Hidden dock, pinned middle and bottom. Fully transparent with no border, white arrows. Graphite. No hard drives/icons/drives/network drives on the desktop. Menubar, airport status indicator far right, clock on 24 hour time, no seperator, leading zero. I use X-Charge in my dock to view level of battery charge.
<strong>if it is as complicated as changing start up screen (little gray apple) then i dont think i'll be able to do it</strong><hr></blockquote> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Changing the startup pic is a piece of cake compared to all the hundreds upon hundreds of resources you change when building a "theme" replacement.
Perhaps some things are better left to the pros, especially if you don't want to jump in feet first by just opening up files on your own and looking around in their resources. There is no real FAQ, as far as I know, regarding themes. My personal knowledge up here in my noggin comes 99% from just digging through system files and experimenting with what I find.
I can tell you this to get started (if you really do want to make your own). The graphics that control the majority of Aqua's appearance are in this file:
As I said before, go grab a copy of Iconographer for editing icons and ThemePark for editing pxm# resources. Make copies on your desktop of the above files. Open them and look around in them.
Making a theme is not something you can do in one sitting. It takes lots and lots and lots of time and testing.
well i knew it was complicated but to change the apple you had to go into a system file with hex, and open it and go to a magical place and stop at a magical place, to get the icon, and then convert it and everything...how did somone find it was there...they just said hmm perhaps if i start here and end here...there were litterally thousands of things there!
...y can't apple just make a file that i can just paste picture into and then that is how it looks! (or somone could make a magical program for me to do this )
haha, dont worry though i KNEW it wouldn't be easy...specially not THAT easy
Actually, there IS a program that basically replaces the color table and boot image in the code for you. It came out less than a week after the image was found in the BootX file.
<strong>Does anybody know how to mute the loud annoying sound at startup?</strong><hr></blockquote>The startup sound uses the same global volume settings as any other sound on your Mac uses. If your system volume is very loud when you shut down, the startup chime will be just as loud. If your system volume is muted when you shut down, there will be no startup chime.
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I like it very clean.
<strong>if it is as complicated as changing start up screen (little gray apple) then i dont think i'll be able to do it</strong><hr></blockquote> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Changing the startup pic is a piece of cake compared to all the hundreds upon hundreds of resources you change when building a "theme" replacement.
Perhaps some things are better left to the pros, especially if you don't want to jump in feet first by just opening up files on your own and looking around in their resources. There is no real FAQ, as far as I know, regarding themes. My personal knowledge up here in my noggin comes 99% from just digging through system files and experimenting with what I find.
I can tell you this to get started (if you really do want to make your own). The graphics that control the majority of Aqua's appearance are in this file:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Resources/Extras.rsrc
And most of the system's icons are located here:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemIcons.bundle/Contents/Resources/
As I said before, go grab a copy of Iconographer for editing icons and ThemePark for editing pxm# resources. Make copies on your desktop of the above files. Open them and look around in them.
Making a theme is not something you can do in one sitting. It takes lots and lots and lots of time and testing.
...y can't apple just make a file that i can just paste picture into and then that is how it looks! (or somone could make a magical program for me to do this
haha, dont worry though i KNEW it wouldn't be easy...specially not THAT easy
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/ryandesign/jagboot/qa.html"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/ryandesign/jagboot/qa.html</a>;
<insert warnings about using at your own risk>
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i made it a picaso mac, but when i replaced the color table, the chasing arrows (what is the proper name for that now?) get all fvcked up
I tried going to sounds in peferences but I don't see any options on it!
Thanks
<strong>Does anybody know how to mute the loud annoying sound at startup?</strong><hr></blockquote>The startup sound uses the same global volume settings as any other sound on your Mac uses. If your system volume is very loud when you shut down, the startup chime will be just as loud. If your system volume is muted when you shut down, there will be no startup chime.