Plastik for Windows

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lol, there has been a long contraversey over that start button already...I prefer the KDE button since it is a KDE theme.

yeah... tell me about it.

i'd package a windows start button along with the theme but the only thing is if i made a kde version and a windows xp version the msstyle would be over 16 megs with all the color schemes and everything which turns into using twice as much bandwidth (which means i'll probably get kicked off my isp) not to mention twice as much work if i have to fix a bug. if people want the windows start menu so badly they can download sylebuilder for free and change it themselves... its really not hard at all.

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yeah... tell me about it.

i'd package a windows start button along with the theme but the only thing is if i made a kde version and a windows xp version the msstyle would be over 16 megs with all the color schemes and everything which turns into using twice as much bandwidth (which means i'll probably get kicked off my isp) not to mention twice as much work if i have to fix a bug. if people want the windows start menu so badly they can download sylebuilder for free and change it themselves... its really not hard at all.

You tell 'em Contra :p Did you see the bug I posted about buttons with no text in CCleaner?

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You tell 'em Contra :p Did you see the bug I posted about buttons with no text in CCleaner?

i'm not sure what to say to that... i've never seen that happen with any other program and i've tried quite a few on all the computers in my house. its either a problem with the wigets in the program or something with the font sizes. download the newest build and put the font size to "extra large" (which is actually tahoma) and see if it still happens

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i'm not sure what to say to that... i've never seen that happen with any other program and i've tried quite a few on all the computers in my house. its either a problem with the wigets in the program or something with the font sizes. download the newest build and put the font size to "extra large" (which is actually tahoma) and see if it still happens

Yeah I see the text if I put on extra large fonts, but it looks horrid so I'll just deal with having no text since it's the only program I've seen that does it. Thanks anyway though.

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Another possible bug: dropdown box incompatibility with apps such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla that emulate native widgets. I'm using OOo 680m41 which supports native widgets in Windows XP very nicely (with all themes I tried so far). With Plastik XP, dropdown boxes just don't look good; everything else seems to be OK as you can see on the attached screenshot. Can this be fixed somehow?

Other than that minor error, it's a great theme. Good work!

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Yeah I see the text if I put on extra large fonts, but it looks horrid so I'll just deal with having no text since it's the only program I've seen that does it.  Thanks anyway though.
why do you say it looks horrid? can i see a screenshot with the "extra large fonts"?
Another possible bug: dropdown box incompatibility with apps such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla that emulate native widgets. I'm using OOo 680m41 which supports native widgets in Windows XP very nicely (with all themes I tried so far). With Plastik XP, dropdown boxes just don't look good; everything else seems to be OK as you can see on the attached screenshot. Can this be fixed somehow?

the reason it supports the native windows xp widgets is bc the default luna theme doesn't use images to skin the drop down boxes while with the plastik theme they're skinned with images. i'm downloading openoffice right now to see if i can fix it.

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the reason it supports the native windows xp widgets is bc the default luna theme doesn't use images to skin the drop down boxes while with the plastik theme they're skinned with images. i'm downloading openoffice right now to see if i can fix it.

If you are downloading OOo, be sure to download lastest 2.0 snapshot: it's only build that supports it.

But you can test that with Mozilla too, it has the same bug (if you encounter dropdown box on web page at least).

EDIT: Another possible bug. Look at scrollbar on the right at the attached screenshot. It's styled normally, while that one on the left isn't.

EDIT2: I downloaded the newest version and the problem is gone! I will remove the attachment.

I will send you a screenshot of my desktop, as a way of saying thanks for such a great visual style.

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