pico tea RC

[nextmario]

a simple, elegant, eye pleasing WindowBlinds skin. customizable like no other with video tutorials. designed for business/professional use. pico tea RC

see my gallery in DA to see how this skin enhances your desktop not become your desktop.

these may be changed independently of each other:

changeable start button

changeable taskbars

changeable start panels/font colors on taskbar (useful when using transparency)

Edited September 22, 2006 by nextmario

[noespam]

Wow, it improved since the beta. As i said in another forum, one of the best skins. So clean and refreshingly different than the usual vista/mac ports. The green still hasn't grown on me. anxiously awaiting the non-green version :)

Just watched the custom video. That's cool. Thanks!

Edited September 21, 2006 by noespam

[DigitalE]

Nice.

The previous versions didn't appeal to me too much, but now it looks really nice!

[nextmario]

thanks to both of you. ya i remember your nick noespam. you following me around. HEHE.

i think you guys will like RC6. i added some gloss subs. i really didn't want to do gloss, etc until my next skin but oh well.

[ooomph]

really clean and different stuff. gives windows a whole new feeling.

things to note:

-taskbar text white selection not available (for the clear taskbar with a darker wallpaper)

-the light green from all the styles, could it be somehow changed (natively)

-the inactive window, less transparent, with more visible text (darker)

-the hovered active state for the taskbar buttons maybe too bright (green)

just checked out the update. the previous caption bar was much better (with no gradient), worked better with the rest of the theme. i hope i'm not the only one with this opinion.

great anyway, i'm keepeng an eye on this one.

[nextmario]

really clean and different stuff. gives windows a whole new feeling.

things to note:

-taskbar text white selection not available (for the clear taskbar with a darker wallpaper)

-the light green from all the styles, could it be somehow changed (natively)

-the inactive window, less transparent, with more visible text (darker)

-the hovered active state for the taskbar buttons maybe too bright (green)

just checked out the update. the previous caption bar was much better (with no gradient), worked better with the rest of the theme. i hope i'm not the only one with this opinion.

great anyway, i'm keepeng an eye on this one.

this skin is customizable and uses script files. there are many more flat captions than gloss. the screenshot was updated to reflect the change between RC5 and RC6, which were glossy subs. the previous captions remain. i agree with you, i like the flat captions as well.

you can change the taskbar font color and glyphs to black or white. view the video tutorial. double click use-panel-full-black.bat or one of the compact panels if you want black fonts and glyphs on the taskbar.

unfortunately not, the green is the main theme. the next pico style skin will use a more generic gray and gloss which should appeal to the bling crowd.

for some reason people like transparency. i also prefer opaque so i compromised by using transparency on inactive. i'll increase the opacity and see how it looks. will be in RC7.

i wanted to be consistent in my highlights. one highlight for everything not like vista. to change the highligt would be more effort than i want right before a release.

THANKS for the constructive criticism. This is what I've wanted from the beginning. Most of the time all I get is how nice the skin is.

Edited September 22, 2006 by nextmario

[noespam]

Hi Mario,

I like RC8. One issue, if I pick a sub like Luna Blue that has white buttons and the background is mostly white, the inactive window buttons fade into the background. How about bat files to choose between black and white buttons? You scripted everything else :)

[ooomph]

much better inactive titlebar. :)

can't think of any more quirks, very usable, thank you.

[nextmario]

Hi Mario,

I like RC8. One issue, if I pick a sub like Luna Blue that has white buttons and the background is mostly white, the inactive window buttons fade into the background. How about bat files to choose between black and white buttons? You scripted everything else :)

unfortunately, active/inactive windows use the same buttons. i chose the button color based on the active window. if i was to script it then you'd have the problem in reverse, dark buttons on a dark background. i have an idea though, i'll try a transparent warm gray for the inactive. on a pure white background the white buttons will still be visible on warm gray.

thanks for the feedback. i'll think of something.

[nextmario]

moved to WindowBlinds area: wb area

[BigKush]

Mario, let me just say; WOW! That's GORGEOUS! I'm especially liking it combo-ed with the wallpaper in the top left screenshot. Great work, keep it up!

[Rudi1]

Hi Mario,this is really nice skin,but I don't use wb :blush:

Is it posible to made a visual style of this skin,becouse I read at dev site that you work with style builder too?