“Although the dark mode for OS X Yosemite that Apple previewed onstage at WWDC two weeks ago hasn’t officially made it into any build of Yosemite as of today, developer Hamza Sood has figured out a Terminal command which will let you get a taste of OS X’s dark mode now,” Michael Steeber reports for 9to5Mac.
“Of course, this is an extremely early version of dark mode, and many of the icons in the menu bar appear to be displaying incorrectly,” Steeber reports. “As always, use your own discretion when enabling features like this. If you’d like to revert back to the default OS X style, there’s a Terminal entry for that too.”
Get the Terminal commands in the full article here.
“Dark mode is most definitely a work in progress as borders of icons shown in the menu bar are not correctly displayed,” AppleInsider reports.
“Apple will introduce dark mode when Yosemite launches this fall as an alternative view for users who prefer not to be distracted by OS X’s menu and dock,” AppleInsider reports. “The new functionality may be most important for imaging professionals.”
More info and screenshots in the full article here.
From the dark looks I have been told that I give fools whom I cannot suffer gladly, I have always been in DARK mode! 🙁
One comment? I thought this revolutionary, magical new OS was suppose to be so wonderful that we would know why in the world the audience at WWDC was doing all that whooping and hollering.
These days anything is better than Windows or anything else!
Occam’s Razor, jay. They were whooping and hollering because Apple is solving their problems, creating new opportunities for them, and generally doing exciting things. Your comment suggests they were lemmings (despite building an application economy worth $14B last year) or that they were doing all that whooping and hollering to spite you.
It’s really genuinely quite sad how something has filled you with so much anger and hate at Apple that you can not see the reality of the situation with regards to how Tim Cook is successfully leading Apple forward. My fervent hope is that this community will not make a hey day out of it when you do finally objectively recognize what’s taking place and end your one-man campaign.
Apple drives me nuts about this stuff. The picture they showed on staged looked great. All the features worked great. The developer preview nothing works! Why don’t they release the version they showed on stage!!!
There are a whole lot of reasons why the version they’re able to run on stage is not what they can provide to developers. The issues get bucketized into Legal, Timing, and Risk. If you accept that the OS isn’t done yet, and that different teams are submitting frameworks and patches every day, from which QA has to go to work figuring out if those additions broke anything. The folks working on the keynote lock down their version way in advance, and theirs may break in areas the developer preview won’t, but the teams putting together the keynote have their focus and their approvals they have to go through. Keynoting prerelease software is a scary thing, given how unforgiving the press is about flubs.