Ashen

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:( I was so exited to see what all the fuss was about. It took 21 minutes to download bant's .rar file over my slow as@ modem only to discover upon extracting that there was an "error in the application directory." No dice. Back to deviantART for a second try. ( I sure wish everyone would stick with the ubiquitous zip format. Probably wouldn't have saved me this time, just wishful thinking...)

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Thanks Bant for a beautiful theme. I've only got two minor issues with Ashen (one goes for Reluna too). The first one I know there isn't anything to do about. It's the use of grey as Window background. It looks awesome but unfortuneatly, the good people at MS made Word use that color as background. I like my paper white, but can't have it now without messing up Ashen.

I'm glad someone finally mentioned this. Any skinner reading this, don't mess with the window background color, leave it white, it messes up far too many apps if you change it.

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Now, after having tried Ashen for almost a week, I'm still loving it. I changed the window color to white and the only thing that bothers me slightly is the fact that the triangles used in folder trees come with a gray background. If it's not too much of a problem Bant, could you make an alternative where the arrow bg is white, or would that be too much of a deviation from the style's design concept? Hopefully it won't. :)

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because i am an evil evil man that keeps all the real good stuff to myself. i have 198976123 other themes that you guys don't even know exist and they are all effing amazing compared to this crap ashen, or reluna, or whatever else ive released, i don't even remember the names they are so bad.

in reality. the mod is very likely to make it in the next update of the theme. unless something happens between then and now. what is happening between then and now? reluna is going to get some kind of update. very small. or is it? what if ive got 16 color schemes and an amazing new silver version...whoa.... im going to let that sit for a while and get a couple peoples hopes up, and then destroy their dreams with my triple bladed sword. yeah, and i will bash in your dreams with it, until they are dust in the wind, and then i will release a minor modification of bluetiful. ah crap i ruined it. but as you can see, all of that is going to take some time, so super hype everything in your warped little minds until then!

im grumpy tonight.

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because i am an evil evil man that keeps all the real good stuff to myself. i have 198976123 other themes that you guys don't even know exist and they are all effing amazing compared to this crap ashen, or reluna, or whatever else ive released, i don't even remember the names they are so bad.

in reality. the mod is very likely to make it in the next update of the theme. unless something happens between then and now. what is happening between then and now? reluna is going to get some kind of update. very small. or is it? what if ive got 16 color schemes and an amazing new silver version...whoa.... im going to let that sit for a while and get a couple peoples hopes up, and then destroy their dreams with my triple bladed sword. yeah, and i will bash in your dreams with it, until they are dust in the wind, and then i will release a minor modification of bluetiful. ah crap i ruined it. but as you can see, all of that is going to take some time, so super hype everything in your warped little minds until then!

im grumpy tonight.

Oh, bant. How you slay me so. :rofl:

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