ChosenOS

Swiz-

Lookin great. However, I went from your SimpleX theme (with the blue menus), and am having a problem with my ichat, volume, clock, etc, staying white rather then black. I installed the Aqua restore theme first, then rebooted to no avail. Any ideas??

-Mark

Great! Look forward to it! I dig this theme but not the strong black line (which isn't your fault though ...)

Great Swiz. Great once again.

It really looks great in Safari without the Brush Metal look. It looks so smooth and sleek...Just brilliant work.

24...Tuesdays

Thanks guys. Remember, its your feedback which will build the variant so dont hesitate to offer it up.(Check your email Mark .)
Thought you might like to see this though, its a screenshot of Safari with some ChosenOS mods I did real fast.



Click this for a full size shot.
http://swizcore.com/images/SSChosenSafari.jpg

(Is it me or do the linked images not work as a click through anymore on macnn?)

Hi, I don't really care for the heavy outlining done in this theme. If you do a variant can you remove that and make it a softer gradient?

Am I missing out on something? I can' install the ChosenOS theme using Duality on 10.2.3. I keep getting a "This theme is not compatible with your version of OS" ?

Sorry if this is a stupid question but does anyone know why I get this error?

headbirth, yeah thats going to be the first basic priority for the variant, no black strokes.

MrFrost, the Duality error stems from the main.themescript inside the .dlta file. There are two lines in their that specify "10.2.3" for the OS, Duality does not play well with it. Duality only likes "10.2". So you can either just rename those lines to "10.2" or use ThemeChanger from Cliche' Software. Also, there are three desktop pics in the theme file which need to be unchecked in ThemeChanger or you'll get an error. I am restoring my system on my Cube right now so I can't post a new file for download yet, but that will get you correct until I can post the update tomorrow.

Thanks.

Hey great job Swiz!
It looks really nice but it wont work for me. Whenever i try to apply the theme in ThemeChanger, it gets to "Installing component SS_ChosenOS_800.jpg..." and then it just sits there and never makes any progress. i am using themechanger v.5 and mac os x.2.3. any help would be appreciated.

Tiffer-

Uncheck the SS_ChosenOS_800.jpg, as well as the 1024, and whatever the last one is. For some reason, they dont play well with Themechanger.

-Mark

The latest version of ThemeChanger works well with the 10.2 tag, so I suggest you start using that instead and your themes will play with Duality too.
And just like MarkLT1 said. You have to remove the three desktop pictures in the dlta. I don't think you can specify a path to a new files, i think that you can only switch files. Perhaps switch Aqua Blue to the 1024x768 version of the dp (msot common resolution I guess) and offer the other two as options outside of the themepackage. Or replace the Aqua Graphite and perhaps the Aqua Blue Classic desktops.
I tried the theme but I did not like the black strokes. I'm confident that you altered version will kick ass though
And nice work on the Safari mod! I heard that there is a Safaricon app comming out soon, then you have your skin ready already.

I would be nice to have transparent menus as an option.
Also, the black lines framing the scrollbars are too dark. A gray would be nice.
All in all my favorite theme.

Hay thanks for the headsup on the new version of ThemeChanger liking the 10.2 tag Max. The only bad thing is now tonight I will need to go through and update all my themes again . Thats cool though.

Thanks also for the suggestion for the desktop pic install. I think that since I include three different resolutions I will just include them in their own folder on the .dmg to make it the users choice.

Safaricon will be awesome!

It seems so far that the biggest suggestion is for a better solution to the black stroked in ChosenOS, as I expected. Any others?

Yeah, that is what is so annoying with having made many themes... You have to maintain them..!

Seperate desktops will work better and I too think Safaricon will be a hit.

man...where do you guys find the time to do this? i wish i have that much time

For me, I make the time by subtracting from sleep. But I read somewhere that people who sleep 6 hours per night live longer than those who sleep more or less than that. I guess...

I'm still in school and right now I'm out on a working experience and I get much freetime. But this period is over in a week and then I'm back to regular school again.. But I take my time as often as I can because I like theming.

But I sleep 9 hours, so I don't take any time from sleep. If I sleep less than that I'm like a zombie..

Thanks Swiz, I finally got some time to mess around with my computer today and changing the 2 lines didn't do the trick. Duality froze up.

Guess I'd better download ThemeChanger.

EDIT : Well, I installed Themechanger and it has been applying ChosenOS for about 8 minutes now I think. Does it always take this long?

EDIT 2 : It seems that the desktop pictures are a no-go. I deselected them and am now enjoying one of the coolest OSX themes I have ever seen. (I got the Desktop picture out of the .dtla file afterwords)

Yeah, sorry about all those issues Mr_Frost, I am finally home today after a week of house sitting so I can finally post and update to the Chosen theme which rectifies all of these issues.

Yuck! A theme released with aqua icons.

No problem at all swiz, I'm glad I got it working now. I really love the dark outlines in the theme. When I showed it to a friend of mine today he just said : "damn that looks sharp !! "

Are the Safari navigation buttons available for download somewhere?