As promised here, I am posting a build of Metallifizer that has a preliminary support for stripping out brushed metal out of Panther's Finder.
Metallifizer 1.3a1 (APE only)
Couple of notes:
- I have only tested this on Panther, so I have no idea if it works on Jaguar; if you use Jaguar, you best still be using 1.2 as this version offers no advantages suitable for 10.2.
- I suggest adding Finder.app into the settings panel manually. it's in /System/Library/CoreServices/ directory.
- Other Carbon applications will probably not look good at all metallifized.
- The separator bar on the Finder windows will not be metal, but it also will not be cleared and will contain various 'tracks' when you drag it around. I didn't have enough time to find out how to defeat this, but if you're brave and have the abilities, the sources are in the SDK.
- If anything goes wrong,
defaults delete com.unsanity.metallifizer
Also, posting a new build of WindowShade X 3.1 fixing an issue with the shadows and failure to start up of some applications // crashing in Photoshop when accessing the Apple Color Picker:
WindowShade X 3.1b3 (see here for a newer beta)
As I have mentioned before, this is not for public consumption - do not link to the files. Feel free to link to this blog entry from your blogs, forums, whatever, just not the public news sites.
If you missed the previous entry, get the Application Enhancer 1.4.1 from there: [Let Me Show You The World In My Eyes]
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Looking Good!! This build of WSX resolves all the problems I was having with the earlier one. (all apps will launch now) Metallifizer works great on everything I've thrown at it. Fruit menu seems alot faster on Panther. Will there be an update for the early free version of Silk? (fingers crossed)
Keep up the good work!!
Posted by: J. on October 17, 2003 11:53 AMNo, as said many times. Silk 1.1 will never be updated.
Posted by: Rosyna on October 17, 2003 1:02 PMwsx 3.1b3 observations ... for screenshots of each of the "oddities" click here
command-m:
- when opening the pref pane for the first time, the appropriate action (e.g. "window shade") will only be applied if i log out and back in.
- subsequent changes made after this initial step (e.g. changing the cmd-m action from "window shade" to "minimize in place") take effect immediately - no log out necessary.
shadow settings:
- first change of settings won't be applied unless i log out and back in.
- subsequent changes are not applied dynamically (only after i quit system prefs app)
- moving the shadow spread slider doesn't dynamically update the preview window (see the shadow size in screenshot 1 @ 4.5x and dragging to 4.7 x in screenshot 2)
text dragging
better than 3.1b2, but still off - instead of totally blurry, dragged text now appears a bit blurry and has a drop shadow.
uh, another (little) one - (most likely) pertaining to the monkey (ape):
before installing any haxies, logging out of my account took considerably less than 5 secs. after installing the betas for ape, fruitmenu and wsx (31b2) log out time increased to over 20 secs.
when i saw that wsx 31b3 was available, i trashed everything (yes,incl. the framework, prefs etc.) and reinstalled only wsx 31b3. log out time is still in the 20 secs. area, so i suspect it's ape causing the delay.
Posted by: eff on October 17, 2003 1:29 PMSlava!!! You are the Mac God!! I mean THE Mac God! So far it's looking pretty good aside from the already reported issues except.....
Maybe it's just me.... but now every time I log in, I get a window that pops up on my screen that says "Auto Login in progress," and allows me to type in it, kind of like an old-style MacsBug window..... wtf?
Posted by: Todd on October 17, 2003 1:54 PMMinor problem, but there's still some menu bar weirdness with WSX. The latest version fixes the issue with regular 'menu extra' addons such as Apple's iChat, volume control etc. menulets, but third party apps that place an icon in the menubar without using the menu extra API (such as Konfabulator, Weathermenu and Youpi Key) still have some shadowing - which makes 'em look kinda fuzzy.
The previous work-around no longer helps, but adding the apps concerned to WSX's exclusion list solves it.
i'm seeing the same shadow issue that tersono is. also, my powerbook often refuses to finish logging out. if i ssh in, i see that aped is the only thing running for that user. if i kill aped, logout proceeds.
i also have a problem with some programs, bittorrent in particular, where shading and then unshading the window causes the window to disappear entirely. if i select the window in the Windows menu and select minimize, i get the window-shaded title bar back. but i cannot get the full window back.
the latest version of windowshade does fix the itunes startup problem i was having. fruitmenu and cleardock seem to be running just fine.
Posted by: sungo on October 18, 2003 8:31 AMLove it! Finder doesn't look like crap anymore. FruitMenu is what I was missing most in Panther. Thanks! Now I can't wait to buy Panther.
Posted by: NetworkShadow on October 18, 2003 2:48 PMSorry Rosnya, but Xounds 2.0 does NOT work fine in Panther for me - it prevents carbon apps launching (including the finder on login - ouch! lol). The moment I disable it via the APE prefpane, everything works again =]
This is on 7B85 - permissions fixed, fsck done. DP867/GF4ti/1024mb RAM
Posted by: tersono on October 19, 2003 12:23 AMLooks pretty nice, but it would be much nicer if when we activated expose, that the minimized windows were shown as one of the expose windows.
Posted by: tim on October 19, 2003 1:33 AMwow, really like the finder without metal..takes a bit to get used to, but...i can really dig it...no real complaints with it, save for maybe making the preview pane in the finder white so as to match application icons....
Posted by: blugel on October 19, 2003 9:49 PMFound an odd WSX issue with MSWord in Panther. If I have any MSWord docs MIP'ed, clicking on another open Word document doesn't bring the application forward. I don't know that is clear: If I'm in another application and try to switch to Word, none of the Word documents will come to the front if there is a Word doc that is minimized in place. It doesn't work if I click the Word doc icon or a document. I have MIP pinned to the Upper Left, if that matters.
I've been using Expose at the application level to bring the windows forward. Documents in Word come to the forefront, but the application as a whole doesn't come forward. I hope I'm explaining this well enough.
This is all in 7B85 and the latest version of APA (1.4.1) and WSX beta.
Love the new options in WSX, btw. Double keys for transparency and MIP are excellent additions. Thanks for these apps!
Posted by: Nutrimentia on October 20, 2003 2:26 AMwsx31 b3 solved the two annoying problems with find in finder and blank cds (in both cases finder used to quit). so all seems well except that the pref pane in systme prefs has the long name com.unsanity.windowshadex.prefpane which overlaps the flanking pref panes
Posted by: Vitaly Citovsky on October 20, 2003 4:53 AMHi there.
I have to run root on two machines 90-95% of the time and I use many APEs I have registered. Now I've tried APE 1.4.1 but it doesn't work at all, and I just read that processes owned by root won't be affected anymore. So it means that being root one cannot use APE or any of the APE modules anymore? Could you make this an option instead? Otherwise I'll have to say goodbye to APEs, and that would bug me to no end, I'll tell you. Just to lack WindowShade makes everything a terrible mess. Besides, I paid for them and I can't stop using root, that's not an option for me.
Or is there a hack I could apply? I'm no developer but if that could be done I'd appreciate your help, even if that meant paying again, I've no problem with that.
Posted by: Heck on October 22, 2003 10:30 AMAwesome, thanks for Metallifizer; aside from the already mentioned issues, it works great (and makes using the Finder bearable).
Posted by: Quobobo on October 26, 2003 8:21 PMTHANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU for stripping the metal off of the finder! Can't wait until it's finalized. As always, you guys rock and rule.
Posted by: Joseph Moore on October 29, 2003 9:17 AMthanks; it's generally super. just as feedback: my iCal is still metal (well the drawer looks demetal'd) on 10.3.1
Posted by: darrick. on December 17, 2003 4:47 AMHey slava, and everybody,
does Metallifizer 1.3a1 also work Tiger OSX 10.4?
Greetz from Holland, Marcus
Posted by: Marcus on April 24, 2005 1:54 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated.