Unamed Christmas Theme

[KoL Veteran]

Those christmas ornaments are from my 2003 Christmas Icon set

I can't believe this guy has ripped me off

It fooled Bubbabyte who sought permissions from him thinking he was the author.  Not his fault.

It was for this kind of reason why I stopped creating icons.

@Bubbabte: Check you PM

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I talked to someone from WinCustomize and he reported the rip.

[Vibes1963]

What he should have said was this is his first attempt at stealing someone elses icons. And now he has been caught. Nothing worse than thieves and liars.

[Yazoo]

yeah i had no idea yazoo...

i'm talking to someone from wincustomize now to see if they can get it removed right away.  What makes me mad is that the guy who released them clearly states in his comments that "this is his first attempt at making icons" that's just incredibly wrong.

anyway.. hopefully we'll get this taken care of soon..

so yazoo do i have your permission  :D

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I like what you done with the baubles in the shellstyle.

Yes, you have my permission :D

[Bubbabyte]

thanks yazoo

ok guys.. here you go..

*NOTES*

you MUST install the included font before using, or your name on the start panel may be all screwy. Also, please PLEASE post any bugs you find here so i can get the final release completed.

BETA 1

also... a post of the logon that i completed.. will be included in the final version.

[fascist]

I love it! Where can I find the background you are using?

[turkishdelight]

A couple things:

First, the red in the scrollbars doesn't really look good, but that's just my opinion.

Also, I'm not sure if you can control this, but the red and green tabs look strange in Firefox, because the text color is still black. The same applies to in-browser form buttons and such.

The start button graphic is a bit less wide than the button itself. Was that intentional?

Oh, and I recommend lighter shades of red/green, especially in inactive windows and all form elements.

[Bubbabyte]

A couple things:

First, the red in the scrollbars doesn't really look good, but that's just my opinion.

Also, I'm not sure if you can control this, but the red and green tabs look strange in Firefox, because the text color is still black. The same applies to in-browser form buttons and such.

The start button graphic is a bit less wide than the button itself. Was that intentional?

Oh, and I recommend lighter shades of red/green, especially in inactive windows and all form elements.

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scrollbars look good to me..

text on firefox cannot be controlled.. sry.

I'm not sure what you mean about the start button, can you explain or post a shot?

[andy_rose]

looks ok but maybe another color than grey on the toolbar backgrounds in explorer would look better.

[turkishdelight]

Attached. The red circle is where the cursor was over.

Also attached is a shot of some form buttons. That's the reason I recommended a lighter shade of green/red.

[Bubbabyte]

Attached. The red circle is where the cursor was over.

Also attached is a shot of some form buttons. That's the reason I recommended a lighter shade of green/red.

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yes the start button is supposed to have that gap..it's only about 10-15 px from the button..not that big.

and the buttons.. i thought about making them brighter.. but then i would have to make ALL the greens on this theme brighter.. so i picked a shade thats not as bright, but that you can still read black text on.. at least i can anyway..

[andy_rose]

also, any way of removing the extra white lines in the separator area?

and perhaps some sort of "border" in the adress field, it looks kinda naked now.

[Bubbabyte]

looks ok but maybe another color than grey on the toolbar backgrounds in explorer would look better.

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i didn't want to turn it into some mac theme where the entire screen is one color.. so i chose to go with a smooth grey gradient to tone it down a bit.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Most of my suggestions are similar to mzhao's and my previous post's suggestions, but I'll say them again.

I'd like to see a lighter shade of green/red, a shade where both white and black text fit well against controls such as tabs and buttons.

The shadow bloom on buttons is a bit too harsh. I'd suggest lowering that shadow effect a bit.

[ViperSnake]

Looks nice, I bet you could call it either Element 4 Christmas (pun: element 4, for christmas), or Element of Christmas.

[freedom77]

I love it man!!, few things:

when a program is flashing on the taskbar its hard to notice, maybe make it flash red.. if you know what am on about.

the only part i dislike, or like the least is the taskbar colour, i think the vs may need another colour somewhere.. like blue.

just an idea.

heres a pic with my own shellstyle:

[AionXn_]

wow..the first christmas vs theme i saw!! i remember last year there were many christmas ones but they were so ugly (no offence)...they were just not good enough for me to use ...

but i really like yours! can i beta test it? ;)

[sn00pie]

Nice, now get it released! :rofl:

[turkishdelight]

Perhaps you could include several variations, including one with less color changes-the form buttons and tab colors are pretty annoying to me. No offense, it's a very good theme otherwise.

[Bubbabyte]

Perhaps you could include several variations, including one with less color changes-the form buttons and tab colors are pretty annoying to me. No offense, it's a very good theme otherwise.

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i'll try to lighten it up a bit...

but i've said right from the beginning that this is not gonna be a multi style theme.. meaning many different styles to suit everyone's every need... it is what it is... feel free to report bugs, or even edit the style for personal use.. but i can't please everyone.

but i'm gonna see what i can do to lighten up the greens a bit.

[Bubbabyte]

also, any way of removing the extra white lines in the separator area?

and perhaps some sort of "border" in the adress field, it looks kinda naked now.

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extra white lines?

they aren't extra man.. they are there to add a little depth to the toolbar seperator. You see those lines in every theme..lol

there is a border in the address field, but i'll try to darken it a bit to make it more noticable.

[freedom77]

oo one more thing..

thintaskbar??

[Bubbabyte]

no thin taskbar.. sry.

any bugs at all yet??? i wanna get it completed.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Another bug. For tool windows (ones with a thin titlebar) it's impossible to tell if the current window is active or not. Unlike normal titlebars where the caption buttons lighten a bit and the font's shadow goes white, there's absolutely no change for tool windows.

EDIT: I also noticed how special folders, such as those for pictures and music, don't have their own background images. Is this your intention to use the default images?

Edited November 16, 2005 by rm20010

[Bubbabyte]

okay.. i'll fix the caption bars so they have a noticable difference from active/inactive.

The special folders.. i left the out on purpose, because it's easier to edit shellstyles without having to edit all of those images.. but i'll throw some in there.. heh

anything else.

[Denis W. Veteran]

I guess it's all OK now. I still hold onto my suggestion about keeping the stars on the lower left part of the Start Menu, but if you insist on removing them, that's OK.

I don't know if you read over the suggestion about the shadow text on the buttons. The shadow seems to be too bright.

Also remember freedom_77's suggestion about the flashing taskbar buttons. The green is too unnoticeable.