Wobachi Retro VS

This is a collab between me and Tostamistica1971, based on the fabulous Wobachi Retro skin for winamp by Blueslaad, as well as screenshots on Custo.org

- 2 substyles: dark and light (pictured in preview) task bars/caption bars.
- Fonts: Lucida Grande 7, Calibri 8, Tahoma 8

Get the suite including a more minimal version by Tostamistica1971, and skins for Rainlendar, Miranda, Shutdown dialog and Litestep Here

Looks very nice.

Great Theme,
Looks really nice!

Awesome!

Love your icons. Do you know where I can get 'em?

Just wow, I love it. Too bad I dnt use Windows anymore. Reminds me of the projects I had with Gigapixel.

Wow so nice...!
Being on Vista I sure do miss the Skins... All of vista skins just seem aero-mods

Just like all the themes in XP were Luna mods at first. Just give it some time, the theme scene will expand.

I like it alot, any idea where I can get those icons?

Thank you.

Did you read thru the notes on the download page? I find it very helpful

Nice, I like it. The Winamp skin is very cool, too; skinning Winamp 2.x is a dying art.

Thanks for the comments. Glad you'll like it

@Hugh - yes it is a dying art, but credit goes to Blueslaad, who made the winamp. The rest of the theme was done by me and Tostamistica to match with it.

Excellent skin, Nevezen!


Not to go off-topic here, but how long did it take you to create this skin?
Can you recommend me a visual guide that teaches one how to skin Windows XP?

Thanks!

I cant tell you for sure how long it took because I did it in bits and pieces when I had time. All depends on how detailed, originial, well-made you want it to be. Even minimalistic styles, depiste the lack of fancy graphics and gradients can take a while. Mine are more on the simple side because I use MS Paint for the bitmaps, and Im not really looking to create the next big thing, just looking to have my desktop styled a certain way, so they dont take forever to put together. But there are many other styles which are very intricate and probably took ages to complete.

As far as a guide goes, I didnt use one and I dont think there is a detailed guide around. There's a little help page on the stylebuilder website that should give you the basics. Check it out and then open up a theme with stylebuilder to experiment. It's seriously the best way to fgigure out whats going on. You could also try reading up on help topics here and on custo.org in case you come across things you need help with.

What icon set would you recommend?

Its upto you depending on whatcha like Im lazy so I now use IconPackager instead of icons that have to be applied individually.

Off the top of me head, these are some IP themes I use and you can find them on DA: Arzo, Vista Inspirate, Aesthetic Groove, Tango.

My friend's in the process of making a set that goes perfectly with this theme, but it's part of another suite and not yet released. You can add him to you watch list on DA so that you know when they're out. http://jg-visuals.deviantart.com/

^ Cheers!