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Toxikk, if I make the menus that way then the startmenu looks ugly, cause the highlight color for the logoff and shutdown buttons will be different.

Chris

Could we see a screenie of how the start menu would look if it were done that way?... menus with the outline seem really nice to me... >.<

just invision big blue rectangles around them.

Chris

Shellstyle

I realized the other day that the shellstyle I created for the blue colour scheme in my Metallic Shades visual style actually looks pretty good with the Watercolor ergonomic colour scheme. Or at least it does in my opinion!! I partially based the title bars in Metallic Shades off those in Whistler (or maybe it was Watercolor!!) so it's a good match.

If anyone wants it just download the whole visual style from the first post in the Metallic Shades 1.5 thread (save me uploading just the shellstyle - 56k dialup). It should be fairly easy to change it to suit the other colour schemes.

My Trillian skin is updated to v1.2:

Fixed the preview thingy

http://webpages.charter.net/billo3121/temp...onomic_v1.2.zip

I didnt find a post with an updated version so I thought I'd post.

http://lazydesert.net/image/dt2/trillian.PNG

the color isnt changed for the plugin heading titles things.

Thanks!

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hi, i think ive found a bug in watercolor. When you are in msconfig and you go to the services or startup tab when a box is ticked it doesnt show unless it is selected. Also could somone please explain to me what a shell style is??

thanks

Dan

:D I don't have your bug.

A shellstyle.dll is what defines how the boxes at the left of a folder window looks like. You know, the "Tasks" pane...

hi, i think ive found a bug in watercolor. When you are in msconfig and you go to the services or startup tab when a box is ticked it doesnt show unless it is selected. Also could somone please explain to me what a shell style is??

thanks

Dan

are you using the latest version? *see first post in this thread for current build* because I dont have this bug.

Chris

just my 2 cents on the topic of discussion goin on here... I think Red would be a cool color to add to this theme as there is already a grey which looks alot of like to Black. In regards to the outlining on the menus I think that looks really nice, I would love to see that implemented to the next version of Watercolor.

i just installed the lastest version but i still have the problem ive attached a pic of the prob in the pic all of those startup items are selected but only the one ive selected shows

mine is fine :huh:

and Bain, as I said above, I WILL NOT be doing the menus that way for the reasons mentioned above.

Chris

i just installed the lastest version but i still have the problem ive attached a pic of the prob in the pic all of those startup items are selected but only the one ive selected shows

mine is fine :huh:

and Bain, as I said above, I WILL NOT be doing the menus that way for the reasons mentioned above.

Chris

I mentioned this problem 2 or 3 weeks ago.

It's occurs only at 16 or 24 bit color mode.(Settings on Display property)

Any other themes don't have this problem, so I guess it's a bug of Watercolor.

Start panel idea? :rolleyes:

http://members.cox.net/timan/watercolorpanelidea.jpg

*ripped it from toxikk's site :p

That might be doable in my watercolor plus version I'll be making, if you wish :) First I wanna get this theme as bug free and finished as possible, hopefully this will be done while I'm on xmas break :) For the Plus version you can ALL have your say, and we will collectively figure out what it should look like. :) I'll make a new thread for ideas when that time comes.

I also have another colour idea, but it's gonna stay a secret (it will only be distributed on it's own as a sort of "promo" item ;)).

Chris

i just installed the lastest version but i still have the problem ive attached a pic of the prob in the pic all of those startup items are selected but only the one ive selected shows

mine is fine :huh:

and Bain, as I said above, I WILL NOT be doing the menus that way for the reasons mentioned above.

Chris

I mentioned this problem 2 or 3 weeks ago.

It's occurs only at 16 or 24 bit color mode.(Settings on Display property)

Any other themes don't have this problem, so I guess it's a bug of Watercolor.

I didnt dismiss the bug, I just said I dont have it. Why would people use 16 or 24 bit colour for XP anyways, that doesnt make sense (mmmm eye candy) :\ I'll try to fix it.

Chris

watercolor should have. thin (er) task bar. a SIMPLE start menu. and a start button that is an image, not Micro$ists "start"

Many other theme makers easily added simple "slim" editions, with simple start button option, start menu options ( no bloated picture )

could you make a simple slimer edition?

watercolor should have. thin (er) task bar. a SIMPLE start menu. and a start button that is an image, not Micro$ists "start"

Many other theme makers easily added simple "slim" editions, with simple start button option, start menu options ( no bloated picture )

could you make a simple slimmer edition?

!!!!! WTF????? I POSTED ONCE, AND IT POSTED ME THREE TIMES...I CANT EVEN EDIT THE OTHER POSTS.. WTF IS UP NEOWIN... THERE ARE MANY MANY NEW PROBLEMS NOWADAYS... LET US KNOW WTF IS UP...

Start panel idea?  :rolleyes:

http://members.cox.net/timan/watercolorpanelidea.jpg

*ripped it from toxikk's site  :p

That might be doable in my watercolor plus version I'll be making, if you wish :) First I wanna get this theme as bug free and finished as possible, hopefully this will be done while I'm on xmas break :) For the Plus version you can ALL have your say, and we will collectively figure out what it should look like. :) I'll make a new thread for ideas when that time comes.

I also have another colour idea, but it's gonna stay a secret (it will only be distributed on it's own as a sort of "promo" item ;)).

Chris

Oh oh can I try it? :D Please? :p

watercolor should have. thin (er) task bar. a SIMPLE start menu. and a start button that is an image, not Micro$ists "start"

Many other theme makers easily added simple "slim" editions, with simple start button option, start menu options ( no bloated picture )

could you make a simple slimmer edition?

!!!!! WTF????? I POSTED ONCE, AND IT POSTED ME THREE TIMES...I CANT EVEN EDIT THE OTHER POSTS.. WTF IS UP NEOWIN... THERE ARE MANY MANY NEW PROBLEMS NOWADAYS... LET US KNOW WTF IS UP...

well, it isnt that simple for me to make a thin taskbar, I have to modify bitmaps aswell as change values, and thats x4. But I'll get around to it. As for the picture, no I wont remove it. :)

Chris

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