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XPM Classic RC3

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Developed for developers. Try it, use it, grow to love it :?)

Goodies

- Winamp Classic (XPMC) By Jim-Phelps:

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Download WA Skin

- Winamp on the way (thanks FrostedFlames)

- Trillian on the way

- Firefox on the way (thanks kgraphik)

- Styler Toolbar included (thanks kgraphik)

- Messenger:Mate included (thanks nemo)

- Fedora Core Icon set included (thanks Dazzla)

For the best experience...

* Tahoma 8 is *not* a good font to stare at all day while developing. Use either:

1. Trebuchet MS (Normal font) withClearType enabled> (as in screenshot).

or

2. Bit Stream Vera (Extra Large Font), as this is natively smooth (even on Win2k).

* Turn off start panel shadow (my computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance (Settings button) -> [uNTICK] 'Show shadows under menus'.

Now you can see the 1px gap between the start panel and taskbar. The shadows look naff anyway :?)

Details

XPMC b>anXPMC Induztryb> styles!

- Normal and Compact Start Panels

- Shellstyles, 3 font choices and a wallpaper

- Modifications will *not* be given release permission

- All contents are original

Drop the fonts in the zip into your Windows/Fonts folder.

Enjoy :?)

Copyright ? 2005 Ross Harvey

http://www.web9design.com/tp/

Edited by b0se
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Damn, that looks good. :woot:

Ok, few comments/suggestions:

Button Mouseover: rather than having it turn grey, make it act like when you mouseover the selected taskbar button, i.e. a slightly different blue?

Inactive Titlebar: personally, it almost looks to me as if you forgot to do anything with it. Having the min/max/close buttons completely change style just seems odd.

Taskbar: had to know this was coming - any chance for a compact taskbar?

Things I Love:

Start Button/Menu: perfection.

Tabs: look awesome, display correctly in Firefox [y]

Min/Max/Close: love the overall design, personally feel they'd be ever so slightly better if they were perhaps 1 pixel larger, and slightly closer together, but other than that...

Can't wait to see the final product!

Edited by nazgul

I'm liking this one a lot. I'll probably wind up waiting on the color variations, but it's nice to know I have a posisble chance of finally being happy with a theme other than Codename Opus. My only suggestion, from my few minutes of toying around, would be to, perhaps, make the min/max/close widgets a little bit bigger. They seem too small to me :unsure:

Thanks for the comments. Damn quick! :?)

I've got used to the size of the caption buttons, they will most likely stay as-is. I will probably make the glyphs larger though.

Nazgul: I love the inactive captions, they will not be changing. I purposely make them blander, I really (really) hate inactive caption bars that catch your eye when you're looking for the active one.

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