Media Center styleXP theme: My version with help from many people. Deron,Xero,Bant,Hyperpole (sorry if i missed people, confusing lately..ha ha)

http://deskmod.com/core.mod?show=showskin&...n&skin_id=20494

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/970061

Update 1/19:

Following resolutions supported:
640x480...800x600...1024x768...1152x1024....1280x1152....1400x1050....1600x1400.. ..1920x1440.]

New MediaC Light: Light color version of my theme for those that like light colors. , click link for download and screenie

http://deskmod.com/core.mod?show=showskin&...n&skin_id=21382
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1187333

Update 1/19:


Following resolutions supported:
640x480...800x600...1024x768...1152x1024....1280x1152....1400x1050....1600x1400.. ..1920x1440.


This will be the last updates for a long time maybe. Very bored of working on this thing. You cant modify if ya want for personal use, BUT you CAN'T post it without my permission.

Peace..

It's as complete as the other themes in Completed styles.

woah. keep up the good work

DM, I'm going to be busy for the next few days. Hopefully I can get home tomorrow and work on it a bit. I have some ideas for the start menu, but eh. Still ideas, I also have some extras for the theme to fill in some blanks there are.

come on creamhackered: you read the thread title's in the completed styles forum. there are at least 4 'beta' styles out of the top 10. besides most styles are virtually completed but stay in 'beta' until they go final, at which point they aren't editted much. at least that's been my experience. rarely are there versions 2 or 3. unless we are talking a/b watercolor.

moved to Completed Visual Styles

Please note that if you supply a link to download, than it qualifies as being completed

Nice work!

By the way, Danimator I'll say again I'm 100% pleased. I'm not going to be working anymore on an MCE theme other than possibly helping you port this to other resolutions. Thanks for making my dream a reality.

hehe who cares, when its finished it can get moved back there

the main purpose of this was that so people could have easy access to a download link, and now they have it.... i hope this doesnt turn into another 27 pager though

looks nice guys, dont burn out....more...lol

edit: nm... keldyn's l33t moving sk33ls zapped in there before i finished replying..

Oh God! No offense But its terrible... When I started using it... I could still see black parts , and parts from the VS i was using right before it...

Otherwise it LOOKS great... Just needs some tweaking... Oh, and it might help to let you know, I am using a Double Height Start Bar...

They just may be the problem. It is usually the case with themes. They dont seem to cope too well with double height bars...

ummmm it doesnt look good in 1280*1024.... which i believe is a very popular resolution...

Yeah, a popular res that shouldn't be used on CRT monitors (since they use a 3:4 aspec ratio, not a 5:4 like a LCD Monitor (which is what 1280x1024 is meant for), crt monitor users should use 1280x960, otherwise, things are slightly stretched (you cannot get a perfect square shap on a 1280x1024 screen on a 3:4 crt monitor), so many people use it and don't realize their picture is not correct.

Sounds good Deron. Glad ya like it guys. Ya these threads are getting a little silly lately eh? Geesh....

Anyway, I guess I should clear some things up too, seems we have too many silly comments here lately about our themes.

First..... War of the themes?....No...Mine was made simply because I love the look and color scheme of Windows Media Center. And want my theme to co-exist with it, to be a close match as posible to it. I originally started it for myself only, but MCE seems to be popular, so I thought I would release it. Can't speak for the other themers, and won't assume their reasons, but I'm assuming they had the same reason, because they like Microsoft's MCE.

Secondly...People.....use your brains a little.....Beta means BETA...that means lots of bugs, errors and perhaps many other nasty little glitches may be present. Be patient, they'll eventually be fixed. I work in a default of 1600x1200 and told you on the download link that I didnt do it for other resolutions yet. So please don't waste posts by complaining it don't work in your resolution. That's common knowledge I think, and will be addressed in future updates.

Third.....If you like our themes, use them, if you don't like them, don't use em, simple as that. I feel you shouldn't waste everyone's time, including themers as well as fellow forum members, in simply posting rude or idiotic comments.

Lastly, I think the most important....I think it's wise for everyone to remember that all the MCE themes are in no way an original creation. They are mainly made by copying Microsofts MCE, cutting and pasting the real bmps and pngs from the real MCE, maybe adding a few touches of our own and calling it a day. So people need to lighten up a bit, and not take yourselves to damn seriously when it comes to these themes. That goes to everyone, themers, forum members, etc..Everyone needs to relax a little, it's only a theme for C**** sakes.

All the MCE themes have been passed around to many people to work on lately, whoever is still working on mine...great...suggestions, etc are always welcome, and hopefully we can work to make a great final.

All the people using the MCE themes. If you don't like our themes don't use em. Shut the F*** up and make your own if your only gonna wine and complain. Suggestions are one thing, but stupid, mindless comments waste everyone's time, and neowin's bandwidth. Personally, I never have, nor ever will respond to those sorts of comments.


Anyway..great work to all the themers here, Bant, Hyper, Deron, Xero, many others I don't know. Keep up the good work, the other MCE theme looks great as well, comin along dandy guys!L et's hope these themes turn out well!

Peace...

Danimator

you dont have to mention me hehe, i didnt do anything

people do need to calm down, these are just themes hehe, well said danimator.

It's lovely, I like it a lot, especially the taskbar and some of the colours. A few issues though (see screenshot)

Otherwise, great work

well as most of you guys are here ( Danimator, Bant, Deron, Hyperbole ) I kinda made an amalgamated theme of some of the best elements of yours and the default silver luna theme as a base, I always find some parts of themes annoy me ( excel was unusable in some of the dark themes! ) so I made my own from your parts. I admit I borrowed large chunks, but hey it is just for my use, just thought I would show you a screen shot of the adapted theme, soz if ya think I am a stealer of your excellent work, well I am, you can have the style if ya want! it will not go anywhere other than my desktop!! thanks for the excellent work guys, hats off to you!

SPaCe



Have fun!

You got a pm SPaCe!

I just don't like the blue background on the dialog boxes and such. It's a beautiful theme just that blue background is killer. Maybe you could offer another ooption for a background similar to the one space included.

Looking better and better buddy, keep up the great work!!!!

I was wondering how you can change the wallpaper so it can fit with my 1024x768 screen resolution. The wallpaper seems to be unaligned with the taskbar. Other than that it looks perfectly fine.

same comment as the other thread:

man one of the guys at deskmod is an idiot...



geez isnt that color scheme of Windows Media Center? i dont even think he's heard of this. he should've read danimator's three ideas. i didnt want to post there because i don't have an account and it's just a waste of time creating a new one... and besides... i guess im wasting my time posting this up too.

I noticed that too. LOL

calling Bant and Danimator?!!! hopefully you have read the previous posts, I have made a theme from your great efforts.. is it possible I can get permission to release it? A few people have been asking for it, I am not going to release it without your permission so it rests with you.....

Thanks in advance


SPaCe

P.S I have no idea what to call it? mce smooth? any suggestions?


Latest updated Screenshot below:




Updates are:

Taskbar styles...smooth.. and scroll bars plus various details

SPaCe,
Where can I download your edition of the theme?

Really liked the theme, Danimator! Great job.
There are just a few things you should fix, I believe. The taskbar doesn't support 2 lines, and the Close, Minimize and Maximize buttons don't fit the title bar...
And I'd change the font to Tahoma... But that's just me.

I've added a screenshot. Notice the colors at the top of the buttons, and the color of the title bar.
Oh, and it's ok when the window is not maximized.

Heya, haven't had a chance to do much updating the past few days, been working alot, and today I was bummin' around Tokyo (I live in Japan, no I'm not Japanese). I'm also working on a lighter color version for those that didn't like the dark colors as well. Will post screenies and updates soon as I can, should be in the next couple o days.

Danimator! Am I allowed to release this or not? if you could let us know either way would be appreciated!

SPaCe

Space, you should release it anyway, and if you cant, could u please email it to me. THANX

First he'd need permission of the original maker. All Space did was modify it to his own liking, in which, he didn't actually make the visual style himself, just modded it.

Release it space. It's fine

me first?

Please could u make sure that when the mouse clicks on the X in the top right corner of a windows that it closes ie...what i mean is that i move my mouse to the top corner and click the x even though the mouse tip is not on the actual X it closes the window...

i've seen some themes where if u go right to the corner and click it wont close..ie you have to place the mouse "on" the actual X to close..u catch my drift???

its a bit confusing but what the heck....


and will u be releasing this theme in various colours???ie green, darker blue, orange etc???

yep space, go ahead

shutup bant, only i get to say that

I also finished a released my mce active desktop, for res 1280x1024, go check it out, on hyperboies mce thread.

hehe this theme is just getting better and better lol

ICEMANS DTOP

LOL, btw what res is that, I noticed the button images were messed, didn't match backround. Im using 1280x1024. And it's working fine. I will create other res later. Im just wonder which you are using. Heres mine, scaled down for better viewing.

res is 1280x960

ahh, thats why.. I'll be sure to create one for that res for ya.

Im going to be making a 1024x768, 1152x768, and a 1280x960. 1280x1024, is already made.

Cool i will really like to get the 1024 version tis the normal res i am in

Ya you can release it space. looks good

Update:

Changed back to round tasktray,color tweaks, start menu tweaks, etc...still only for 1600x1200.

Geesh the other theme is starting to look more and more like mine

http://deskmod.com/core.mod?show=showskin&...n&skin_id=20494

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/970061

Thanks for the respective permissions guys, I have called it SmoothMCE, for want of a better name!

I have uploaded it at one of my sites


Download


Screenshots are in previous posts.

Notes:
This theme is based on parts made by Danimator/Deron/Bant/Xero* so hats of to those guys for their skills, this a normal taskbar version of the MCE themes, with a light blue hue which makes it easier to see certain stuff ( any office product etc. ). As it is my first theme, there are undoubtly bugs and things ( not sure how well it will work as a Vertical taskbar! ), so if peeps could point them out it would be appreciated.

This is version 0.5


SPaCe


* if I missed anyone out then tell us and I will put you on!

Updated the shellstyle.dll to match a little better. Still no idea how to get rid of the 1pixel white border line in it. Any ideas?

Still only for 1600x1200.

http://deskmod.com/core.mod?show=showskin&...n&skin_id=20494

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/970061

Re-upped the file. Now has the proper shellstyle as in this shot. Fixed the white 1pixel border, Its now gone. Use the same downlaod links as previous post.

Really cool i like it alot thanks man its great

ICEMANS DTOP

Danimator,

Thanks, excellent vs, its on my desktop right now

Paulo

how about someone make a different size wallpapers to match ?

SPaCe, can you make your version of the theme with another font please?

does anyone have brighter wallpaper for Danimator's MCE?

Can do! any ideas on which one??