Mac4Lin ver.0.2 - Mac OS X Leopard Transformation pack

[infra_red_dude]

Mac4Lin version 0.2 Released!

17th September 2007

I am happy to announce the version 0.2 release of the Mac4Lin Project. Version 0.1 alpha has received an overwhelming response. People have used and liked it and the downloads (as on this day) have touched about 6GB!!! Lots of comments/suggestions/bugs were received and I have tried to iron out all the bugs known till this day. This update also brings a whole lot of new things. See the changelog for changes.

Special thanks to Victor of vsdigital for provding the Firefox Safari Skin and thanks to everyone who tested the version 0.1 alpha. Because of all this I'm giving version 0.2 stable to this release. Keep visiting the project website for more updates.

Apply it, flaunt it, enjoy it!

Anirudh (a.k.a ANi, infra_red_dude)

For any suggestions/comments/complaints/feedback/bug tracking please drop by my blog or send a mail:

My Blog: http://phoenix-ani.blogspot.com/
My E-Mail id: infra_red_dude<A.T>users<D.O.T>sourceforge<D.O.T>n et
Project Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin
Screenshots: http://sourceforge.net/project/scree...roup_id=204373

Folks, got my GRE on 8th October. I gotta prep for it and also go thru all the universities' websites. Will be a bit busy. So, I may not be regular at the forums for the next one month. You may post ur feedback either on my blog/project website/this thread or mail it to me. I'll look into it as soon as possible

changelog:
Mac4Lin version 0.2, 17/09/2007

Icon updates
New firefox skin by Victor of vsdigital
Mac OS System Sounds
New Grub Screens
More Leopardish Emerald theme
Simdock source tarball included
Leopard Dock AWN theme updated
OS X Fonts and font enhancing guide
More Leopardish GTK Metacity theme
One GTK Splash screen added
Updated Pidgin OSX Theme
Four new wallpapers added
Documentation (README) added for every component
GTK Mac Menu is not included in this pack as some users have reported some issues. If anybody wants to install this, it can be Downloaded from the ver.0.1alpha pack. The GTK Mac Menu package remains unchanged.

[infra_red_dude]

update: Gnome panel backgrounds added, courtesy M.Lettner (lukeen @ gnome-look.org). Leopard like panel background haf been added to the project. It is available for download on the official project website as a separate file (Gnome_Panel-BG_Leopard.tar.gz).

[anandus]

Wow, this looks very nice!

Is it Compiz Fusion compatible?

[infra_red_dude]

yes, it is. compiz/beryl is kinda pre-requisite for all the effects of mac os x. even if you don't haf them, the only things that will not work is the emerald theme (the gtk theme will suffice then) and the avant-window-navigator (the simdock package can be used in its place). so all this works even widout any composite manager. but to get full mac os x like effects its better to haf them installed.

[dotweb]

Hi all - im still new to the linux operating system, and I would like to know how I install this theme. I have downloaded the file and tryed to use the Theme manager from System, preferences - but that didnt work.
//dotwebd

[buu700]

Nice! Here's my old OS X theme btw: http://ryanlesterstore.com/ubuntupwnx0rs Anyways, great job, but I have a suggestion: if possible, include the Macmenu applet (configured for transparency), to further emulate OS X: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=532 EDIT: nevermind, just read your entire original post. Also, I made a distributor-logo in Gimp that is pretty close to the one used in Leopard (the one currently in use in the theme is just an OS X logo that happens to be black): http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...orlogolqd3.png. Maybe you could include that as well (I know it looks a little blurry, but it's fine when zoomed out). More suggestions: a cursor theme and a usplash theme. Here is a good usplash theme taken from Taimila's guide: http://www.taimila.com/files/usplash-osx.tar.gz, and a 16:10 version I made is attached (plus a 16:9 version for that occasional 16:9 monitor user).

[infra_red_dude]

@dotweb
just untar (extract) the files you downloaded from the mac4lin project website. it'll extract individual components. the install instructions for each component is included in the respective folders.

thanks buu700, i'll be including your distributor-logo and the usplash theme in the next update. regarding gtk mac menu hack, you've already read about it.

as far as the cursor theme is concerned, i'm unaware of what actually is used in the real Mac OS X Leopard. Hence i've stuck to the original Mac OS X cursors in this release. suggestions would be welcome

nice tiger emulation, buu700...

[mindtrick]

Great work! Love the Mac4Lin project!

[infra_red_dude]

@mindtrick
thanks for ur comments. much appreciated. i'm glad you liked my work

20th sept. registered 491 downloads wid 4.2GB of data served. so in just 2 dayz the downloads haf crossed 8.2GB!!! whoa!! much beyond my expectation!!! thanks to everyone total data served (both ver.0.1alpha and ver.02 combined) till this day, this time has crossed 17.2GB!

ps: some users wid high resolutions laptop screens haf given the feedback that the battery icons are too small. i'm working on that now. also haf a new black, bit sunken apple logo for the panel and a mac usplash theme in the pipeline (thanks to buu700 and everyone who contributed to the project)

[marckie]

Red, its marc here... Thanks again for this Blockbuster Project!
Anyways, buu700 I envy your panel... How can I do it in my system? Sorry for being so newbie... the instructions listed are for Edgy... Is it ok for Feisty too?