Dazzla Veteran Posted May 1, 2005 Veteran Share Posted May 1, 2005 First off, great theme, i love it!Secondly... Dazzla, Shellstyle looks great, anyway by chance that you could, when its minimized, have a single pixel that kinda "completes" the bottom, so to speak. Otherwise it looks like it should be running on into infinity. If not, mind telling me how I might go about changing this myself? :) Anyway, kudos to all involved, this is great. I had just switched back to Window's Default Luna in Silver, but now I'm back to a non-MS themed windows :) Also, a Silver would be AWESOME :) P.S. I have been a member for years, but rarely post, it takes a great theme to actually get me to post :) 585857299[/snapback] Again, agreed :D I never have it minimised but it looks stupid when minimised otherwise. Here's an update: Download: Removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoS Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 this added a touch of beauty ;) great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hidea Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 it needs an updated winamp skin.. the current one that's out there doesn't skin the media library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armenian Guy Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 help guys.. iam extracting to the themes folder and when i choose element from the display properties i can't see the preview its all black and clicking ok is turning my theme to windows classic//... :( :( :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyehac Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 The best has gotten better! Thanks man!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em3 Posted May 1, 2005 Author Share Posted May 1, 2005 help guys.. iam extracting to the themes folder and when i choose element from the display properties i can't see the preview its all black and clicking ok is turning my theme to windows classic//... :( :( :( 585857344[/snapback] A friend of mine had the same problem. Don't know what's wrong though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klop Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 UXTheme patched? Thanks for the updated shellstyle! Someone could make a change user and restart button? I'd like to have a new logoff/shutdown dialog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klop Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 I'm working on the logoff/shutdown dialog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orgitnized Subscriber¹ Posted May 1, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 1, 2005 help guys.. iam extracting to the themes folder and when i choose element from the display properties i can't see the preview its all black and clicking ok is turning my theme to windows classic//... :( :( :( 585857344[/snapback] I had this problem before I really knew anything about patching UXTHEME.DLL. Had to patch it correctly and then the problem went away. Try the newest patcher or insanekiwi's guide to replacing it. Check his signature for it. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armenian Guy Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 thx ghost 96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slyydrr Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Again, agreed :D I never have it minimised but it looks stupid when minimised otherwise. Here's an update: Wow, that was quick! I appreciate it :) Once again, amazing theme, great work all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTerminator Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Again, agreed :D I never have it minimised but it looks stupid when minimised otherwise. Here's an update: Download: 585857324[/snapback] How do I install the shellstyle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orgitnized Subscriber¹ Posted May 1, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 1, 2005 Make sure you switch to another theme before completing the steps listed below so the theme can be fully unloaded and reloaded. Install the shellstyle by replacing the old shellstyle in the C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Element\Shell\whateverstyeyouareusing\ folder. In those folders you'll see the shellstyle.dll file. Rename it to shellstyle.old or back it up however you see fit. Extract the new one in all folders or whatever folder you are currently wanting to apply the shellstyle to. This will show you the new style you see previewed in this thread. Let us know how it works for ya. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klop Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Edit: Read last post. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slyydrr Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Just thought I'd post a quick shot of my slightly customized look. It's nothing special, but it helps complete that feel of "compactness", that is if you're like me and are running the compact style.. I changed the font name and size, size more importantly to 8pt font. It makes the buttons smaller, and looks wonderful. The second image, is a 1920x1200 version of the Luna Element bg I found somewhere that I quickly threw together. The background can be found here (right-click and save as). It's stored as a 6 MB BMP for quality. Cheers! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em3 Posted May 1, 2005 Author Share Posted May 1, 2005 Why would anyone want to save an image in bmp. PNG is compressed and lossless, and it even support transparency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted May 1, 2005 Supervisor Share Posted May 1, 2005 BMP is the best format for using wallpapers on Windows. In fact, its the only format that XP will understand and use as a wallpaper. Any JPG, GIF, or PNG you set as the wallpaper must first be converted into BMP format first. That's why when you set a JPG, or PNG as the wallpaper, it takes longer for it to appear than if you just set a BMP of the proper resolution. So, its just faster for the system to use. And also, the space savings resulting from using PNG/JPG/GIF are nullified because WindowsXP makes a copy of the image and saves it in BMP format in its wallpaper folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoS Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 BMP is the best format for using wallpapers on Windows. In fact, its the only format that XP will understand and use as a wallpaper. Any JPG, GIF, or PNG you set as the wallpaper must first be converted into BMP format first. That's why when you set a JPG, or PNG as the wallpaper, it takes longer for it to appear than if you just set a BMP of the proper resolution.So, its just faster for the system to use. And also, the space savings resulting from using PNG/JPG/GIF are nullified because WindowsXP makes a copy of the image and saves it in BMP format in its wallpaper folder. 585858099[/snapback] I knew some of this information, but I've never put them together to create this theory. Thanks for clearing that up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em3 Posted May 1, 2005 Author Share Posted May 1, 2005 Your argument is no good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha_omega Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 (edited) Can you remove the 1px space between the scrollbar and the edge of the screen when a window is maximized?Makes me have to think when scrolling down webpages, ect. 585854890[/snapback] Me, too. That way, you don't have to "aim" for the scrollbar in Firefox for example... Edit: Oops, sorry em3! I just read your answer to this problem. Edited May 1, 2005 by alpha_omega Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyehac Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Anyone noticed, that in firefox, the title bar is left aligned? Anyway to put back in the center? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em3 Posted May 1, 2005 Author Share Posted May 1, 2005 Anyone noticed, that in firefox, the title bar is left aligned?Anyway to put back in the center? 585858173[/snapback] Did you only notice it in Firefox? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha_omega Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Huh? It's left aligned in all apps. Version 1 had the title text aligned in the center... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggrophobik Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Guess he missed the vote... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyranthus Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 the shellstyle for the Aero Concept theme looks REALLY good on this skin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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