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Look at this!

Posted by: jamie marchant on 2013-04-12 10:18:31 Look what I found in Fedora Core X64 XFCE spin: The theme is called Pallentiunin(not supsesingly)! All of the buttons do what you would expect you can't double click on a window tittle to compress it.(I hope I'm not mixing that up with some other UI) Ammways just thought I would share this.

Posted by: markyb86 on 2013-04-12 12:16:58 I made one similar not too long ago for XFWM4 (XFCE Window Manager) so you can use it on any *nix running XFWM. http://www.markyb.org/xfwm4-theme-pla/

Posted by: jamie marchant on 2013-04-12 12:28:36 Good work. Just to clefiy the theme I found was shipped with the OS, I did not make it. Also notice that it has a minimize button, there are also themes for Windows XP and BeOS(obscure Mutimeida OS, which I belive did work on PowerPC macs), not sure about Mac OS X, if you wnat your OS to look like those.

Posted by: Gorgonops on 2013-04-12 13:21:25 I remember both Enlightenment and KDE 1.x having System 7-ish appearance modes back in... gah, 1998 or so? It's not exactly a new thing. (A Slackware install of that vintage will have the Mac theme available out of the box.) XFCE probably packages a Platinum theme as an inside reference to the "low resource consumption" goal of the environment. Out of curiosity I did take a peek to see if a Platinum theme was still floating around for KDE Plasma and failed. OS X themes are of course a dime a dozen. (There does seem to be one for Gnome.) I believe KDE does optionally still support some classic Mac OS UI conventions like "windowshading", however. I was never that into it so I haven't checked for a while. KDE *does* still offer the BeOS windows style on the default list, oddly enough. Never could get excited about that one.

Posted by: markyb86 on 2013-04-12 15:07:51 Yeah I wound up making that XFCE theme because they used to ship a similar one for metacity with XFCE, but when they started using XFWM4 I couldn't find anything.

Posted by: onlyonemac on 2013-12-01 08:53:11 My XFWM4 desktop used to be set so that you double-click the titlebars to make the windows "shade". Perhaps they changed that in newer versions?

Posted by: jamie marchant on 2013-12-01 09:35:11 On my XFCE desktop I have a "shade" button.(I think it uses the same icon as Mac OS) I can also left-clik and click "roll window down" or "roll window up".

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