The Cynic Says……

So yeah, I really like the way OSX looks… so I themed Metacity to look like the brushed OSX theme. It’s sleek as hell. The only thing I don’t like is that you can’t really theme the gnome panel. Outside of that, it’s a pretty nice reproduction of OSX. Here’s a screenshot of how it looks. I managed to find a GTK 2.0 theme that themed the buttons just right, a window theme that made the window borders look the way I want them and then an icon theme that’s a pretty nice representation of OSX icons. My GTK2 theme is called “GNOMetal2″, the window border theme is called “RPanther Classic” and my icon set is “Gnometal”. I also managed to find a mod for GAIM that changes all the pixmaps to clones of the iChat icons. The GTK theme, icon set and GAIM mod are available here. You’ll also need the Metacity theme to round out the OSX look. Unfortunately there’s no way to completely mimic the finder interface with the toolbar at the top of the screen and the dock at the bottom, so it’s far from perfect… Still not too shabby though.