Not everyone's happy with the default look and feel of MacOSX. So the Unsanity LLC guys have come to fullfil feature requests from many MacOSX users. They have written applications that are basically "hacks" (Unsanity prefers the word "haxies"), that they change MacOSX, sometimes in a pretty fundamental way. We tested three of their products, Fruitmenu, WindowShadeX and Xounds.
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Maybe you should get ShadowKiller, free from Unsanity. So you wouldn't have to live with shade... I personally love shading on KDE, and wonder why some people don't (yeah, yeah, personal preference)
Maybe I'm not the only one, but I find Aqua quite... well, not my taste. I found this: http://conundrumsoft.com. Maybe Eugenia can review it? I'm don't have OS X
"One problem I had with th... (snip) I could get the foremost window with no shadows, but not the rest.
And each time I was visiting the shadow settings panel, the panel had lost its settings.
But other than that, the haxie works well (except some crashes of the pref panel if I uncheck the "WindowShadeX Enabled" option)"
Sounds more like 3 serious bugs than 1 problem.
10.2 is going to have replacements for all this functionality. Save your $7.
In response to rajan's...
No need for a proper review from Eugenia, here it is:
Duality is neat. There are a bunch of them here: http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/
Duality worked fine for me. No stability issues. Duality and MetamorphX replace UI resources, rather than replacing drawing routines like Kaleidescope does. You can get some really nice themes for Duality, but many are just cheesy, as with all themes.
Personally, I was a big fan of Unlined Aqua in graphite mode. Some of them are really awkward to use, like the Platinum theme.
And for you sick bastards, there are even two Luna themes. 
Duality worked fine for me. No stability issues. Duality and MetamorphX replace UI resources, rather than replacing drawing routines like Kaleidescope does. You can get some really nice themes for Duality, but many are just cheesy, as with all themes.
I'm finding however a theme that is a crisp as QNX or BeOS...
And for you sick bastards, there are even two Luna themes.
If I were to choose between Luna and Aqua, Luna would win hands down (sorry).
:And for you sick bastards, there are even two Luna themes.
If I were to choose between Luna and Aqua, Luna would win hands down (sorry).
I actually prefer the 'watercolour' visual style for XP (i.e. the one that's based on the pre-luna betas appearance)
I actually prefer the 'watercolour' visual style for XP (i.e. the one that's based on the pre-luna betas appearance)
I like that, and used it for a very long time on KDE 3.0 until I got bored of it. The reason why Microsoft dumped that and went for Luna is that it has hired outside people to do the look&feel stuff of the OS.