Free Style Visual Style and Active Desktop

[Osiris]

Damn you people, when I need you none of you are online. And this new server I signed up for sucks, there slow to upload and dont alllow .zips and I cant even connec to my site anymore throuhg the FTP.

Anyway I had/have an PostBeta1 pic here showcasing the changes to the shell and some minor improvements but I guess it will have to wait till tomrrow now, because im going to be diconnected in 1 minute, so im going to go work on the theme some more I guess. Nyte all.

[Thantos]

Bye i guess... Hey did you ever try using Prohosting?

They are pretty good...

[0sit0]

I told u if u need Space just PM me!!!!!

[P]

hey the mouse over effect on the start menu ...is that a bitmap ??

[Osiris]

well I added you to messenger I thought that would have done it i fyou were online.

Hey fellas I wasnt going off at anyone, was only stirring, dont take offense now. Yes the mouse over effect is a bitmap. umm Startgroup_Startbutton I think is the name.

[Tesseract]

My suggestion for the theme would be to create a mouseover effect for the start button. It would make it consistant with the rest of the interface. Otherwise, great job. ;)

[P]

**** i cant find it anywhere man ..you sure ? the mouse over effect on the start menu and programs menu

[Osiris]

who can host an updated screenshot ive got?

[Osiris]

Many Thanks to Conundrum for showcasing and Hosting this Post Beta1 Preview Picture.

Its in Full 1280 * 1024 Res with good quality so youll have to go here to see it

[Osiris]

gees has everyone died on me or something. I post a new screenshot at last come back 7 hrs later and not a single comment on it.

[Thantos]

Sweet nice job! And no.. I havent died...n Ive been a sleep for the last 7 hours.. Lol :) Anyways nice job! I'd like to see what you've done with the HTML Desktop... Besides that, I waswondering if you can make is compatible with 800 x 640 res...

[Jessterw]

Originally posted by Osiris

gees has everyone died on me or something. I post a new screenshot at last come back 7 hrs later and not a single comment on it.

LOL sorry Osiris, that may be because some of us are here in the US and those seven hours were the ones we were sleeping during.

Anyways I like the new screenshot, of course I really liked the visual style since the first download :D so any improvements you've made are just icing on the cake (can't believe I just said that :ermm: ). If anything, the only thing I'm not real fond of is the background in the task pane (Windows Explorer), the fade and the little lines remind me too much of one of the FrontPage themes :p lol. I think with just the fade and the Visual Studio .NET "blobs" it would look better... just my opinion though. But honestly beyond that everything looks great and I think you've done a really terrific job.

So keep up the good work and I am definately looking forward to the next release!

[Osiris]

Ahh sleep yer ive heard of that.. lol nah bloody timezones hey. Fair enough. The desktop yer, well thats been put on hold for a while till I figure out a strategy on how to distribute it all accordingly. Rest assured I think Ive found a way to get it to work anyway so heads up and ill release a RC1 soon with probably hopefully a 1024 and 1280 version sorry no 800 600 yet. Well at the least ill have a working version in there, in some resolution.

[P]

looking good dude :) how long till your next ver ?

[Osiris]

Well I Work all day tomorrow and I might go out tomorrow nyte so depending on how much I might have to drink, either mid - late Sunday or Early Monday. There will definitely be a new release by then.

[P]

sounds good ..:) how did you go with the mouse over.

[Osiris]

YEah well my ppan for the desktop is to scrap the Flash, and just DHTML Effects. Why I cant do that now is because they dont line up so ive got alot of careful editing that will hopefully let me line up the buttons correctly then I use the mouseover effects, combined with the easy implemented Java, to produce Effective links to your programs. Why Java you say? Because if you link them like this File:///C:

It makes the folders view go funny, well not what its meant to be, where as if I do it this way the views are as they are meant to be.

Why couldnt I do this with Flash? For some reason the Java and Flash just didnt get along.

Now im about to be disconnected, and ive just being playing chess on yahoo, so I think im going to goto bed because its 3AM, but ill try and do some work on it tomorrow morning, and hopefully Sunday umm, well by Sunday Night I should be upping the latest edition. Nyte All.

[MytMowse]

not bad :)

[MFletch88]

Hey Osiris, just wondered if you were going to work on a login screen to go with this great theme. I would love to have a complete freestlye theme and I think that would add a lot to it. Email me and let me know what ideas you have for the future of the Freestyle project. Looks great. Thanks.

Fletch ([email protected])

[Thantos]

I think that will be done in the long run... if not but him, then by a fan of his theme... but thats going to be done after the theme's completion.

[Thantos]

It appears that there is also a bug with the changing of font sizes...

[aitf311]

I like simple themes, but seems a little too simple for my liking

[Osiris]

too simple? what screenshots are you looking at mate? YOu think I just changed a startbutton and a close button thatsall the features of a simple theme.

ALso what the hell is the error with the changin gof the fonts, I cannot for the life of me see what your talking about with that.

[0sit0]

Sorry, i wasn't home :D

Very Good, when is the final coming out?

this is RTM hehe..

and u didn't liked the taskbar buttons?

:(

well... keep working!

[Osiris]

Yeah sorry man, they looked good in the pic but then I tried em and it just didnt float my boat, sorry mate. hope your not upset with me.