it m4ore consistent.

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Window Blinds is the BEST! (sarcasm)

/me peddles WB for FrogBoy so he doesnt have to ..... ;)

BTW if Be Inc. were in fact making a v 6 which I highly doubt (it was still in the v 5.03 range), it wouldnt look like that. They wouldnt change the gui so radically, but it's a nice skin nontheless :)

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LOL. Binary, you're hypocricy is amazing. So if I show skins I like or use, I'm peddling but your constant TGTSoft boosting Style XP advocacy is okay? Spare me okay? (just a hint Binary, I'm here on a Saturday posting what I enjoy to talk about, message boards don't get even remotely enough views to justify "peddling" in, I'm here in my spare time. It's amazing that you feel okay to boost TGTSoft but anyone who "boosts" something else is somehow a marketing person.).

Go to www.osnews.com they are the ones doing the story about BeOS 6 screenshots.

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Since when do I talk about TGTSoft? I havent talked about them or their products for like a month.... And I'm definately not on their side anymore either (where have you been?), so your point fails... Plus I believe theres now a WB section, therefore if the thread starter wanted to know what OSX WB skin was best I'm sure he would have posted there..... The world doesnt revolve around WB maybe your world does but I'm sure people are getting sick of you promoting WB every chance you get.

regarding the BeOS screenshots, they are obviously fakes or themes running on BeOS but it's not the BeOS gui In fact I have ran the mac OS skin on BeOS , looked just like a mac :).....

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Originally posted by Frogboy

It's for WindowBlinds (it can put the buttons on the left and alpha blend scrollbars).

Just so you know I'm not flaming you, but indeed stating facts, That looks like a promotion to me, you know that the majority of people here use msstyles.. so u try mentioning things that msstyles cant do... thats called promotion.

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I like Unspec's "Liquidus" Its by far one of the most Realistic Mac OSX themes i have used, even though it can use a lil cleaning up to do ;) (i know you are still workin on it, heh.) Keep up the good work.

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Binary - name of post includes "realistic". What is a feature of the Aqua UI? Alpha blended scrollbars. Hence why where the buttons are placed is important.

When I give an opinion on something, I give a reason for giving that opinion. I am no more promoting WB than you are promoting Style XP when you talk about msstyles.

And no, it turns out that those screenshots of BeOS are authentic. Looks cool too.

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They arnt screenshots of the new BeOS UI. It is a skin used on BeOS (just like their mac skin). :) And frogboy, I just find it irritating that you keep bringing up your company's products (moreso WB) in this part of the forum, just like it wouldnt be right for people to go talking about style xp and msstyles in the WB sections :) And htf do you figure talking about msstyles is promoting Style XP anyways? by the looks of it most people on this board are using a patched dll now instead of Style XP :p

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not to get off binary and frogboys new topic :s , but i also use Liquidus..it's the cleanest OS X skin i've seen yet produced, and with the shellstyle.dll it is probably one of the best themes on my system imo.

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hehe sorry bout that :D I also think unspecs is the best so far.

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Personally, I haven't found an aqua theme out there yet that I'm truly satisfied with. The majority of people seem to be recommending Liquidis (sp?), but I wasn't too pleased with it. A common problem I'm seeing with Aqua skins is that the titlebar edges and buttons don't look rounded enough, and I haven't seen a start menu I liked yet, either (of course a start menu is going to be solely up to the imagination of the author of the skin, since OS X doesn't have the windows start menu, their menus I'm sure are designed much differently). I'm hoping Binary's skin is the one I'm looking for, and I can't wait for him to release it. I think he did a remarkable job on his watercolor skin, and I imagine he will be paying just as close attention to detail on this one. On a side note, some of the early "betas" of Ja450n's skin weren't too bad, but it seems every new release he does is looking worse and worse instead of better, but maybe that's just me.

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btw, when I used Liquidus I don't think it had a shellstyle.dll, is it released with the theme now, or if not does anybody know where I can pick up the dll?

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**having a problem hitting back on my browser without having my post being posted again; would a mod please remove this post?**

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Originally posted by Toby

Any screenshots for "Liquidus" ?

Well the thread is on this forum so it shouldn't be too hard to find. I have to say the best theme I've used so far is Disciples. he made a good WB skin and MSstyles skin. although i dont like the size of the taskbar, but thats just my opinion...

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