Stupid GUI Tricks
Taken directly from the wiki entry:
Who loves Apple’s brushed metal look, raise your hand? OK there are a couple, but there are some others… not so much.
When creating Proxi, we decided to go with the standard brushed metal look with the idea that if Apple changed it we, as we used the standard brushed metal window, would get any changes that Apple made to this look “for free”. There are rumors of such a change underway in Leopard, but who knows. We might have also gone with the new Unified (hardly) look, but it requires the addition of a toolbar at the top of the window (see Mail for an example). We looked at this early on and it looked funny. So there it is, nothing can be done about this right?
Rejoice brushed metal haters, for there is a hidden preference in Proxi to switch to, what I like to call, the Plastic look.
To enable the Plastic look, you can open the Terminal enter the following and relaunch Proxi:
defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi guiStyle 1
To switch back to Brushed Metal, enter this in the Terminal and relaunch Proxi:
defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi guiStyle 0
Or check out the Style Switcher blueprint.
So why didn’t we build this into the Preferences? It may one day find it’s way in there, but we’re anxious to see what direction Apple heads with Leopard. Perhaps they’ll officially change to some other look and we won’t have to worry about such things.
Is there perhaps another guiStyle you ask? Well yes, the guiStyle can be set to 2 for extreme silliness. You’ll also need to set patternPath to a valid image file. In other words:
defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi guiStyle 2
defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi patternPath "/A/Path/To/A/Valid/Image"
What the window looks like depends on what sort of pattern you choose, but here’s an example:
Have fun.