ZEUS OS X : SPIRIT OF LEOPARD is a mac os x leopard style theme for windows vista 32bit made by idas = ZEUS os X, DOWNLOAD LINK http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/ZEUS-OS-...EOPARD-79282673
Also see my ZEUS OS X web page http://windowsedge.com/Zeus/
I do not allow any modifications of my work.
Made in H E L L A S (= Greece ).
Inspired by ZEUS.
looks pretty sweet, for as far as I have managed to get it working.. especially getting rid of the vista menu's in folders!
Though some buttons don't want to be replaced at the moment, but ill try that tomorrow.
looks great, keep going 
i hope you like it as a theme . perchaps one of my last themes. perchaps the last.
No offense, but I think this theme needs a lot of work. The concept is good, a clear leopard style skin, but it hasn't been pulled off very well. The clear bits... don't really look that visually appealing, and the close/min/max buttons are way too far spaced. And the edges of a lot of the graphics do not look nice.
If you want to work on it some more I'd be interested to see how it comes out.
~Wuzzie
PS: On your site you have a mod of the Leopard wallpaper with Zeus on it, and in the scrolling text (which I highly recommend you remove as it is very annoying) it says you do not allow modifications of your work. I find this quite ironic, as all you "work" on the wallpapers page is simply compound images, like of a wallpaper by apple with some pictures you found on the internet over the top. The one with Zeus on the wallpaper is simply the leopard wallpaper, a picture of the Zeus statue and a bit of an other apple wallpaper. Yes, you did put them together, but you don't have the rights to be using any of those three images (well, perhaps the Zeus one but the other two certainly not). It makes you look a bit stupid if you are saying you do not allow modifications of your work, when your work is modifications of other people's work.
No offense, but I think this theme needs a lot of work. The concept is good, a clear leopard style skin, but it hasn't been pulled off very well. The clear bits... don't really look that visually appealing, and the close/min/max buttons are way too far spaced. And the edges of a lot of the graphics do not look nice.If you want to work on it some more I'd be interested to see how it comes out.
~Wuzzie
PS: On your site you have a mod of the Leopard wallpaper with Zeus on it, and in the scrolling text (which I highly recommend you remove as it is very annoying) it says you do not allow modifications of your work. I find this quite ironic, as all you "work" on the wallpapers page is simply compound images, like of a wallpaper by apple with some pictures you found on the internet over the top. The one with Zeus on the wallpaper is simply the leopard wallpaper, a picture of the Zeus statue and a bit of an other apple wallpaper. Yes, you did put them together, but you don't have the rights to be using any of those three images (well, perhaps the Zeus one but the other two certainly not). It makes you look a bit stupid if you are saying you do not allow modifications of your work, when your work is modifications of other people's work.
the close/min/max buttons are way too far spaced because of vista limitation system [i could make closer but then all of them have to transport to the direction to the midle of the window .for making understood see this
the edges could not be better for making the looking for noborder on the sides of the window.also i have delete the shadows for the same reason.the construction of the stream of vista visual style gave me only 2 pixels for making this kind of modification.
on the basic version of the style you can see that there are edges and distances between close/min/max buttons are close.
this is 2 years work with all elements of microsoft aro replaced. also alot of code via hex editind. unfortunately there are many parts of the code on vista undiscovered.
if you want to see better edges style then download my ZEUS os X - ELIXIS for vista, zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/ZEUS-os-X-ELIXIS-for-vista-75141906
The visual styles i made for vista are unique and experimentally . i have worked on past with Ukintel for finding Hex code adresses and with many others on many forums for this purpose.Also i writte in aeroexperience, windows edge and other forums about vista visual style anlysis and solution to some of my findings[hex edits, changing code on shellstyle.dll etc].
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
i never have taken from a specific person his [or other people] idea for making a wallpaper or a visual style or anything [the oposite happened].
making an osx style you have to make at least some parts as possible similar to osx[as wallpapers].
on the modified apple wallpapers i have worked many days not only on colors modifications, making layers then mixing etc remaking again and again and ofcource there are osx style modifications.
So i tried to make something as you say compound as ZEUS AQUA HYDRO
and the other wallpapers.
PLEASE dont say ''other peoples work''. if you mean apple then writte straight apple, because people who read this perchaps understood other things. So i have written to Apple from last November 2007 when i did my first realease of vista visual style on public, and wallpapers etc if they have problem with my work, and also recently .[ever in my works its written not allow the modifications of them]
At least since now apple's people respect my freeware work, in which i dont not allow modifictions of it.
But you have critisized 2 modified wallpapers [in which noone have complained about]and not [for the subject] that i have made all images of the theme pixel by pixel[similar os x spirit and not same] or that about the changing [and findings on]code(2 years work) for changing the vista visual style [step by step],and that i have offered a different[dont say good or bad] view to vista visual style.
Also about making better the looking, thats no easy possible making if no other code discovered, we could not remoove forexample searchbar 8 pixels to the center for having a better looking.Vista is not like xp having stylebuilder program and make your style. its a complicated work of designinig and changing code manually.
maybe perhaps windowsblind be good maybe instead be it as vista style of visuals be sehr limited to the of functionablety. maybe parhaps buttons be of size to the increase to have avoid of gaps as since your style of visuals is nicht exact to the leopard animal but within the spirits inside.
really guess i do only the work done to be needed is graphics to be improvement really. wiseother it looking is sehr gut.
suggest i do a port of windowsblinds to the of this style of visuals to have avoid of tooth gaps in the buttons.
and still i dont see why necessary it may be of for say usage of unauthorized copying your work of apple.
gut glück.
i dont use windowblinds , and i will never use it on vista or make any kind of my work for them, this because of microsoft policy, and Stardock also.
they make special partnership[thats no bad if you see it just as a commercial action, but on xp there many alternatives, this is no faulse of Stardock on vista, but as i said false of microsoft giving special partnership on vista system so gives the monopoly, so it is microsoft's policy the problem] but also microsoft did not realease [i dont want any secret code but] any kind of information for the visual style of vista so the user who gives his money (when i started ultimate had 500 EURO and not as today less) can not make a real personalization[as microsoft advertisement ''real personalization''] with the looking of the system he paid. So i dont like to pay even 1 EURO more for something that microsoft, in my oppinion, has to give to any user[and microsoft has to stop advertising what say about personalization] .
So i dont like to use windowblinds on vista because of this, and not be any part of my work to windowblinds. If any user want to use my style he can use as a native freeware visual style which i made.
About my work, i could not make the shapes, and some text colors i want to do because i have not found the informations on code lines that exist.
About apple autorization : if you want to make a personal osx [looking] version for windows, and not follow the fashion or apple's taste on color construction, distances etc this is right if that realy make your sense feeling good.
You can use the transparency, for example on title bar . apple use [or used] a very pleasant and good combination of colors and shapes, and this is a good reason for anyone to use them in any system.
So i made my recent work ZEUS OS X : SPIRIT OF LEOPARD
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZEUS OS X : SPIRIT OF LEOPARD designing rules, follow the principles of abstractiveness and simplicity.
IN ancient and in nowdays Hellenic (=Greek) [ Active CODE ] language, every letter, and every word is a specific number , and it has a specific meaning.
ZEUS ( or DEUS or DIAS) is Master of immortal Gods in Hellenic (=Greek) Active CODE [arithmetic machine logic] language.
His Main weapon is lightning and lightnes. He could transformate his alive code MATERIAL BEING to whatever He likes.
APPLE is the given gift from ZEUS, in this Hellenic (=Greek) tradition.(so the using of apple logo i choose)
SO , i am trying to show the relations of the clasic hellenic=greek with modern times and eternity.
The light comes from apple's technology, interface also looking, and i Think that it is our choice to transforn it as a part of progress in our tradition style.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
for me the reason i like osx [looking] is that as i said has a very good combination of colors,shapes and distances, so its not wrong if it is a pleasure to create a version for using it to windows. and the oposite if it is not the taste of someone the similar looking to osx, or dont like entirely, that does not mean he is wrong.we are free people to follow our taste, and not the taste that microsoft [with aero] or apple [with leopard] give us.
colors are copywritted from GOD. only the shape of buttons and the logo, are looking similar but they are modified enough to be not same as apple's, or chage some of them completely.
i have send them as i said before [to apple] message on November[when i did my first vista realease] and also recently if they have any problem with my work, and it seems they have not.
[instead of this i did, both companies are using modified versions of ancient symbols as logos, buttons etc , so they are 'ilegal' in my view and unauthorize to use, but this is a long story.]
I agree that our osx modifications it's free advertising for apple, but apple has give a very good looking project indeed, its like a looking of a sunset [osx in general and not final version of 'death perfection' of leopard] which anyone [i mean not all people] want having a similar kind of that 'paint', in their personal place[pc].
So if its an advertising they deserve it.[and our modifications are freeware work]
The problem is not that there many people like this [osx style] looking, but that why microsoft dont pay to some people for designing 2 , 3 or more versions of aero which will have the 'simple' logic on looking, [color and distances, not same but a combination which will give the same beautifull results, following the priciples not make copy] that apple use.
About the reason that apple dont mind about the modifications of looking[we made].
For me , [since now] the only reason is that apple dont afraid.
They have the psycology of winner, and dont afraid my [and anyones] freeware modifications.
[also they could take ideas also from us and could make their future projects ideas, as they see what the market wants]
They made good work [on excelent designing and on fuctionality, thou as i said i find 'spiritless' the final version of leopard, but well designed] and this is the best advertisement for them.
We use windows because of larger software,games etc
So thats my opinion about 'authorization' [which some people asked me for] which when i started [my themes project for vista] i have in mind to make something different, giving my view for osx for the world of windows [redesigning everything, and adding also new shapes and colors] and not copy it.
Personal version i use [not realeased]
Thank you.
DEAR GOD!
Its my ' illuminous ' concept work on Vista...
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread....ight=illuminous
^ but I dont mind... its different, and i never did really persue the transparent interface due to Mac OSX's theming limitations.
I Like your line of thought, and I think its original. Nobody has ever actually completed a theme like this, so keep it up!
Transparent themes arent an easy thing to get right. but keep working at it, and polishing and it could be something really nice.
thank you for your comment.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The word ZEUS is using because has a code number in ancient and in nowdays arithmetic Hellenic [=Greek language] , and not for any other reason.
Also i use some other code words for my themes for the WIN+DO(w)S VIS-T-A system.
Ok ok... Lets not let this thread become sidetracked.
The law is clear mate. Anything that is copyright (like Mac Gui) cannot be claimed by another. The mere fact that you are using the Mac traffic lights is by rights technically not allowed.
I'm not sure who you have written to at Apple, but what is 100% certain is that they did NOT give you official approval - especially for a Windows app LOL!
To be honest Apple is exceptionally generous in the way they for the most part overlook the fact that all we (and I say ALL WE) modders use their designs. But make no mistake, this does NOT make it legal or our own property.
If there is even the smallest element of Leopard, Tiger etc. in a theme we make or a graphic we use then we have used something that we did not create ourselves (irrespective of how many layers or color mods we have added) The mere fact that we might have made a small change to something they have released also does not make it suddenly our property.
Really, the only time such a claim can be made is when totally new themes are developed - for example MrToNeR's brilliant Rhino http://s1.directupload.net/images/070821/JHDnaDXL.png - to name but one theme (and there are many others).
I appreciate the fact that you are keen to protect something as your own because you have put hours and hours of effort into your work. I feel its important that everyone respects the creative efforts of others and this goes too for people wanting to use or mod YOUR hard work - for something they are working on.
It would be polite and correct to ask you first....
Lets not lose sight of what we do here in the emulation forums - we provide a sharing service for others around the globe and that is enormous fun. Lets try not get bogged down in technical issues and arguments surrounding issues that are clearly defined. Rather, lets all just be considerate and we will have a fantastic time together!
This package is a TERRIFIC concept mate. Keep up the great work.
i understand what do you say.
thats the reason i wrotte at apple before, during and after my works realeasing, and recently.
that means i do respect and have resposibilty to them.
''The mere fact that we might have made a small change to something they have released also does not make it suddenly our property'', as you say i agree. if you find my theme ,''made a small change to something they have released,' like apple's, no comments[everyone can see the difference].
[i dont know exactly what technically the law said about the looking, but more than any law i respect that apple is the producer, the creator of a looking so for me they have produce an IDEA, so if they tell me to delete my work i will do, not because of any kind of 'trafic light designing similar' as mines its not having just mixed layers etc but also different sizes and also the blue are circle style for example, so my 'painting' is different,(also no problem to design new different ones) but i will delete because i inspired from their IDEA (of osx in which they are the creators)]
Also i agree that '' Apple is exceptionally generous in the way they for the most part overlook the fact that all we (and I say ALL WE) modders use their designs'', as you say[or design our similar as i did] .
Thanks for your comment, as for me as you see i preffered working 2 past years trying to translate lines on vista code and designing, and give my freeware work to the global community of users.
Ok ok... Lets not let this thread become sidetracked.The law is clear mate. Anything that is copyright (like Mac Gui) cannot be claimed by another. The mere fact that you are using the Mac traffic lights is by rights technically not allowed.
I'm not sure who you have written to at Apple, but what is 100% certain is that they did NOT give you official approval - especially for a Windows app LOL!
To be honest Apple is exceptionally generous in the way they for the most part overlook the fact that all we (and I say ALL WE) modders use their designs. But make no mistake, this does NOT make it legal or our own property.
If there is even the smallest element of Leopard, Tiger etc. in a theme we make or a graphic we use then we have used something that we did not create ourselves (irrespective of how many layers or color mods we have added) The mere fact that we might have made a small change to something they have released also does not make it suddenly our property.
Really, the only time such a claim can be made is when totally new themes are developed - for example MrToNeR's brilliant Rhino http://s1.directupload.net/images/070821/JHDnaDXL.png - to name but one theme (and there are many others).
I appreciate the fact that you are keen to protect something as your own because you have put hours and hours of effort into your work. I feel its important that everyone respects the creative efforts of others and this goes too for people wanting to use or mod YOUR hard work - for something they are working on.
It would be polite and correct to ask you first....
Lets not lose sight of what we do here in the emulation forums - we provide a sharing service for others around the globe and that is enormous fun. Lets try not get bogged down in technical issues and arguments surrounding issues that are clearly defined. Rather, lets all just be considerate and we will have a fantastic time together!
This package is a TERRIFIC concept mate. Keep up the great work.
if thats a response to what i wrote, i was joking... i was merely saying that his work ran along similar to one of my early concept pieces.
and you didnt read the rest of my post... i said i thought his work was original.
never did i claim the mac elements/vista elements my own. just the certain merging of the two looked something similar to something i once did.
if thats a response to what i wrote, i was joking... i was merely saying that his work ran along similar to one of my early concept pieces.and you didnt read the rest of my post... i said i thought his work was original.
never did i claim the mac elements/vista elements my own. just the certain merging of the two looked something similar to something i once did.
LOL....
Noo.. my fellow Aussie, this was NOT in response to your post. I felt compelled to comment because there always seems to be so much of an argument over rights and ownership - and generally its because people don't understand the rule of creative copyright law..
What was beginning to worry me about @idas' posts was that the thread was becoming bogged down in issues that are generally not that well understood and that his concept was being diluted with bickering. All I wanted to do was point out a few realities, encourage consideration/enjoyment and urge the thread to get back to discussing the topic - his Zeus Os X pack.
BTW, I thought you were especially supportive mate!
i am promiss you not make other osx style [exept a minor realease for some people who please me for their Vista transformations packs to osx].
------------------end--------------------------------------------------------------
i am promiss you not make other osx style [exept a minor realease for some people who please me for their Vista transformations packs to osx].------------------end--------------------------------------------------------------
Please mate. Don't stop making your apps. This is what EMULATION is about.
The purpose of this forum is to make available apps like yours to the Aqua-soft family. If you stop creating, then it will be a loss to all of us as a community.
Keep up the great work
The theme looks great and all but Windows Vista was never meant to be customized. Even with WindowBlinds, some themes just don't look good. Especially for those people who can't run Windows Aero.
I agree, keep up the good work!
... dont worry bout us, we're just a bunch of whining phonies. (least I am).
--------------------------------------------------------------
AGE OF TECHNOLOGY [updated version for vista transformation to osx]
TOTALY NEW FEELING
NEW 'AGE OF TECHNOLOGY' mac osx leopard style visual styles for Windows Vista, having different mouse over folder color, no text looking on active searchbar (mac style), new images for taskbar arrows etc added to my ZEUS OS X : SPIRIT OF LEOPARD.
DOWNLOAD all the theme ZEUS-OS-X-SPIRIT-OF-LEOPARD in which the new visual styles had added and please read carefully the instructions from my ZEUS OS X : SPIRIT OF LEOPARD http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/ZEUS-OS-...EOPARD-79282673
Download only the visual styles [both those initial of SPIRIT-OF-LEOPARD and those of AGE OF TECHNOLOGY] from SPIRIT OF LEOPARD visual styles for windows vista from my webpage. http://zeus.windowsedge.com/leopard%20styl...20download.html
I do not allow any modifications of my work.
Made in H E L L A S (= Greece ).
Inspired by ZEUS.
NEW experiment on vista. NEW kind of stream!!!!!!!!!!!!
ZEUS os X HERMES for Vista by ~ZEUSosX http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/ZEUS-os-...-Vista-86321979
Aqua-Soft Forums
