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Schmoove:

Beautiful work as always.

Allows me to have redhat bluecurve again,without having to use redhat 9,which was just way to darn slow on my old box.Personally i like slackware the best of the linux distros,but must admit that redhat did a beautiful job with bluecurve.

Anyways thanks for the great effort and time you put into your theme's,the quality really shows!

Schmoove is it ok if I show off my screenshots now? ;)

Prefer the other start menu though. In any case, the theme is kickass </discussion>

Yeah post it if you want. I don't mind.

Personally I am not happy with the startmenu either. It worked quite well for Ximian, but doesn't really do it for Bluecurve it seems. So don't be surprised if I try something completely different in a next release.

Anyways, thanks people for the kind words. Glad you all like it!!!

Wonderful theme... Ximian has now been "retired"...

Yes pretty much. Don't want to brag, but the current version of Ximian is (in my opinion) possibly the best it is gonna get. I haven't noticed bugs (apart from things that are caused by msstyle restrictions) or whatsoever in the theme and it looks damn close to the real thing. I could make more colors, but I don't think that would make me or anyone else happier. I think it is fine this way.... time to move on.

Time to make a 'flawless' Bluecurve port, which is my aim with this msstyle.

Observe:

http://www.tokartta.co.uk/screenshots/gradientfade.jpg

Great job on everything else though :)

Ah I see what you mean. I am sorry but that is one of those things that is impossible in the msstyle format.

I can do that, but I have to enlarge the used bitmaps. The thing is that if you make those to large you will get massive resizing problems. On small windows it will compress the whole stuff to fit and everything will be out of proportions.... too bad.... ain't gonna work.

But I agree, it would look nicer.

I'm completely uneducated in the ways of Stylebuilder (as will become evident), but maybe you could get the stripes on a transparent image, and then make it so that they fade out in different directions over a (say, 650px) distance. Then (And this is where the high chance of impossibility comes in), you could make the titlebar 'base' the gradient in the central area of the pic I posted, and 'layer' the two stripe images (one fades to transparent to the left, the other to the right) on top - Then you could set it so they 'stick' to the leftmost and rightmost areas of the titlebar. (an example, off the top of my head, would be Olive Dynamine's stripe - Its always located X px away from the rightmost edge of the titlebar). It would kind of work :blink:

Yeah. I've never used Stylebuilder in my life. Does it show? :$

Anyway. If thats not possible in the msstyles format, maybe it could be done for WB? This theme is one I'm willing to install WB for :)

I'm completely uneducated in the ways of Stylebuilder (as will become evident), but maybe you could get the stripes on a transparent image, and then make it so that they fade out in different directions over a (say, 650px) distance. Then (And this is where the high chance of impossibility comes in), you could make the titlebar 'base' the gradient in the central area of the pic I posted, and 'layer' the two stripe images (one fades to transparent to the left, the other to the right) on top - Then you could set it so they 'stick' to the leftmost and rightmost areas of the titlebar. (an example, off the top of my head, would be Olive Dynamine's stripe - Its always located X px away from the rightmost edge of the titlebar). It would kind of work :blink:

Yeah. I've never used Stylebuilder in my life. Does it show? :$

Anyway. If thats not possible in the msstyles format, maybe it could be done for WB? This theme is one I'm willing to install WB for :)

Nice idea... but ain't gonna work. The msstyle format does not support layers :no:

With that gradient thing, it only appears behind the text which is a problem, as I tried to do a similar thing with a mac os 8.6 theme I was working on, however you cant stretch the outside parts, only the middle. In which case you'll get bugger all of the dark blue area, but loads of blurred section.

Heres the start menu I was talkin about, oh and 'some' of you may notice siRC v4.0 in the taskbar, just incase your interested ;)

Perhaps offer this start menu in a substyle?

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