Transparency in this theme is literally crystal clear, demonstrating feasibility and techniques to enhance usability of a theme with clear interface elements. The theme comes with two variants: Lite, which uses translucent white menus, and Dark, which uses translucent black ones.

Version 1.2 utilizes a technique to enable totally transparent menubars that don't suffer from extra backgrounds superimposed by "menu extras." Be sure to read the instructions on using the included crystal menubar files and background pictures.

Crystal Clear also bundles a custom version of the open source utility SetAlphaValue, which magically "turns on" transparency in Mac OS X Cocoa applications where it otherwise doesn't exist. The download includes detailed information about how to use SetAlphaValue.

The Crystal Clear download includes the following files in the main folder:

• CrystalClear_v12.guiKit (Both variants of Crystal Clear and four desktop pictures, courtesy of the artist known as Xanthic, customized to include the Crystal Clear menubar and each available in four standard resolutions.)
• SetAlphaValue4CC (Installer for SetAlphaValue)

Crystal Clear includes theme elements for Address Book, Automator, Camino, DevonThink Pro, Font Book, iCal, iTunes, Mail, Preview, QuickTime, Safari, System Preferences, ThemePark, and Yummy FTP.

There are five subfolders in the package:

• docs: The ReadMe file for SetAlphaValue and this Welcome document.
• menu extras: Here you'll find folders with menu-extra graphics and installation ReadMe files for Chronosync, DropCopy, FastAndSlow, FastScripts Lite, iKey, MainMenu, Sound Source, Yahoo Widget Engine, and YouControl Tunes.
• other extras: This is where you'll find the iCan theme, the Growl style, and a folder for the extra SafariStand toolbar graphics.
• pics: Contains full-screen previews for both the Lite and Dark variants of Crystal Clear. (Note: These screenshots do not show the latest changes in the Crystal Clear theme... they are the ones released originally with the Dark and Lite versions.)
• crystal menubar: This is a new folder that contains the Crystal Clear system menubar in Photoshop (PSD) format, ready to be applied to desktop pictures of your choosing. Simply pick the PSD file corresponding to your screen resolution, and add it as a layer at the top of the image.

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.

A usable dark theme.

Application skins for: iTunes, Quicktime, Mail and Safari. Plus a few others.

Finally, Black is back.

Updated the iTunes skin, fixed an error with the DVD Player skin, added a VLC skin, and a Vienna skin, and themed chat bubbles in iChat.

Application skins: Mail, iTunes, iChat, Safari, Camino, Quinn, Quicktime, VLC, and Vienna.

A theme to try to catch the most of Mac OS X transparency.

2 versions of nDark Aqua. And most used programs skinned.

Rhino is a professional and useable dark theme with super-inset smooth black buttons. The perfect catch for gray lovers!

rhino MAC OS X GUIKIT © 2007 TONER - guikit with 10 appskins - iconset - wallpaper - iTunes patch.

The following appskins are included: DVD Player, iChat, iTunes, Mail, Pixadex, Quicktime, Safari, System Preferences, Transmit, VLC Player.

Liger - Leopard theme for Tiger.

Made to mimic the Leopard previews given by Apple.

Installation:

Be sure to read the Readme file included in the package (don't worry, it isn't much, only 1 small program that uses 0% of memory)

Known issues:

• The menu bar isn't exactly like Leopards
• Exposé doesn't like it
• The Dock is still the same
• Safari v3 Beta doesn't like themes :S

Many thanks to Nordoc for the name (my imagination alluded me on this one), and also Zach for transparency ideas.

FLAWLESS TRANSPARENCY for ANY menu extras and any app! Application skins for Safari and Mail! (More to come). Grass wallpaper! Dock coming!

It is pretty basic and was developed for the daily use in an Office... Motto again is to be able to look at the monitor without getting blinded by the "lighty" original OS X Aqua...

A beta version of Green Steel. No Applications have received special theming but will as per the Final Release.