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ShapeShifter

ShapeShifter

Customize your OS X interface by changing menus and buttons.

Version:  2.5

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Nice, except breaks most apps

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Handycam2004 Wednesday, November 19 2003 @ 07:29 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: One Day

Recommend Product: NO

The ease of use is outstanding. The themes supplied (and/or linked to in README) are great. Except that it's very broken right now. For example, every Carbon app I've tried crashes on a "Save As..:. This includes must-use apps like Flash, BBEdit, Mozilla, etc. I didn't test others but only found Cocoa apps to not crash (e.g. TextEdit, Safari). All apps I tried launch, work, and look great. It's just anything that brings up the system save dialog is a crasher.

Until this is fixed, which I hope is soon, it's unusable.

Also I was a bit diappointed that the Finder windows in Panther do not skin full when in "Toolbar/Sidebar" mode. In particular, the title bar is not skinned except for the close/min/max buttons. Putting the Finder windows back into "Jaquar" mode fixes this, but at a loss of the new functionality (of course).   
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Nice, except breaks most apps - T A Z M A N

the finder window is themed for me with toolbar and sidebar mode...

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Wednesday, November 19 2003 @ 08:04 AM PST


Nice, except breaks most apps - a2daj

There's a good chance it's the theme you're using that's breaking the carbon apps, not ShapeShifter. I have an old, old version of dxb installed from last winter and it would crash mozilla when trying to view the save dialog box. Switching to a different threme fixed that issue.

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Wednesday, November 19 2003 @ 09:30 AM PST