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Illuminous Mac OS X Theme
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Illuminous

by Levi- The perfectionist

June 25th, 2007

A guikit concept inspired by the rumoured 'illuminous' theme set for release with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Theme is currently a 'lite' version and lacking an iTunes skin, certain variants, as well as further improvements.

Application skins:

  • Finder (of course)
  • Mail
  • Safari
  • iTunes (coming soon)

Theme Variants:

illuminous Uno

  • 50% transparent menubar.
  • Black transparent menus.
  • Unified windows, opaque (non-transparent).

Menu extras fix:

This is not a theme variant. It's a transparent menubar fix which fixes the background of the menu extra items which look odd.

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Illuminous Jun 25, 2007 7,718 KB 34 votes

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Posted by: punk_rock_chick_4_life  _  hotmail.com Thu June 28th, 2007 at 07:45:01 PM
I downloaded this and the file is .guiKit. o.O it says there's no default application to open it. So... what do I do?
rating: -1
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Posted by: punk_rock_chick_4_life  _  hotmail.com Thu June 28th, 2007 at 08:43:40 PM
Okay, never mind. I got it to work.
But now there's a transparency problem with the toolbar.
Here's what it looks like:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8652/problemot6.png
The rest is fine.
rating: +0
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Posted by: the.unko.lema  _  gmail.com Thu June 28th, 2007 at 09:46:47 PM
^ problem is easily fixed by using the menu extra fix variant (included in the guikit). Instructions are included in the description of the variant.
scroll down to see them.
rating: +1
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Posted by: punk_rock_chick_4_life  _  hotmail.com Fri June 29th, 2007 at 02:33:49 PM
Oh ok. Thank you.
rating: +0
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Posted by: zzworld93  _  yahoo.com Thu July 12th, 2007 at 06:55:44 PM
is there any way to get themes if my comp isnt intel?
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Posted by: matthew.a.h  _  gmail.com Wed July 25th, 2007 at 10:26:55 AM
im sorry if im a pain in the ass but can anyone tell me if there are any differences between the free dl shapeshifter and the purchased one? thanx
rating: +0
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Posted by: apoure01  _  apoure.com Thu July 26th, 2007 at 05:57:07 AM
Hey Great theme one of the best i've seen!!...i'm just having one problem, i can't get the menubar extras fix to work :(

Any ideas on how to do that? so that it works...because i've seen your screenshots of the theme and you have the fix working...hope to hear from you soon :)

Keep up the good work!
rating: +0
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Posted by: paulzovighian  _  gmail.com Mon August 6th, 2007 at 11:08:54 AM
If the menu fix gets undone after every logout, that does get a bit annoying, can't you just release an updated version without the problem?
rating: +0
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Posted by: fedefede89  _  hotmail.com Sun August 19th, 2007 at 05:07:05 PM
i just downloaded this and the file is .guiKit. o.O it says there's no default application to open it. So... what do I do?
rating: +0
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Posted by: the.unko.lema  _  gmail.com Wed August 22nd, 2007 at 10:21:05 PM
^ No.

There is simply no way to create a theme where the menu extra fix is permanent. Its a limitation of Shapeshifter and/or Mac OSX Tiger.

There is only one other alternative. The theme crystal clear uses a menubar that is 100% transparent.
Menu extras do no appear wonky. But theres no menubar either.

His theme works instead by creating a desktop image that has a 'fake' menubar on the desktop image.

If you want you could do this with my theme. choose a desktop image with a menubar photoshopped onto it, then apply ONLY the menu extra theme variant.

I find tho that the menus dont work so well when u do this however.
rating: +0
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Posted by: nic  _  mac.com Tue September 18th, 2007 at 09:36:45 AM
If "There is simply no way to create a theme where the menu extra fix is permanent. Its a limitation of Shapeshifter and/or Mac OSX Tiger," then why does Liger work?
rating: +0
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Posted by: the.unko.lema  _  gmail.com Fri October 5th, 2007 at 01:48:35 AM
Liger works by using 95% (approx) transparency. This is fine, but if you look closely at the menu extras they still show a 'doubled up' background.

Being a perfectionist, I like the menubar fix to look perfect, at the cost of being temporary.

^ If you set menubar transparency to 100% the menus do not work. My fix works, by first applying a 100% transparency (to the menu extras) and then a 50% transparency to the menubar in a two step process you carry out.

Tho if users prefer to have permanently 95% transparent menubars (and menu extras that are still a little dodgy looking) then I will implement this in future themes.
rating: +0
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Posted by: talwhiteboi  _  gmail.com Wed October 17th, 2007 at 12:50:48 AM
after i open the zip file what do i open it with to get it to work?
whats the next step?
rating: +0
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Posted by: pushkarajpawar  _  gmail.com Wed January 16th, 2008 at 09:02:18 AM
can i download mac theme on windows vista home premium
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Posted by: butterlover  _  earthlink.net Sat February 23rd, 2008 at 10:36:37 AM
how do i put the theme onto my computer?
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Posted by: joshinvents  _  rcn.com Tue February 26th, 2008 at 07:37:27 PM
ok, so if the "choose defult application" is shapeshifter, that's not possible. there is no shapeshifter for leopard--is there??? if there is, PLEASE reply
rating: +0
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Posted by: hephem  _  gmail.com Wed April 23rd, 2008 at 06:17:46 PM
Hi, I've not dowloaded your skin yet. I've first a question... Is it possible to do skinning options while applying yout skin? I mean, I'd like to give my menu bar 50% transparency and give the context menu a transparent grey. But anything else I'd like to leave as they are... Is it possible? Would anyone recommend a better skin for my proposes? Thank you very much...
rating: +0
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Posted by: johnnyisgreat  _  gmail.com Fri May 16th, 2008 at 02:38:12 PM
sorry this skin is not what i thought it was. how do i fully remove it back to the default mac themes and settings.

rating: +0
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Posted by: ben.rice13  _  yahoo.com Mon May 26th, 2008 at 05:03:54 PM
I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. Whenever I am in another application and try to click file, edit, view, etc. in the toolbar, it sets it to Finder's toolbar. Now, this is extremely annoying, it's almost like my toolbar is part of finder's desktop. Could someone help me?!!!
rating: +0
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Posted by: emoiamgoaway  _  gmail.com Sun August 24th, 2008 at 01:27:36 AM
efesfr
rating: +0
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Posted by: iceclipper  _  hotmail.com Fri May 1st, 2009 at 08:44:56 AM
Its a great theme! I am using Shapeshifter, PanelManager and Illuminous to tone down the eye-burning light of student computers. Its only being tested now on one but so far, great!
Thank you!
rating: +0
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Posted by: kjkingsley078  _  gmail.com Thu September 24th, 2009 at 06:04:07 PM
Can i download this using the app. magnigique?
rating: +0

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