From 8a85f88bd6c865c93190f08e676dc452bb78abff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wgroeneveld Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 11:45:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] my desktop is dull! - addendum --- content/post/2022/10/my-desktop-is-dull-thanks-to-macos.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/post/2022/10/my-desktop-is-dull-thanks-to-macos.md b/content/post/2022/10/my-desktop-is-dull-thanks-to-macos.md index 5a69794f..985c9021 100644 --- a/content/post/2022/10/my-desktop-is-dull-thanks-to-macos.md +++ b/content/post/2022/10/my-desktop-is-dull-thanks-to-macos.md @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ On \*NIX, I ran [Fvwm](https://www.fvwm.org/), which is extremely customizable b But now, I want to do the other way around! Where is the Shapeshifter or [ThemePark](https://www.geekspiff.com/software/themepark.1.html) Mac software for OSX 12+? All I found was a dicey GitHub project called [PaintCan](https://github.com/MacEnhance/PaintCan) and a theme [called Siro](https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-theme-siro-for-monterey.2352689/) on MacRumors---which is incomplete because suddenly we have to design both a light and dark mode. -MacOS---being it Montery or v13, Ventura---is _boring_. It's dull. The red, orange, and green circles make me yawn. It's too clean. I want custom icons, custom handle bars, silly [system dock apps](https://www.dockapps.net/category/system) like `wmbubble` or Gnome's BubbleMon, a duck on water that visualizes CPU and memory load. [BubbleMon for OSX](https://walles.github.io/bubblemon/) exists but of course doesn't compile on ARM. I don't care for a boring stocks or weather app from Apple. +MacOS---being it Montery or v13, Ventura---is _boring_. It's dull. The red, orange, and green circles make me yawn. It's too clean. I want custom icons, custom handle bars, silly [system dock apps](https://www.dockapps.net/category/system) like `wmbubble` or Gnome's BubbleMon, a duck on water that visualizes CPU and memory load. [BubbleMon for OSX](https://walles.github.io/bubblemon/) exists but of course doesn't compile on ARM. I don't care for a boring stocks or weather app from Apple. Somewhere along the lines of incremental OS updates and standardization, we have lost the possibility to express ourselves. Even all those Gnome-powered default Ubuntu installations I see at work all look alike. Boring. -One of the problems is of course the nature of a commercial OS: it's closed source and leaves little wiggle room to tinker with. Apple Scripts doesn't alleviate that. I appreciate automation tools, but it doesn't let me color my window title bars in bright green. To me, contemporary MacOS feels arrogant: it wears its posh iconic design with too much pride and refuses to let others in. Granted, since OSX 12, "General" settings improved by a large margin, allowing users to set accent and highlight colors and light/dark appearances. +One of the problems is of course the nature of a commercial OS like Apple's: it's closed source and leaves little wiggle room to tinker with. Apple Scripts doesn't alleviate that. I appreciate automation tools, but it doesn't let me color my window title bars in bright green. To me, contemporary MacOS feels arrogant: it wears its posh iconic design with too much pride and refuses to let others in. Granted, since OSX 12, "General" settings improved by a large margin, allowing users to set accent and highlight colors and light/dark appearances. But that's not silly enough: it still radiates _boring!_