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using it at work right now and loving it. very usable, and professional looking. :D

but i personally loved the shorter caption buttons as opposed to the taller version in the final, i think the shorter version made it look sleeker.

other than that, looks awesome, thanx for sharing.

LOL first off, he's the dude that tought he was ALWAYS right, then i put him down dirty with a quick analysis of how badly wrong he was. Now he comes around saying this theme was taken from Alienware's theme? Man, do I have to put this guy down everytime he disses em3's work? I think im too lazy to right now, but im sorry, darkstar is #*&@$@! compared to LE4, uhh, just watch, page views, replies, and ranking will put fl@sh down so dirty he can't come up for air :D

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I imagined he was one of the usual trollz who likes to appear when the occasion permits. :)

Great theme - clean and professional...

Using the black style

But I would prefer another startbutton, maybe like the rectangular one, somebody has posted in the WIP thread. And maybe a color-separated tray area.... :whistle:

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and maybe the taskbar could be a little bit smaller, so that the elements are centered on it...

...and the startbutton has too much glow in "pressed-mode"

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Just my thoughts...

Greets

trAsher :)

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Thanks, most of you for your nice comments. :D Here are some replys.

Damn!  Awesome work, em3! (Y)(Y)(Y)

Can I have a link to the cursor you're using in the screenshot, please?  :D

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Visit my deviantArt gallery. :)

Black styles still have blue taskbars when the taskbar is on the left or right hand side of the screen. But a fantastic style!

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Yea, sorry about that. Didn't think anyone wound use the vertical taskbar. Anyway, I'll fix it in the next release. :)

my only one sugestion I prefer more old START button, exept this everything is superb

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The old startbutton was to plain boring. The new one is better imo, because of the added light it doesn't look so flat.

Again EM3 I love your themes :) it almost attains perfection apart from one thing, I was wondering if you could possibly make some buttons for ultramon which is a multi monitor control application cause as you can see the extra buttons it adds look unsightly in LE4 they looked fine in LE3 due to the normal size of the buttons on the title bar.

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(Edit helps when I spell things correctly)

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Do you need like a skin or something. PM me with more details how to make them.

Nice work!!! What icons are you using?

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https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=352940

As always, this theme ROCKS!!! I'm loving the black!!  :ninja:

But can I make a couple of suggestions? Can you add an alternate start button version, like you did with Luna 3? And in the black version, alter the scrollbar colors to grey, instead of the common light blue?

Anyway, thanks a lot! I'm sure thousands of people around the world will use this wonderful VS. And great work!!  :woot:

P.S.: By the way, what set of icons does anyone recommend to use with the black compact Luna Element 4?

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No alternate startbutton. Read more here: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...ost&p=586389273

As for the scrollbars I actually made them gray at first but then I changed my mind because I thought the light blue looked better.

umm.. so because im not #%@^ ing in my pants like the rest of you im a killjoy?

haha, ummNO.. im right.. and erm3 knows it. He KNOWS he used some ideas from alienware, and altho he will deny it of course, he still knows it.

All u have to do is check out Darkkstar by alienware to see the similarities. anyone that knows anything about themes and \ or graphics will notice.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...093&hl=darkstar

i cant help it if most of you are blindingly unaware of other themes that came before this. Not my fault or problem.

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Like I've said before I DO NOT use WB so I wouldn't know. I have not seen that skin before either. I got the tilted button idea from a Winamp skin (883 Bionica v2).

small problem......ive used reshack to customize my explorer.exe such that my start button instead to "start" says "RAWpower" but when i apply this VS the start button says "start" again....whys that ?

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The explorer.exe startbutton overlay (text and flag) has been removed. That's why you don't see your custom text.

Nice job em3, the only thing that I didn't really like was that the compact titlebars seemed a bit small.

I will probably be using this for a while! (Y) :D

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Imho it's great that the titlebars are so small.

Hopyfully they stay like this.

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