Watercolor Lite v1.0

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CURRENT BUILD 1.0

Hi guys,

This is a new release of the Watercolor series, this is called 'Lite'. I named it that because things are thinner in the version giving you more screen realestate (taskbar and menu's), as well as it only having the Blue and Ergonomic Blue colour schemes.

From the Readme:

Contents:

Watercolor Lite theme file ? Watercolor Lite.theme (2 colour variations)

Watercolor Lite MSstyles file & Matching shellstyle.dll's ? Watercolor Lite.msstyles (2 Substyles & 2 shelletyle.dll's) (Msstyles format copyright Microsoft Corp 2001.)

Watercolor Wallpaper - Watercolor.jpg ? 2001 Microsoft Corp.

Recycle Bin icons - RecycleBinFull.ico, RecycleBinEmpty.ico ? 2001 Microsoft Corp.

Watercolor Visual Style Promo Pic - Watercolor Lite Promo.jpg

Watercolor Lite.ico

Start button Replacement bmp?s (2 styles)

Startbutton.psd (for use in making your own personalized start button)

ReadMe.html

Installation:

All files will be installed into the default Resource Directory or %WINDIR%\Resources\Themes and folders within.

To Use:

Right click Desktop, select Properties. You may either select the Watercolor theme on the theme tab,

or Just apply the visual style by selecting the appearence tab, and selecting the Style "Watercolor" and any sub theme.

ChangeLog: Watercolor Lite v1.0

- This version is built upon the Original Watercolor msstyle base.

- Many optimizations to create the fastest build of watercolor ever

- Small taskbar

- Text margins are now closer together to create a more compact feeling.

- A lot of work was done to make sure the vertical taskbar looks as good as and functions as good as the horizontal taskbar.

- New start button layout, It?s now a bmp in which the end user can change to whatever they please using reshack or style builder.

Original Watercolor theme credits goto Microsoft for making & designing the Original theme (which was previewed in Whistler builds). Watercolor.msstyles and Watercolor.theme made By Chris O. aka Binary with help from StyleBuilder & TGTSoft LLC.

Brw2k1 and thuggers made most of the shellstyle.dll, Ergonomic colour idea by Dj_Night, and NETknightX fixed the tab bmp's (all from Neowin.net) so Major thanks goes ou:Dto them :D

And of course thanks goes out to all the people that gave bug reports and su:)estions :) (also mostly from Neowin.net msg board) And thanks for Hosting Watercolor goes to Alex Kelm, of AlexKelm.com

Email: [email protected]

Please leave suggestions, positive feedback or bug reports

01/09/2003

Alot have been bugging me for quite some time about a thin taskbar version, so here i:Dis! :D

A picture of the taskbar is attached (I didnt include a pic of the window decorations, since most of you know what it looks like by now, if you dont see the Watercolor 4;) Thread ;))

Link (thanks to Alex Kelm):

Watercolor Lite v1.0

I will post mirrors as they come available. I will probably post this build on themexp.org too.

Pic:

thintaskbar.jpg

As always please email me with any bug reports, but no further suggestions will be taken into account (a watercolor plus build will be done in private and released when ready, no betas will be avaiable so please dont ask!).

Thanks to everyone who has supported me all along, and please E:)oy! :)

Chris

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nope, Lite still has the two bugs (resize, and 24 bit depth checkbox bug) Watercolor 4.3 has. Resize is fixable, but will screw up the theme imo... I havent figured out what causes the 24 bit depth checkbox bug yet..

Remember Lite was based off of 4.3, so any bugs this theme has, please report either here (if it pertains to the start button or taskbar) or the watercolor 4.0 thread (if it's anything to do with widgets or window decorations).

Chris

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Great work Binary!!!

The thin taskbar is perfect... classic size.   :D  :D  :D

Is the word "start" on the start button no longer text?

It's a bitmap now, change it till your hearts content. The startbutton template psd is in the package.

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binary, you gonna update the fonts in watercolor 4.x as well? or just for this ver of watercolor, btw good job on the thin taskbar looks good...

I'll fix the fonts in the next update I suppose :)

Chris

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