Designing Your Desktop
In some ways, just buying a Macintosh was already a renegade act of self-expression. But that’s only the beginning. Now it’s time to fashion the computer screen itself according to your personal sense of design and fashion.
System Preferences
Cosmetically speaking, Mac OS X offers two dramatic full-screen features: desktop backgrounds and screen savers. For details, see Chapter 9.
Graphic Designers’ Corner: The Gray Look
One of the earliest objections to the lively, brightly colored
look of Mac OS X came from Apple’s core constituency: artists and
graphic designers. Some complained that Mac OS X’s bright blues (of
scroll bar handles, progress bars, the 
menu, pulsing OK buttons, and highlighted
menu names and commands), along with the red, green, and yellow
window-corner buttons, threw off their color judgment.
Apple has been de-colorizing Mac OS X ever since. The pulsing
effects are subtler, the three-dimensional effects are less drastic,
and the button colors are less intense. In Snow Leopard, both the
menu and the Spotlight menu went from
colorful to black, and in Lion, the Sidebar has lost its
color.
Tip
The Highlight Color pop-up menu lets you choose a different accent color for your Mac world. This is the background color of highlighted text, the colored oval ...
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