DJP Posted December 25, 2001 Share Posted December 25, 2001 Hi everybody, i created a skin for XP with the mac look? What's so special about that? In this skin we have lucida grande, the real mac font, and nice rounded scrollbars. If have attached a screenie. You can download the complete theme on ThemeXP http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=1749 Or http://members.home.nl/djp/download/download.htm Greetings from DJP. And a happy 2002.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velocity3k Posted December 26, 2001 Share Posted December 26, 2001 I like this theme it is probably the best MAC looking theme i have ever seen!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted December 26, 2001 Author Share Posted December 26, 2001 Thanks. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpharm Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I'm a big fan on the Aqua themes. This one is great! The whole thing looks really good, especially with the different font. Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bART- Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 hehe, ur dutch :D keep up the good work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danik XP Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 The thing i hate about the Aqua GUI is that damned ugly pinstripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberDude Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I really agree with Danik, pinstrips make OSX look ugly, someone should make a non-pinstripe theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayzun Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I've been thinking the same thing. I like the look of the look of the Mac GUI except the pinstripes....please someone make a version without this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 Heh i must say the fonts are realistic and the theme looks really nice! , but when i installed it was installing cursors and sounds!! i really wanna use em. It would be cool if you could put em together in a theme, like watercolor- where it activates the cursors and sounds for you :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E3L Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 ya if you like the authentic MAC GUI so much go use OSX, lol (i like the idea of kiiling those stripes (or making them another color) ) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ja450n Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 first off... the cursors included in this theme are NOTHING like the real OSX cursors... and i can tell that the author of this skin has no real experence with Mac OSX... allot of resources are blatently wrong... OSX is not all about the Gelly buttons... it's a look. and a feel that Apple has created.. and GREAT care has to be taken to duplicate both the look and feel of this theme... i use Both Windows, and Mac OSX on a daily basis... and i just wanted to give my input... as for the lucida grande font... it would be nice if you gave the author of this font credit... it is not the REAL mac font.. otherwise. it would be copyrited to apple. as for the claim. "The bitmaps in this style came from a real mac." this cannot be true... the Scroll arrows are a GREAT example of this. where is the rounded edge ? and where are the mouse overs. also many of the resources are not original.. and come from a very old version of the AquaBlue Style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 28, 2001 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2001 Ja450n, why when everyone has a go at creating something aqua like, you're straight there to knock them down. You done the same to me when I made a OS X logon, "thats nothing like it...you obviously haven't used OS X...etc". Your themes, although good, pale in comparison to Binary's upcoming Aqua theme. So maybe its about time you got knocked down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted December 28, 2001 Author Share Posted December 28, 2001 Inspiration is from http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/ The bitmaps come from very different places, screenshots etc. When i designed Aquagreen i gave you already credit for the bitmaps. This includes AquaMax. You can see it's still on my page. It's stands under the aquagreen theme picture. http://members.home.nl/djp/download/download.htm And in AquaMax i used only 2 bitmaps from aquablue. traytevronhorizontal and traytevronhorizontal open. Nothing more. That's why i didn't put your credit in the readme file but i did put it on my site! This theme isn't based on your AquaBlue. You can't compile Aquablue in stylebuilder so it's become useless for me to use it as a baseskin. BTW I still give Apple the credit, they designed the aqua style. With google i searched for the lucida grande font. Copyright is from Bigelow & Holmes. You have to turn on cleartype to get the mac look. This is still the first version and it will never become exactly like mac osx ofcourse. You know it isn't possible with msstyles. And about the cursors. real mac osx cursors are black and look ugly. That's why i used the ones from XsX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am now creating one without pinstrypes. I wondering if it looks good. greetings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted December 28, 2001 Author Share Posted December 28, 2001 And i hope we can be all friends on this board not enemies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The theme has already a bit without pinstrypes in it. Watch the menubar when you are using adobe photoshop or another old not vb 6 based application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ja450n Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 And in AquaMax i used only 2 bitmaps from aquablue.traytevronhorizontal and traytevronhorizontal open. Nothing more. This theme isn't based on your AquaBlue. You can't compile Aquablue in stylebuilder most of the resources that are in your AquaMax theme.. that have pinstriping on them.. are exactly the same as in AquaBlue. (Frame Caption) the pinstriping follows a pattern of 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 that cannot be acidentily duplicated... you can compile aquablue in stylebuilder.. actually.. i used an alpha release of Stylebuilder to make the aquablue style.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ja450n Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 Originally posted by Dazzla Ja450n, why when everyone has a go at creating something aqua like, you're straight there to knock them down. You done the same to me when I made a OS X logon, "thats nothing like it...you obviously haven't used OS X...etc". Your themes, although good, pale in comparison to Binary's upcoming Aqua theme. So maybe its about time you got knocked down... i do this not to be mean... i do this because i do not like when people decive people... or when people do not get credit.. or they are falsely credited "The bitmaps in this style came from a real mac." exactly from the readme file.. yet in response to my post.. DJP says that the bitmaps are from screenshots... which are most likely JPG's and therefore.. are degraded in quailty... if all the images came from a real mac.. they would be in TIFF format... (that is the native format for OSX) and they would not be as blurry as they are in most Aqua Styles... Apple does not post everything on their web-page.. for a reason.. they do not like people using their work... and most often when they post images on their web-page.. they use re-sized.. cropped.. re-coloured.. or OLD / Beta screenshots.. i just like to see people get what they think they are getting... a REAL OSX theme for XP.. has to be made using the REAL OSX as a reference... it would be like trying to make cheese out of half and half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted December 28, 2001 Author Share Posted December 28, 2001 You have a mac with osx. Why don't you make one then which is exactly like mac osx? Aquapack doesn't look like it. At the moment there wasn't a mac theme which could satisfy my needs. That's why i created one. All the mac's themes had ugly scrollbars. This one has scrollbars just like the real mac. Just use it or leave it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted December 28, 2001 Author Share Posted December 28, 2001 And the screenshots are ofcourse not only from apple's site. Just search with google on screenshots osx There are pictures enough with clear details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 28, 2001 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2001 Originally posted by DJP And the screenshots are ofcourse not only from apple's site. Just search with google on screenshots osx There are pictures enough with clear details. Totally agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolhof Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 I agree with DJP and Dazzla, If you are that hip on having EXACT datails and images in TIFF format and the arrow on the scroll bars needing to be exact, then why don't YOU make a XP theme for yourself and keep it to yourself Ja450n, instead of bothering other people who are trying to make skins for others to enjoy, because people like you make it imposible to get something like a skin or a theme without having to pay out the wazo for it because of socalled copyrighted materials. You and your credits, there is atleast a dozen or so people that you didn't credit, just because you just happen to change their work a little bit and claimed it to be your original idea. Bleah! I don't like people like you. I have created many originals and other people have taken it and changed it to their liking and claimed it is theirs, so what, it is a compliment to know that so many other people like what you made and use it. Go stuff yourself somewhere and leave everybody else alone. As for DJP: Blijf volhouden en niet opgeven, je style ziet er goed uit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 28, 2001 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2001 If you are that hip on having EXACT datails and images in TIFF format and the arrow on the scroll bars needing to be exact, then why don't YOU make a XP theme for yourself and keep it to yourself Ja450n, instead of bothering other people who are trying to make skins for others to enjoy, because people like you make it imposible to get something like a skin or a theme without having to pay out the wazo for it because of socalled copyrighted materials. :D :D :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 i've never seen a real mac can you post a screen shot? but my quess would be that this is what mac looks like? http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=1627 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ja450n Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 You and your credits, there is atleast a dozen or so people that you didn't credit, just because you just happen to change their work a little bit and claimed it to be your original idea. Bleah! I don't like people like you. people i havent credited ??LIKE WHO ?? everything in my style is original. i've only used OSX.. If you are that hip on having EXACT datails and images in TIFF format and the arrow on the scroll bars needing to be exact, then why don't YOU make a XP theme for yourself and keep it to yourself Ja450n, instead of bothering other people who are trying to make skins for others to enjoy, because people like you make it imposible to get something like a skin or a theme without having to pay out the wazo for it because of socalled copyrighted materials. if people don't want an exact OSX theme.. then stop using the name OSX or Aqua... an theme called OSX or Aqua should be just that... if you call a theme CheddarXP what do you expect ?... one that looks like Swiss ??? and if you aren't keen on having it exact.. then maybe the authors of modified "aqua" themes could stop claiming that they are just like OSX. or taken "from a real mac". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hareball82 Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 Originally posted by Ja450n if people don't want an exact OSX theme.. then stop using the name OSX or Aqua... an theme called OSX or Aqua should be just that... if you call a theme CheddarXP what do you expect ?... one that looks like Swiss ??? and if you aren't keen on having it exact.. then maybe the authors of modified "aqua" themes could stop claiming that they are just like OSX. or taken "from a real mac". geez....you are being freaking rediculous. calm the f*** down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted December 28, 2001 Author Share Posted December 28, 2001 Should i call Apple? You ripped their aquastyle. Steve Jobbs is gonna be mad at you. Period. And you know Apple really hates people who are stealing. Remember the banned themes on wincustomize. One phonecall to Apple and they are banned again. ---------------------------------------------------------------- this topic was only about a skin nothing more. BTW Taken from a mac is true. Where do you think the pictures come from? A win 3.1 machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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