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b0se

Apr 26 2005, 02:02

Hey guys and gals!

I've been stupidly busy as of late, but at night I've been finding myself fiddling in StyleBuilder. I was after a theme that resembled Classic, with with some colour. Not as much as Codename Opus however, this one is really a classic based theme.

Preview...

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I'm extremely happy with it at the moment, I've been using it to develop on for a few weeks and it's still as appealing to me, I hope it's like that for anybody who fancies the look of it. I used bright blues for buttons, scrollbar hovers etc to remind me that summer is on its way!

To do:

Tabs
Start panel (erk)
Taskbar

I'm using the Codename Opus widgets (tickboxes, sliders) so I do not have to touch them (booyah!).

ETA: 2 weeks...

BTW: Please refrain yourselves from "That looks like XYZ" (not seen anything like it personally!), I've been developing this using only classic with no influences whatsoever. Been away from the scene for months!

Alvin

Apr 26 2005, 02:05

Lovely! Will be on my desktop once it's released.

kvaughan

Apr 26 2005, 02:06

Looks like it will be a good return

OT: What's happening with W9DProm?

IceBrewedBeer

Apr 26 2005, 02:06

DAMN, that's nice. More please =)

nazgul

Apr 26 2005, 02:06

I'm loving it b0se! Slightly unsure of the min/max/close buttons... maybe make them a little larger, or closer together... But overall, it's sweet, can't wait for it.

Radish™

Apr 26 2005, 02:06

Glad to see you back in the scene b0se

Preview looks great!

Radish™

agt

Apr 26 2005, 02:06

Mmm

spacey

Apr 26 2005, 02:08

woo, i can't wait for it b0se. thanks for the hard work

acedriver

Apr 26 2005, 02:09

It remind me of the new gfxoasis color.

b0se

Apr 26 2005, 02:10

QUOTE(Radish™ @ Apr 26 2005, 02:06)

Glad to see you back in the scene b0se

Preview looks great!

Radish™
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Hey Rad! How's it going buddy? :¬)

Regarding the captions, they are spaced like that on purpose, closer = clustered. I've put a lot of thinking into this theme, things are as they are for a reason. You'll just have to trust me

b0se

Apr 26 2005, 02:11

QUOTE(spacey @ Apr 26 2005, 02:08)

woo, i can't wait for it b0se. thanks for the hard work

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Hey spacey!

Edit: acedriver: They both have blue in it, looks about the only similarity to me!

Radish™

Apr 26 2005, 02:15

QUOTE(b0se @ Apr 26 2005, 03:10)

Hey Rad! How's it going buddy? :¬)
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Not bad - thanks for asking, hit me up on MSN if you need some help with the shellstyles mate

Radish™

ge_generation

Apr 26 2005, 02:47

That looks very minimalistic! Can't wait to try this out.

The Watcher

Apr 26 2005, 02:48

Yea if you need help on the shellstyles. Just hit me.
j.k

Sweet jesus that visual style looks nice. Can't wait to use it...
by the way what about W9DProm?

The Jorge

Apr 26 2005, 03:00

This does look nice. I'd love to make a Winamp Modern skin to go with it. If only I had the VS to base the skin off of...

b0se

Apr 26 2005, 03:07

I lost PromPro in a HDD failure, if someone would send me the VS I'll have a fiddle. XPM Classic is top of the list atm anyway :¬)

bslag.xj

Apr 26 2005, 04:28

looks fantastic.
ill upload PromPro and PM you a link..

NyaR

Apr 26 2005, 04:40

reminds me of classix10k and hmmxp mixed. looking forward to seeing it

iron2000

Apr 26 2005, 05:01

The title bar resembles Ashen's.
The title bar buttons makes me think of Reluna.

looking pretty good on the whole.

..Vector..

Apr 26 2005, 06:50

Looking cool, look forward to a release

daydream nation

Apr 26 2005, 06:57

Nice comeback b0se,

looks very clean and usable indeed. Look forward to seeing it in action.

Bant

Apr 26 2005, 07:02

welcome back b0se, theme looks clean

i like the colors.

gigapixels

Apr 26 2005, 07:10

Wow, that looks great. Too bad I'm on a Mac now... Hopefully there'll be a port by somebody after it's been completed...? /me pleads to anybody who's good at ports

[a]

Apr 26 2005, 07:12

looks good

andy_rose

Apr 26 2005, 08:26

Preview looks good! Lets see if it can take me away from Sustenance.

Scott Evo

Apr 26 2005, 08:50

Looks amazing b0se.

Reble

Apr 26 2005, 09:21

Nice to see you b0se

Nice theme too

x-byte

Apr 26 2005, 10:31

Looks sweet. I like the buttons especially! Good work so far

b0se

Apr 26 2005, 11:55

Thanks for the warm welcome everybody :¬)

Good to see you back also Bant

sdb815

Apr 26 2005, 12:26

It looks awesome b0se. Can't wait to try it.

insanekiwi

Apr 26 2005, 12:35

very nice looking.

please use a thick taskbar or add a substyle for it. and a yummy shellstyle please

b0se

Apr 26 2005, 13:39

QUOTE(insanekiwi @ Apr 26 2005, 12:35)

very nice looking.

please use a thick taskbar or add a substyle for it. and a yummy shellstyle please

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It uses the Codename Opus shelstyle currently (ThemeNorth is a legend for making that style - works with any theme), but I may have to take someones offer up on making a matching shellstyle ;¬)

vip

Apr 26 2005, 14:28

welcome back ross! glad to see you're doing well still

theme looks great, will have to play with it on my wifes xp box ... we need you in the world of OSX

kylejn

Apr 26 2005, 17:59

Looking good.

Freedom Phantom

Apr 26 2005, 18:13

I cannot wait for this

Razor

Apr 26 2005, 19:13

Good to see you back Ross. Great looking theme, looking forward to it

frogger

Apr 26 2005, 19:57

Looks awesome, keep it up!!

Korneliouz

Apr 26 2005, 20:27

Cant wait, this looks awesome.

chaosblade

Apr 26 2005, 21:17

This looks very promising. Perheps, There will be several colors ? Well, that isnt that important.

What i could ask for (humbly of course, it is YOUR project after all ^^), is a full-size start menu in-case you like compact ones, and perheps alt. font selections, though if you use any normal font, it will be as good (seen alot of nice themes i could have used, if it werent to those horrid pixel fonts).

Nice to see you back, Good luck with the dev. and everything else IRL

The Watcher

Apr 26 2005, 21:31

Yea it'd be awesome if you could have multiple colors for this style. Hopefully, Neotool (Classic Skins) and kgraphik (Winamp Modern Skins) will make skins for it.

Take care, yo.

b0se

Apr 27 2005, 11:08

There will be multiple colours and fonts. Thanks for the welcomes!

(Hi Tyler!)

x-byte

Apr 27 2005, 11:14

That's great news bOse, always liked your themes.

Schmoove

Apr 27 2005, 11:33

quite pretty

Pink Floyd

Apr 27 2005, 11:36

oh my!
awsome look!

I dont like the spac between the buttons but the colors are very nice!

BMac

Apr 27 2005, 14:11

This looks simply awesome. But hey, what else would we expect from b0se?

Welcome back man.

shen

Apr 27 2005, 14:38

very nice indeed - if this gets paired up with matching winamp and trillian skins, i believe b0se will once again rule my desktop setup.

snips

Apr 27 2005, 23:25

That looks amazing man! I will definitely be using this once it is released. Can't wait for it, great job!

shen

Apr 28 2005, 16:15

*sighs* now that i know this theme is in development, it's all i can think about every time i check neowin

stahlmantel

Apr 28 2005, 16:27

wow, cool idea b0se, looks interesting!

correllium

Apr 28 2005, 18:06

Looking good

The only thing I'm hoping for is a beige taskbar. And from the layout of the window in your preview I'm thinking that's how it'll be.

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