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Well, drat. I tried it on El Capitan, both with and without rootless. It simply says "Unsupported." So that really is the end of the line. Still, the developers seem to know their stuff, and I have faith that one of these days, they're going to come up with something that can free us of that dreadful grey that we used to put up with in the early days of Classic.

I think it is sad although I understand the reasons for Apple wanting to secure the system, like others here I don't see why Apple can't give us a few choices of gui, especially those G awful folders, the flat icons for facetime, etc. and don't get me started on that so called moronic grinning 'have a nice day' update to the finder icon !! Perhaps if enough people get together and email them something may happen even if they just get Jonny Ives a beginners guide to icon design, he may be good at the 3D stuff but the 2D sucks. Anyway I will buy F2 even if it's just to give the guys $5 for a beer.

So are the rumors true that this is the end of the line?

Flavours Lite is very interesting to see that the program is reliable and powerful. I hope that there will be soon the version of Flavours with the ability to produce even your own themes.

Flavours Lite released with 128 themes for Yosemite. As dev advises, this may well be the end of theming on Mac due to Apple's new security policy of preventing any process (including privileged processes) from modifying system files under any circumstances. So no more theming, modifying GUI, etc etc. So get used to sickening eye-candy garish GUI because you won't be able to tweak it to suit your tastes. Surely, surely, it's about time Apple supports theming or tweaking GUI as core OS function? Why do we have to use garish colours with no choice or options for colour schemes/themes etc? Kaleidascope, then Shapeshifter, now Flavours. The fact that these theming apps are developed and used suggests very strongly there is a demand for such options to tweak GUI. It's time Apple supported theming, either as core OS or allowing devs to cater to demand by users. 5 Stars for Flavors and great devs, 0 stars for Apple eye-candy garish GUI.

I suspect modifying the app for Yosemite has proven more difficult that the developer expected. Which means you will have to wait longer than you expected for the final product. Though he's calling this a sneak peek, what it really means is this is beta software. And it's in the nature of beta software to not be feature complete. I think the developer outsmarted himself by calling this a sneak peek. People are obviously expecting this to be a more complete product. If he had been more honest, people would know it is beta software and would be less disappointed in the missing features. They might also be more constructive in their comments. Moral for developers: don't try to be cute with your marketing. People don't take it well when they think they've been misled.

I contacted the makers of this program asking when they hoped to have their new Flavours 2. They sent me the link to the Sneak Peak demo version. While it looks good and works well I found it very limiting and not able to give the program a full test drive. I also noted and emailed back informing them that there was no theming creation window to make your own themes as in the earlier full licensed version and if this feature was not going to part of the Flavours 2. And if not will not be paying for the update. Given that it has taken interacto labs this long and to only come with a very limited working demo beta and no word back as to whether the new Flavours 2 will give users the ability to create their own themes as previous is poor. And what happens when the demo stops working as it has limited time use date on it to then still not have a full working version? Shame on you Interacto for fobbing us off with this poor attempt that has taken you this long to only come up with a limited working version. Not worth the download. Isn't it interesting that companies like Adobe managed to get full working updates for all their programs working on Yosemite along with other companies and their programs. They'd go out of business if treated their customers like Interacto labs do with poor communication to removing many of the previous features from their programs. Piss poor

I have the paid version for pre-Yosemite and since i have always loved to apply themes to change the appearance of OS 9 and X looking forward to try this later on this week when i boot into one of my external Yosemite hard drives. At the moment i have a huge beef with Yosemite and believe that Apple needs to address some serious behavioral issues with Yosemite. Actually there were some excellent theme changers in OS 9 and prior that i still have/use in my legacy macs operating OS 9 and prior, To bad, the developers are unable to transport those into OS X versions of Flavours. For example you could change system fonts, colour finder windows and add finder window patterns.

I sure miss Flavours. Albeit preYosemite Flavours seemed to have hit the wall with not too many improvements and not as versatile as ShapeShifter was. For example in Flavours you could never set different colored windows.

I somewhat do not get what is taking the developers so long. Yosemite has been in the works for at least a year and there are many other applications that have developed Yosemite versions of their applications.

Also i don't mind paying an upgrade rate.

At the moment i dress up my desktop using programmes such as PimpYourScreen/Wallpapers plus Yosemite General Preference settings.

Having said that I doubt that there will be a Yosemite version of Flavours in the forseable future since you can tweek the General Settings in Yosemite and use a programme such as pimp your screen or wallpapers.

This used to be one "kick-ass" piece of software (and it still is, as long as you stay with Mavericks or older). However, since there is no progress with regard to the development of a Yosemite-compatible version I have given up hope that Flavours will ever make it back on stage... Farewell, dear friend.

Flavours is a great skinning theming alternative for those of us who can no longer use Stardock's Windowblinds. And yes love what these two chaps have done. Sadly since upgrading to Yosemite OS X, Flavours no longer works as is it not supported by Apple's latest operating system. My one disappointment is any real lack of support on Interacto Labs, Inc website and no user manual or any tutorials that walk you through the process of creating a theme which tends to be, as one reviewer and some others have stated, “Hit and miss.” Yes there’s an easy navigational user interface, but no information as to what each part does. Instead you’re left clicking about in the hopes of creating anything decent to then having to publish your theme. Even the best program creators like Adobe never leave their users without any real help should they wish it when using any of their products and helps with the learning curve. And you only have to look at Stardock’s Wincustomize website to find a wealth of user created themes with many great tutorials with easy to follow instructions on how to create a theme for Windowblinds, despite many people’s ease of use of the interface when creating a theme. And when it comes to using Flavours you won’t find many users able to explain or showing you how to create a theme from scratch should you wish start from scratch with your own images created in Photoshop to use in your themes. The makers of Flavours have announced a brand new stand alone upgrade called Flavours 2 with no date when this is to be expected. So for now like many who have upgraded their macs to Yosemite we're now waiting. My only hope is that IInteracto Labs, Inc will not like so many other theme makers for the Mac like Shapeshifter fall behind and into obscurity.

There are 104 pages of previews of the available flavor themes for Mac. The theme I'm using is like paper noise on page 2 but I modified it myself a little bit. Love it and couldn't go back to the standard Mac drab grey and silver. http://store.interacto.net/flavours/mostpopular?page=2 I found on Mountain Lion you must exclude iTunes 12 from being themed in flavours otherwise the borders of the iTunes window do not paint properly.

I'm finding that this is a great piece of software. Great chance to make your own theme! I love it.

So, is this like the old Unsanity ShapeShifter Haxie? (Except, I assume its not a haxie).

seems the last update introduced a serious issue, after a freeze happened while updating. i had to force-restart my mac, but having automatic login enabled, i wasn't able to pass the booting process, also in verbose mode i had no useful hints about possible causes. i had to boot in single user mode and manually clean my system, deleting everything flavours-related stuff. i've tried to trash flavours cos it's the only 'odd' thing i've installed on my computer, and i was really lucky to let my mac work again after deleting the app. now i'm pretty curious about it: is it possible? is this the real problem? how deep flavours is actually working? now, the system is clean but still skinned. i'm quite scared about installing it again just to re-enable the default aqua theme.

Imagine how many more packages you would sell if it were $5....or $1!

We have been working hard on upcoming Flavours 1.2 (see it in action!) which will bring a lot of features! We will make a Public Beta available in a few weeks - if you wish to try, you can switch to the Beta update channel on Flavours Preferences. Stay tuned!

I tried it and it seems very nice made and easy to use. Only thing i missed was the ability to change also the Fonts colour which would be useful when making dark themes I missed also since i have multiple computers the possibility to export my own themes in order to apply eventually on another machine without having to upload and re-download again otherwise really good work Dev, keep it up and thanks

I'm confused by the "What's New" list for version 1.1.9. Instead of being a "What's New" list, it seems to contain an odd mix of a couple new features, along with several bugs (some major), and things the developer wants to add.

I have to say that I'm disappointed here guys. I went ahead and purchased your app at the promise of dark themes and that I could beta / alpha test a dark theme engine soon and really we've never seen anything that delivers our requests. It has now been many, many months and we just aren't getting any inkling of an update for true dark themes. Everything we see so far is pretty much a light theme as there've been no steps to darken the window contents and to make dark menubar and app widgets work properly. I completely realize that this is not a trivial task. You essentially have to extract icons/bitmaps and invert them or massage them with filters and so forth. BUT I would have preferred to not get my hopes up if you were not going to be able to do it anytime soon and to be frank and honest with the community. Please tell us your plans and even problems and perhaps you'll find some talented folks among us who can help you to solve the issues that will bring for real themes that so many of us want. So far I just haven't found any themes I really want to use out of all 60+ pages on your site in each category.

I love this app! I have been missing Shapeshifter for so long, but Flavours is so much easier to use! Thanks to the developers for their hard work and to those who have created the nostalgic themes like Panthora and Tigris and Jion.

Looks promising, but without more extensive screen-shots I'm not able to tell if this will actually be a solution for us. Does this product change fundamental UI elements such as the scroll-bars and individual buttons in programs such as Mail and Safari? My school is looking for a solution to solve a host of UI problems (poor visibility, difficult-use-or-even-missing scroll bars, little differentiation between buttons which are now all grey) which were introduced with Lion and which remain to this day. Throughout our school the frustration with the Mac UI since Snow Leopard continues to grow. Regardless of how much training we have, rather than "getting used to" the changes as we expected would happen, staff and students continue to routinely struggle with a UI which is more difficult to use and frustration continues to grow rather than diminishing. Ideally, if this product could simply give us back a UI which looked liked Snow Leopard (or something else which worked just as well) I think everyone here would be happy and it could mean a site-license for our school. If it can't give us back more-functional scroll bars and color-differentiated icons in programs such as Mail and Safari then it really doesn't suit our purposes. Does anyone have screen-shots showing more than just the sample-elements on the developer's site?

I wrote a pretty comprehensive review, but it has vanished altogether, and I didn't make a backupo copy (of course). Because there are serious issues , at least for me, that I really need to see resolved before I can use it further, I have to try writing it all over again. Before I go any further, I bought the app for 20$ last week.. I don't know why it's listed for $16.. I really didn't even have to do it immediately, anyways.. the demo was extremely generous. All the themes were available, and once installed, would, I assume, stay installed forever, irrespective of whether the demo had expired or not . I would have been stuck with that theme until I'd bought it, so if you're not going to buy it within 2 weeks, pick a theme you can live with for a while. ;-) First.. the good. This app is as good as Shapeshifter ever was, at least potential wise. If any confirmation were needed, it's that the same successful themes from earlier versions of Mac OS keep popping up, by, I would assume, the same creators. I've made a few myself that that the webmaster of "Michaels Mac" considered first class, so I know that one wouldn't go to the effort of reissuing a good theme on anything but a first class theming app.. Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me figure how to creAte themes on it. With no help file whatsoever, it really sucks. Why no help file? Directions like "add topping" or "Strawberrying", Waffle coneing" or "tasteful, creamy" tell me not a dam thing.. Frankly, I want to know how to modify the drop down menus to increase transparency, seeing as this app has now cracked that nut... Same with fonts. Black fonts on black toolbars or buttons is entirely unhelpful, but I could find nothing to tell me how to alter that. Certainly a help file with more than a circle drawn around a button would go a long way to improve matters. Lastly, sometimes, the theme simply doesn't load on boot. And also, when opening up the "favorites" I have selected, gives me a blank screen and the app freezes. I'd love to give it 5 stars all around, as it is the best thing since shapeshifter, but the lack of a help file for doing mods throws it off. And dont tell me that "well, the other creators had no problems" because I assume they, in fact, did, and simply because it's possible is no excuse to make it difficult. Often the most legitimately creative artists are NOT good at deceiphering bizarre puzzles, which is what this amounts to... Plus the mentioned bugs. Still the best thing currently out there, (except for crystal clear/black, which is NOT 10.9 compatible I hope to eventually be able to give it 25 stars...)

ah, why did i install this bloatware. so i installed the trial, after checking a couple of windows-like buggish and mistasteful themes i uninstalled it and all the traces along with /usr/local/lib/libflavoursui.dylib and something else in that folder and after that - guess what - App Store will not open anymore. HA HA! a message from the App Store crash log: Application Specific Information: dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries Dyld Error Message: could not load inserted library: /usr/local/lib/libflavoursui.dylib after checking out dyld itself - it is modified! so what do you call an app that modifies system files? anyone?

I'm still waiting for the ability to change text color. Without this themes are extremely limited.

v1.1 for Mavericks is available on their site. YMMV. It's making Safari a bit active and a couple other apps which I admit haven't been updated yet.

Doesn't work under Mac OSX 10.9. Hopefully they can fix this soon.

The obvious elephant in the room here is the color scheme most people would think most cool - light/white text on dark/black background - is apparently no can do. Wonder why OS X dark theming (with default non-black text) is seemingly so programatically insurmountable. Well actually we know it is not because Crystal Black does it, though that application really seems to have to inelegantly struggle and fight to kill all that cursed proprietary gray.

Hi, I saw this software, tried it and bought it. I think it's awesome. Remember me on those days where i used shapeshifter from unsanity. Some themes are very very similar ... ;o) One Questions to the developer: What's about flavours if mac os x maverick is reaching us?

Makes your Mac feel new again. Fun to use and works with everything on my system so far. You can even turn off specific programs. Kaleidoscope is gone and it's been years, but thankfully "theming" has returned to the Mac. Very happy with it!

Hi, I am writing because I've bought the app through MacUpdate and the license code that I have got is not working and keeps me stuck in the demo mode. Where should I contact the programmer personally?

For all those users who are looking to change the GUI - buy Flavours! Rock solid, more than 130+ themes to chose from, and the ability to create your own or modify an existing theme. Promised support for 1.9 Mavericks so all is good with the universe! Can't go wrong at 50% off!

You know guys, you're running a great 50% off promo right now, but give us something to buy it on. If you can tell us "Flavours will have true dark themes within 4 weeks." You'll have us falling out of our chairs to buy this right now in preparation for your landing. At least give us some feedback here and let us know where this is in your priorities. If you don't care, let us know and we'll put our dollars behind Crystal Black and CrystalClear. He at least replies to us.

Here's a suggestion for all the guys that want a dark theme: 1. Use Flavours and apply the "Calcium" theme; 2. Run Nocturne, switch to night mode, invert screen, tint colours and adjust white to blue-black and black to white (according to your preference), "invert hue", and disable shadows 3. use the "Nocturne" extension for chrome (although this makes all images black and white instead of properly inverting their colours) 4. and a final cool effect - use Isolator to fade out background windows (using an inverted background colour to make windows in the background fade into the shadows).

Hi ! I'm seduced by this application. But there's a problem with some of my software at startup : BetterTouchTool, Typinator and XtraFinder. They are delayed and don't work as expected. Now, I can't buy Flavours until these issues are not solved.

Ok, so I am thinking about buying this app. I am keen to get rid of the garish Apple GUI. I too remember Kaleidoscope on Classic and Shapeshifter on X, plus a host of other small, short-lived attempts along the way. Looking at the dev's webpages and various screen grabs, it looks promising. One thing I can't discover is if Flavours can change the horrendous traffic lights for windows? Is this possible? Any other tips or info on what is/is not/can/can not be modified will be very useful

Does "Download more flavours from the online store" mean you gotta pay for these?

We are aware that the missing buttons issue persists for a small subset of users. We are working hard on it and kindly ask for your collaboration by participating on the thread linked below, which will help to fix the issue. https://interacto.zendesk.com/entries/23525003-Window-buttons-icons-are-missing-after-applying-a-flavour Thank you.

I installed version 1.0.1 for the first time. It hosed my system. I have no buttons and no icons in the upper left corner of any of my windows. I have uninstalled and rebooted as the app said and still my system is now broken. How can I get my system back??

The idea is great, I like the app, but it is way too much money for what it can do. At most to me it is a 1.99 app store app.

Dear Sirs, Thank you for your interest in Flavours. We were able to reproduce the issue and fixed it. If you are still experiencing the issue, please open the Terminal application and type: sudo chmod aog+r /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Resources/* (you will need to enter your password, when prompted) We are working on incorporating the fix on the application. This will be fixed on 1.0.1, to be released later today. We really appreciate your feedback. Best regards.

i dream about a mac OS X 10.6 version compatibility...