User Guide 18

Magnifique Userʼs Guide Magnifique is the free theming application from PCWiz Computer that allows anyone to take advantage of the vast repository of themes available for Mac OS X in just a few clicks. This application is only compatible with OS X 10.5.x! What does Magnifique mean for theme developers? Its an easy way to distribute your themes to a wider audience. Hereʼs a quick overview of what each function does: 1. Add Theme button. This can be used to add themes to your library 2. Remove Theme deletes the selected theme from your themes directory 3. Refresh the theme list (if you added/removed themes manually while the application is running) 4. Displays any themes that are currently in your library, click one to bring up info 5. Search field to search through your theme library 6. Lists available theme downloads from the Magnifique site that you can download right from the app. 7. Search through the downloads (searching downloads is a bit slow at times) 8. Displays the name of the selected theme 9. The Apply Theme button opens a dialog box with options to apply the selected theme (more on this later) 10. Preview of the selected theme (if author has included a preview image) 11. Displays the currently installed theme 12. Allows you to uninstall a theme that you installed to revert to the original look 13. Create your own Magnifique theme file (covered in the Developerʼs Guide) 14. Rename a selected theme that is in your library 15. Restarts Finder to see theme changes (same as killall Finder) 16. Restarts Dock to see any dock theme that has been applied (same as killall Dock) 17. Show the selected local theme file in Finder 18. See the full preview image for the theme 19. Bring up the user guide (what you are reading now) 20. This brings up a dialog with all the information about the selected theme (works with both downloads and local themes) * One item not displayed here is the Theme Mixer toolbar button which opens the mixer panel, allowing you to combine elements from themes to make your own! Adding Themes To add themes to your Library: OR Click Add Theme button Drag theme to My Themes list Basically what happens when a theme is “added” is that the theme file is copied to the internal Magnifique Themes folder. Only Magnifique theme files with the .mfq.plugin extension are accepted. DO NOT EVER add theme files from people that are not trusted. These files have the potential to completely destroy your system with a malicious script. Once the theme is added you can delete the original. Make sure to have plenty of hard disk space ! Themes can vary in size from a small 2MB to huge 50MB complete system themes. Removing Themes Deleting a theme is easy, just click on the theme from the My Themes list and click the Remove Theme ( - ) button (2). It will ask you to confirm, and will then delete the theme. If you want to for some…