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Product Description:
UNO derives from the Latin word for one.
UNO is the root of Unity.
UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar / titlebar look & feel to every single window on your system (metal or aqua, and already unified windows as well).
On an higher level, UNO's main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look and feel as one.
UNO is aimed to those who want a clean and un-osbstructive interface while keeping the best of Aqua.The unity level proposed by UNO does not compromises overall GUI contrast: UNO and UNO shade can be mixed up in order to achieve that usability goal.
UNO also fixes some Blue/Graphite appearance inconsistencies.
Please check interacto.net GUI section for screenshots, FAQs and more info.
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Bug reporting as well... Please drop a line here.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.5:
UNO Installer:
Check the complete history here.
UNO Installer:
- Complete rewrite of UNO.
- New UNO installer with animated window size transitions (System Preferences), window transparency fade in/out, revamped customize installation panel and live preview (more comfortable windows preview size), new progress indicators and bezel messages.
- Added the ability to browse to applications path if Preview, QuickTime, Safari, iTunes or Mail aren't found at the default location (Applications folder).
- Better error handling: If User cancels browsing to "not found" apps path, or if User points to the wrong app, or if iTunes version is not supported or only partially supported, the options for that app will appear as disabled in the customize installation panel. Also, a little yellow warning badge will appear next to that app options (mouse over the warning badge to get a tooltip info on the problem, click the badge to solve the problem).
- If found iTunes version is 6, UNO Graphite, UNO Shade Blue and UNO Shade Graphite options will be disabled in the popup selector.
- Improved safety: UNO double checks file integrity before install/uninstall. MD5 and CRC32 key values are now verified. If corrupt files are found UNO warns the User and quits without making any change.
- Disabled installation on Leopard (10.5). Even if it was reported as working with the latest developer preview builds, because Leopard should go Gold shortly and with all the rumors of a new GUI, this seems the right thing to do.
- Added a warning if Backup is not found when User tries to "Restore from Backup".
- Added "Restore from Backup" toolbar item (was only available from the main menu on previous versions).
- Updated "guifix" to handle the new files.
- For enhanced reliability "guifix" only handles the restoration of crucial system files (application skins must be restored by UNO app).
- Added "UNO FAQs" and "Visit interacto.net" menu items to the "Help" menu.
- Added button linking to interacto.net to the main window's bottom corner.
- Added "Donate" button to the "Info" panel.
- UNO window is now always centered on the screen at launch.
- UNO doesn't quit iTunes before install anymore.
- Redone UNO icon from a hi-res 32 bits 512x512 matrix.
- New UNO dmg package with link to "Applications" folder for easy install and link to UNO FAQs.
- Better file handle algorithms.
- Random slogans.
- UNO installer UI is now a single NIB.
- Added Russian localization - by Mikhail Fedoseev.
- Added Dutch localization - by Gerrit Vanoppen (http://homepage.mac.com/gerritvanoppen/).
- Added Czech localization - by Zoltan Levai.
- Updated Spanish localization - by Rodrigo Fernandez-Romero (http://greenleafstudios.es/).
- Updated Italian localization - by Claudio (http://shieldnet.tk/).
- For translators: No more need to edit NIB files to localize UNO. All strings are now parsed from the "Localizable.strings" file and rich text found in "Info" panel is retrieved from a localized "ReadMe" file.
- Toolbar items selected items is now properly shown in UNO installer.
- Fixed the GUI glitch of window headers in all UNO variations (some parts where not themed in vertical tabs) in applications like PalmDesktop.
- Fixed the "long-standing" QuickTime bottom corners glitch (were showing white artifacts).
- New truly consistent (*) General Appearance (Blue/Graphite) and Highlight Color (Blue/Graphite/Red/Gold, etc...) options can be set within UNO and are reflected in Live Preview. UNO respects your current Appearance option as set in System Preferences and shows accordingly at launch. (*) We say consistent because, unlike the System Preferences Appearance Option, if User selects Graphite look in UNO the Finder sidebar selection, User PrefPane selection, Mail, Safari, QuickTime, iTunes, etc, will be actually Graphite.
- The General Appearance option popup selector acts like a master key: When User selects Blue or Graphite all other related option (apps skins) will be set accordingly (User can then change the skins individually).
- New option: iTunes skin (for version 7.1 and later) fully Aquified (even bottom buttons and LCD display) with square bottom window corners reaching perfect UNO integration. iTunes skin is available in UNO Blue, UNO Graphite, UNO Shade Blue and UNO Shade Graphite. - Thanks to Gerrit Vanoppen.
- New option: Preview UNO skin, mixable with UNO or UNO Shade window texture. - By Gerrit Vanoppen.
- New option: Safari skins available in Blue and Graphite variations, mixable with UNO or UNO Shade window texture. - By Gerrit Vanoppen.
- New option: Apple Mail skins available in Blue and Graphite variations, mixable with UNO or UNO Shade window texture. - By Gerrit Vanoppen.
- New option: QuickTime skins available in Blue and Graphite variations, mixable with UNO or UNO Shade window texture - By Gerrit Vanoppen.
- Internal build.
Check the complete history here.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
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Be careful with Uno 1.5.2 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 / QuickTime 7.3 - Version: 1.5.2, 11/17/2007 05:50PM PST
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- Be careful with Uno 1.5.2 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 / QuickTime 7.3
Perfect - Version: 1.5.2, 11/17/2007 08:22AM PST
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TomHopper
With Mac OS X, Apple introduced the new Aqua interface. Then Metal. Then the iTunes metal look.
They're all nice, but they also all offer slightly different visual cues, and different draggable areas, and different clickable areas. I find this ever so slightly annoying.
Uno fixes Apple's fragmented interface. With Uno, you get one look, the iTunes Unified look, across the whole operating system. This creates not only visual consistency, but behavioral consistency, too. The Unified look is not my favorite, but having one consistent interface, everywhere, makes up for the minor visual deficiencies.
They're all nice, but they also all offer slightly different visual cues, and different draggable areas, and different clickable areas. I find this ever so slightly annoying.
Uno fixes Apple's fragmented interface. With Uno, you get one look, the iTunes Unified look, across the whole operating system. This creates not only visual consistency, but behavioral consistency, too. The Unified look is not my favorite, but having one consistent interface, everywhere, makes up for the minor visual deficiencies.
To correct this you have to install the Mac OS X 10.4.11 Combo Updater followed by the QuickTime 7.3 standalone installer.
(tested on an iMac G5 2.0 and a PowerBook 12" 1.33 GHz)