Ashen

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SiL3NC3

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i think this theme is great... the poem to the wallpaper to all the emotional thought that went into it... its just amazing time and time agian bant i truly think u are the king of VS theme... keep up the great work (Y)

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good stuff as usual bant.. a little drab in color but x-quisitly done ...I really dig the fine detail on the tabs and startpanel.. going to rip it apart to figure out a couple of your secrets (again :) ) ...

Hey skinner your not the only one ripping this puppy apart to see how bant does things hehe :-) damn guy loves to raise that bar dont he lol

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Hombre you will need to enable your Windows XP display picture before the windows flag on the start menu will be visible. Right now your name is covering it.

I can't speak for Hombre, but I have the same issue with the start panel. However, I'm on a domain and don't have the option of enabling a user picture. Is there some other trick to get the name text to move over? Or am I missing something obvious? It's a small bug and won't keep me from using this VS, that's for sure.

-Ciam

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WOW

You outdone your self, finally there is a theme that i think i can use for longer than a day without having to mod it, no offence to other theme authors but in the past few months there hasn't been a theme that has made me excited to change my VS... until now

too bad im not home to start using this right now :(

great work bant i give it :star::star::star::star::star: and (Y)(Y)

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i'm glad so many are enjoying this. there will be a few bug fixes and that startpanel flag will be moved (not removed, i like it too much) in the next release. i will also be slimming down the the msstyle and the rar file (removing the walls and packaging them seperately), as well as doing a little font tweaking. no eta on the update, i'm in the middle of a busy week, so it might not show up until the middle of next week. either way, the bugs arent too distracting, so there shouldnt be any problems with use in the mean time ;)

in reply to the fellow themers looking at the guts of the theme, go for it guys, i hope you find something useful. i really don't feel that i've raised the bar in terms of what can be done in msstyles, though i am constantly trying to at least reach it.

in regards to what bugs are known:

the show-all-programs menu arrow bug is known, is in lots of themes, and is a lose-lose sort of situation, if we don't have that bug, we have another bug with the menu and it's just as distracting. what can be done to fix it on your end? clean up your menu, organize it so that it doesnt expand to more than 1 column. it's sort of punishment for being unorganized, you see?

there is a known bug in foobar, that i'm not sure i will be fixing (as, i think it's mostly foobar's fault...lol... leave it to me to blame everybody else)

there are a couple more that have already been fixed and will be included with the other bug fixes listed and found before i release an update.

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