Oh So Subtle

There are no before and after shots because frankly, I don't want to go back to before. Suffice to say that you are probably looking at Before on your own interface. Uno is the after.

When Uno is installed it takes some of the system's interface information and stores it to one side, replacing it with it's own. The result is that OSX takes on a new look, similar to the style of the Tiger iTunes and Mail apps.

This kind of tweaking sounds a little scary, but I've been running my system in this form for over a week with no side-effects at all.

Not only that, there seems to be no hit on performance either. The only glitch that I've noticed is with Quicktime: the two lower corners of Quicktime windows have white parts, where formerly they were rounded.

I really love this new look; gone is the brushed metal, replaced with a graduated satin finish, and gone are the faint horizontal lines commonly found in open and save dialogs.