cause there is no need to mod this...people should be happy about the fact that there such guys as u are, who are developing skins over months...


i think this msstyle is just amazing....

u guys who aren't happy with this one....go bully someone else man.

in the StartPanel section, UserPane. chage the last value in DefaultPaneSize to a lower number. it is for the height of that section of the start panel.

I must admit I like it as it is! Brilliant work em3! Especially the inactive title bar in the black style is gorgeous!!

Why didn't you use that for the blue one too? Didn't it work in blue?

Could someone briefly tell me how to change the start button in this VS to that orb? Or at least point me to a post telling me how to do it?

Arghs, this new v5 is a two-step-backwards compared to v4.2! I' m sorry, but the new startbutton (This is in fact the MCE button!), those light blue borders around dialog buttons, those huge pixely borders around html text forms and these sucky seperators around the startbutton make me stay with v4.2!

em3, don' t take that personally, I really appreciate your work but v5 is just not good as your older themes. My two cents.

I think that's the roughest 1st post I've ever seen from a newbie. Way to make a good first impression.

P.S. I love this thumbs up thing! -->

This is not some sort of hardware driver that improves the performance of your system or fixes bugs with each new update. It's a VS...

lol Don't know why but I just cracked up reading that... Maybe it's my bad sense of humour.

btw em3. Love the theme. Using black atm.

Yeah, does anybody even know who alpha_omega was talking to? I didn't read anyone that said they thought that.

Isn't it obvious? Duke, the woodsman who can build a log cabin using only a bootknife, a paperclip, and the moons gravitational pull.

My comment was about as out of the blue as his...

Indeed it was.

I was referring to vpn-user's comment about how LE5 is "a step backwards compared to v4.2".
IMHO these are 2 different themes and you can't expect it to improve just because the version number is higher...

Aaahhh. Gotcha. ( <--- redundant smiley)

It seems to me, and maybe it's just me, that the real issue with the start button is the color. Personally, I would prefer something shinier. other than that, the theme is about as good as it gets.

I should've hit the magic 'Quote' button...

...you mean you weren't talking to Duke? Well, now I just feel like an ass .

I was referring to this post:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...ost&p=587133909
right after Catharsis' comment on it. I thought it was "obvious" who I was referring to but Captain Obvious proved me wrong

Yeah, I thought that might be the case, but it still didn't connect to me. Oh well...over and done.

So...does anyone know how to get that Vista orb that I mentioned in place of the start button of this VS? I'd really like that green orb on there, but I've never manipulated any VS. I've just used them.

Thanx a million StevoFC, it worked like a charm!!
@Angelo75, please please make the round startbuttons fit the compact schemes..and also with taskbar at the top.

Okay em3, started using LE4 2 weeks ago, and moved on to LE5. I havn't used skins in 4 years and LE4 made me come back. Using LE5 at the moment, much better that LE4 the title bars are nice and black which looks awesome (black compact btw). Changed the start button, the startmenu highlights and one of the sliders so it works fine with foobar.

WIth the few modifications I've done this is a great theme, keey up the good work.

looks pretty damn 1337
1 problem porting to wb with skinstudio makes caption buttons smashed
i want wb5 port ;p
anyone would like to do that if em3 will permit
coz i saw he is not going to do it himself

guys, i feel stupid asking this, but how are you all changing the start button? i'd like to put in the round vista one, either blue or green, or maybe something else. but how to do it?

edit: i've dl'ed the bmp 001.bmp attached to a post a few pages back, and i like the start buttons in there. how to i use them, speicifcally?

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Use RedEdit from TGTsoft. Open the msstyle file, find the startbutton bitmap and press the replace button.

Yup, I just did it, and it worked. Although, I may shrink the orb, because I like to use the compact theme, but the flag in the orb falls below the bottom of the screen...

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when i did this, i renamed the new bmp to the same as the old bmp file, and made sure it had the bmp extension. however, le5 still crashed, and i'm back to the le5 original. what did i do wrong?



how would you do this? i like the compact versions, too

Did you save the file?

And I'm not too sure how to shrink it down and have it work correctly. I'd probably have to mess around with the positioning.

What do you all think about this?

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Here is a compact version of PeterPL's vista orb. It works for both LE4 and LE5. All credit goes to PeterPL

Here's my idea. Black windows, black programs (that seem to overlap on the taskbar), white taskbar, and blue orb.

I don't agree with the black but damn that silver taskbar looks amazing

i got these working, but it doesn't fit perfectly (circle is cut off at the bottom). is this intentional, or could i size these yet more differently? also, any word on a blue version of these?

Yeah, that silver theme looks great. Although I'd change lclock to black instead of white with black highlights. Just something I noticed.

Thats the point of the two different PNGs. One is for use on a bottom taskbar and the other is for upper taskbar placement. Thats how PeterPL's original was


BTW: Could someone make a version of these using the button designs of LE5?

Anyone know what's causing the following in some VS, this one included, I'm afraid.

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The GuildWars window is set to open at 0,0 but it leaves a few pixel gap to the top. The same goes for all programs, it's as if windows didn't know where desktop's top edge is.

denzilla, how's this?

Thats great, thanks

It's the way the captionbars were made in LE 5. See screenie attached. The pink acts as transparent so all windows opened are going to have a slight gap at the top.

Man..is there any chance of getting all the startbutton mods in one zip on the lunaelement.net site? Like I wanna keep up with all the mods and all that, but there are just so many damn pages..

ahhh, finally something that pushes the vista xp wb5 skin by kol off my desktop lol. good work

The blue version of the Trillian Luna Element 5 skin is almost complete. I was wondering if someone could "5ify" the hide button though and/or help me learn how to. I'm still not to good at that stuff

Awesome, thanks for the info.

It was surprisingly easy to "fix", I just moved both parts up 2 pixels and then cropped the extra space off the bottom. Of course my XP might blow up any second now and I probably caused a whole set of bugs but so far, so good.

Edit: Does anyone have the Vista Orb start button modded so that it fits the black compact style without cutting off part of the flag? I'm afraid it's beyond my Paint skills.

Edit2: So, I replied to myself instead of editing the last post... time to pass out I suppose.

to avoit having it cut it off, you have to edit startbutton margins in stylebuilder. that's the only way possible.

What I like...

1. Everything seems to be "smoother" with regards to gradients;
2. Love the new checkboxes/radio buttons;
3. The yellow border around buttons;
4. Show hidden icons button.

What I don't like...

1. The taskbar is slightly bigger than LE4;
2. The light blue around the buttons;
3. The min/max/close buttons no longer look as if they rotate forward;
4. An inactive window title is impossible to see;
3. The light blue, period, it just doesn't fit in.

So, sorry to say I went back to using LE4, it was the light blue that did it! But I must say, LE4 is genius! I've been using it for months

THANKS! THEY LOOK GOOD!
byw, anyone can tell me how to set the program list font to normal instead bold?

Personally, the only thing I don't like - and it's been this way with ever LE I've used - is a green start button on the blue theme. Just doesn't go with anything then.

Yes I'm anal, but eh.