Kaleidoscope

Scherzo!

[ scheme included with Kaleidascope ]

Great. Does really interesting things with the borders and progress indicator without losing any visual information.

DeltaSeven by Osamu Kobiyama

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Very Clean. Takes care of everything. Buttons and sliders all look great. No confusion as to what anything is. Good desktop. Never lose the metaphor. Some buttons can look a little blurry. Sometimes on modal windows the title gets cut off on the end. Can't see higlight on Eudora mail messages. Finder windows have a light pattern to them. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu names. Special menu highlights. Opaque menus.

iDesktop by Russel Gawthorpe

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Cool transparent cursor. Thumbs stretch nicely. Clever menu backgrounds and item highlight (though the dark background mutes the text a bit). Good desktop. Scroll bar arrows a bit far apart when doubled. Bad radio buttons (not clear when un/selected). On some small menu lists (FileMaker) can't see which item is highlighted.

Brute Force by David Catmull

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I'm surprised I liked this one, but it grew on me. Nice, clean design. Can't see DragThing active application highlight. Special menu names. Special menu highlight. Standard windowshade noises. Single color desktop.

iMaculately by Toren Valimir

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Interesting WindowShade sound effects. Cool brushed steel backgrounds. Checkboxes are bad. Zoom and WindowShade icons indistinguishable. Can't see message highlights in Eudora. Standard menu names. Special menu highlights. Special windowshade noise.

iMaculate Final by Toren Valimir

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Not much different than iMaculately, but a much more popular download from the Kaleidoscope site. I happen to like the folders of iMaculately better.

Circle Vision by Graeme Hunt

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Very nice. Can be a little busy. A window with no title has a visual artifact where the title would be. Windowshade noise (coin bag dropping). In Eudora, the text under the toolbar buttons is almost the same color as the background and very difficult to read.

Aquatech by Graeme Hunt

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Special menu names. Standard menu highlight. Windowshade noises (underwater click or 'cl-tok'). Good desktop. Cool buttons (different default button indicator). Highlighted item in Dialog Box can't be seen. Just a bit puffy on the window edges. Finder window backgrounds are a very subtly textured white.

sunscreen.2000 by Sascha Hoehne

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Nice, clean replacement for Apple Platinum. Not too many changes. Has nice windowshade sounds (e-yew & woop). Menu highlights are subtly different. Can't see OS 8 list box selections. Can't see some list box selections in FileMaker Pro. No active app highlights in DragThing. Standard menu items. Special menu selection. Special windowshade sound.

Grafito

Grafito 32000 by Kei Kinoshita

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Nice, subtle gradations on everything. Good, subtle desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu highlights. Special menu names. Grafito is best viewed at over million colors (16700000 colors). If you have to view at 32000 colors, try the Grafito 32000 scheme.

Grafito i by Kei Kinoshita

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Borrowing from Kei Kinoshita's Grafito theme, but more rounded with an iMac-ish white ribbed theme. Very usable. Solid desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Transparent menus. Special menu highlights. Special menu names.

Estudio by Kei Kinoshita

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Special menu names. Special menu highlight. Standard windowshade noises. Solid color desktop. Good substitute for Apple Platinum.

Platino by Kei Kinoshita

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Nice and clean substitute for Apple Platinum. Standard menu names. Standard menu highlights. Standard windowshade sound. Solid background.

Junio by Kei Kinoshita

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Nice, subtle iMacish gradations on everything. Desktop background is the same as the window background which makes window seem to fade and disappear--the effect Kei made this scheme for. Like all of Kei's schemes, very clean and usable. Does this have slightly transparent menus like Mac OS X, or is this because I'm now using Mac OS 9.1? Annoyance: Can't see higlighted messages in Eudora Mailboxes. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu highlights. Special menu names.

Silencio con Konicons by Yoshihiro Kondo

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Another clean Scheme by Kei Kinoshita. Icons supplied by Yoshirhiro Kondo. Simple replacement for Apple Platinum. Ribbed desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu names. Special menu highlights.

Diez Con XF by Kei Kinoshita

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Very light scheme. Like the brushed metal look. Horizontally ribbed desktop pattern. Nice, clean desktop picture as well. Hard to see highlighted messages in Eudroa. I like most anything by Kei Kinoshita. Window names left-justified. Standard windowshade noise. Standard menu names. Special menu highlights.

Mac On by Robin Rundkvist

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Substitute for Apple Platinum. Minimal menu highlights. Minimal menu names. Windowshade sounds (typewriter-ish click). Nice desktop.

Has made lots of schemes. Look into more of his creations.

Graphite IV SMD by Sandy Marnat-Damez

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Substitute for Apple Platinum. Window backgrounds are a bit dark which makes it hard to read document names. Special menu highlights. Special menu names. Windowshade sounds (typewriter click). Close, Zoom, and Collapse boxes are identical. Can't see list box selections (no highlight) in FileMaker Pro.

Mac QNX by Maury McCown

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Another one that just grew on me. Simple and clean and very usable. The radio buttons do fool me a bit. Nothing really special, though it does have the window title left justified (which I like). Standard menu names. Standard menu highlight. Standard windowshade noises. Single color desktop. Special progress indicator. Displays his schemes on http://www.maurym.com/pages/kaleidoscope.html

NotePaper

NotePaper Mini

NotePaper Tab by Hidea Kikamada

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Works well. A bit bright with all that white.

Nautiqua Bondi by Kevin O'Boyle

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Aqua-esque scheme. A very light/bright scheme. Simple striped desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu highlights. Special menu names. Special progress indicator. Window buttons are a bit large. Has other 'flavors' to this scheme as well.

Crayon OS by Karl von Laudermann

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Inspired by NotePaper. Simple replacement for Apple Platinum. Often can't see the highlighted entries in lists (Eudora, FileMaker popups). Solid desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu highlights. Standard menu names.

preLude Monochrome

preLude Blue

preLude Red

preLude Green by Yamanaka Makoto

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Somewhat split on this one. I like the interface, but dislike all the buttons on the left side of the title bar (Mac OS X-like). At least they are labeled. Horrible cursor. Good interaction with DragThing (good active application hilights). Nice menu background. Would be a good desktop background. No desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Standard menu names. Special menu highlights.

FT-5 by Daisuke Yamashita

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Flat Five. Menus are slightly transparent and throw shadows. Cool effect taking from Mac OS X. First Kaleidoscope scheme to mimic it. Title bar buttons are indistinguishable from each other (can mix up the resize with the windowshade). Boring ribbed desktop background. Some windows open with the title bar hidden by the menu bar. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu names. Special menu highlights.

OZ-6 by Daisuke Yamashita

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Menus are slightly transparent and throw shadows. Cool effect taking from Mac OS X. Title bar buttons are indistinguishable from each other (can mix up the resize with the windowshade). Boring ribbed desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu names. Special menu highlights.

Titanium 7 by Daisuke Yamashita

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Brushed metal look for menus. Horizontally ribbed desktop pattern. Window names left-justified. Menu bar buttons are identical. Transparent menus. Standard windowshade noise. Standard menu names. Special menu highlights.