| Agreed. Consistency is key.
I thought that consistency was an important thing to Apple, too. When I tinkered with OS 9 after getting my iBook, there were quite a few things I liked about it. The interface was functional, the look of everything was decent and I could select a theme. Unfortunately, X seems to have blown all that off to the side. As flexibly as they designed it, they seem to put an awful lot of effort into keeping people from actually making themes for the OS. Maybe they're trying to dissuade people from doing that in the first place so as to avoid the whole 'integration' problem that Microsoft had with IE and MSN Messenger.
I'd like to be able to choose brushed metal or Aqua for my entire system, not just some brushed metal apps with an Aqua interface. Though really what I'd like would be a graphite Aqua. Mmm.
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