Opus Apollo v1.2

Designed to be unobtrusive and useable, yet pleasing to the eye and individual (that rhymes!).

Contains

- 2 colour variations, Apollo (grey) and Coffee.
- Each colour variation contains:
- Normal and Compact start panels
- Normal and Thin taskbars
- Giants Collide wallpaper (they go together perfectly, please try them).
- VERY fast UI, highly optimised code.

Important Notes

The end tab on the Display Properties box is not a bug, its Windows being stupid. All other tabs are fine.

A shellstyle is on its way.

Yz Shadow is used to create the window shadows in the screenshot.

Updates (1.1 -> 1.2)

Added Compact Start panel versions
Added Normal Taskbar versions

Smaller status bar w/3D text
Large and E.Large start button bug fixed
All programs arrow aligned with text
Added tab mouseovers, made selected tab brighter
Inactive titlebars now slightly darker
Enhanced all mouseover widgets (more 3D)

Screenshot

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Download

Opus Apollo 1.2 @ DA

Comments are welcome, enjoy!

yay first post
great vs downloading now

first is the worst, second's the best, third is the one with the hairy chest....





ps: great style

super , thanks...its a beauti

B0se! well done!!! thank you!

incredible.. you just made me switch from a month of ReLuna.. AWESOME VS!

Nice

TY

Thanks for the comments!

*phew* Time for some rest

looks good, using it now .. although i think the start button looks too high

edit: nm, i had to unlock it and relock it and now it's thin

If someone asks for it in "Blue" I'm gonna scream!

Nice VS Btw.

can i get that in a nice blue, b0se?

haha mick

SWEET!!!!

think I found a bug
change the font size to large and look at the start button--there is a t (start)there on my desktop...anyone elses?

Ah...no biggie I just won't use fonts other than normal.

good skin, by the way.

whats wrong with wanting it in blue?

magnificent

Score...getting it now.

Great! I really love the start panel! thx!

Great job!!

I have a quick question though. I've been using WatercolorLite for about a year now, because all of the new styles that come out (which I actually like, like this one) are all thin-taskbar - they look terrible with WMP9's taskbar control. It's probably rude to ask you for a standard sized taskbar, so could you possibly point me in the right direction for getting it doen myself? I've never been able to make a thin-taskbar theme full-size, and I'd really like to with this theme, because it looks great!!



Anyway, good job!!!

"A shellstyle is on its way, along with a compact start panel and normal taskbar versions."

Nice one

OK, something like this. Is this possible?

Top: current version
Bottom: the way I want to make it look. How do I do this?

excellent theme b0se, to my knowledge you are yet to make a theme i dont find truly amazing

o and blay who is the girl in your av and sig ?

that's the problem i had mavis .. unlock your taskbar, then move it .. to say the side of the screen, then put it back on top or bottom and your problem should be solved

Very nice.

B0se, you did a great job!

It's ok, a bit bland even for my Minimalistic Tastes though. Good job nevertheless.

Thanks for the comments!

marvis: blay's post (thanks!) was taken from the first post, there is one on the way. Thanks for the bug report also, thanksfully its v.easy to fix

Super sweet theme, took me away from Cube. Rock on minimalism, and b0se... your definatly the best.

Stupendous

Possible bug : When trying to resize a window, you have to go to the corner of the window to be able to resize it.

Very nice work... b0se... thanx

good job , but not my cup of tea..

U always Do an Awesome Job Man

never Done a Bad theme

Thanks for not saying this was a "Professional" theme.

Sweet, been waitin 4 this
Gj

Absolutely amazing, good work! I'm going to use this for a loooong long time.


*whisper* Winamp skin anyone? *whisper*

Beautiful VS... just waiting for a Trillian Pro skin before I switch...

Anyone up for it?

A Trillian skin for Opus Natural would be nice too.

great VS, made me buy Style XP

An absolutely fantastic skin b0se! You never cease to amaze me.

Plus, you actually made me post instead of just browse Neowin.

b0se:

Very nice and clean looking theme.
A couple suggestions however.

-move the "all programs" arrow up a couple pixels to match alienment of text
-too status bar,add font tahoma 7 then apply,then rechange font size back to 8 and apply,and you will now have status bar the true size of your wiget (nice and small)

freakin devart. MY GOD I HATE YOU. anyways, the link don't work? O_O but this looks sexy and I want it to have my babies.

b0se, very high quality work ... as usual should I say. Thank you very much for such a great work. I have a few comments, most of them are quite subjective, but if you don't mind to have a look:

- Taskbar: the mouse over effect is not very visible. Changing the background of the mouseover and current task would be probably better.
- Tabs: no mouseover effect, is it intentional?
- Tabs: lack of contrast, the current tab is the one having a bigger size. Can you enhance the effect by giving it a more contrasting background?
- Titlebar: lack of contrast. The active title bar has almost the same color than the menu and other inactive title bars. When there are several overlapping windows, the active windows doesn't stand out quite clearly. May be a darker title bar would help.

Check the readme. Glad I didn't disappoint. I just love constructive criticism.

To everyone else, thanks for the positive feedback, it makes it worth it when people appreciate your efforts!

I've fixed the All Programs arrow alignment (thanks spyglass). Excellent tip on the status bar size!

Melody: All of your comments have been taken on board, and will probably be implemented, thanks also.

*Opens up StyleBuilder*

What preferences to you have on the colours? Apollo or Coffee? Apollo here

great job bose.

Totally awesome. Thank God you're back.

any mirror for this ? DA down

I'll host it until a mirror is up, gimmie 10 mins then check back!

Link on first page

sweet VS
thanks for the mirror

Thanks, and np.

No point creating a theme if no one can DL it

yeah, thanks for the mirror ^_^

A+++ job thx !!

Just made the following updates:

Smaller status bar w/3D text
Large and E.Large start button bug fixed
All programs arrow aligned with text
Added tab mouseovers, made selected tab brighter
Inactive titlebars now slightly darker

Thanks for the input.

Now re-creating the Coffee version then will upload the updated version.