It's nice to see that the new aesthetic is the only real complaint anyone is coming up with.I stumbled across Aral Balkan’s blog where he talks about a hint he found on macosxhints to set the dock to be on the bottom in the same style as it is on the sides: īy Random Technology » Changing the Dock In Leopard - Tips, tricks, howtos, reviews, and some Chinese by Rob Rohan on 21:59:41.īy Dan Makovec’s blog » Impressions of Leopard on 12:54:57 I’m not really a fan of the new folder icons either (they’re pretty chunky), but I’m sure I’ll get used to them. I kind of miss them, but they really were a relic of the old CRT macs. Oh yeah, they’ve also finally done away with the rounded corners at the top of the screen. As far as I can tell though, this new transparent menubar is just wank for wank’s sake, and actually reduces productivity by making the damn thing harder to read. If they wanted to conserve desktop space, they could have made it an auto-hide menu (a la the Amiga c. I never got the whole transparent thing, but if it’s there then there should at least be an option to turn it off. This is a rare slip up for Apple, who normally pride themselves on good UI usability. Depending on the picture you have on in the background, this can make viewing and using the menu extremely difficult. The most controversial “feature” is the new desktop translucent menu-bar.seems Apple plagiarized Microsoft this time, not vice versa. Vistaesque (think “grotesque as only Microsoft can manage”).But I realised it was the semi transparent tool bar with stars shining though, not dead pixels and ink leeks! I'm really looking forward to it.īut since I change my desktop image every few days, the bg doens't quite work for me :p I can't judge about the other things since, I'm still waiting for my leopard to arrive by mail. Personally, I've begun to enjoy looking at my Mac again for the first time since I installed Leopard :) Comments I hope you guys enjoy these little hacks. You can also download the PSD (12MB) here if you want to refine it further (since Leopard blurs the image, the resulting gradient is not exactly the same as the one in Tiger - it's a little darker, which I personally like better with the darker Apple logo - you could probably tweak it to make it exactly the same but I need to catch a place back to the UK in a few hours and need to head out to the airport now!) Open up Terminal and type the following to regain your 2D dock:ĭefaults write no-glass -boolean YESĪnd, I just created a version of the Aqua Blue wallpaper that ships with Tiger that gives you an opaque menu bar.ĭownload Aqua-Blue-Tiger.jpg (1MB) and place it in your //Library/Desktop Pictures/ folder and set it as your desktop wallpaper in your System Preferences to get your opaque menu bar back and regain some semblance of Macishness in Leopard. You can also run a quick hack to remove the 3D dock (via macosxhints). Thankfully, the fine folks at Many Tricks have a tool called Displaperture that gives you your rounded corners back! After Tiger, Leopard looks butt-ugly to me with its Vistaesque (think "grotesque as only Microsoft can manage") semi-transparent menu bar, square screen corners, over-the-top 3D dock, and ridiculous default wallpaper.
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