Is the Mac "appearence" too limited?

[DrQuincy]

Is there any way to create your own colour schemes for the OS X look? If you go to Appearence from System Preferences you only get the option of Blue or Graphite. That's not much choice - is there any way to get more choice withoutusing some long-winded third party software that slows your machine down?

 

[Stretch]

Shapeshifter is the only way to properly and safely do it. Have you tried Shapeshifter? I have a 2.1ghz G5 iMac and I don't notice any slowdown on my machine. I noticed some on my G4 iBook, but you shouldnt have any problem on your iMac.

 

[RiDE]

EDIT: Same post as StrechR.

 

[The Turtle!]

I second the shapeshifter suggestion it's great...no slow downs for me..well except at startup but its BARELY noticeable its maybe aout 15 seconds longer...which is next to nothing compared to when I had my PC and I was using ANY of the theme changing programs which wouldslow down my system to an unreasonable amount and not to mention it was IMPOSSIBLE to remove them...

 

[eric]

it has always seemed a bit weird to me that windows, the "stodgy" office computer offers such granular control over color and sizing of its skin, and a mac offers just a couple color schemes natively.

 

[nukemm]

it is a bit strange, I do agree, eric. Oh well, Shapeshifter to the rescue.

 

[Smell The Glove]

Good to know that it seems to work well on the Macs. I'm sure I'll be checking them out when I make my MBP purchase. I've been tempted to use some themes in Windows, but I hate bogging down my system and don't want to screw around trying to remove them again later.