2.4b4 worked just fine with Max Rudberg's Smoothstripes 5.1.2 guikit.

2.5b5 completely breaks it, turning everything that is supposed to be unified style to iTunes metal style.

Help?

Did it fix the rosetta problem? :p

An issue I've reported a couple times here is still occuring. Under two themes I've been trying (Shinobi 2.4.1 & Alluminum Alloy 1.7), the menu extra for Apple Remote Desktop isn't properly mapping the icons. Furthermore, this can be clearly seen when you click the icon, as it does not in fact display an inverted version of the icon but rather displays an inverted version of what the icon SHOULD have been (so the normal icons are wrong, the clicked icons are actually right). This only occurs on intel macs, as both themes display the proper icons for this menu extra... This can only be caused by two things.
1) The PPC version has been improperly matching the icons so theme developers have been purposely putting the wrong icons in the wrong locations to get it to work the way it should be (and therefore causes breakage now that it's working properly).

2) There is a problem with the universal build in that it's now improperly mapping the specific states for this single menu extra...

If the problem is in fact the latter of the two (as I suspect), then this needs to be fixed (espeically since this is a release candidate)...

Has anyone else noticed a major lag when SS is loading themes? It never used to take so long (then again, maybe I have a lot of themes, but before the new APE it didn't take as long). Right now the only thing that's keeping me from using SS is APE. It's still bogging down my computer and I can't seem to find a cause for it.

In what context do you mean "loading themes"? In the preference pane, applying themese, or other?

aanhorn, I answered you on MacThemes.

Evan, yes, it fixes the Rosetta issue (finally!!!) :)

Bobby T, I took an in-depth look at the ARD issue, but only on Intel. I honestly can't tell whether a bunch of themes have the icons wrong (which is the themer's problem) or whether it's a ShapeShifter issue. Since you say it only happens on Intel, I'd guess its a ShapeShifter thang, but I don't see anything specific about that particular resource that would cause only it to go haywire while everything else works.

I know that a ton of themers have used Max's Menu Extra resources with Max's permission, so it's totally possible that he accidentally flipped them initially and the problem has propagated from there.

I'll have to take a look at it on PPC when I get back from Thanksgiving vacation next week, but I'm not going to hold a final build back based on this one if it's just limited to ARD.

pxl, please elaborate as Rosyna asked.

It would be good to have an option so that the prelinking that APE does (this is the bit that "solves" the Rosetta problem) doesn't happen every time I log into my Mac, and only when I want it to, like it was in the first APE betas.

The reason for this is that it takes about 5-10 minutes on my MacBook, and the furious hard drive activity not only makes things really slow but also probably reduces battery life somewhat.

Obviously, it's probably best to leave the default to do it on every log in, but for now I think I'm gonna have to remove APE - unfortunate, as I can't live without ClearDock and love ShapeShifter.

Thanks,
Sam

Usually the slowdown is when I click the "Apply" tab to load themes. There's a delay before the themes actually appear... and AFAIK, it didn't take so long before.

I have to second Sam's request, this new build of APE does slow down my Mac alot, I have to wait my arms fold every time I restart the Mac :( Also the amount of time it takes to launch any app is huge, hope to see a work around soon.

I can also second the slowdown with shapeshifter and this version of APE...my blackbook is noticeably slower launching all applications, on login, opening prefpanes, everywhere really. disabling shapeshifter had no affect. Disabling APE immediately restored performance.

pxl, I think that ShapeShifter is in fact a bit slower at loading themes in the prefpane with this version. But it's slower because of a change I made that enables future functionality and will make things faster in a future version. It's a forward-compatibility fix, in other words.

Regarding APE speed, we're on it.

Finally, for the theme developers, I've bumped ThemePark to 3.1b7, with the same download link as above. This resolves a few minor images with Sending and Receiving to Photoshop for various images.

I've noticed an issue with rosetta apps since installing this version of SS... Well, an issue primarily in Photoshop...

If photoshop is not the front app when it's launched (or rather, when it finishes up it's age lasting splash loading screen) it dies, and asks me if I want to relaunch. Without fail I can relaunch it 100 times and each time it will die...

However if I wait for it to finish loading while it's the front app, it starts without fail every time...

I've only noticed this since this beta, and appears to be completely sepearte from the prevous rosetta issue (as the app would die before it ever got to the splash screen)...

This can happen if you have a PowerPC only plugin that's causing the crash. Such as a QuickTime code (Avid) or some other thing.

Bobby T, I've investigated the ARD menu extra on both PPC and on Intel now. I see the exact same behavior on both, so I'm comfortable in assuming that it's an issue with the themes, not with ShapeShifter.

I'm using the latest Shapeshifter on a new Intel iMac and today it's not displaying the date and time. It was yesterday. Strange. Didn't know if you knew about this or have experienced this before. Thanks!!!

One other thing... when I mouse over the date and time in the menu bar, I get the spinning beach ball FYI

okay, now I did a restart and it's fine, it appears the problem (above) was with AmunRaa Recording Studios theme.

In Photoshop it disables the Menu bar.