Mac4Lin Project hosted on Sourceforge.net


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Mac4Lin Project hosted on Sourceforge.net

Hello, everybody. My Mac4Lin project is on Sourceforge.net! Its like a transformation pack for Linux to change the look and feel to Mac OS X. The project has been conceived on Ubuntu and GNOME. But it'll soon be tested on other distros and Unix-like OS which employ GTK+. Its in alpha version as of now. People who would like to test may please drop me a mail. Please leave your comments and suggestions regarding the project here, on my blog or on the project website. Feature requests and Bug tracking welcomed :)

Link to project: Mac4Lin on Sourceforge.net

Project Screenshots:

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http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot3qo3.jpg

PS: I'm planning an icon, firefox skin update soon. The most prominent feature of the icon update will be Leopard like folder icons.

Updates screenshots:

http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2screenshotbc9.jpg

http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3screenshotpb2.jpg

Here is how you can get it more look a like to mac os x

http://www.taimila.com/?q=node/11

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868

Some help becouse Mac os X doesn't have application, places and system in the right upper corner :p

So you can implement this so it comes straight out of the box ^^

Mac4Lin version 0.2 Released!

17th September 2007

I am happy to announce the version 0.2 release of the Mac4Lin Project. Version 0.1 alpha has received an overwhelming response. People have used and liked it and the downloads (as on this day) have touched about 6GB!!! Lots of comments/suggestions/bugs were received and I have tried to iron out all the bugs known till this day. This update also brings a whole lot of new things. See the changelog for changes.

Special thanks for Victor of vsdigital for provding the Firefox Safari Skin and thanks to everyone who tested the version 0.1 alpha. Because of all this I'm giving version 0.2 stable to this release. Keep visiting the project website for more updates.

Apply it, flaunt it, enjoy it!

Anirudh (a.k.a ANi, infra_red_dude)

For any suggestions/comments/complaints/feedback/bug tracking please drop by my blog or send a mail:

My Blog: http://phoenix-ani.blogspot.com/

My E-Mail id: infra_red_dude<DOT>users<DOT>sourceforge<DOT>net

Project Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin

Screenshots: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots...group_id=204373

Folks, got my GRE on 8th October. I gotta prep for it and also go thru all the universities' websites. Will be a bit busy. So, I may not be regular at the forums for the next one month. You may post your feedback either on my blog/project website/this thread or mail it to me. I'll look into it as soon as possible :)

changelog:

Mac4Lin version 0.2, 17/09/2007

Icon updates

New firefox skin by Victor of vsdigital

Mac OS System Sounds

New Grub Screens

More Leopardish Emerald theme

Simdock source tarball included

Leopard Dock AWN theme updated

OS X Fonts and font enhancing guide

More Leopardish GTK Metacity theme

One GTK Splash screen added

Updated Pidgin OSX Theme

Four new wallpapers added

Documentation (README) added for every component

GTK Mac Menu is not included in this pack as some users have reported some issues. If anybody wants to install this, it can be Downloaded from the ver.0.1alpha pack. The GTK Mac Menu package remains unchanged.

Edited by infra_red_dude

folks, yester the SF.net servers hosting the Mac4Lin project were excessively bombarded wid download requests! 19th Sept. 2007 witnessed the highest ever number of downloads on a single day - 386 and the total data served on a single day was 4GB!!!!! it has broken all records!

i've been observing an average of almost 1GB download per day. happy to see ppl making use of this project. combined downloads haf been about 1600 and a total of 13.2GB of data has been served till date. makes me really happy :)

update: Gnome panel backgrounds added, courtesy M.Lettner (lukeen @ gnome-look.org). Leopard like panel background haf been added to the project. It is available for download on the official project website as a separate file (Gnome_Panel-BG_Leopard.tar.gz).

am gonna stop posting about downloads coz its becoming a daily affair now!!! ;) 20th sept. registered 491 downloads wid 4.2GB of data served. so in just 2 dayz the downloads haf crossed 8.2GB!!! whoa!! much beyond my expectation!!! :) thanks to everyone :)

ps: some users wid high resolutions laptop screens haf given the feedback that the battery icons are too small now. i'm working on that now. also haf a new black, bit sunken apple logo for the panel and a mac usplash theme in the pipeline (thanks to users who contributed to the project) :)

include an option to use tiger folder icons instead of the leopard ones... the new ones aint sooo popular for a good reason...

Glassed Silver:mbl

  • 4 weeks later...

Mac4Lin version 0.3 Released!

24th October 2007

Mac4Lin is back! A new version, more changes, better looks and an overall more polished product. Please read changelog for information of changes in this version. It gives me immense pleasure to inform all that downloads have crossed 110 GB till date!

Mac4Lin now comes with a unified documentation in PDF format. Please go through this for illustrated installation instructions. Also some entities like GTK theme/Pidgin etc. now include two versions. Hence individual README files are only included if there is any need to convey release specific important information to the user which the generic documentation does not include. Read the README file for more details, in such cases.

With the release of GNOME 2.20, there have been issues reported with the Icon theme. Work is going on to make the theme compatible with GNOME 2.20 (found in OpenSUSE 10.3/Ubuntu 7.10 - Gusty etc.). There will be a separate release of Icon theme for GNOME 2.20. Users of this version can replace the original ver.0.3 Icon theme with the new one, which will be released soon after this release. GNOME version can be checked by clicking System Menu > About GNOME. Other components of this package are reported to work with GNOME 2.20. The installation of GTK Metacity theme and Cursors is almost same execpt that the Theme Manager in GNOME 2.20 has a new look.

Thanks to Victor Hugo Casals for the Safari skin, M.Lettner for the panel backgrounds, Calande for the font guide, Mitko for nm-applet icons, Vish for Grub and Buu700 for Usplash screens. I also thank all those who tested the pack and everyone who are directly or indirectly involved in this project.

Apply it, flaunt it, enjoy it! :)

Anirudh (a.k.a ANi, infra_red_dude)

For any suggestions/comments/complaints/feedback/bug tracking please drop a mail to: [email protected]

Project Website and Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin

Screenshots:

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PS: Keep checking this place. An Icon theme for GNOME 2.20 will soon be released.

A new Icon theme for GNOME 2.20 and Mac4Lin Documentation Rev. 1.1 (PDF) which covers installation instructions for GNOME 2.20 have now been released!

Check them out at: http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdow...l_platform=4117

Plz report any bugs.

Today has been the day of highest downloads: 110GB and still counting..... Total downloads haf been over 580GB till this day! Over 46000 downloads haf been recorded!! I never imagined this project would scale such heights. I thank everyone for their support. Plz keep the suggestions/complaints/bugs/feedback flowing. It'll help in the betterment of this project :)

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