22/01/2005 - BBX Mercury X updated
This is what’s new:
- All desktops are now bundled inside the guiKit. If you choose one of the patterns, be sure to go into the Desktop prefPane afterwards and rechoose the “Tile” option.
- Added appSkins for iCal, TextEdit and QuickTime.
- Added the Equalizer button to the VLC appSkin.
- Added the AirTunes button and Party Shuffle selection bar to the iTunes appSkin.
- Added the Bluetooth button to the Address Book appSkin.
- Customized the list and list alternating rows background color and the list selection color.
- The selected segment tab is now in the dark material with white text.
- Reworked the way the Metal windows are rendered which means that the titlebar text is always placed above the gloss. This also affects metal drawers and iChat invitation bubbles which will both look better.
- Fixed the inactive state of the Finder path button.
- Changed the way to choose between the different styles of titlebar glyphs. Before it was decided by changing between Blue and Graphite in General preferences, now it’s decided by which theme variation you install.
- Pruned Aqua elements to decrease file size.
The only thing that is not included is the MMX icons by Mikkel Madsen, I sent him an email hoping that he could put together a system set to be bundled. He hasn’t replied yet, but hopefully the icons will be included in a future update.
Also, I’ve noted that the selected segment tab text is still black in Toast 6 which makes it a bit hard to read. And the clicked state of the segment tab uses white text, which isn’t what I wanted, but it’s not possible to change that for the time being. Both are things that has to be worked out in ShapeShifter, which I hope they will be.
The BBX Mercury Extras disk image includes a read me from William Bart, Alert Sounds, a small guide on how to duplicate the look of menus in other apps such as the Terminal and a few internet links.
Downloads (Mac OS X 10.3):
BBX Mercury X 1.5 [3,4 MB]
BBX Mercury Extras [1,6 MB]
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this is totally unimportant, but you may want to update the copyright on the bottom of your page to include 2005
Max,
I’ve always liked the asthetics of BBX Mercury and switch to it every time you make an update, only to remember why I don’t use it.
For some reason, BBX Mercury’s checkboxes are drawn to look like radio buttons. This is a tragic usability issue. I would confuse folks I present to with checkboxes that look like radios.
Would it be much trouble for you to include a variation with square checkboxes in the future?
Thanks,
Jamie
I agree with Jamie too , I’d like to see square checkbox’s. I know which one is which but you yourself has mentioned this to other themes in the past.
The rounded checkboxes are true to the original and last time I asked, William Bart didn’t want me to change them. But I agree with you and I’ll see if I can ask him about it again.
While were at it, there is a bug I’ve forgot to report. Open up System preferneces and go to the Energy Saver Pref. Pane. Is it me or at the active and inactive portions of the tracks that the sliders run on supposed to be switched? Or is this a bug in the pref. pane?
Michael - the track fills are not possible to theme, so it can’t be a theme bug. I don’t think it’s a bug at all.
Thanks for the update Max.
I have to say I agree on the usability issue however.
Also, I know everyone’s sick and tired of this question, but any insider information on the myth that is Omega?
Its a shame Bill spilled the beans before it was ready… waaay before! But on the other hand it has inspired me to make some themes of my own, instead of complain about it and expecting something for nothing (hi to any leeches reading this) 
Thanks again to Max and Bill. All the best,
d4
Ugh. You have commend spam (the first time I’ve ever seen it rear its ugly head.
Anyhow, can you create an async animation for this? 
Yours are always great.
I cleaned the out most of the Spam I hope.
I’ll add the suggestion for the async animation, although I don’t really have any ideas for it.
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The itunes skin is incomplete. It’s a minor thing, and only shows up when you click the arrow button to the left of “Elapsed time” at the top. It seems that the background on the mini visualizer thing is still that light greenish yellow shade that is is under Aqua.
Other than that, great theme! Keep up the good work.
I LOVE this theme!! I use the OSX style buttons, the x - + at the top. However in word v.X (I don’t have 2004), they appear as the other style (o - +) which is a bit odd. Oh yeah, and that thing Will L said about iTunes (not that I use the equaliser view at all). Thanks for it so much though.
Also, in Mail, the new message appears with the o - + buttons initially, but changes to x - + momentarily if a dialogue box is brought up, eg if closing, the box to save / don’t save / cancel.
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