[vs] Classix

[spyglass]

About Shellstyles:

The default theme named shellstyle.dll must be in a folder called "normal"

example: C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Classix\Shell\NormalColor...shellstyle.dll

Then any more added shellstyle folders within the themes shell folder, must have same name as sub theme.

example: (say Classix has a sub theme called Classix1)

C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Classix\Shell\Classix1...shellstyle.dll

hope this helps PRLYago :blink:

[Elliott]

is it me or the update from 25/3/2003 is completly ****** up ??? it gives me a smaal start menu without userpic..shellstyle is no more very little fonts...etc ????  :blink: kept previous version and waitin...

The I like the new start menu for us who use the Classic login and don't have a userpic (because we have one account and our Administrator account that can't be seen on the normal Windows XP logon...and our own computers. :p).

[Jessterw]

For those of you who may still want the previous release of Classix, they are still available on my mirror (the only one enabled ATM on the Classix Mailing List page - will fix that soon giga ;) ).

To access them, simply copy and paste the URL into the application you are going to use to download the files, and add "_old" to the filename (before the ".rar" extension of course).

[gigatexel]

If you people would read what I post you'd know about the shellstyles being fudged :D

Ok I just noticed that the Blue and Green shellstyles aren't displaying properly because of some things I rearranged in stylebuilder. This will be fixed along with the other reported issues soon.

The start button is going to be the one with the 'Start' text, if you don't like it you can very easily change it back to the other start button with reshacker. It'll take you all of 15 seconds to do this or your money back, guaranteed.

I happen to love the new start menu, I don't think I'm alone. ;)

The update will be ready in a few hours.

[BuG]

:no: sad sad sad

gigatexel....

anyway to have the old lookin start menu but with all the updated feature...if its too much to put the new start button dont go for it ill do the job...but new colors seems cool and all but i really like to get bigger start menu and the user pic...think its possible for you to do last update for this old one :) :) plz plz ??

thx :blush:

bug

[M.Star]

If you people would read what I post you'd know about the shellstyles being fudged :D

The start button is going to be the one with the 'Start' text, if you don't like it you can very easily change it back to the other start button with reshacker. It'll take you all of 15 seconds to do this or your money back, guaranteed.

I happen to love the new start menu, I don't think I'm alone. ;)

The update will be ready in a few hours.

Great work, gigatexel and the rest of the Classix team! :laugh: Gigatexel, how about a little faq in the readme about changing startbutton in reshacker or stylebuilder?

[cheekymonkey]

To all the Classix skinners esp. giga and sd:

This really is such a massive project right now, certainly one that has captured the imagination of a load of us on Neowin (myself included). I find that I have three different versions of the vs on my machine, and am keen to keep up to date, which leads me to my point:

I have heard talk of a homepage at some stage but it would be sooo good to have a repository of all the different versions (showing start menus, start button et al.), wmp skins etc.

On a different note, I do like the new version but am gonna stick with the previous one with the two tone grey start panel, user pic and the small square start button. I like the new one... but just not enough.

Just my $0.02 guys ;)

[BuG]

same as cheekkymonkey for me :D

[Deron Dantzler]

While everyone complains about the new default start-button-to-be, I suppose that I will throw my 2 cents in. I LOVE the new button and am one of the many who think it should be default as gigatexel has said will happen. It's totally awesome and one of the start buttons has to be default...If you don't know how to change it (if you don't like), I'm sure someone can tell you how.

Later.

[gigatexel]

You guys have given me a colossal headache, congrats! (Y) lol j/k

Sorry BuG, really I am, I wish I could please everyone but I'm not going to make a version with the old start menu. cheekymonkey's idea is great and I hope to do something like that soon.

M.Star: I think JagedEdge was working on a FAQ and it's sorely needed. :) I'll have to get in contact with him to find out if it's done.

Thanks deron. ;)

[Jessterw]

I have heard talk of a homepage at some stage but it would be sooo good to have a repository of all the different versions (showing start menus, start button et al.), wmp skins etc.

Currently you can still download the second (I believe it's the second, lost track) and the current (not the newest, which giga hasn't released yet) versions of the theme from the link in my sig (you guys should know the routine by now ;) ).

There is a slight delay on the Classix web page/site due to some scheduling conflicts and such, but one of the ideas I've had is for a visual timeline of the different stages the theme has gone through as well as having the different versions available for download (rather depends on bandwidth). For Winamp skins and such, this could work, but I think the focus will probably be just in displaying the current versions to start.

As soon as the page/site is up, it will include a general FAQ that includes information on modding the theme and various skins.

For those of you who have been paying attention, gigatexel and saint dark (they have the final say on this of course) are ok with what I've dubbed "modpacks". Basically someone mods the theme or a skin and then packages the files and instructions necessary to perform the mod. This will keep the load off of giga and sd for changes to the theme (as well as the skin authors) that they may not really want done. I am trying to work out a system for submitting these (automatic and moderated) and would have no problem hosting them (unless you guys absolutely rape me on bandwidth :D ). Yadda yadda yadda.

As always, the final say is with giga. Edit: who has apparently beaten me to the punch.

[RaQ]

Giga I pmed you, awaiting response.

[Elliott]

You guys have given me a colossal headache, congrats! (Y) lol j/k

Sorry BuG, really I am, I wish I could please everyone but I'm not going to make a version with the old start menu. cheekymonkey's idea is great and I hope to do something like that soon.

M.Star: I think JagedEdge was working on a FAQ and it's sorely needed. :) I'll have to get in contact with him to find out if it's done.

Thanks deron. ;)

Get IM and it'll be a 1000x easier to contact me. :p

[sanctified Veteran]

I want to announce an union, this is not going to be the only skin made by gigatexel and me together, we are now a new skinning duo, no future plans yet but we have some ideas, stay tunned... :D

[mxp]

^ could it be classix 2???

[Womble]

ooohh wow this is great news!! if you guys can come up with this theme, think of what you will be able to do in the future!

i cannot wait to see this new ideas *wets his pants in excitement

[Deron Dantzler]

mxp: Classix 2 is what was released yesterday.

[mxp]

i mean like a new total mod of classix in this case 3 or 4

[RaQ]

Saint-Dark get on msn man, you never are wanna chat peace :p

Sweet about the.. Union... :p

[Deron Dantzler]

Oh yeah, I'm using the ported Gnome cursors from the TCPort with this. I was wondering what YZ Toolbar or hack for your Explorer toolbar you guys are using with this theme. Give a good screenshot too and download links.

[Elliott]

Hey guys. I feel like starting to revise the FAQ for everything new, so any suggestions would be appreciated. ;)

Oh yeah, I'm using the ported Gnome cursors from the TCPort with this. I was wondering what YZ Toolbar or hack for your Explorer toolbar you guys are using with this theme. Give a good screenshot too and download links.

I change my Shell32 to change toolbar icons. Sorry. :unsure:

BTW, [saint dark], this new alliance sounds great! Can I be part of it? :p

[sanctified Veteran]

Hey guys. I feel like starting to revise the FAQ for everything new, so any suggestions would be appreciated. ;)

I change my Shell32 to change toolbar icons. Sorry. :unsure:

BTW, [saint dark], this new alliance sounds great! Can I be part of it? :p

everyone is part of it, giga and me are just the stylers, classix is a more than two people efforts, is a community work

This is my last reply here in 4 days, Im leaving for a school trip, see you in 4 days

[mxp]

^ noooo saint nooooooooo

don't leave us

[Elliott]

,Mar 26 2003, 19:01]

Hey guys. I feel like starting to revise the FAQ for everything new, so any suggestions would be appreciated. ;)

I change my Shell32 to change toolbar icons. Sorry. :unsure:

BTW, [saint dark], this new alliance sounds great! Can I be part of it? :p

everyone is part of it, giga and me are just the stylers, classix is a more than two people efforts, is a community work

This is my last reply here in 4 days, Im leaving for a school trip, see you in 4 days

Have fun. And I'm glad Classix is going whole community finally. This'll be great! :happy: BTW, as I asked earlier, any suggestions for the FAQ? I'll start right away and see if I can get a design done. Giga, if you could make a nice banner for it, as I'm gonna covert it to HTML to make it easy to navigate. ;)

[aitf311]

Is there a Winamp2.9 skin anywhere?