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UNO 1.5



I'm not one to fiddle with the appearance of my Mac's UI. I think Apple did a pretty good job, and I see no reason to change it. That being said, certain parts of OS X's default appearance can be a little inconsistent, and the custom UI theme called UNO was designed to make OS X consistent across the board. UNO 1.5 has just been released, and it is a complete rewrite of everyone's favorite OS X theme. If you want to banish Brushed Metal from your Mac, or just like the look of the so called 'Unified Toolbar,' then UNO is worth checking out.

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I'm not one to fiddle with the appearance of my Mac's UI. I think Apple did a pretty good job, and I see no reason to change it. That being...
 

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Kevin

I've never used UNO, but understand the desire to even out Apple's weird (to me) design choices for windows of late. Whatever happened to the Human Interface Guidlines?

My feeling is that brushed should be used for apps that only have one main window and regular windows should be used for apps that open documents. While Apple has sort of stuck to that, it has used a regular (unified) window for Mail and multiple metal windows for the Finder. So there is no consistency from Apple themselves.

I just don't understand their thinking.

March 31 2007 at 12:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yakov Chodosh

UNO is the best interface modding program out there.
The new version is not without its problems, though: It doesn't remember preferences, so I had to go in several times to "remind" it to leave my widget library thing with the dots, and to give me back my original text selection color

...but all in all, UNO is the best!!!!

March 27 2007 at 1:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
litmus

I'm going to give Uno a try as I used to use shapeshifter until it had some pretty bad system issues when it was making the move to Universal. As for firefox I use the theme iFox Smooth to give it the Unified love.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1830

March 26 2007 at 7:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

Uno is timeless, and much more classic mac like than brushed metal or most of the crap Shapeshifter junk. Not to mention consistent. That's probably why it's so classic mac, even though it doesn't come from Apple.

Apple--pre OS X--set the example for the world with its consistency. (anyone remember Applie human interface guidelines?) Now they just break their own rules and don't set an example for anyone. Hopefully Leopard will bring us back some sanity here.

March 26 2007 at 6:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
andrew harrison

no thanks? i submitted this yesterday :)

anyway, uno is fantastic. if it wasn't perfectly stable, i wouldn't bother, but i've never had a problem with it. The current OS X design elements are ok on their own, but having a mish mash [i believe that's the technical term] of several different styles for no good reason bothers me. Uno gets rid of that problem, and makes me a happy camper.

March 26 2007 at 6:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Muller

if just for the quicktime and itunes skin UNO is awesome.

March 26 2007 at 4:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adrian vG

I love UNO!!!111oneoneon

March 26 2007 at 3:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

I also didn't like that it changed the system files, but it's a must have for me since it makes firefox usable. I couldn't stand to look at firefox before, but the uno firefox theme combination is great. Just as if firefox was an aqua app.

March 26 2007 at 2:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen Lang

I actually like brushed, but initially installed UNO so that Firefox would look half-decent.

But I like the Unified look now, and use UNO system-wide. Brushed seems like a somewhat superfluous design element to me at this point, though I go back and forth on this. I do like having a little bit of texture, ala Brushed. We'll see what happens with Leopard.

March 26 2007 at 1:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Occh

UNO rocks, and is one of the first things I install on a fresh system.

I'm very grateful for a free solution that doesn't involve ShapeShifter.

March 26 2007 at 12:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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