The Macintosh skinning community
Published on Sunday, August 19, 2001 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize Talk
Some of you may hang out on the Kaleidoscope (a skinning program for MacOS) mailing list.
If you do, then you know what I'm about to say probably. Things aren't going so well in the customization community on MacOS. Why? Apple's shut and locked the door. MacOS X may be neat but it's much less flexible than MacOS 9 and earlier and it appears that Kaleidoscope will never work on it.
This is a real bummer because what really is skinning? It is the idea of people of diverse backgrounds saying "I work on these things all day, I want to have the power to customize it to suit my needs."
So if MacOS X is indeed as inflexible as I'm hearing (I haven't really used it yet), this is a sad thing.
Anyone here familiar with what's going on there and want to comment?
If you do, then you know what I'm about to say probably. Things aren't going so well in the customization community on MacOS. Why? Apple's shut and locked the door. MacOS X may be neat but it's much less flexible than MacOS 9 and earlier and it appears that Kaleidoscope will never work on it.
This is a real bummer because what really is skinning? It is the idea of people of diverse backgrounds saying "I work on these things all day, I want to have the power to customize it to suit my needs."
So if MacOS X is indeed as inflexible as I'm hearing (I haven't really used it yet), this is a sad thing.
Anyone here familiar with what's going on there and want to comment?