Sierra 10 Desktop
Reader Alec introduced this desktop, which brings a bit of Windows 10 to macOS, but only the good parts. The Mission Control Center has a beautiful unified look, and at the bottom there is an application launcher that acts as a taskbar. This is how it all works.
If you didn’t know better, you’d think Alec’s desktop was actually a Windows PC, but look closely at the GIF above and you won’t see – it’s actually a Mac running Sierra. It’s just been very little tuned to bring in some familiar aspects of Windows, and as a multi-platform person I can appreciate that. In this case, Alec chose the Übersicht tool, the customization tool we talked about earlier .
When you are familiar with it, here are the components you will need:
- Winter wallpaper bu Ian Ape
- Übersicht customization pack for macOS
- Morning Clock widget for Übersicht
- WeatherNow widget for Übersicht
- Battery charge widget for Übersicht
- Blur widget to make the dock background semi-transparent
- CDock utility for configuring macOS dock
- Bartender Utility to configure the line macOS menu
- LiteIcon utility for customizing system icons
- Metro UI icon pack for customizing system icons
Alec explains:
MacOS Sierra with auto-hide menu bar. A theme dock using cdock and liteicon to give it a Windows feel.
Hiding the background of the macOS dock with cDock and using the blur widget for the “artificial” background of the dock allows the widgets to ubersicht overlap the dock. This allows the battery widget to be displayed in the lower right corner.
Overall, I think the finished product looks good, and every time I see one of these desktops set to Übersicht, I feel like making some interesting changes to my Mac at work. If you like that too, or have questions about how Alec did this, be sure to click the link on the Kinja blog below to leave a comment and ask your questions.
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Morning Snow desktop | Alec