Kaleidoscope - Page 2

Tech Time Platinum by Phil McMahon

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Nice and clean, but basically just an interesting border for windows

Club-FX by Graeme Hunt

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Usually Graeme Hunt's schemes are excellent, but this one seems a little less polished than Aquatech or Circle Vision. Looks modeled after Scherzo with its slanty menu names. Special menu highlights (but menu items are a bit light on the background). Special menu names (slanty like Scherzo). Windowshade sounds (drum thump). OK desktop. Scroll bars/buttons/sliders are a bit weak. A little too much extra padding around the windows for my taste. Close box is in a funky place. iCab crashed, which might indicate memory probs. Button artifacts are a little busy on iCab, especially in the Favorites toolbar.

Green Apple by Roald Andreas

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Nice and clean.

Techtured by Maury McCown

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Maury does nice work. Simple and clean and very usable. Nothing really special, though it does have the window title left justified (which I like). The finder window backgrounds are a little dark. White fonts don't work well. Often can't see the font when printing on white paper or viewing through iCab certain web pages with white background. Standard menu names. Standard menu highlight. Standard windowshade noises. Special desktop. Displays his schemes on http://www.maurym.com/pages/kaleidoscope.html

Boldline K by Hidea Kikamada

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Can get a little tiring. Very nice WindowShade sound -- like blowing on a bottle.

Harigane by Hideki Yamamoto

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Very Funky. Perhaps a bit TOO funky. Can be difficult to tell between overlapping windows. Thumbs don't stretch well.

Metal Fish Lite

Metal Fish Lite Aqua by Kazuomi Suzuki

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Nice and funky. Different WindowShade sounds. Thumbs stretch. Different menu background. Disclosure triangles are circular!? Menu text is shadowed and can be difficult to read. I keep mistaking the fish's eye for the close box.

Cecil - A New Beginning by Geoffrey Hamilton

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Clean and simple. Has a 'Flux' pattern which permeates the theme (especially visible in the title bars). Subtle menu highlights. Standard menu names. Windowshade sounds (dragon breath). Nice, subtle desktop. Unfortunately, the white font for the menu names, makes some of the browser pages impossible to read with white on white.

Palladium by Glenn Matthews

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Glenn says:

"Palladium is a lustrous silver-white metal akin to platinum in many ways, and this scheme is kinda like Apple Platinum, so… :-)

Palladium is meant to be a smoother, more user-friendly form of Platinum. I have noticed that many Kaleidoscope schemes look nifty, but are impossible to actually use without going insane. My goal with Palladium was to create a scheme that is easy on the eyes, easy to get used to, and simply elegant."

Substitute for Apple Platinum. A bit more rounded. Menu hightlights and window thumbs are an unpleasantly bright blue. No desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Garish blue menu highlights. Special menu names.

Anasazi by Mike Balonek

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Title bar is a bit thick. Standard menu names. Standard menu highlight. Special windowshade noises (like someone smoking a cigarette?). Single color desktop. Disclosure triangle is a checkbox--yuk!

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Estano by Kei Kinoshita

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Smooth gradations on everything. Like all of Kei's schemes, very clean and usable. Has a white font which makes web pages (such as MacInTouch.com) impossible to read. Solid desktop background. Centered window titles. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu highlights. Special menu names.

Sagittal by Richard Bensam

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Replacement for Apple Platinum. All the menubar boxes are to the left. Folder icons are a bit light which makes them look 'dimmed'. Ribbed (iMac-ish) desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Special menu names. Special menu highlights.

AquaVelva by Eric Rossbach

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Replacement for Apple Platinum. System font color is a very light grey. Not white like Techtured, but still too light. Ribbed (iMac-ish) desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Standard menu names. Standard menu highlights.

Destination by Robin Rundkvist

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Apple Platinum Substitute. Works well with DragThing. Buttons are bubbly and shiny and look cool. Solid desktop background. Standard windowshade noise. Standard menu names. Standard menu highlights.

Quicksilver (tr) by Toren Valimir

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Window names left-justified. Close box for windows is on right side (like >ick< windoze). Apple menu isn't apple logo. Special windowshade noise (lightsaber hum?). Special menu names. Special menu highlights.

BBX•MERCURY

BBX•MERCURY Be by William Bart

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Bart has put a lot of effort into this Scheme. He's got a lot of talent. Scroll bars have color that is inverted to what I would expect. I keep thinking the dark thumbs are actually the space where the thumbs aren't. Dark doesn't work well with iCab toolbars. Close boxes on both sides of the title bar. Window names left-justified. Menu bar buttons are identical. Transparent menus. Special windowshade noise. Standard menu names. Standard menu highlights.