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arhra,

i think its quite unfair to have to cater to everyone's requests. go with your gut.. if you want a start button, put a start button. if you think a logo fits better, add a logo. Afterall, this theme is your vision and your decision will be respected. :) great work man.. keep it up. :D

Originally posted by lazydesert

arhra,

i think its quite unfair to have to cater to everyone's requests. go with your gut.. if you want a start button, put a start button. if you think a logo fits better, add a logo. Afterall, this theme is your vision and your decision will be respected. :) great work man.. keep it up. :D

Arhra...of course. I was just saying because I respect themes that go without the 'start' it's very, i don't know, unsophisticated. Apple logos are even worse (let's not get into that)

Themes like Platinum Mist for example , where the start button becomes like an actual BUTTON that could really be pressed to swing down the start menu, I think that's really cool. I love Rhodium Edge, and I'd really like you to forgo the Start Text. You got rid of the fugly logo already, you're almost there :cheeky:

Anyway, whatever you decide, I will run. I love this theme, when the shell style is finished and Windowfx 2 is released, XP will finally be what I want it to look like.

i think arhra should make the theme how ever he feels it would look better. and then we just post the bugs (i haven't seen one yet) and after the final realease people can just tweak what ever they want to make it look how ever you want, i mean is that like arhra is going to make a different version just for one person.

i tweaked mine a few times to make it look how i want it :ponder:

i wanted a more true blue, i colorized it with style builder, i wanted a different start button, i changed it. if you give it a try you would notice that is not as hard as people make it to be.

anyway i would show you the changes i made but i don't got hosting, and plus dont' want people making arhra change things in the theme

*note i'm not directing this to anyone, i just felt like pointing it out

I have two problems:

1) how come the cursor replacements dont work?

2) how come my Start Menu button doesnt look the same as the one seen in the pic under the download link in this thread? All i see is the word "START" in bold black text. Is it suppose to be like this since its still a beta?

Originally posted by KidSharp

I have two problems:

1) how come the cursor replacements dont work?

how do they not work? you'll have to set up a cursor theme for yourself, since writing an auto-installing thing is a pain in the arse and i can't be bothered. if you're having problems with them once you've selected them, let me know, since i did manage to create an animated cursor that would lock my machine hard at one point... (no, i haven't a clue what was going on with that, probably a video driver issue).

2) how come my Start Menu button doesnt look the same as the one seen in the pic under the download link in this thread? All i see is the word "START" in bold black text. Is it suppose to be like this since its still a beta?

i changed it but didn't update the screenshot. i'm still not sure whether i'm going to keep the start button as it is, or replace the letters with a logo of some kind...

arhra is still working on finishing it as I believe, as well as the orange color scheme, please next time post at the rhodium edge thread: https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=30884

also mods, merge the thread if ya want ;x

Originally posted by mojomonkee

what do you mean next version? i'm sure (or at least hope) that he's going to move on to a new theme.

well, you're wrong unless he has changed his mind in the past 2/3 weeks.

Originally posted by arhra

as i've said before, the orange is barely started atm, i'm waiting until i've finalised the design of everything before i start doing colour variations. the blue is nearly finished now, and when it is, i'll start finishing off the orange (which shouldn't take too long, since i only have to recolour things in photoshop, rather than actually thinking about the design).

stuckwithme247:

no, that's what were waiting on :) or atleast myself...

Originally posted by eurofunk

can someone tell me why after modifying my shell32.dll. the folder icons doesnt change... does it take sometime for the change to take place or anything like that?? im talkin abt the files folder.

i don't see how that has nothing to do with the theme, but try using tweakUI and repair the icons, that would reload your iconchache

(speliing)

i'm still working on it, most of the non-explorer specific stuff is done now, so if you're using litestep, it looks pretty much complete (except for a few minor things here and there).

trouble is, since i never see the taskbar and stuff, i've not got much incentive to finish them ;)

don't worry though, it's still progressing steadily... i'll probably upload an updated version once i've got a few more things done (the remaining non-explorer bits), then knuckle down and get to work on the taskbar and stuff.

Originally posted by arhra

i'm still working on it, most of the non-explorer specific stuff is done now, so if you're using litestep, it looks pretty much complete (except for a few minor things here and there).

trouble is, since i never see the taskbar and stuff, i've not got much incentive to finish them ;)

don't worry though, it's still progressing steadily... i'll probably upload an updated version once i've got a few more things done (the remaining non-explorer bits), then knuckle down and get to work on the taskbar and stuff.

YAY! =) Keep up the good work though, I'll be waiting for that upload :D

I hope the final version of the msstyle(s) comes out soon! :)

I went back to the explorer shell after using Litestep for a few days - I miss my start button! */me hugs explorer.exe"

LOL, I recently designed a new version of my website, and realised that I'd been subconsciously influenced by this theme! :p

http://dumbdirector.co.uk/elephant

hehehe

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