Opus Natural 1.5

Visual style for XP, designed with soft colours and gradients which are pleasing to the eye yet unobtrusive.

Features:

- Grey and Blue taskbar variations
- Normal and Compact start panel variations
(total of 4 variants)
- Fast UI
- Shellstyles
- Wallpaper (as seen in screenshot)

Note: Compact start panel is designed for use with small icons, large will work, except some text may get truncated.

Since 1.0

Taskband outline color (darker), content margins, size
Mouseover: All widgets!
Made windows colour scheme more fitting
Blue taskbar versions
Compact versions



Download @ DA

Comments would be appreciated!

b0se, thats your best VS ever IMO !!!
Perfect!

awsome great work

will you release one with a small start menu?

Awesome style man. Great work.

yea...

great work

holy crap b0se, you never cease to amaze me. this is such a well built VS. thank you.

Damn you b0se for releasing too many fine visual styles! ....

Me takes as usual ....

Radish™

Bose: You consistantly put out some of the best visual styles ever. Each one unique but all
with your certain sense of style. You do great work. Keep um coming

Awesome! Good job b0se!

Thanks guys

definatly your best work , reminds me of velvet waves, only more minimal, glad your mac themes phase is over.

Awesome work! The start button could use more imagination though...I think the taskbar would look awesome if it matched the active title bar, only put the stripe where the button would be. Just my opinion though...

DiZZam, nice work!

Not sure if this is a "bug" or not, but figured I'd bring it to your attention.

Will be adding a few variations over time, including a blue taskbar version...

blay: thats not a bug, thanks for reporting though

VERY SWEET...again proving you are among the elite.

No problem. Still "fine-tuning" my eye. Great job tho bro!

you're a pain in the ass.....

you make choosing a VS so damn difficult lol. good job.

looks very nice. Maybe darken the grey a little? Also, when something on the taskbar flashes, the color difference isn't very great, so it's hard to notice.

Damn b0se!

You're just too damn good. Like others have mentioned, I'm not too fond of the taskbar, although it could grow on me. Other than that, looks great!

this is your best work to date... using it now

very nice VS, i am using it now. It replace alot of themes I was using in rotation.

This is very awesome work! Hopefully someone will do a winamp skin soon.

Thats Great now i have to switch again thanks to you lol

Anyways keep up the good work...

i couldn't find any errors. on your vs.
good job (again) its worth it.

I will be keeping tabs on this to see what variations you add to it. (suggestion small start menu i know this is my second time mentioning it, just makin sure you saw it. )

I will be using this vs, for a long time, i can tell

Good work! keep it up

looking forward to your up-and coming works!

You never stop man, looks great...

Its just about as good as it gets. The only thing I'd change would be the fonts. Awsome job though, thank you.

Well I made a blue taskbar version for myself...looks like DMX though, I like it...

that is a bug to me. icons should overlap teh button

Endoscient: theres nothing I can do about that, the icon sizes are native to XP, and due to the small taskbar and taskbands, some icons overlap.

I quite like it

Phenomenal theme!!
Superb job, b0se. I'm going to be using this style for a very long time

Yea, I feel the same way...thats why I change that in every theme I use if it's like that

How do you change it?

clean. very usuable. i can't really think of anything wrong except maybe that icon thing, maybe releasing a normal size taskbar would be appreciated.

all i can say is.. where is the winamp skin! this awesome vs needs one

You just edit it in style builder...

Very nice work, yet again, b0se.

Wow! nice work Bose

Making the taskband 2 pixels higher solves this, I'll do that in next release, along with compact start panel, and blue taskbar versions

Thanks for the feedback

2 pixels is alot though...I think at least. Can't you just get rid of the boarder all together? Just a suggestion...

Nah, two pixels will work...the border looks good.

its ok theme

One thing I've noticed is that the taskbar entries seem to cut off and go to "..." 5 characters sooner then say Windows Classic Style.

Also could the active taskbar entry be darker or something to make it distinguish a little better, it's hard to tell when I get an Instant Message.

And finally when a window is out of focus it is hard or near impossible on my laptop screen to read the title of the screen, the font and background color are almost identical for me.

Other then that it looks really nice, simple and quick just how I like it. How can I get a list of all your styles?

love the theme

made a few colour mods, might make matching shellstyles and forward you to add if you want (all with thin startmenus though, dunno if you want them)

I'd really like to see pressed states on the buttons b0se, but other than that its a great theme

what where you thinking when you made that start button?

either look in his sig
or check http://www.opusworks.co.uk/

b0se, would you please stop releasing Visual Styles?
I have to replace one of your "old" VS everytime you release a new one!

OPaul: best place is my DeviantART page.

Thanks for pointing out the taskband text cut-off, fixing that now.

Spookshow: I'll be adding colours when I'm happy that the blue variant is as good as it can be, thats the easy bit

Grub: I happen to love that start button! Fancy ones bore me, won't be changing that just yet unless loads of people don't like it...

Later on today the update will have:

More mouseovers
Larger taskband buttons (with no text cut off)
More distinguished flash button
Compact start panel version
Blue taskbar version

WindowBlinds4 version on the way also...

Like I said, colours will be released after the blue version is bug-free and I'm 100% happy with it, otherwise updating becomes a massive chore

Thanks for the feedback guys!

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