Steve Troughton-SmithJul 13, 2023

♻️ Recycled thread, June 22 2022

I had an inkling it might be possible to patch AppKit in Mac OS X 10.0 to re-enable the NEXTSTEP interface style after it was removed during the Developer Previews — and I was right! So here’s the shipping, consumer Mac OS X without Aqua turned on. It’s rather broken and crashy

Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithJul 13, 2023
I did it by returning NSNextStepInterfaceStyleDefaultValue from __NSGlobalInterfaceStyle, a four-byte patch. Have fun!
Show threadOngion 🥚🐞Jul 14, 2023
@stroughtonsmith wait, "NSWindows95InterfaceStyleDefaultValue"? What does the Windows 95 interface style look like?
Show threadSteve Troughton-Smith
@Ongion it never really did a lot on other platforms, but it made some controls look slightly more Windows-y on Windows
Jul 14, 2023 at 2:29amIvory for Mac