You Can’t Fire Me, I Don’t Work In This Van

After a few hours of playing around today I have the Duality 5 engine running great on Intel. Here is a screenshot from a friend’s machine.

Under CPU Features, you can see SSE and SSE2. These are features only present on Intel processors.

A few things to note:

• This is a patch based theme engine. I did not swap out the Extras2.rsrc.
• The theme is Applewood by Androo. It was imported from the original tpark (everyone thank Androo for providing this ), and imported into Catalyst on my Powerbook. The resulting .skin file was sent to an Intel box running a beta version of Catalyst 0.75. The beta version of Catalyst sent the theme into it’s Theme Preview application, which is powered by Duality 5’s engine.
• The theme preview application is an Intel native, it is not running in Rosetta.
• The OS version is 10.4.5.
• The only thing changed are the PXM’s because I wanted to test one resource type before I went revising the other resource types. It’s about a 15 minute job a resource type.

For proof I’m submitting this Extras2.rsrc file. Manually applied to an Intel Machine, it will change the theme to Applewood. It has been byteswapped by my ThemeKit framework (the core of Catalyst and Duality) to work on Mac OS X for Intel.

http://homepage.mac.com/gomac/Extras2.rsrc.zip

As proof the theme application is being done without manually swapping the file, I will release the theme preview application with the next release of Catalyst. It will theme the theme preview application without making any changes within the /System directory of the computer.

I am not interested in releasing a theme changer right now (too much support work). However, in the interests of the community, I am issuing a challenge to Unsanity. If Unsanity does not release an Intel native version of ShapeShifter by April 30th (which is reasonable considering this took me 2 hours to do), I will either a) release this as an Intel native theme changer that can theme any application, or b) release the source to change themes natively on Intel using PowerPC created themes. Again, this is an effort to get Unsanity to support Intel Macs, which would benefit the entire community.

Edit: Just noticed? A challange? And Bri or I didn’t catch that…. : shakes head :