This is my first color scheme. It's not really a "Theme"; trying to be something like "jewelry" or "desert" or whatever; it is just the way I would redesign the basic interface if I could. So it is a bit more high-tech looking, but still plain.
I changed everything I could. This is not a cheap color tweak of a preset scheme. It even comes with its own folder icons. They're not the greatest I've seen (Chromium Au's take that title- and maybe the plain BeBox folder) but they do look pretty cool and go with the interface much better than the boring blue Apple ones. Also, you get Folder Icon Maker resources and a matching replacement startup screens.
-Side-note- I'm sure people would ask me what the "trashcan" is. It doesn't matter really, because it looks cool and its function is obvious, but... It's an incinerator cube. The rims are glazed concrete tile, and the center is pumice. The left pipe carries lOx, the right caries propane. You put stuff in it, and it burns. Does that about cover it?
This is the "Primary Pack". It contains 3 different versions of Stylus- Red, Gold, and Blue. They are identical except for accent colors. Why didn't I use Kaleidoscope's built-in Accent Colors to accomplish the same thing? It's too limited to change all the stuff I wanted to change. There is a startup screen for each version, but if you think the Red startup screen looks the best, and you use Stylus Gold, no one's stopping you from mixing them up.
New in this version: very little. Just made some minor aesthetic fixes to Apple menu icons, highlighted scroll arrows, and other stuff; put in ics4 resources (though this is still not a 16-color schme, sorry; and made disabled radio buttons (which I somehow forgot).
Known problems: There are a few things I haven't gotten around to, like the tedious Hex codes in the "actb" and "dctb" resources. It may be partially incompatible with some programs (The radio button mask is wrong in Netscape Navigator and certain third party control panels, for instance.) If you find something else wrong with it, e-mail me so I can fix it. I don't know how it works with Smartscroll, but it should just elongate the middle of the three scroll handles and look OK. If you use it with double-arrows, it probably won't look right. If you see my arrows, you'll know what I mean.
It looks pretty bad in 16-color mode. There should be ics4 versions of everything, but I spent no time making them look decent; and you shouldn't be using 4-bit color anyway. Buy more VRAM or something.
I'm not even going to pretend like anyone's going to pay me money for this, so for now it's Free. If I make a few more schemes, I may put them together as a big set and then declare them shareware. This means I still don't really expect anyone to pay me, but I get to make them feel guilty for not doing so. : }
You may give this to all your friends (if they want it) or make whatever ResEdit changes to it you like. BUT... If you change it, keep your bizarre bastardizations of my work to yourself rather than loosing them on an unsuspecting world. Translation: Do NOT rip off the scheme, change three ics8 resources in ResEdit, rename it "BillyBob's StylishRed w/PhallicWidgets™" and post it somewhere as a "new" Kaleidoscope scheme. This will usually result in two guys called Vince and Alfonse coming to your house at 3:00am, in dark glasses and ponytails, and breaking both your kneecaps with a large wooden baseball bat. Thank you for understanding.
My name is Evan Thompson
My e-mail is uthome02@mcl.ucsb.edu
This scheme will someday have a Web page, but right now it doesn't.
Oh, also go check out a scheme by Adam Cederblom called Surge. It's named for some team in Sacramento (?). Speaking of cheap color-switch ripoffs, it is a cheap color-switch ripoff of Ice. But it's still not bad, if you're into that sort of thing...
I'm starting on a whole new scheme- It's a neutral tan color with super-smooth, curvy, one-piece windows. There will probably be two versions. It's very different from this one. Look for it in a couple weeks.
