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Safari Customization: Anyone else do it yet?

Safari Customization: Anyone else do it yet? Troubleshooting 50 posts Jan 7, 2003 — Jan 25, 2003

#31 Sun, 12 Jan 2003 - 01:13

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Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
P.S. this shot also shows up the old widget's bug in the ChosenOS theme. The 'ghost' of the close widget appears behind the others in non-active windows.

Yeah, Im still trying to track this one down. Its crazy, it only happens in Cocoa apps. I haven't looked into it too hard yet but Im aiming for an early tomorrow solution.

#32 Sun, 12 Jan 2003 - 03:04

Wow those look so cool.

However I'm staying with the default look - I dig brushed metal and aqua combinations

One problem with brushed metal though - sheets look really ugly with brushed metal (stripes don't go).

#33 Sun, 12 Jan 2003 - 17:47

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Originally posted by undotwa:
Wow those look so cool.

However I'm staying with the default look - I dig brushed metal and aqua combinations

One problem with brushed metal though - sheets look really ugly with brushed metal (stripes don't go).

I don't get this at all. On normal apps the 'sheat' slides out from under the 'title bar', but on a textured app it just slides out from nowhere, with the wrong apparance. Yet another reason why the 'Textured option' neads more work.

#34 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 - 00:55

in case anyone is interested...

you can get it here.

Feel free to make any changes. I only did the buttons shown, so if you turn on the others they may look out of place.

#35 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 - 02:20

wreks: Sweet and clean.

#36 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 - 03:11

@ wrecks

that is a cool skin for Safari. where can i get it!? gimme! gimme!

#37 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 - 12:00

Resexcellence now has a Safari Page for customization, and one new navigation button set for download. It would be nice if those with new icon sets would send them to Resexcellence that way we could all check them out without having to search through all the posts.

http://www.resexcellence.com
check it out here

#38 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 - 12:11

You can download a nice new button set for safari from resexcellence:

#39 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 - 12:14

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Originally posted by wreks:
in case anyone is interested...

I see tabs

*ducks*

#40 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 - 15:53

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Originally posted by wreks:
in case anyone is interested...

in case!?

Where can I download that makeover for Safari?

#41 Thu, 16 Jan 2003 - 01:14

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#42 Sat, 18 Jan 2003 - 18:38

i like video games so i made this toolbar.

#43 Sun, 19 Jan 2003 - 01:05

consolidated to above

#44 Mon, 20 Jan 2003 - 18:40

Here's my Faux Fur Theme:
Feel free to make any changes as well.

#45 Mon, 20 Jan 2003 - 23:47

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Originally posted by kovacs:
You can download a nice new button set for safari from resexcellence:

I just put these buttons on my Safari, very nice!

I also changed the blue url status bar to a softer, more toned down color

Get'em both here: http://www.ResExcellence.com/user_safari.shtml

#46 Tue, 21 Jan 2003 - 10:53

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Originally posted by wreks:
Just resize the buttons and nudge them around in photoshop until it looks right.

I noticed the alignment is all messed up on my first post, this looks better.

and hey this was kinda fun. (props to dazzla)

course I haven't done the other buttons yet.. it's messed up that they didn't use a "real" toolbar. The buttons are an odd size and that's probably why you have to edit 3 states for a complete change...

Wow, are you planning on releasing that XP safari theme wreks? And is that a mac os x windows xp theme there? It looks better than Mac OS XP!

#47 Sat, 25 Jan 2003 - 16:01

Personally I don;t understand how everyone can make such a fuss out of the default look of Safari when it look sbetter than every mod in this thread.

The Chimera rip-off's buttons are odd placed and the pinstripes are wrong. Th epinstrpies seem ALOT more pronounced than usual.

The BBX is just ugly, but I never like any theme before Chosen OSX, so you can see why I don't like ANY of the themes in this thread. Even the Chosen OSX doesn't look right without its textured windows theme.

Personally I think only Choesen OSX is an improvement on the looks of Brushed Metal. I must give swz credit for making a gorgeous variant for textured windows. That said, rather than trying to make Safari look like other browsers why not just make a completely new theme for it?

P.S. The XP theme is the ugliest of them all, the colors are much brighter than the actual thing, and its amazing you made XP look worse than usual.

#48 Sat, 25 Jan 2003 - 16:42

I don't know if it's just because I'm a new mac user (maybe the brushed apps are still new for me) but I love the brushed look and IMHO the default look is the best I have seen compared to the ones on show here. Maybe with the exception of chosen. chosen looks great except for the untextured window as K++ pointed out.

But I must say....great customization skills shown by everyone here!!! =]

#49 Sat, 25 Jan 2003 - 19:16

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Originally posted by honz:
I don't know if it's just because I'm a new mac user (maybe the brushed apps are still new for me) but I love the brushed look and IMHO the default look is the best I have seen compared to the ones on show here. Maybe with the exception of chosen. chosen looks great except for the untextured window as K++ pointed out.

But I must say....great customization skills shown by everyone here!!! =]

Yea, I like Safari's default button icons the best too. As for brushed metal, the thing I don't care for is the center highlight. If it was flat, like Max's Brushed theme, I wouldn't mind it.

#50 Sat, 25 Jan 2003 - 23:26

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Originally posted by K++:
Personally I don;t understand how everyone can make such a fuss out of the default look of Safari when it look sbetter than every mod in this thread.

thanks man you make it all worthwhile.

seriously though I find Safari's default buttons big and ugly. I also don't like the blue highlights in the url status bar and the default fav icon. And the brushed appearance seems off for a web browser since it isn't trying to mimic a real world device like itunes, quicktime player, imovie, etc.. plus with the aqua scrolls, popups, buttons, menubar, et al, it seems a little mishmassed. anyway to each their own. I've been using my grey buttons for awhile and I like them. If you want to check them out they even work with brushed turned on.

appreciate your interest be it positive or not.