Talk:Appearance Manager

message: There needs to be some mention about 3rd party themes which may be found many places nowadays and which all descended from initial hacks of the Drawing Board theme (the first 3rd party theme being "Paper"). The article also does not make clear that the alternate themes were included in very late betas of Mac OS 8.5 but were dropped without warning in the retail version. It could also be better explained that when Mac OS X switched to Aqua, the theme resources were largely the same which is why Carbon applications easily worked in Aqua, and the prior hacking done for themes like Paper was then applied to Aqua in order to make the hundreds of themes available today (though when Mac OS X first came out it seemed a higher percentage of users were interested in theming than is the case today). It could also be mentioned that Aqua themes for Mac OS 9 were developed using this same system which also allowed Classic apps running in Mac OS X to appear Aqua. —pfahlstrom 05:39, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  3rd party themes 

message: I've edited back this section, pasted below for reference. Without references to most of what's mentioned, it reads as the usual whining from someone who didn't get what they wanted. It isn't even relevant to the article. Appearance Manager wasn't a Kaleidoscope-killer because it never really amounted to much. Kaleidoscope is dead now because it was not supported by OS X. End of story.
Cheers, Neale  Neale Monks 21:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: i've edited this section, because Kaleidoscope was THE main appearance manager on the mac for many years - before and after apple's appearance manager. it probably deserves its own article - but it doesnt - so i've left it here (for now). i've also supplied a screenshot of the classic Mac OS with a Kaleidoscope theme applied to it - everything: menus, icons, window borders, scrollbars are customized. Johnrpenner (talk) 13:59, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that Kaleidoscope did actually use the Appearance Manager.  The Appearance Manager was the underlying framework provided by the Mac OS system software.  Both Kaleidoscope and the Appearance Control Panel utilized this framework to enable schemes and themes, respectively.  Ben Boldt 03:16, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similar products section 

message: There is sufficient information about Appearance Themes that they deserve a separate article from Appearance Manager.  Themes are only one unsupported feature of the Appearance Manager.  I am going to try to move information about themes to the other article (Mac OS Appearance Theme) and add more information about the Appearance Manager to this article.
Ben Boldt 23:28, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't move anything from here to Mac OS Appearance Theme; the article Mac OS Appearance Theme is surely a candidate for deletion, since it seems to be discussion of an ongoing project rather than an article about a key part of the commercial Mac OS. Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 08:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

text: After looking more closely at the article and fixing some things, I said "scratch that".  I should have been more clear, but I meant that it didn't look like anything needed to be moved.  The parts of Appearance Themes that I described are not being developed anymore and I think it's a useful article.  "Planned features not implemented" may sound like it's an ongoing project, but actually those are features that Apple intended to incorporate but never did.  It is not humanly possible to add those features as a 3rd party because the Appearance Manager is closed-source. Ben Boldt 14:16, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appearance Themes deserve a separate article. 

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