Today I decided to release the next “beta” of my Shapeshifter Theme “Carbonite”. The theme is still far from complete and you will certainly find some issues with assets not matching in places. Especially with scrollbars. Everything is definitely still a work in progress. Feel free to post any bugs you find even if you think they are the result of an unfinished element. The theme continues to progress ever so slowly but I do still work on it when I have a little free time.
New in this version:
- Theme for Mail
- Unified Support
- iTunes 7 Skin
- iChat Bubbles
- Some Progress Bars
- Updated some Scrollbars
- A bunch of other little things like Menu-Selects that you will find have been hopefully improved.
Do keep in mind that this is very “Beta-ish” and thus will confound you with its confoundedness :P
Anyhow…
I look forward to hearing what you think of it.
You will need a copy of Shapeshifter from Unsanity and a copy of the Carbonite Beta guiKit which can be obtained by clicking the preview image. (The download will automatically open the Shapeshifter Preference Pane.)
Enjoy!
January 24th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Absolutely stunning.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
oy… this is ze bomb.
ze pressed menu select highlight (wtf do you call this?) doesn’t fit with the rest of the theme yet though
and… don’t make us register to post comments, sucka.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Haha… I had to do something to stop ze spam!
It was getting ridiculous so I turned on the registering and the spam has subsided. I may try turning it off in the future.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Hi Brian,
First of all I would like to thank you for all the effort you have put into this theme, despite the amount of work you have to do for Apple (well i don’t know exactly but i bet it’s a lot). Although I really like the new menu, I find the new itunes and mail app don’t fit well with carbonite, maybe because of their rounded, blackish buttons. I was thinking it would be better if you made the view buttons in itunes, as well as the toolbar button in Mail like this
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6523/itunes8ga.png
this is just a suggestion, just something for you to consider for the next release :)
January 25th, 2007 at 7:47 am
how come i cannot submit comment?
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:22 pm
[...] One of my favorite overall themes that I can use a lot, because it isn’t too flashy and isn’t too dull has finally entered Beta 2. Carbonite, by Pixelnet Design, is a great theme, that is shaping up to be amazing. With the release of Beta 2, an iTunes and Mail skin was added, along with unified support. It is incomplete though, because the small forms of some elements keep their aqua form, while the larger ones don’t. I’m looking forward to the finished product, because I think it will be great. [...]
April 10th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I adore this theme, and I have very few complaints, despite it being in beta. The only one which seems legitimate is that some menus in Pages are black on black, making it rather hard to read what you are about to select.
On a personal annoyance level, I use 1passwd, and not having a “lock” button themed sticks out like a sore thumb — this is my problem not yours.
Thanks for a great theme, and I look forward to it leaving beta.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Any word on a final release?