
Change the entire look and feel of your Mac device. Replace the standard interface layout and visual elements with custom components combined into separate themes, adjust specific items, etc. Activate and preview themes through a control panel in the system preferences.
ShapeShifter lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes'. It can change the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons and more. With ShapeShifter, you can:
- Change the overall appearance of your operating system safely, quickly, and reliably
- Change the appearance of individual apps to match your theme and your mood
- Customize your cursors; (Mighty Mouse required)
- Customize your icons
- Experience things that haven't been possible with Mac themes before
- Quickly preview themes without actually applying them
- Install different themes for different users
- Add and remove themes effortlessly
- Tweak themes for endless customization
v2.5
- ShapeShifter no longer causes instabilities when used with Apple's Pro applications.
- ShapeShifter now works properly with beta versions of Safari 3.
- Cocoa pull-down menus now use the correct text color when pressed.
- Cocoa box titles now use the correct text color.
- guiTweak now presents a more informative error dialog when an insurmountable error prevents tweaking from concluding properly.
- ShapeShifter now honor's Camino's "CAMINO_DISABLE_HACKS" environment variable.
- The preference pane no longer erroneously states that new version "(null)" is available when an Internet connection is present, but is unreliable.
- ShapeShifter now properly handles OS versions with a bugfix number greater than 9 (e.g., OS X 10.4.10).
- Windows bmp "magic pink" transparency conversion now works properly on x86 machines.
- Adding a new guiKit to the ShapeShifter prefpane no longer causes the names of guiKits that are available to all users on the computer to disappear from the ShapeShifter prefpane.
- Resolved an obscure issue that could cause applications to crash occasionally when ShapeShifter is loaded.