Brushed metal skin

Alright well when I looked at the firefox to safari tutorial(which was very helpful!) I cam across a windowblinds brushed metal look theme. So I said, "what the heck i doubt windows blinds is that bad even though alot of stardock's stuff has f-ed up my pc"

I install windowblinds and use the brushed metal theme. It looks good but runs slow. It turns out that window blinds likes to eat up RAM. I am not fond of that at all. Being a filmmaker all the post production tools would render like I was running a crappy processor when I'm using a P4.

After telling that sob story what I've been trying to say is-

Is there any other way to get a good brushed metal look other than window blinds? Maybe by using the method FlyAkite uses when they replace system files?

Thanks

-Onomus

Since this really turned into a WindowBlinds thread, I moved it to the WB forum...tell me if you think it doesn't belong. -NC

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Actually, the RAM usage might be for two things. Did you remember to turn off the themes service and turn on Hyperpaint when using windowblinds? Having the themes service + WB5 is really overkill. And also, did you set the brushed theme in per applications settings to ONLY skin firefox? It you have it out ALL the time, I doubt it's supposed to be used for that. Just a couple of suggestions.

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I didn't know you could do that stuff so I'll have to try it.

The only thing is... The brushed metal theme is so pretty... so much better than aqua...

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Yeah, a good combo, is to use the brushed metal theme and set it for firefox, and use Mac OS X 10.4 by Steve Grenier, and use the brushed substyle to show up as everything else, and then you've got brushed everything! The only reason I recommend using the brushed theme specifically for firefox, is because A) it matches perfectly with SaFire, and it looks 1:1 with Safari from mac.

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