allan.nyholm and me have been working on making a Snow Leopard theme for High Sierra. It's been pretty difficult but we're making progress ^.^
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Am I the only one who wants to go back to Mavericks in 2017?
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allan.nyholm and me have been working on making a Snow Leopard theme for High Sierra. It's been pretty difficult but we're making progress ^.^
OH! And the welcome video! What happened to that??allan.nyholm and me have been working on making a Snow Leopard theme for High Sierra. It's been pretty difficult but we're making progress ^.^
Any idea if this works on El Capitan? That's what my Macbook is running.
OH! And the welcome video! What happened to that??
Any idea if this works on El Capitan? That's what my Macbook is running.
The welcome video just isn't good enough for Apple anymore, I suppose... hell, on the newest Macs they don't even make the boot sound anymore! Apple is losing more and more of their character. Macs and OS X (I'll never call macOS!) are becoming more and more boring, they may not be beige boxes but they sure act like it.
Well its not just one file doing all this...
cDock 2 - The 3D Leopard dock (doesn't support reflections or the crosswalk seperator
LiteIcon - Changing all the system/application icons to their circa 2009 versions
Displapature - The black rounded corners on the menubar (Tiger was the last to have them but I think they look fab!)
MenuBarTint - Giving the Menubar a slight shaded/3D tone
mySIMBL with "Colored Sidebar" plug-in - The colored icons in the finder sidebar
And finally to change the traffic lights and finder windows to dark grey requires replacing the art .cue files in the System Library.
Check out the link in my siggy for more details ^.^
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That unfortunately can't be changed right now... there WAS a tool to make up to El Capitan use Lucida Grande like the old versions of OS X but it's not compatible with the Sierra/High Sierra.
UPDATE: Well hmm, I may have found away to go back to Lucida Grande afterall! https://github.com/LumingYin/macOSLucidaGrande
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I did try it but tabs kept crashing repeatedly >.>
I really wish Safari would work, 90% of the reason I want to go back to old versions of OS X is the look of the UI. Safari looked gorgeous back then. Remember the curved "Top Sites" thing that looked like a huge bank of tv screens?
Yep, then in Safari 6 or 7 I forget which they made it a flat grid with a grey background and no reflections...... I haven't used Top Sites since -_-
I would love to go back to Mavericks.
Is it has already been stated, It's gorgeous, stable and responsive.
Post-Mavericks macOS were built for SSDs and demand much more powerful machines... and even then...
It was a way to may a "political" cleanse in the post-Jobs era, ending the partnership with a brilliant designer, Scott Forstall. John Ive is only good with hardware and industrial design. In software GUI he sucks!
My problems with Mavericks are that most software stopped supporting it and when I buy a new Mac, I will not even be able to install it.
So, I have 2 partitions, one with Mavericks. Whenever I can I boot to it.
I wish Apple would forget all this nonsense and focus on building up form Scott's design.
Stability and performance are also mandatory and are still far from ideal.
I'm using Vivaldi as my browser under mavericks. Safari tab crashes occur also with me, maybe Safari cannot find some service anymore on apple's servers.
I'll do you one better, I ordered an old 2010 21.5'' iMac to install Snow Leopard on to be my MAIN MACHINE. I want my problem to be finding a browser that works, not having to customize every bit of the UI so I don't vomit profusely.
Snow leopard was a truly great OS, maybe the best ever. Having said that i feel that going so much back i will have to part from many apps i use daily .
Apple should fire John Ive from the design ui department . They should take example from Windows 10 and develop an OS that lasts for years. It is a real pain to set up everything from the beginning every new year..
OpenEmu is about the only App I regret losing and I could fix that by making a 10.11 partition or maybe even getting a Mac mini just to be the living room TV emulator :3
I am still a happy Mavericks user. In fact, I didn't start using Mavericks until late 2015; I was using an even earlier version of Mac OS X before that. Nevertheless, the bank account scenario mentioned above is a real issue. I do my online banking in a virtual machine in VMware Fusion running macOS High Sierra. Nearly everything else I do in Mavericks. I very strongly advise against using Safari in Mavericks: it is not secure. Please do not do your online banking in Safari in any of the unsupported older versions!
Virtual machines are a lovely way to run almost any version of macOS you want. If you have newer hardware, you can run Mavericks in a VM. Or if you have older hardware that supports Mavericks, you can run Mavericks as the host OS and run a more recent version of macOS in a VM, as I currently do. But I may flip my current configuration next year and switch to Mojave as my new host OS with Mavericks in a VM.
One of the great virtues of Mavericks, in addition to everything mentioned above, is its support for tags; earlier versions of Mac OS X do not support tags throughout the OS as Mavericks does. Tags quickly became a huge game-changer for me after I upgraded to Mavericks, and now I couldn't live without them.
I wrote the previous post; I am still happily using Mavericks as I described above.
One thing that I forgot to mention is that I use, and highly recommend, a Finder enhancement app called XtraFinder, which adds (or restores) very many features to Finder, including (just to name the ones that I use and find most valuable): full-color icons in the Finder sidebar (as in previous versions of OS X: this restores some of the chrome that people above noted that they liked in previous versions of OS X, as I do), label drawing that colors the whole filename (as in previous versions of OS X), spring-loaded path bar, display folder item count in list view, show total size of selected items in status bar, and a menu item for copying the path of a file or folder in various formats (I added shortcuts to these commands and use them almost every day).
I use XtraFinder version 0.25.5 from 2015 with Mavericks; it crashes on very rare occasions, but it's easy to quit it and relaunch it when it crashes. There are newer versions of XtraFinder for more recent versions of macOS, although since XtraFinder patches Finder, you must disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) to use XtraFinder with the more recent versions of macOS. Of course, there is no SIP in Mavericks, so it's very easy to use XtraFinder with Mavericks.
One thing that I forgot to mention is that I use, and highly recommend, a Finder enhancement app called XtraFinder, which adds (or restores) very many features to Finder, including (just to name the ones that I use and find most valuable): full-color icons in the Finder sidebar (as in previous versions of OS X: this restores some of the chrome that people above noted that they liked in previous versions of OS X, as I do), label drawing that colors the whole filename (as in previous versions of OS X), spring-loaded path bar, display folder item count in list view, show total size of selected items in status bar, and a menu item for copying the path of a file or folder in various formats (I added shortcuts to these commands and use them almost every day).
I use XtraFinder version 0.25.5 from 2015 with Mavericks; it crashes on very rare occasions, but it's easy to quit it and relaunch it when it crashes. There are newer versions of XtraFinder for more recent versions of macOS, although since XtraFinder patches Finder, you must disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) to use XtraFinder with the more recent versions of macOS. Of course, there is no SIP in Mavericks, so it's very easy to use XtraFinder with Mavericks.
I wouldn't say fire him as some part of Steve lives on in what Ive designs. It's just not constrained by being told No. Where OS X, err macOS, is failing is that every release adds bloat to the window manager. That you need 8GB to used High Sierra where Win 10 can run comfortably in 2GB is truly embarrassing. You'd think they would fix it at Apple but it is just a very sad waste if you run and older version of the OS on the same hardware then it flies. Win 10 is also much faster in operation. It makes me sad.
I have deleted my Mavericks partition, and you know what, OP?
I do not care anymore.
This new Mac OS has been 4 years in existence. At first I hated it, then I hated it less, then I hated it even less, to the point that I hate it so little that I do not even care anymore.
I still have the cDock if I ever feel like having the 3D Dock again, but that is it. This new Mac OS is now OK with me. At least it isn't the flat boredom like the iOS is. It kept a lot of design elements from 10.9 and earlier. iOS 7 and onward didn't keep almost anything from iOS 6 and earlier.
You know what is gonna be bad? If the Apple completely redesigns the Mac OS in a year or few. I mean, I JUST got used to this, and I do not know if my heart is gonna survive one more change.
BTW, the only one who really likes the change is the baby with the wet diapers.
I do not care anymore.
This new Mac OS has been 4 years in existence. At first I hated it, then I hated it less, then I hated it even less, to the point that I hate it so little that I do not even care anymore.
I still have the cDock if I ever feel like having the 3D Dock again, but that is it. This new Mac OS is now OK with me. At least it isn't the flat boredom like the iOS is. It kept a lot of design elements from 10.9 and earlier. iOS 7 and onward didn't keep almost anything from iOS 6 and earlier.
You know what is gonna be bad? If the Apple completely redesigns the Mac OS in a year or few. I mean, I JUST got used to this, and I do not know if my heart is gonna survive one more change.
BTW, the only one who really likes the change is the baby with the wet diapers.
The OP asked: "Does anyone have the same feeling? Is anyone still on Mavericks?" Not: "Is anyone NOT still on Mavericks?" Obviously most of the world has moved on from Mavericks and "do not care anymore."
Those of us who have not moved on have our reasons—and those reasons are what this thread is about.
And the question from headline is:
Am I the only one who wants to go back to Mavericks in 2017?
I held the small partition with Mavericks for precisely the reason OP mentioned, I missed the Mavericks, and wanted to still use it.