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OS X 10.1 imcompatible with OS X Themes

updated 08:50 am EDT, Fri August 10, 2001

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Colin Cornaby notes that the upcoming OS X 10.1 is incompatible with currently circulating OS X Themes and may cause serious problems for users attempting to use themes:

"Apple has changed the architecture of the .rsrc file holding vital theme components in Mac OS 10.1. This renders current themes incompatible with Mac OS 10.1 because current themes meant for Mac OS 10.0.X use a older, incompatible architecture. Using older themes with 10.1 can result in corruption of the system, and failure to boot. This problem occurs with both XMorph and MetaMorphX. A patch will be issued around the release of 10.1 to update the Aqua theme to be compatible. People should contact the developers of themes they use for plans on making themes 10.1 compatible."

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That's probably why...

That's probably why Apple never published the theme specs of Mac OS X (in part at least) : the Theme Engine was probably not feature complete and/or not up to their quality standards...

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That's what you get

Word up, G. That's what happens when you try to uglify Steve's baby.

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Sounds like a M$ tactic?

I know that Microsloth "invested" in Apple, but I thought it was for non-voting shares? This sounds an awful lot like a M$ tactic of encouraging customers (or forcing customer) to buy the latest product from the ONE Apple in order to maintain compliancy?

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Not really

I think it's more likely that Apple realised that, whatever they do or say, people will try to make their own themes. If you looked at the resources for Aqua/Graphite I think it was pretty clear that the whole thing hadn't really been thought through, the two settings should have been separate themes, but instead the various elements were munged into one file - without a logical structure IMO.

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Just apple doing its job

This isn't much more than Apple doing its job,I would imagine. They realized their own, internal storage system needed some work, so they changed it. Since they don't officially support third party themes, that it breaks some of the current hacks isn't an issue to them at all.

I wouldn't try to read more into this than there is. I doubt it was a move to control third party themes. They are just upgrading something which needed upgrading.

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duh?

IMPORTANT NEWS: Totally unexpected, a shareware hack has been identified that crahses an unreleased OS. Completely unrelated conspiracy theories have already been spotted, although these could be attributed to an overkill of nerdmanship by their respective authors. STAY TUNED...

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re duh?

thank you for summing it up!

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yes, but...

still, i wonder what Michael Coyle (chief cook and bottlewasher at ResExellence.com) will spout about this...

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who cares

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omg...

That was, by far, one of the funniest posts I've ever read on MNN.

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re: duh?

Almost cried as much laughing as from reading some of Mr. Fukamachi's hilarity on mosr.net. Please keep up the good work, and keep the morons in check on this miserable board. I still don't know why I bother to read this stuff every day... you reminded me.

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re: duh?

Almost cried as much laughing as from reading some of Mr. Fukamachi's hilarity on mosr.net. Please keep up the good work, and keep the morons in check on this miserable board. I still don't know why I bother to read this stuff every day... you reminded me.

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Take this point!

Your using software illegally. Apple didn't give you any rights in useing the software. In fact if apple made it erase you entire hard drive i would say good thats what you get.

APPLE DID NOT GIVE THE SOFTWARE OUT OF NON DEVELOPER RELATED TESTING. If you have 10.1 on your hd remove it. If your thinking about downloading it don't. Its not ment for you. In fact apple should hang the leakers.

BTW themes suck. They make things UGLY.

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thank you

for all the praise. but, alas, i have to stop now, it being 6 o'clock here in amsterdam, with the sun out and lots of fun to be had away from the computer.

i suggest you all do the same as soon as you can, have a nice weekend!

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FileMaker 5.5

Networking protocols for filemaker stopped working with 5f24 or more specific: none were installed or filemaker wasn't able to find them anymore.

Hoping it will be better in the final version or filemaker updates the app.

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speed

Since everybody should know that Apple was highly focused on speeding up OS X in version 10.1, it shouldn't be a surprise that they'd also take a careful look at the interface theme area since the code that draws EVERYTHING on the screen might need revising and optimising.

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We knew it before

Those of us who weren't making up conspiracy theories or yelling at Apple for not letting us be creative back when they first started to crack down on theme projects knew this was coming.

I even posted something like this here saying the theme-enabling aspect of the GUI probably wasn't done (I used the example of how the Dockling API isn't done, so they don't release the specs on that).

Now do you see? Stop your damn conspiracy theories! Apple was trying to protect us without leaking internal build information. They knew what they were doing so relax and give them some credit.

There are so many morons out there that try to pin useless c*** on Apple.

Next time can we think of things like this logically first, before saying Apple is out to get us?
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Calm down...

I am very familiar with the theme file definition for both 10.0x and the current beta for 10.1. The differences in the rsrc file are minor (about 80 of the 100's of PXMs that make up picture part of the resource have been updated) as have a few other resources. Updating themes to the new format is pretty trival (just a matter of copying pxms from an old theme and pasting them into the new theme). Apple didn't change these things in part of an evil plot, but made the changes to update and enhance Aqua.

While old theme files will fail, updating is not a big deal.

The proper way to write a theme installer is to create patcher files that patch the extras.rsrc file with only the pxm#s created by the theme author. If anyone had done this as has been suggested on many forums, therer would be not be a problem. Xmoph and Metamorph make lots of assumptions about files and just move them around wholesale. They are pretty dangerous programs.

Whoever wrote this post obviously tried to install a 10.04 theme over 10.1 and got screwed. I have to say it's his own fault. Anyone paying attention to what's going on in the theming world knows this. Also there is no "corruption of the system", it's simply that OS X expects a file in a certain format, but that file isn't available. The fix is easy. Boot into OS 9 and replace the changed files with clean copies of the older ones. Afterwards 10.1 will boot just fine.

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This too shall pass

Once 10.1 gets here the theme makers will figure out a fix and things will go on as usual until the next major upgrade then the cycle starts again.

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Uglify?

:Word up, G. That's what happens when you try to uglify Steve's baby.

Uglify? Aqua is butt-ugly as-is. That is why some of us use themes -- iy makes OS X palpable.

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OS X 10.1 imcompatible with OS X Themes

updated 08:50 am EDT, Fri August 10, 2001

That's probably why...

That's what you get

Sounds like a M$ tactic?

Not really

Just apple doing its job

duh?

re duh?

yes, but...

who cares

omg...

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re: duh?

Take this point!

thank you

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We knew it before

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