XP Corona arrives

[Frogboy Administrators]

Corona is a pretty neat new UI concept from Microsoft. If only THAT had been the new look of Windows XP.

Alexandrie has created what is (in my opinion) the most true Corona UI inspiration yet:

Download it at:

http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?libr...y=1&SkinID=2850

[klyde]

QUOTE]Alexandrie has created what is (in my opinion) the most true Corona UI inspiration yet

Not really. It looks more like the Corona graphics were taken and slapped over a makeshift Luna theme. The defualt Windows "Start" button is fairly bland and ordinary, the taskbar hide icon looks fairly ordinary, and the "Logout" and "Turn off Computer" icons don't look anything like Corona. Some of the other Corona themes like Bant's look more a lot more realistic with actual Corona buttons incorporated into the GUI. This looks more like what Luna would be if it had Corona shaped windows and colors. :x

[KeR]

this looks like all the other 10milliongazillion corona themes.

[AgEnTsMiTh]

I agree Frogboy, I love this theme and he is not even done with it yet. Great work so far!!!

[thornz0]

looks great!

and as far as looking like all the other corona themes, what other corona themes? THis is the first one for windowblinds, maybe not styles, but thats different now isnt it ;)

[Mark Otto]

Looks great...but I'd rather have Luna as the default XP GUI...Corona is nice to look at....but I dunno...luna just seems better...odd.

[lrnecnaecge]

Looks pretty good too me, if I wasn't into Orange in my themes right now I might want to use it, hehe. :p

[Frogboy Administrators]

When an msstyle can handle irregularly shaped borders, let me know.

Take a closer look at the left border and bottom border and tell me again how the msstyle based corona's look more authentic with their 4 pixel all the way around borders.

There is also a nice roll up button on this and the start menu is very nice and corona like (also irregularly shaped).

[Frogboy Administrators]

Oh regarding oranged - you can make XP Corona any color you'd like. WB 3.4 and on supports smart coloring so you can just choose any color you like. (though in fairness, I had to tweak the upper right part of the title bar to make it look just right).

Maybe we can talk Alexandrie into optimizing it for coloring.

(I'm running my as grayscaled).

[klyde]

:right:

I nor anyone else claimed that msstyles could reproduce that same border effect. The point is if you actually bothered reading it was besides the one or two minor buttons and the colored borders, there's still a LOT of Luna there. But as usual we're treated with Frogboy's typical attitude about how Windowblinds is better then msstyles and therefore their styles must be better. :right:

[intensityx]

Very nice work by Alexandrie...

I may have to purchase windowblinds again if i see more cool skinz like this come out for WB. However, I don't like the way the evaluation version seems to have disabled the use of msstyles. That should be fixed.

[greenreaper]

Originally posted by intensityx

Very nice work by Alexandrie...

I may have to purchase windowblinds again if i see more cool skinz like this come out for WB. However, I don't like the way the evaluation version seems to have disabled the use of msstyles. That should be fixed.

Just hold down CTRL when you go into Display Properties and you should be able to select them fine (or just unload WB by setting it to nothing, then select your styles in the Desktop tab [iIRC]).

[Frogboy Administrators]

klyde: re-read thee thread:

this looks like all the other 10milliongazillion corona themes.

I don't agree that it looks like Luna. This looks to me what Corona would look like if Microsoft made it for the entire OS rather than media player. YMMV.

[dayle]

i wish it were a msstyles file

[Boeing 787]

Ah another useless Luna is better then windowsblinds thread, no it's not, yes it is, no it's....................I just love these.

I'm glad there is choice and I concede that Windowsblinds is slowly improving but I still can't find windowsblinds themes that I can actually use.

Not to many Visual styles are great for everyday use either, oh well nice to look at at least.

[Timan Veteran]

the latest windowsblinds runs SMOOOOOOTh as anything, can't even feel a difference between using msstyles and wb skins, this corona skin looks tight! but i'm just not a fan of purple :s

[thornz0]

i totally agree. Ive had lots of lil problems and quirks with window blinds back in the 98 days, but this new XP edition, espically 3.41 is just sweet. Its fast, its smooth, error free (for me) and its perdy :D

[.KICK]

i found an annoying bug in it, lemme post up a screenie....:ermm:

[.KICK]

when i open up a folder or mycomputer it scans the background bit and then when i move it, its still there, ne way to fix this...

[Frogboy Administrators]

That is odd. Are you running with large fonts? (i.e. what DPI in display property settings does it say you're using? Standard is 96DPI).

[.KICK]

running standard and at 1024x768 at 32bit, also got another prob, its hard to get, a bitmap gone wrong cause pink bots shows up

[.KICK]

so is a fix coming along :disappoin

[User_Deleted]

Been useing this and the Honz12 Wb Crystal theme love them Booth

[Frogboy Administrators]

'fraid not. I've never seen or heard of anyone else having this problem.

[vf-]

hmm ive never had that problem either with 3.41 and XP Corona, but i never use that awfull blue panel in explorer windows which you can make it look like classic style option in 3.41

but i never use those panels anyway :o

KICK_XP, you could see if that fixes it in WBConfig in settings untick Use Windows XP style explorer bars

it is very sweet skin i just love how the taskbar and start panel is shaped

plus looking forward to when alexandrie makes title bar smaller, well option for smaller title bar border skin anyway