Announcing Architect
I’ve written in the past that a thriving theming community for Leopard requires two things: a tool for theme developers, and an applier for theme users. And it looks like Slightly Pretentious Software is doing just that. Last night, the company announced Architect, a theme building application; and Façade, their theme switcher— both for Mac OS X Leopard. Aiming to be a successor to the ThemePark-ShapeShifter duo used for Tiger and earlier, the former will be available as a public beta next week. In the meantime, however, sink your teeth into their preview video on the website; it might make you a bit more pumped for Mac customization.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Wow. Looks promising!
August 24th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
whoooohaaa! i’m pretty excited!!!!
August 25th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Cool. Now I can get back to figuring out what Nextstepified Leopard looks like, assuming I can find time to create the theme.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Awsome, can’t wait to get my hands on it!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:14 am
That’s a nice news!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:26 am
SWEET! Can’t wait…
August 25th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Damn! It looks so easy!
August 25th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Look so easy,do difficult.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
What does the “Powered by Artkit” on their site mean?
August 25th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Wow this is really exciting! BTW I’m curious, what screen capturing tool to they use?
August 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
@Minimum91: Prolly ScreenFlow? http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/
August 25th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Finally!!
Anyone know what types of import/conversion it’ll support? (resource files? guikits?)
Devs???
August 26th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Wonder how much this will cost…
August 27th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
@Ren Qian: Architect is going to be free.
The applier program, Façade, will be reasonably priced.
@Mnimum91: I’m not sure what Laurent used, but I do know the click animations were created with Mouseposé, and I believe the key presses were displayed with KeyCastr.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I’ll buy Facade as soon as it hits store shelves. Really looking forward to this app!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 9:55 am
@luKather it’s funny how everybody always are sure it’s Screenflow. No, it’s Screenflick ( http://www.araelium.com/screenflick/ ). It does click animations, shortcut display, and it cost less than 30% of Screenflow’s price (and no, I’m not part of the dev)
August 31st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s now “next Sunday,” and I don’t see anything on their site except the video. Not nice for developers to do this kind of thing. I’ve been using a theme changer called “Kameleon,” and it’s worked just fine for me. I had hoped to see useful competition, but I don’t like this kind of bait-and-wait nonsense.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:29 am
I dont mind waiting a little longer, specially if it means that the program is a little more ready for relesae or less buggy… but an update or a little inforrmation on progress would be nice seeing as its Monday
Looks fantastic! …
September 1st, 2008 at 7:17 am
Okay, they did finally post a message about a short delay. Nonetheless, I wish developers would wait until their products are ready before starting all the hype.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:15 am
@Tim
It was unexpected. Chill.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
It is now available, if anyone is checking this site.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Sweet. No more waiting on unsanity to get their lazy butts into gear!
September 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Cool. Now I can get back to figuring out what Nextstepified Leopard looks like, assuming I can find time to create the theme.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:18 am
somebody have news about Architect and Facade ????
Release is for october !!!
October 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
coooooooooooool
November 19th, 2008 at 8:54 am
any updates on this? october came and went and nothing on the site yet.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:46 am
@Badr/opla: Yeah! I’ve read in some other forum that they want to release it on 24th of December. Can’t wait either :-/