[req] clearlooks 2.0 for windows xp

By moglenstar
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ishiok

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kevcart3, I'm sorry... but i managed to make great stuff here, well.. of course thanks to you. Take my VS and start making the thin taskbar, because i don't know how to do it, as i'm totally wasted :D

And i want to have a glassy taskbar to play nice with titlebar. Let's keep up with that thing anyway.

I added glassy look for buttons, tabs, scrollbars, etc... Also.. added 3 extra color schemes. Will make more later !

Now eat THIS !!!

BTW... I've also ported the icon set ;) https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=411059

Look great with Tango. I'd definitely put up with office PC after Xmas. My home PC uses WB5.

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kevcart3

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Well, my whole point was to make a PORT, not a shiny xp theme, ksaad made the changes to the buttons, etc.

Having used Linux's Clearlooks Cairo on my machine for a while, I wanted to make the closest possible PORT over to xp, and not make any drastic changes to it.

Plus, ksaad didn't do the whole vs, I sent him my version and he made the changes he felt to be necessary.

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kevcart3

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^ Indeed it is. And even though he said people could mod it in his readme, I asked for permission from him just to make sure he had no objections. But everything that he didn't do, I did from scratch using the colors from the first post.

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martin10018

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Well, my whole point was to make a PORT, not a shiny xp theme, ksaad made the changes to the buttons, etc.

Having used Linux's Clearlooks Cairo on my machine for a while, I wanted to make the closest possible PORT over to xp, and not make any drastic changes to it.

Plus, ksaad didn't do the whole vs, I sent him my version and he made the changes he felt to be necessary.

Is your version on DA too or is it included in ksaad's? Or is it the one on page 3?

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moglenstar

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Well... ofcourse i appreciate your work on the port, but i wanted to perfect the VS, man.. the titlbar is so sexy.

Why not adding a glossy look to the rest ?

with all due respect, its not the same style then, heh

i'll be using kevcart3's version - almost 1:1 goodness :devil:

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kevcart3

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Thanks for the positive feedback.

If anyone has any more sugesstions, please let me know.

Also, I've been working on the "Slider" images, to make them look like the cairo versions, and probably post the completed "compact" version in the next day or so. :)

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endemic

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I love this. I havea question, though: is it at all possible to get that alternate menubar color? If you look at the GNOME screen, you can see that the windows have a contrasting color in the menu bar. I want to know if it's possible to do that without the VS getting all gay and raggedy.

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kevcart3

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I love this. I havea question, though: is it at all possible to get that alternate menubar color? If you look at the GNOME screen, you can see that the windows have a contrasting color in the menu bar. I want to know if it's possible to do that without the VS getting all gay and raggedy.

I see what you are talking about, but I believe that explorer uses the same BMP file for the menubar & the toolbar, and it's called "toolbarbackground.bmp", but I will look into it, because I would like to make it as close as possible to the linux version :)

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