Theming On OS X!
- by: Niko Lalangas
- recipient: Apple Inc, Tim Cook
For years and years I have personally used and loved OS X.
My entire house is an Apple house - computers, iPads, iPhones, iPods. I read a book once called Cult of Mac, all about and for Apple enthusiasts. A great read!
Over the years, we've seen a boring, grey operating system. The OS works wonderfully, the apps are genuinely enjoyable to use, but everything is grey. The latest version of OS X, Yosemite (which will soon be upgraded to El Capitan) is a sort of translucent/white theme, but still only that one theme.
None of our beloved Mac supporters want to ever use Windows. Let's face it, we're just not Windows fans. However, over the years Windows has supported theming and even supplied the OS with gorgeous built-in themes, AND theming options.
On Mac, however, we've watched applications for theming die off with every new addition of the OS year after year. Years ago, brilliant apps like Unsanity's "Shapeshifter" and another app called ThemePark allowed for gorgeous themes to be installed. We saw colors! Designs! Patterns! Then they all died.
A couple of years ago, 2 brilliant developers designed Flavours, a gorgeous and nearly perfectly designed application for theming. Every user could design and submit a theme. There was a vast, searchable library of user-designed themes that were absolutely great. These great themes came from a terrific built-in design section to make your own theme. It worked and looked fantastic!! Sadly, version 1 died with the birth of Yosemite. So in 2015, they started again from the ground up and made v. 2 of Flavours. Our themes were back! Now... El Capitan is upon us and Flavours is going to die once again.
So... LET'S JOIN TOGETHER!!
Let's let Apple know that we LOVE themes. We don't want to feel like sheep all using the same amazing operating system with options for appearance differences. We want the same computer that has offered color choices for devices to offer color choices with in the OS. We want to create, customize, and choose gorgeous themes for our operating system. The demand IS there. Flavours (and apps of the past) have had SO many users. This isn't an isolated community and this feature is long overdue for permanent residence in OS X.
PLEASE TIM COOK, GIVE US THEMES!!! :-)
I have so many ideas for Apple, let's at least see this one get somewhere!
For years and years I have personally used and loved OS X.
My entire house is an Apple house - computers, iPads, iPhones, iPods. I read a book once called Cult of Mac, all about and for Apple enthusiasts. A great read!
Over the years, we've seen a boring, grey operating system. The OS works wonderfully, the apps are genuinely enjoyable to use, but everything is grey. The latest version of OS X, Yosemite (which will soon be upgraded to El Capitan) is a sort of translucent/white theme, but still only that one theme.
None of our beloved Mac supporters want to ever use Windows. Let's face it, we're just not Windows fans. However, over the years Windows has supported theming and even supplied the OS with gorgeous built-in themes, AND theming options.
On Mac, however, we've watched applications for theming die off with every new addition of the OS year after year. Years ago, brilliant apps like Unsanity's "Shapeshifter" and another app called ThemePark allowed for gorgeous themes to be installed. We saw colors! Designs! Patterns! Then they all died.
A couple of years ago, 2 brilliant developers designed Flavours, a gorgeous and nearly perfectly designed application for theming. Every user could design and submit a theme. There was a vast, searchable library of user-designed themes that were absolutely great. These great themes came from a terrific built-in design section to make your own theme. It worked and looked fantastic!! Sadly, version 1 died with the birth of Yosemite. So in 2015, they started again from the ground up and made v. 2 of Flavours. Our themes were back! Now... El Capitan is upon us and Flavours is going to die once again.
So... LET'S JOIN TOGETHER!!
Let's let Apple know that we LOVE themes. We don't want to feel like sheep all using the same amazing operating system with options for appearance differences. We want the same computer that has offered color choices for devices to offer color choices with in the OS. We want to create, customize, and choose gorgeous themes for our operating system. The demand IS there. Flavours (and apps of the past) have had SO many users. This isn't an isolated community and this feature is long overdue for permanent residence in OS X.
PLEASE TIM COOK, GIVE US THEMES!!! :-)
I have so many ideas for Apple, let's at least see this one get somewhere!
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