I started this last night arounf 11pm. and I just finished it this afternoon. Right now I am waiting for permission from the original creator of the start button.
This is the first theme I've made for release

I'm just going to post a preview for now, hopefully I will have permission to use the start button soon, or I will just have to make something else.

Anyway, heres a screenshot. Update: New Start Button


Working out some bugs atm, hopefully I can release it bug free.

Suggestions are welcome


UPDATE: Release date set for...golly, today... it's 1:34am... Anyway, this afternoon sometime.

damn that looks nice man!

any chance you can link me to where to get those winamp controls? thanks a lot.

yummy!!! i'd use it.. hopefully u get it released soon.. nice work!!

I got the controls off of here, and the icons I used are from Milk Redux I believe.

Thanks for the comments

that dark blue rocks it's a much prettier shade than the regular royale shade

i want i want i want i want that BAD

It's alright, but there are already a lot of Royale mods out there, many very similar to this. Looks like all you really added was Segoe UI and slimmed the titlebars.

why post ? go away

Oh, calm down. It's called "constructive criticism". Don't get all ****y because I knocked this VS you obviously want so badly (by the way, there are mods like this all over DevART, you could get one now...)

I think it is very nice I would consider using it myself

Hot diggity dam, that rocks

It was mostly a personal mod for a fiew wallpapers I had that didn't match well with any themes I had. I hadn't seen many mods of Royale that suited me either, so I went ahead with this idea. I like the Royal theme, and I know others do as well, so I figured I might as well share.

let's get a few things straight first:
the font in the titlebar is Trebuchet MS, not Segoe UI.
yes, he did slim the titlebars. He also made three recoloured versions.
he also slimmed the titlebar.

"constructive criticism" isn't degrading the purpose of the project. "constructive criticism" is offering advice to better the project. i see none of that in your post. what you made was a flame, and you couldn't even get that right.

you obviously don't like the whole basis of the theme, royale mod. in that case, you should have skipped over the thread right from the start. you people ruined most of the longhorn theme threads, don't start with royale mod ones now too.

there may be lots of mods like this one on devart, but none with these colours. thanks, and have a nice day.

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Great mod, hope you get authorization to post it soon. I really REALLY love that dark blue.

I'd love to get my hands on this as well....looks VERY nice.

Can you create a MILK mod?

The blue on black is just awesome..

I'd really think an all white royale mod would be sexy. Hint hint.

I was going to, but isn't there already a white royal WIP? Maybe I'll wip up something of my own for a little competition

I do have more color variations coming, if not in this release, another one.

Thank you for all the compliments and everything I'm happy you all like it


Also, any suggestions or anything would be great. But maybe I'll leave that for whe I release it, then everyone will have a chance to try it out.

I'm hoping I can release it early next week. In the mean time, I'll be puting the final touches one it.

A Royal Milk mod? Hmmm....

man, you gotta release this....gimme gimme

The black with red start button is sweet, i hope you release this one soon.

yup the blue on black startmenu is sweet!

Very nice mod StealthMode, keep it up

Damn, thats nice. /me Wants.

Nice choice of colours, they all go together well,

I just installed SP2 and i wasnt going to patch the uxtheme, but i might just when this theme is released.

that looks pretty cool

Im loving the start button.

Really nice work! Can't wait to use it!!!

Very Nice! .

Looks EXCELLENT, for sure gonna try out the black/blue version.

Truely beautiful

the black one looks really really nice.

yeah the black with orange startbutton, thats going to be my default theme

Looks red to me, but both would work i guess ..

the other thing i like about it, that it IS black .. not the light gray to black fade that the rest of the longhorn themes have, but its darker. Big plus from my view And besides, red\orange is always good ;p

Whoa, I didn't think it would go over this well! Thanks for all the compliments

finally there are more black styles

I like it too

'tis shekshie!

/me is now waiting for 2 wip's, this and Stefanka's Royale...

Yea, I can't wait for his to come out either. It looks so nice

tis sexy

pm me when its done!

and if you want i can make you a torrent

That might work nicely since I don't have a host

ill try it out whenever its finished

Then its settled

if u need a hoster, just pm me, i host it for u

Any news on this yet?

Can you not release it with a different startbutton till you get permission.

The black + blue start button looks really nice.

That's really freakin' nice! I'd love to use this!
Only I don't like the Royale start menu, but I can mod that, just like I did on my current Royale theme

i like the start menu

I think the start menu is kinda vague, and the rest of the theme is really sharp you know...

Nice. I like the look of that black one, with the blue start button. Looking forward to.

Bah... recolor

Great job to Microsoft on this one.