Longhorn PDC - Slate

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itsnotabigtruck

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Well while we're all having fun with this new theme I thought I'd post a shot of my desktop now that I've finished tweaking around with xp and the slate theme.. can't wait to play with the final version, great job Windows X :)

How did you make your taskbar transparent?

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:D and they said "you cant make the taskbar tansparent, thats foolish" but the brilliance of this taskbar fader thing, makes it soo possable, horray! :D :D :D

but, ok, so it can be dun with the taskbar, but can it be dun with the windows? hmmm? :huh:

god i hope so, that would be awsome :rofl:

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Ji@nBing

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okay a very stupid question but why don't you make a theme like this, it sure looks better than slate... :huh:

:blink: what? that's somehow even uglier than plex. i didn't think it could be possible but there it is. slate is 100 times better than that

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How did you make your taskbar transparent?

I was using the Nvidia nView Desktop Manager that runs with my Ti4200 card for the transparency.. You can make anything ya want transparent but I don't use the transparency at all really because it's cool for an hour and then it just gets old quick, but it looks good for screenshots :D The sidebar is SmartbarXP using a slate skin I made and a custom clock I made from what I could see in an AERO screenshot posted last night.

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Well while we're all having fun with this new theme I thought I'd post a shot of my desktop now that I've finished tweaking around with xp and the slate theme.. can't wait to play with the final version, great job Windows X :)

the buttons like that in WMP, how?

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the buttons like that in WMP, how?

Thats just a skin I made from the actual media player tile from longhorn 4015 I think it was.. SmartbarXP lets you skin the media player as well and so I got the idea to make the whole thing look as close as I could to the real sidebar so I spent forever trying to make a skin to look like the real one and that actually worked and thats the result.

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Thats just a skin I made from the actual media player tile from longhorn 4015 I think it was.. SmartbarXP lets you skin the media player as well and so I got the idea to make the whole thing look as close as I could to the real sidebar so I spent forever trying to make a skin to look like the real one and that actually worked and thats the result.

check your PM's

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