Change the look of your Mac.
Flavours Lite is an application to change the operating system's appearance in a fast, easy, and safe way. Applying a theme is only mouse-click away.
Flavours Lite was designed and built from the ground up for OS X 10.10 Yosemite. It features a completely rethought user experience through a new elegant UI, and introduces a new lightweight, fast, safe theming engine.
If you are running older OS X versions (10.7, 10.8 or 10.9), check Flavours Classic, which allows users to create, apply, and share themes (flavours-classic.interacto.net).
Note: Flavours 2 Lite is a paid upgrade. Existing Flavours 1 licensees are eligible for an upgrade at a discounted price (50% off).
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Nonetheless, especially for those who have supported Flavours over the years, I encourage you to at least upgrade to this new, Lite version. The developers have earned our loyalty and support. No, I don't get any profit or other benefits from promoting them like this. My vested interest is simply that I think they deserve it. No one else gave us theming for a very long time. It was remarkable that they were able to give us something so engaging. My two cents.
And you're right about Apple needing to support theming, although I doubt we'll see it. I upgraded to Yosemite mostly out of need but hate the UI. It's just plain ugly. I'll be purchasing Flavours lite because, even with only a few themes I like, it's still a substantial improvement.
At least in terms of theming, I think the better route is to write directly to Mr. Cook. I seriously doubt Mr. Ives wants to hear anything other than what comes out of his own mouth, even though I think his design strategy is for s***. I have a doctorate in instructional design, and any 101 course will teach you the critical value of color coding to accomplish useful results.
Anyway, I digress. The way I see it, it was Mr. Jobs who said "no theming"; but it was also Mr. Jobs who told Mr. Cook not to try to do "what Steve would want." As such, maybe he'll be open to new ideas.
I should think, at least, that Apple should hire the Flavours developers. It's not as if they don't know what they're doing. They did what no one else could.
Certainly, Apple would not want garish looking themes; that makes sense. But certainly a middle ground must be possible to allow for some expression. The way my Yosemite-driven laptop looks right now, I might as well just go back and use a Mac SE from 1987. Sad. I cling to the hope that "this, too, shall pass."
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Fb-eye71: Unfortunately, I don't think Apple will hire renowned GUI artists because Mr. Ives already believes he is one, if not THE ONE. So we're going to be stuck with this ugly mess for a very long time. And I agree with your notion of having Apple buy Flavours and putting it on the MAS.
I'm starting to think that the best route to take here is to convince MS and other competitors to make theming a major selling point of their OS. Then Apple will want to jump on that bandwagon.