Watercolor v4.3

[Binary]

hmmm good question, no one has helped with the new shellstyles, and I wanted to supply new shellstyles with the new version, but I suppose if enough people want it without new ones I can release it early. But like I said my computer is having really wierd problems, which I attribute to lack of power, so sometimes I can use it for hours sometimes not at all... so we'll see.

Chris

[Endoscient]

ill help with shell styles, what u need help with (never done them before)

just wondering why can't you do it yourself

[bigmoose]

i would love to help out,. but wouldnt know how

any tutes?

[aleni]

would be good if watercolor using custom bitmap on start button, not the standard flag ;)

[Jessterw]

Been awhile since I visited this thread, almost forgot about it after Neowin went down :ermm: Glad to see that you've been busy working on an update (sorry to hear about your power issues). I'd actually stopped using visual styles for a bit, mainly because of SP1, but I went back to using Watercolor the other day... because it's just so damn nice to look at :D

[Steven P. Administrators]

Same here, Watercolor has always been on my system and I just upgraded to V4 (after SP1)

Good work Binary

[Binary]

Thanks for the comments guys :)

Neo Cyborg: I can do them myself, I just dont know how you guys want them to look. The ones included look like the sidebars from the 2419 build, but some people have complained that they wanted new shellstyles cause the ones included are ugly ;)

ps. mozilla's text input is god awful, too slow for my liking :)

Chris

[Deepu Sudhakar]

is there anyway to fix the icon text overlay? For example:

i'd rather get rid of the blue box underneath the icon text, and just have the text on top of the wallpaper.

[lawtai]

To get rid of the overlay, just right click properties on my computer, then goto advanced performance settings, then click on the use drop shadows. That'll get rid of the box around the icon text.

[Deepu Sudhakar]

Originally posted by lawtai

To get rid of the overlay, just right click properties on my computer, then goto advanced performance settings, then click on the use drop shadows. That'll get rid of the box around the icon text.

ewwwh...is it just me or does that look bad?

[Binary]

Drop shadows on icon text looks extremely bad when clear type is on, but they look wicked if clear type is off :0 I never use clear type, it's blurry and it's meant for lcd's anyways :) Also if you dont like that there are numerous freeware programs to remove the boxes and even change text colour. One i can think of off the top of my head would be transtext by ChaosSoft:

http://www.chaossoft.com/trtext.shtml

Works Great, but make sure you dont have the drop shadow option on when u run the prog, or it will have no effect on the text :)

Chris

[xWeston]

The only thing i dont like about watercolor is the color of the taskbar flashing... I cant stand that peach color!

Is it very hard to change if i were to load up style builder or whatever i need?

I've never tried theming before but i've done a lot of graphics work.

[username]

i think the point of this skin is to look just like the watercolor in whistler, not some new custom version

a new shellstyle would be nice though, maybe just the same one that luna has (or can i do that on my own?)

/edit, wow, i didnt' know you could switch shell styles so easily, can make a nice combination now

[Binary]

Originally posted by xWeston

The only thing i dont like about watercolor is the color of the taskbar flashing... I cant stand that peach color!

Is it very hard to change if i were to load up style builder or whatever i need?

I've never tried theming before but i've done a lot of graphics work.

It's orange actually, I wanted to keep the flash colour the same as luna's, plus orange gets your attention. I agree taskbar flashing is annoying in the first place, I think you can disable it with TweakUI?

Chris

[Corpse]

Does anybody have the 3 (or 4) different Winamp skins? I have the ergnomic one, looking for Olive and Silver. My AIM is ch1ld of bodom/D1V1510N and my MSN is [email protected]. Thanks in advanced.

[sedative]

Originally posted by Corpse

Does anybody have the 3 (or 4) different Winamp skins? I have the ergnomic one, looking for Olive and Silver. My AIM is ch1ld of bodom/D1V1510N and my MSN is [email protected]. Thanks in advanced.

search on winamp.com for watercolor

[Corpse]

Thanks.

[Winston]

ive got them if u want

[xWeston]

Originally posted by Binary

It's orange actually, I wanted to keep the flash colour the same as luna's, plus orange gets your attention. I agree taskbar flashing is annoying in the first place, I think you can disable it with TweakUI?

Chris

Its a peach color for me, not like the orange in luna. I do like the flashing though, but just a flashing of dark gray would be nicer for me.

edit: this is the color #FFB895

it looks peach!

[Corpse]

Where can I find this orange (or "peach") Watercolor? Anyone know where I can find black also?

[xWeston]

Originally posted by Corpse

Where can I find this orange (or "peach") Watercolor? Anyone know where I can find black also?

The peach that i was talking about is when the taskbar items blink to notify you

[Binary]

Maybe we use different colour profiles, that would explain it :)I also seem to notic that some supposed "blue" themes look purple to me *shrug* :)

Chris

[SOOPAH256]

Originally posted by Binary

Maybe we use different colour profiles, that would explain it :)I also seem to notic that some supposed "blue" themes look purple to me *shrug* :)

Chris

yeah, don't forget about monitors and LCDs. my crappy LCD can't display bright colors too well. it all just turns too bright and mixes with the white. as for my monitor, i try to keep the brightness to 50%, but the colors flucuate drastically as i change the %. :)

[xWeston]

Originally posted by Binary

Maybe we use different colour profiles, that would explain it :)I also seem to notic that some supposed "blue" themes look purple to me *shrug* :)

Chris

Is this orange or peach?

Test Your Eyes

[RaQ]

looks orange/peach`est to tell you the truth.