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First off I'd like to say ty for creating such a cool theme for XP! This partnered with desktop sidebar = absolutely no reason to buy Vista bloatware edition.

I did notice that when you enable shadows under style XP, and you have the box over moving video, the shadow turns black and ugly because its trying to render it over video. It needs to know not to enable shadows over video. Dont really know if that pertains to your theme or not since the option lies in style xp, but just wanted to share that info. Please let us know of any further bug fixes or updates :)

Also is this the final version?

One more thing I have noticed and I dont believe it is a bug, but just an incompatibility between the theme and Quicktime. I notice that when the theme is running and quicktime is on, it will only run at 10 frames per second. Turned off those frames go back up to 30. Probably has something to do with an overlay I thin because it basically does the same thing when im running it normal and I put my mouse over something and the description pops up. Same affect it has on the video playback.

Loving the Slim Compact and Slim versions of Blue. No dodgy borders of icons, but my Opera Quickstart does'nt appear to be aligned with the button even though it is. The shadow is barely visible, which makes it look odd. No complaints though, still rocks.

Great for double-thinkness taskbar as well, shame I don't run enough programs to use it all ;)

  • 3 weeks later...
How do I use this without the icons and sounds provided? I hate them no offense.

If you have already installed it then just do this...

(Skin only)

Right-Click on the Desktop -> Properties -> Appearance.

(Skin+sounds+icons)

Right-Click on the Desktop -> Properties -> Themes.

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