I don't know if you've ever noticed, but the dark mode dock in Yosemite has a 1 or 2 px thick border around the edge. On lighter wallpaper backgrounds, it looks odd.
Is that still in place in El Capitan?
Is that still in place in El Capitan?
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Dark Mode dock – Is there still a black outline?
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I don't like the Dark Mode Dock that much, but I use it for the sake of the dark menu bar. It's more gray than black and, like you pointed out, has that outline.
I don't see any border normally. Sometimes there is one but it goes away if I move a window behind it.
If you feel comfortable, you could modify it to get rid of the black outline:
The files should be in: System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources
I haven't tried myself it, but I think it's the following two files in the location above:
The files should be in: System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources
I haven't tried myself it, but I think it's the following two files in the location above:
Code:
dockbackgrounddark.png
dockbackgrounddark@2x.pngOh I am seeing the border now. It's very faint though and I had to take a snapshot on my retina screen and then look on my iMac: http://dch.link/bo1T
Not to hijack this thread, but did they make the volume, display brightness, and keyboard backlighting HUDs dark for dark mode in this release, or have they been like this?
Image: http://i.imgur.com/8Hsieya.png
Image: http://i.imgur.com/8Hsieya.png
Yep, this is unchanged. But thats the problem? It is dark. How would you have wanted it instead?
It definitely looks different. In Yosemite they just use white or black for the symbols and text that lie on top of translucent components, but your picture shows that they replaced that colour with a vibrancy effect. You can see it all over iOS 8 as well, such as Control Centre and of course in the new Music app too. It looks nicer, in my opinion.
Here you go, compiled and ready to be dropped in plugins folder.
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Thank You. But one question: What plugins folder? I only found one, in Library>Plug-ins. It only has FCPX FxFactory file inside, nothing about dock. I am unsure what folder you were referring?
Might need to open script editor and run
Code:
try
tell application "Dock"
inject SIMBL into Snow Leopard
end tell
end try