ShapeShifter 2.4 is finally out of beta, bringing stuff like what you see on the right to your Intel Mac. Despite being "just" a 0.1 release, this is a biggie - we've been in beta for seven and a half months waiting on a Rosetta fix, so I've had to entertain myself with filling in a lot of functionality holes in other places.
Besides being a Universal Binary, this release adds support for Unified window styles. What's that? Your favorite theme was made before Unified window styles existed? No problem - ShapeShifter will make it "just work".
Icon Sets are now a lot more flexible. You can use "Application" icontainers exported from Panic's excellent CandyBar. Or, you can mix and match your own Icon Sets using Geekspiff's ThemePark.
guiTweak has gotten a ton of bug fixes, so if there's a theme that you almost love, you can tweak it to your heart's content. Adjust hues, change text colors, tweak the Dock's appearance - guiTweak can give any theme your special touch. You can also use guiTweak to manage your theme variants. Got a variant you hate? Delete it with guiTweak. Want to consolidate all of your faves into one guiKit? guiTweak can do that, too.
And ShapeShifter has also had a ton of bug fixes that make themes more consistent and useable.
But let's not forget Mighty Mouse! It came out of beta today, too! And it's a Universal Binary and has a new, streamlined interface. Users will appreciate the reduced clutter, while cursor set creators will love not having to screw around with masks anymore. And Mighty Mouse now has direct support for CurXPTheme cursor sets from Windows XP!
So if you've been holding off on trying out betas, now's the time - ShapeShifter 2.4 and Mighty Mouse 1.3 will make your Intel chips say "oooohhhhhahhhh"...
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Is it possible to change the default background color for drawers with guiTweak? Black themes and white drawers don't look all that snazzy together.
Posted by: Duckalope on November 30, 2006 3:23 PMstill unusably slow on my blackbook - opening all apps, at login, etc...APE 2.0.2 seems to be the culprit still. it's a shame, the earlier betas ran perfectly for me (I never had the rosetta crash problem)
Posted by: davek on November 30, 2006 6:42 PMIt's up on digg:
http://digg.com/apple/The_awesome_theme_ing_app_for_the_Mac_ShapeShifter_is_now_UB
Posted by: John Casasanta on November 30, 2006 8:11 PMYo Jason,
I have trouble using guiTWEAK. Actually, I discovered it 5min ago (I didn't notice it since you started talking about it in this post). But whatever I try to do with it, it stay freezed. I mean, I can move windows, but I can't modify, change anything into it (I can't even click on any button).
Sorry for my bad english, but I don't know what to do, and I was not able to find anything in your FAQ. Would you help me please ?
Posted by: zlu on December 1, 2006 1:48 AMDuckalope, you can't change individual graphics with guiTweak, you'll have to mod the theme using ThemePark.
Don, the top theme is Bister by Susumu.
davek, our Rosetta fix unfortunately slows things down for the first few minutes after login. I hate this too, and we're working on improving it.
Thanks for the Digg, John!
zlu, email me. My first name at the company that makes ShapeShifter.
Posted by: Jason Harris on December 1, 2006 9:46 AMNot all of my themes will show up in the Apply area. Shapeshifter says it installed them (shows the progress bar), but they don't show up afterwards. Does Shapeshifter not show certain themes? Or might this be a bug?
Posted by: tim on December 1, 2006 4:17 PMactually, the same thing with icontainers. they aren't all showing up in the apply pane.
Posted by: tim on December 1, 2006 5:01 PMI'm running into the same issue as tim above... no icontainers are showing themselves in the apply pane.
When I look at the shapeshifter folder in Library, they're all there cached... but not in the shapeshifter pane.
Posted by: adam on December 1, 2006 9:42 PMIf your icontainer doesn't actually map its icons to what the icons should be used for, they won't show up in ShapeShifter, since ShapeShifter has no way of knowing where each icon should be used. Some icontainers do include this mapping by default, others don't.
I believe that you can use CandyBar or Pixadex to do the mapping if the icontainer doesn't have it already.
Posted by: Jason Harris on December 2, 2006 11:29 AMI can't seem to get it to download, from many site (which all link back here anyway) This address just keep loading: http://www.unsanity.net/shapeshifter-24.dmg
Posted by: Rick Karrer on December 3, 2006 8:48 AMI can't seem to get ShapeShifter to work with IconFactory's iPulse. I've made sure it's not on any exclude lists... it simply won't take any themes. Any ideas would be appreciated. I've attached my e-mail.
- Void
Posted by: Void on December 4, 2006 3:47 AMIn shapeshifter-24, rosetta application don't become to move.
I want shapeshifter-24b5. Can I get shapeshifter-24b5?
I get an error in Adobe Photoshop CS2 9.0.1 when I use ThemePark 3.1 (UB Final). It says "Could not complete your request because of a program error." Really annoying and I just can't work becouse of it! Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Posted by: ModellisTa on December 13, 2006 8:55 AMOh, yes, I'm running a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.4.8 and all the latest updates. Help!
Posted by: ModellisTa on December 13, 2006 8:58 AMI'm loving this UB shapeshifter. Thanks so much! One question. Twice today, a giant shapeshifter icon showed up in the middle of my screen, and the screen flashed red. But then everything seems to be fine afterwards. Do you know what this is?
Posted by: Sacha Rattle on December 15, 2006 1:25 PMfor the past 2 days i have been trying to get help on an issue im having while trying to register your app. Im having more trouble registering it legitimately than trouble I had running it fwith a pirated key.
No one has answered my e-mails of support, this is the problem im having:
Hello;
I recently (today) bought a license to Shapeshifter 2.4. I tried it on my mac, and the shapeshifter I have installed apparently had some other registration (i bet one of my roomates installed a cracked version...). anyways, i have tried uninstalling the software 20 times, because I thought I could uninstall it and re-install it to put my new key with my info on it, but I have not been lucky.
it still shows the other registration.
Please help me put the one I paid for so I can enjoy your product. What can I do?
btw my email is on your records... ggilbert palauy at mac dot com.
Posted by: Gilbert Palau on January 22, 2007 7:13 PMI'm having the same problem as void with iPulse. I'm using ShapeShifter to set a different background for the menu bar, but iPulse's background in the menu bar refuses to be skinned by Shapeshifter.
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: puk on January 27, 2007 2:33 PMHave MB 2Ghz 1g ram,, installed lastest SS but seems to lag the boot time of my MB.. bugs the hell out of me... any pointers?
Posted by: Frankie D. on March 27, 2007 2:55 PMhello i'm having a problem
first question: is there any type of tutorial out on how to use guitweak? i undertsand what to do but im not sure exactly which options in the color select panel go to which effects.
i have a dark theme but when i am working with white screens such as text boxes and i need to highlight some text it highlights IN WHITE so i cant tell what i'm highlighting.
which option(s) should i tweak to change text highlight colors?
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