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Post Your Desktop: November 2022
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Rainbow Bridge
Tokyo, Japan
2015 MacBook Pro
Is that a wallpaper you can share? It would look great on my iPad.
Kirkjufell Mountain · Iceland
2015 MacBook Pro
Nord for Ventura looking pretty stick as a WIP
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If any kind soul could point me as to where this background damn asset is located Id be almost done!
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If any kind soul could point me as to where this background damn asset is located Id be almost done!
That looks amazing Allan... almost back to Shapeshifter. I can imagine the work you've put in to this theme having dabbled a bit myself.
Ventura?
Great job!
So beautiful! Where would I even start to achieve something like this on macOS Ventura ?Nord for Ventura looking pretty stick as a WIP
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If any kind soul could point me as to where this background damn asset is located Id be almost done!
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Thank you!
A rollercoaster ride for sure. Riding on the highs and the very highs - then the lows, then back up.
I must have started 4 times over because of one thing or another.
This is just Monterey as my Mac has a slight problem with not being officially able to run macOS Ventura. Although it can - just fine. There was just some small issues with Chromium-based browsers.
Looks amazing!! What a surprise really.Nord for Ventura looking pretty stick as a WIP
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If any kind soul could point me as to where this background damn asset is located Id be almost done!
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Excellent job, Allan! Again!!!
What perseverance and craftsmanship. Awesome.
I sincerely regret that this is not possible (yet) on my M1 MBP... 🙃
Carpinteria, United States
2015 MacBook Pro
Stunning sky in this photo, works really well with the menu bar!
Thanks man much appreciated, yeah I thought that would be the case but not having much with that particular block of background colour, I've changed it across all of the 'Dark' .cars updating the mica assets, seems that that block still persists in certain areas of the ui. I'll find it eventually I guess
and get rid of that last remaining area of Mac os default dark grey shade. Im thinking I could do a modern port of 'Milk' with a bit more ease to be honest which is usually my go-to with a new OS update, but wanted to do things a little different this time around! Been really utilising dark mode since upgrading to the new laptop so don't really want to go back without trying!If I can get that background assets theres really no limits to what can be done on Ventura (a port of Stefanka's Cerebro/SimpleOne anyone?
)Quick update, all of the Nord palette accent colours now working nicely also
Unless there is an installer for these I'm going to have to miss out.
There is a M1 version of MacForge and Airbrush.
Looks like Bryce 3D... I'll have a go at it.
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Ive actually went down the route of replacing the system files myself and generating a new snapshot, not been the greatest fan of MacForge on my systems, led to A LOT of crashes and issues in the past so Ive tended to avoid it personally. Its a great piece of kit but not for me personally.
I might have some time in the next few weeks to build my scripts into an app of sorts that would allow for quick easy theme switching on Ventura, though it would involve SIP being switched off.
I think V1 would be getting the app to replace the required bundled system files, however I would rather take it a step further and to take the stock system files that are machine/installation specific, clone the required files, replace the individual assets within the cloned files, swap them with the installed files and generate a new snapshot. Doing it that way would allow the assets to be compiled into a preview where we could use the app to create themes and visualise them in a preview window before applying them to the system
Quick UI mockup POC:
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I hate to rain on anyone's parade, but these "show your desktop" threads are for showing images of macOS desktops... not for a discussion of modding the desktop. Please create another thread for those discussions. You can certainly post photos images of the final products, as those posts would be on topic... but the "how to" and step-by-step modding is not, IMO.
No problem, but isn't it a little silly that you can post a photo but not discuss how it was achieved? If a custom wallpaper is shown is it not allowed to be discussed? No one is giving step by step instructions/how to's or anything like that, I get your point but seems a little short minded.
I'll make another post elsewhere though 👍
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