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This is awesome! I still love the look of the Finder from this era, and I love that this has the Window Shade extension turned on too.

• lostgame 4y ago
  WindowShade was amaaaazing. There was something that - for a while, was an OSX equivalent…I want to say ‘ShapeShifter’(?) - but it only worked for versions from like 10.2-10.4.
  • zero_iq 4y ago
    You might be thinking of SheepShaver, a Mac emulator for BeOS and Linux. Its name is a play on the name ShapeShifter, an earlier emulator by the same develope, which was an Apple II emulator for the Amiga.
    • lostgame 4y ago
      Nope, the utility was actually called ShapeShifter: (I used to make themes for it) https://www.macintoshrepository.org/11531-shapeshifter-osx-theming- https://www.macintoshrepository.org/11531-shapeshifter-osx-t...
  • duskwuff 4y ago
    There was a utility called "WindowShade X" which (messily) hacked the functionality back into early versions of Mac OS X. This developer's utilities had a nasty habit of breaking with every OS update, though, sometimes even making the machine fail to boot, so it probably comes as no surprise that it's no longer available. The same developers also had a UI skinning utility called ShapeShifter, which is probably what you're getting WindowShade X confused with.
• chongli 4y ago
  The WindowShade control panel disappeared after MacOS 8. The feature became part of the Appearance control panel at that point. You can customize it on this MacOS 9 machine by going to Apple -> Control Panels -> Appearance and clicking on the Options tab. There you have access to the option "Double-click title bar to collapse windows", an option that lets you use the feature the way it originally worked (before the minimize widget was added to the far right end of the title bar).