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psyjax:
Nah, that was called Platinum. Altho many MacHeads will often refer to it as coplan, since it would have been the look coplan introduced, along with some other popular Mac scheems, like Tech and Toybox.

hm_murdock:
betas of 8.5 included Tech and Toybox as well, but Steve Job pulled the plug on "official" themes, and only recently (i.e. after OS X) are they now becoming popular

Pissed_Macman:
Well Kaleidascope really fucked over my Centris, my extensions are being bitches now, so I don't think I'll experiment with anymore weird programs for a while (although Kaleidascope did wonders for my G4's OS 9.2).

hm_murdock:
Kaleidoscope runs fine on my Quadra 840av!

But then most things of that era do ;) badass computer, even after all these years!

Copland's appearance was a wierd mix of 8.1 and 8.5. it featured the little mini icons in titlebars, but didn't have the app title in the menubar the way 8.5 does. it used a different system font, the trash can was overhauled, and there were some slightly different UI elements added (Carbon evolved from the Copland API).

I don't think Copland could ever have shipped. Internal politics were against it. Management and marketing wrote checks that the engineers couldn't cash. It was messy, and it ended up sucking. What they pulled out of it was great though!

ravuya:
Some later versions of Kaleidoscope suck up all your resources and kick the shit out of 68k machines.

Get a 1.x version if you're on 68k.

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