While I can see the detailing that went into the theme, I think the window buttons are a little to cluttered? I like the unified windows but that top left corner… meh. I like the detailing. However, wth large windows, those dark corner cutouts draw too much attention.

Hey I lvoe taht theme its really awesome best by far ive seen so far. IS there anyway you could send it to me or something Id love to have it on my mac. OH yeah i got shapeshifter also.

Thanks for feat. me in the shot Phill, this screenshot looks great and the theme sure does kick ass!

Goodluck with it David…

That is nasty. You like that though?

Hell yeah I like it. I’ll be switching between this and Uno for a while. (Short attention span.)

Strangely, I’m not very fond of it.

It’s mainly the red buttons that I don’t like, they seem to lack detail.

This looks really unusable.

Steve, the heavy visual weight on the left top corners of windows took a bit to get used to, but I’m happily cruising on Amora now. Basically, I guess you’ll see whether it’s usable or not for your use when it’s out Monday.

i don’t see what’s so special about it now…

the window controls & dvd control are cool, but its not pushing any boundaries…

it’s going to be one of those “cool” themes that aren’t very usable. having a large black portion of your window on the white is really unusable, and the small buttons don’t match with the other aqua portions of the theme.

i think david would be better off theming windows where there is more flexibility

i like it. it might be one of those themes that take getting used too. but with that said the black is possibly an issue(?) maybe just have another variant(?)
awesome pixel pushing though. amazing!
peace.
bv.

I find it interesting that out of all the apps you showcase, not a single one uses a fully-featured standard cocoa toolbar. For all we know, the toolbar widget (little candybar thing in the upper-right hand corner of windws) doesn’t even exist in Amora.

Strange app choices… :/

Pure Gross.

Aqua was designed to make the interface as neutral as possible, in order to highlight the actual useful bits.

This theme is waaaaay too distracting.

The Safari buttons should be bigger or in line with the default ones.

The top left corner of each window is absolute crap, was someone on drugs when doing that part ?

The rest is very nice.

This is great and all, but isn’t it a bit silly to pre-announce it like this? Think of all the visitors who will have forgotten about this by the time it gets released on Monday.

But Ugly like like something the Linux guys would thinks of as Cool.

It looks like Crap on the Macintosh

DUDE COME ON THE THING IN THE TOP LEFT IS SO SUPER FUGLY I CANT EVEN BEGIN TO EXPLAIN IT

get rid of all the unecassary shit and then maybe it will be work a look…

I think it’s that I don’t like themes/skins in general. I’m getting old. I remember using Aaron, and then I got the Copland themes for OS 8, and….. then I lost interest.

David

Wow, that’s amazing… the Mac has SKINZ?! Who knew? OMGWTFBBQ, I totally have to get teh Mac now.

I really like the idea, but the theme is a little odd, I still like it and hope you make more. The digg community has other opinions though.

I think it’s pretty badass actually. It’s different for sure. I’ll be giving it a try come release day.

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There are tons of these “industrial” style skins for Windows. Being the first one of its kind for the Mac doesn’t make it a good theme. I find the industrial look to be pretty unsophisticated and childish.

I can’t even begin to candy coat this one.

It honestly looks like many of the hundreds or thousands of themes for the Windows crowd. Some folks like them but frankly in my eyes I think it sucks bad.

Just remember there’s a reason so many people try to duplicate the Mac look and people just eat them up. This one probably wouldn’t even make it in the top 100 if rated against many of the themes for Windows.

This has to be one of the ugliest themes evar. It looks extremely unusable and “clunky.” The area around the X – + buttons looks stupid and out of place. I was expecting something better. ;(

I for one Love the stuff David produces. He is one of the nicest and most appreciative people I’ve had the pleasure of talking with. I have some of his prints hanging in my house

Count me in on the ” I will be downloading Amora ” bandwagon. I’m looking forward to using it, I try lots of themes, but UNO is my staple

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sorry for the dumb question, but how do i get the theme and not the icons? i have the candy bar icontainer, but i dont want the icons, just the themes in my application and finder windows…

Sally, the theme itself can be downloaded at dlanham.com.

Yes.. download here: http://dlanham.com/goodies/amoratheme/amoratheme.dmg
Great Blog btw! I’ll be visiting soon again! Regards from Ecuador.

thanks phill, i finally figured it out and i love it. i have to say i wish the buttons on Mail were a little bigger and smoother, and that the upperlefthand corner buttons were larger. why? because they’re so goddamn cool looking i ust want to see them a little better. that, and theyd be easier to click on. amora is awesome, haters be damned.

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