Iridium1.9.F

very nice theme indeed. i never liked the stiped interface of osx and there were something about aqua in tiger i didnt like but this pretty much fixed it aswell as allowed me to discover themechanger. now i dont have to buy shapeshifter.

Excellent, finally now my Tiger looks like Leopard !!!! I don't know, but it also seems somehow faster. I love the new Safari, it looks much more positive now, and I can finally read the tab titles!! The Finder windows, oh my god, I instantly fell in love, this looks like the Rhapsody theme!! I love it!! Thank you so much, please keep up the work, maybe there are other possible themes!! One little glitch though, on the small windows like e. g. "Copy" or "Empty Trash" the line between the title bar and the window content is missing.

Excellent piece of theme development! Works nicely with OSX 10.4.10, with no hassles! Very well done; a great replacement for Apple's Aqua default theme! Thanks!

If you are wondering, yes Iridium still compatible with 10.4.9. I've been using UNO for quite some time that I forgot how nice Iridium is. Keep up with the awesome work. Thanks a lot!

This works with 10.4.9.

-Add a better bar slide separator in small window mode (take from original Aqua 10.4, it better than a grey bar…) -Why not add prefs: Bar slide lighter/Darker Boutons Color Themes for all Apps Little cleaner than UNO on result, but very ugly install…

This seems to work fine in Mac OS X.4.8!

I was very worried about themes messing up my system (from previous experience with ShapeShifter and such).. But this.. this works great! no need for ShapeS n all that, very clean and of course very beautiful!.. Thanks..the only (tiny) bug i noticed might be the bottom corners of Quicktime windows which looks a bit weird, but acceptable

Thank you very much..... For me this is the best Theme & Apple should make it possible to switch Themes in Mac OS X 10.5. Thank you for Iridium Hydroxide !!!!! and plz keep it free. For me the best looking Theme out there and much nicer than Brushed Metal. Works great on PowerPC & Intel Mac#s

Apple should consider adopting the iridium look. Iridium is the most beautiful theme around, as far as I am concerned.

I'll miss IridiumHydroxide... :(

Nice theme. However, a little too bright, I personally prefer UNO's cleaner look.

Please continue to update and improve this theme for future versions of OS X. Please, please, please , please. :)

Thanks for including a link to the dlta version, directly on the product page! Not sure when you started that practice, but this is the first time I noticed it. Not to mention it's a fantastic theme; thanks!

Iridium is a beautiful theme, one of the best I've ever seen. I used it consistently for many months and found it to be nearly trouble-free; only very occasional glitches, and usually these happened where Apple deviated from their own standard practices (Fast User Switching menulet, Bookmarks separater in Safari, etc). It is *very* bright however, so be sure to check the screenshots before installing. Myself, I liked it. My quibbles: I don't like the background 'shelf' graphic for Dashboard widgets, the Apple/G5-style one was nicer. And the lack of any demarcation between the toolbar area that you can grab, and the actual button area, is tricky to discern. 'Real' unified toolbar apps (like Mail) let you drag the window ANYWHERE there isn't an icon. Apps that have the old draggable toolbar only - you can't tell where the draggable area begins with Iridium installed. A minor annoyance. Great work though. I wish Apple was as consistent. Iridium Finder looks way better than the bushed metal Apple default look.

Works great with 10.4.4 too - brilliant!!!

Absolutely wonderful, this is how OSX should really look. Sheer elegance. As ever, this installed without as hitch. I'm extremely grateful for this. Thank you VERY much!

I have to say, as much as I like the functionality of OS X, it's UI has been getting funkier and funkier every upgrade with a new "style" introduce literally each point release... Between Aqua, metal, unified, the weird Mail only nasty buttons, etc... I can only wish they'd get it together and made it look as good as Iridium. But somehow I have the feeling that's not going to happen any time soon... So Iridium is the solution :)

the light gradient in 1.6.6 is missing. apart from that safari looks normal again.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, the new release of ThemeChanger has not arrived. DLTA is the native file format for ThemeChanger and according to ShapeShifter, it can use DLTA files too. I provided links above for both the DLTA files and for the Panther version of Iridium. I will continue to make DLTA files (since I do it as part of my dev cycle) and I will release all betas in DLTA format. Release Candidates (RC) will then be used to test the installer with the new mods. And, until ThemeChanger makes a new release, the actual releases of Iridium will continue to use my installer. I am a big fan of ThemeChanger and am active in helping Abhi Beckhert work on the new release. If anyone else here would like to help speed Iridium's transition to full ThemeChanger support, please consider helping out on the http://themechanger.sf.net project.

Works fine with 10.4.3!

I agree with a previous poster, please keep the standalone installer!

Awesome way to get rid of the carbon Finder without using ShapeShifter. Thanks!

Please keep the installer. I really like your theme. It is close to be perfect now. But if there is no installer, I won't upgrade it, sorry. I like your installer because it is reliable and easy to launch. I don't want to use another software just for one theme (even if this software is great, open source, and so on).

Please Please Please keep the STANDALONE installer!

Iridium Hydroxide theme does not allow iTunes to run "out of memory" but Iridium theme works fine with iTunes (using the DLTA with ThemeChanger)

The last stand-alone installer? I hope that Themechanger works.... I for one have never had that application work for me with Tiger... I have 3 Mac's! I would keep that option available to users. Just a thought.

I, for one, appreciate the stand-alone installer. If the developer feels like ThemeChanger is the way to go, I'm willing to give it a shot. Also, my experience with ShapeShifter has been wrought with problems. Ick.

Nice fixes... Your theme keeps getting better

I'd love to see the Iridium theme with the Palladium menus (smooth background, glassy menu bar, glassy selected text)

If you would like to try a beta of Iridium that I ported to Panther, please contact me at www.sagefire.org

The download is back. The images in question have been replaced.

Sagefire, a review.. be it good or bad ... should be read and thought about. But don't take negative reviews too personally... and don't forgt that it is an impossibility to please everybody ;) You're doing a damn fine job with Iridium. I love the slick yet simple GUI and I LOVE the standalone installer. Just carry on walking on the path that you chose when starting with Iridium.

A GUI should be clean, clear, consistent, easy on the eyes, and should not draw undue attention to itself. Iridium is nearly perfect in this regard. Unlike most themes, Iridium stems from an extremely simple concept -- unify "unified" -- and succeeds tremendously. The simplest solutions are always the best. At the same time, Apple's mix of Aqua and Textured (brushed metal) is not without some merit, as windows with different looks make them easier to tell apart at a glance, e.g. Mail from Safari, but giving each application an unique GUI is ultimately not a good solution. It's schizophrenic. And I fear this is what OS X is becoming with its Textured, Aqua, Aqua Unified, Pro and Garage Band appearances all cluttering the screen at once. Iridium takes a conservative approach like Platinum did, but keeps most of the charm of Aqua intact and propagates itself system wide (or nearly so), without stooping to over design or becoming gaudy and intolerable. Inspired.

You're back on track...Many thanks!

just briefly went back to aqua when upgrading iridium and i can't believe what a difference iridium makes to the ui. platinum hydroxide is beautiful sniff...

There are a few applications I can't live without on my computer: FFView, Desktop Manager, Butler, MenuMeters... The Chrominium theme is one of them. OS is good, faaaaaaar better than Wincrap and Linux, but not perfect. These applications enhance the OS X experience: ergonomy, stability, fun, usability. Most of them, if not all, are free: seems there's still hope for humanity ;-) To the developper: thank you. With Platinium/Iridum/Chrominium you've made a dream come true, i.e. a viable alternative to the default theme without unstable hacks. Congratulations!

Iridium 1.6.2 makes iTunes 5 look worse then the original default look. It's a shame because the rest of Iridium is cool :)

Having selected 'graphte' in the apearance tab the finder toolbar is still blue. The menubar caps also aren't as 'smooth' as the default tiger theme. Need to be anti-aliased a bit better. So other than the blue elements popping up in the finder and the menubar caps this theme is absolutelly awesome. Thankyou.

Excellent work! However if you could have a blue version like the SmoothStripes theme from maxthemes.com, it would make it even better.

I am uploading v1.6.2 to the server right now. It has a fix for iTunes 5. You can now actually choose between the Iridium and the Chromium skins for iTunes.

If you are not so happy with the Brushed Metal look of OS X and need a reprieve, this is the answer. More than one theme to choose from (I love Palladium) and you don't have to use Unsanity's ShapeShifter/APE combo. Oh, yeah, ITS FREE! Very nice Sagefire, keep up the great work!

I love it. It is easy to install and remove. It is free. It is stable. Thank you!

Without a doubt this is how OSX should really look. I hope Apple is paying attention to this. Thanks for the theme and installation process. Absolutely brilliant!!

Iridium works fine here and looks good. I liked the consistent look of the Classic UI and Iridium brings this back. Very nice.

You know, it really takes a lot to make me gush like a fanboy, but ditto what the other poster said, this REALLY is the shit. Designers and techies like me who sit in front of LCDs all day DO NOT need crud like 'traffic buttons' and beveled menus, etc etc etc. Any color other than GRAY blows our colorsense when working on web or print layouts. Apple got this message years ago when they made Platinum. Then desperately NEED this message again. Until then, we have this theme. Kudos to the Developer for stepping up. All this author is doing is swapping out Finder resources. I'd say that you carry the same risk running third party apps to do this as you do running the Bash script that does it the Unix way. Yes, these are system resources, so BACK UP. That's just prudence! "You've done a man's job, sir!" - Edward James Olmos, Blade Runner

I been commenting on this theme for awhile... I loved it but hated the aqua blue overstate while using shapeshifter. BUT NOW! Standalone installer, either aqua or graphite ... this is the best theme for me.... just the shit! Keep it up!

Dear Iridium Developer, you are my hero. A stand alone installer + the best Tiger theme... ever = the nicest OS X experience around. respect.

Fantastic! This is what i thought Tiger was going to look like while I was waiting for it to come out. I was very disappointed to find Apple only used the "unified" look on a couple of apps, and not on the Finder. Iridium corrects the oversight. Great work!

Absolutely great! One of the best and most beautiful themes I've ever seen! And it keeps improving although I thought it can't... Thanks for making it free, and thanks for avoiding unsanity's haxies. I don't intend to install nor buy ShapeShifter. Keep up the good work!

OMFG!!!!!!ONE!!!!! I love it! This theme just keeps getting better and better. Thank you for this wonderful GUI cheers ! ! !