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Thanks to ResEdit my OS 8/9 setups and several of the apps on them were heavily modded. One of the most extensively changed was a copy of Netscape Communicator

Thanks to ResEdit my OS 8/9 setups and several of the apps on them were heavily modded. One of the most extensively changed was a copy of Netscape Communicator 4.x that had just about every icon and instance of branding text swapped out for something custom. Did those mods serve any practical purpose? Not really, but it was fun.

perardi 4y ago
Oh you want totally impractical nostalgia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software) Kaleidoscope. In the old days, we could change every single icon on our Mac. You kids, you’ll never know the freedom of putting Star Wars icon packs on your computer and then having intractable crashes that took down the entire machine because it didn’t have memory protection…
- kitsunesoba 4y ago
  Kaleidoscope was a favorite of mine as well! To this day it’s the best implementation of desktop theming I’ve come across. It had few limits on what scheme artists could do, being capable of crazy things like round windows and vertical titlebars, and a single file included theming for window chrome, controls, icons, cursors, and fonts. It had almost no impact on performance. And schemes had no installation step… no obscure magic directory to copy them into, just organize your scheme files as you saw fit, and double-click one of them when you wanted to switch schemes. You didn’t even need to open the Kaleidoscope control panel if you didn’t want to. Just excellent all around. The closest modern equivalent is desktop Linux themes, which have UX that’s nowhere near as good and are maybe 60% as capable as Kaleidoscope in what they can do, not to mention how often they break between GTK/Qt/Mutter/Kwin/blah/blah versions.