e2 – Kaleidoscope

We revisit the golden age of Mac interface customization: the development of the Kaleidoscope control panel, the extensive Kaleidoscope scheme archive, and the limited possibilities for theming in OS X.

Links for this episode:

• Kaleidoscope
• The Kaleidoscope scheme archive
   
• "the golden age"
  • John Siracusa's Yosemite review talks about K
  • Appearance Manager
    • Copland
    • Gizmo and Hi-Tech
    • System fonts: Chicago, Charcoal, Espy Sans
    • the Appearance control panel
  • Aaron extension
  • Greg's shareware
• K's creators
  • Greg Landweber
  • Ed Voas
  • Arlo Rose
    • Konfabulator [WayBack Machine]
    • aka Yahoo! Widgets
• K's features
  • version history
  • zoom rectangles
  • icon replacement
    • The Iconfactory's system icon sets
    • CandyBar (no longer supported)
  • WindowShade
• scheme inspirations
  • Echelon, Echelon 8.5, and Kidcon icon sets
  • Layne Karkruff – blueskyheart.com
  • BeOS and NeXTSTEP
• reduced perspective in Yosemite icons
• the schemelist archives
• OS X theming
  • Unsanity
    • unsanity.com [WayBack Machine]
    • APE and haxies
    • ShapeShifter [WayBack Machine]
  • Gruber on Dashboard vs. Konfabulator
  • Flavours
    • themes for Flavours
  • the true story of audion.
• next episode: Ed tries something really stupid

Scheme gallery!

Innovative schemes

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OS Mimicry

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Minimalist

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Getting a little silly…

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…and now really impractical

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Ed and Brian's picks

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