Give Mac OS X a unified UI with Uno

David C. must also be a binarybonsai reader :D. I've been running uno for a week - and i'm all uno-outed. Its too cold, i imagine Apple have already run this over a few times and came to the same conclusion. I don't know what the perfect GUI is, i've seen a tonne of bad ones (looking at you XP) but Mac OS Tiger's bits are okay. Look how great Garageband is under uno... i like the quirky changes like that.

Personally, I use Iridium. I just find that it has never caused me any of the problems I hear some people mention with UNO. Great design, good implementation and the developer is fast and friendly.

Can it be used with Shapeshifter? I would like to use it with iT5 to keep all the metal apps with the new metal look and the aqua apps with the unified look.

This is great, makes all your apps look like .mail. basically iTunes unified, but for all your apps!

I prefer Iridium (also free). Uno does some funky stuff to some of the windows. Particularly in iTunes and Quicktime. Iridium just kinda smooths out the brushed metal with out throwing off the application windows.

I downloaded and installed it tonite. No problems, and I like the consistent L/F. I don't have any problems with Expos鬠as I usually cmd-tab and cmd-tilde rather than use Expos鮍 I like.

This makes Firefox look sexier at the top! Grrr. That's a design issue that's been bugging me from day one!

The problem here is not that Uno brings consistency, it's that it does it without bringing consistent behavior. Since it's just a skin, apps will look unified without actually BEHAVING like unified does. Those that are actually aqua will continue to behave as aqua does, and those that are metal will behave as metal does (in addition to having a very bizarre looking border in most cases). That, to me, represents a far worse crime than Apple's fragmentation of the user interface. At least with Aqua/Unified/Metal you can tell by looking at them what kind of behavior to expect. If you really want to go unified, at least use the haxie that will truly make the apps (as long as they're cocoa) have unified windows. Anything else is just crap.

I would like it if I can set in Preferences programs to have different color, because when I use Expose, everything looks the same right now. Color would allow me to pinpoint immediately the window I am after.

I actually prefer iT5 (http://icespectre.ambitiouslemon.com/tag/news/themes/) It is the darker unified look that iTunes 5 and 6 use. But you will need ShapeShifter to use. I can't stick to one look anyway, that's why I bough ShapeShifter, I keep jumping from theme to theme every week or so.