[VS] Imperial

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Deciever

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It looks nice... Don't let all the negative comments deter you from the theming world.... :) A lot of the people who give negitive comments have never made a VS... :) Keep at it...

yea I've made themes for Y'z Dock back in the day and a lil VS back when Y'z Dock was hot and legit, only released the Y'z themes though and I had all the good and the bad comments. I'd just appreciate negative comments when they are more specific bout what they don't like and if it is not their taste that is just fine, but when they state the obvious in a negative way about it being a silver royale is just stupid.

well I have to go back into to town to make a car payment and then I will be going by a computer business to pick up an application it seems they need a part time person for repair with computers and copiers.(don't know much bout copiers other than the basics but I am workin on A+ :D which should be easy enough)

Soon as I get back I will re-release it with the new taskbar buttons.

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I'd just appreciate negative comments when they are more specific bout what they don't like and if it is not their taste that is just fine

Ok you want what i didnt like.

1.taskbar should be thinner

2.frame captions should also be thinner

3.caption and close buttons are too bulky

4.start button without windows flag would be way more original

5.startpanel logoff buttons have poor looking corners too them

6.taskband buttons have wierd looking left/right darker color when picked

7.small closed button is not centered in small frame caption

8.taskbar looks poor if more then default height

9.tab background has strange smug look

10.status background should be thinner

11.expanded startgroup background carries over leftside of bar,making for broken look

12.taskbar chevron does not look good in white,it fades out

13.startgroup highlite color would look better if was same as startmenu highlite and menu highlite

14.taskband hoverbar overlaps left side of taskband background when highlited

15.whole font selection being same as luna really does nothing for theme,maybe try something like lucida grande

16.progresstrack buttons have white edge on all four corners that stand out

17.frame caption text not even close to being centered top and bottom on frame captions

Well there you have some of my suggestions what i didnt like.I look forward to these changes.

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Deciever

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Ok you want what i didnt like.

1.taskbar should be thinner

2.frame captions should also be thinner

3.caption and close buttons are too bulky

4.start button without windows flag would be way more original

5.startpanel logoff buttons have poor looking corners too them

6.taskband buttons have wierd looking left/right darker color when picked

7.small closed button is not centered in small frame caption

8.taskbar looks poor if more then default height

9.tab background has strange smug look

10.status background should be thinner

11.expanded startgroup background carries over leftside of bar,making for broken look

12.taskbar chevron does not look good in white,it fades out

13.startgroup highlite color would look better if was same as startmenu highlite and menu highlite

14.taskband hoverbar overlaps left side of taskband background when highlited

15.whole font selection being same as luna really does nothing for theme,maybe try something like lucida grande

16.progresstrack buttons have white edge on all four corners that stand out

17.frame caption text not even close to being centered top and bottom on frame captions

Well there you have some of my suggestions what i didnt like.I look forward to these changes.

lol of course you post this right after I just update it to Imperial 1.02

1. taskbar is default height with royale (before I released it, it was 4 pixels larger but I did manage to fix it to default height before release) taskbar height is really personal taste I guess....I may re-release a thin version since you mention it.

2. pretty much what I said in one, but the captions do match defualt royale(and default xp I believe)

3. same response as 2

4. like I said this is a royale to sivler conversion (although if I release a thin version we would have to say good bye to the flag, I've done it before :shifty: )

5. agreed.....will try and fix this issue

6. I mentioned this in an earlier post and that it would be fixed today, which it has just d/l 1.02 on 1st page =)

7. have not confirmed this....I would think it should be in the same position as royale...in any case I will look into it

8. taskbar was fixed to default height before the first release

9. fixed in 1.02

10. status background matches default silver (may become smaller in a possible thin version)

11. start group images should be the exact same as default silver

12. lol I'm sorry my chevron has disappeared can anyone tell me how to fix it? is it a regedit fix plz? I thought it was supose to come back on it own oo. If I get mine back I will look into it for a possible darker version.

13. atm it is the same as the silver defualt, and royale color scheme treats it the same, so most likely it will stay as is

14. unfortunetly I am unable to replicate this as far as I can tell my current version 1.02 is just fine....it might be fixed now

15. if I create a thin version it is possible

16. confirmed, it will be fixed

17. confirmed, but it needs to be shifted to the left 6 pixels. top and bottom is inlined with royale

Thanks for the scurtinizing review lol now I can futher improve my work thanks, grubmonster

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what most of you people fail to realize is that this IS simply a recolor of Royale. No where did deceiver state that he set out to create the next Reluna or anything, this is a black recolor and a good one at that. and grubmonster, you can pretty much apply all those criticisms to the Royale style itself.

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Holy **** Deciever, I haven't checked back here in a while. This VS is really beginning to look excellent. I had a feeling that you ignored my sugestions, but I see you fixed everything I mentioned! VERY NICE!

I still see a little room for improvement though. However, I believe once these small things are fixed, this VS will be my new favorite (my only favorite has been MS' Silver Luna :lol:)

Attached is a small pic of things I found after testing it for a day. Again, only small things here...

1 - There seems to be a 1 px blue line around any window that is docked (in this case, my AIM window is docked to the left...you can see the blue line above the start button). Can you change this to match the other windows?

2 - Also on docked windows, the frame (top and sides) shadows to not match up. You just need to extend the bottom few pixels of the top window frame over to make it match up with the side. (Update - I just noticed the same problem in Adobe Photoshop's "C:\... Already exists. Do you want to replace it?" dialogue box - when saving an image. -- Also on Adobe Photoshops "JPEG Options Window" when saving a JPEG.)

3 - Line on Tray Hide Button

4 - The rollover image for the first quick launch button in the taskbar is cut off by one pixel (to the left)

5 - If you look closely at the close window buttons, you'll see a white pixel on both bottom edges. To get rid of it, make both pixels the default transparent purple (as used in the top edges of the button).

Again, this is looking very good, excellent work :yes:

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thanks

btw Dazzla stated

"Royale mods can be posted in the completed themes forums as long as you're not providing the digitally signed version direct from MS."

sorry erp =P

I said that I liked it and if the mods let this go I would apologize and shut up. I'm sorry I buggered up your thread. Good night.

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thanks for all the comments and apology (cough erp lol, no hard feelins).

Thanks for finding more bugs shawn....it seems I still got work ahead of me but atleast I seem have taken care of the biggest issues I would think and I still have a few things to fix that grubmonster posted earlier. I just got back from a long trip so I will address these things sometime tomorrow most likely. Monday I may be preping for an interview so I'll see what happens =).

Also shawn about number 4 I lack that bug, it displays just fine(may be because my chevron will not show up oo).....it may also need fixing to the bg since I did re-do the taskband buttons but I didn't think to compare them to the quicklaunch bitmaps. I believe why your number 4 does that is because of a resizing issue with the chevron. Most likely I may have to compare my settings with royale and match them most likely.

btw does anyone know how I can fix my chevron so it will come back oo?

This is just way too close to Silver Luna IMO. I mean it's getting to the point where it seems people are hardly modding the default themes. Sorry, but that's my honest opinion.

I'm just going to say the samething I said to the others that said this....apply this theme then apply the defualt silver theme then post. (Also the goal of this project has been stated and restated numerous times I suggest you read atleast the first posting, more specificly the second sentence under the screen shot :whistle:

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Matt T

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I recon it's a very nice vs Deciever :) I'm not using it though, it's too silver for me - but you have still done a great job. atleast you took the time to finish it, ay? I've started about 10 visual styles in the past year and none of them even close to finished.

so, good job. maybe try something of your own creation sometime? you obviously have alot of potential (Y)

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