Pimp My Camino

UPDATES:

• Safaresque and Safaresque Rounded no longer include a status bar, as Camino 1.5.4 or later now have a Leopard-style status bar with rounded corners for Leopard users.
  
  
  With the introduction of darker toolbars in Leopard, theming Camino becomes a much more challenging prospect. I was frustrated how Camino looked by default due to the darker navigation toolbar, so I set about trying to make things look more unified. I ended up with a product similar to Safari. Read on for instructions.

To accomplish this, do the following:

1. First, make sure that you have UnifyCamino working on Leopard.

2. Open UnifyCamino and choose the option to “Match the OS X toolbar”:

You may also choose the option to “Suppress the toolbar divider” (the line that divides the navigation toolbar and the bookmark bar). This is up to you.

Next, you have two choices:

3a. In UnifyCamino, choose the option “Safaresque Rounded tabs”. This will apply only the tabs, leaving you with Camino’s default icons. Relaunch, and it will look like this:

You will find that the tabs, combined with the adjusted shade of the bookmark bar, almost completely eliminate the line found between the bookmark bar and the tab bar (you can see it if you look really hard), giving you the ability to join them together like Safari (as seen above). Feel free to install any icons you want with CaminIcon. However, Camino will retain the custom tabs with this option. If this suits your needs, there’s no need to read further, you should be all set.

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3b. To make your Camino look like the first picture (at the top) of this tutorial, download the total Safaresque or Safaresque Rounded theme (the former has straight tab corners, while the latter has round tab corners) and put it in your CaminIcon themes folder (~/Library/Application Support/Caminicon/Themes), or wherever else you would like to keep it. This theme is a combination of Leopard 1.5 icons, Leopard Addendum icons, Small Bookmark Icons by Monkeybrain, and modified Gray Blend Northern Tabs that match the Leopard toolbar color (the rounded version of these tabs come with UnifyCamino).

4. In UnifyCamino, select the option to use “Custom theme for tabs and icons”, and choose the Safaresque or Safaresque Rounded theme directory. Relaunch Camino again.

5. As a final touch if you like, open the Bookmark Manager in Camino, and drag its favicon in the URL bar to the far left side of the bookmark bar. Control-click it, get Bookmark Info, and delete the bookmark’s Title. This will leave just the favicon there, much like Safari.

Feel free to experiment with other icons and tabs. This was my first and only attempt so far. If you come up with an alternative or something better, send us an email!


Credits: Adrian Anhorn, Apple, Kei Sasaki, MonkeyTools, caminouser, Takuro, Monkeybrain, Mario Estrada, davedit, sligltd