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jesus you mean people still use xp?

No, I use 7, but I installed Capric0rn's themes, both Emico and Novus into an XP virtual machine because they're very well done themes. If I'm doing work in XP, I can at least do so while looking at clean and simple themes, instead of looking at that clunky Fisher-Price interface called Luna.

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jesus you mean people still use xp?

Not everyone buys a new computer very often. However in my AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Single Core) with 2GB of RAM I'm using 7 x64 with no problem whatsoever (yeahh I could/should use 32-bit because I have only 2GB but at least I "unlock" every bit of my ancient CPU).

However I still manage a few XP machines and use a VM here and then and Novus is just beautiful. And of course I may eventually actually use XP again on this PC.

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hmm... How come you posted it as your desktop screenshot... and yet it isn't ready to use? Maybe it was a "teaser-shot". But then again you did say it was a mod for personal use. Surely if you were using it yourself it's ready for general use? I mean a larger taskbar isn't THAT much work. Is it?

eh, I don't mean to sound moany or ungrateful. I know a hell of alot of work goes into the themes, especially themes such as yours, with consistently high-quality. And of course it's simply a hobby and not a priority. But maybe teasing themes you aren't prepared to release isn't such a good idea. It often seems you tease more than you release.

Again I don't want to sound hostile, In the end, they're your themes and it's your time, you can do as you want!

Hell I can't even use your themes as I am only on Vista now... :alien:

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Yes, the thicker taskbar was a personal mod because I thought no one would want to use it. People always seem to ask for compact styles when there's only a thicker style available. Also, the personal mod lacked quality.

Making the taskbar thicker doesn't mean that I only have to make the titlebar thicker. I also have to re-create a thicker captionbar, caption buttons, userbar (top bar in the startpanel) and thicker scrollbars. Since I'm busy with school and other projects, I have to chose which takes higher priority. Since the Novus has been released as I wanted to release it, additional styles will be a "maybe". So yeah, it kinda is THAT much work.

Which other things did I tease with but didn't release? And don't mention Novus black, since I already stated why I'm not going to release that.

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Do you guys rather see it with those extra lines or without?

It's not going to have an extra line. It doesn't look as nice with the current bigger buttons.

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Hm, I'm considering to fix the personal mod version and releasing that instead of making it a substyle for Novus. It has a clean captionbar (means no blocks) and the thicker taskbar. With that I'm going to ask PeterPL if he'd like to make the black theme more consistent with the Novus Blue and let him release that version.

Does anyone agree with this idea?

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Hm, I'm considering to fix the personal mod version and releasing that instead of making it a substyle for Novus. It has a clean captionbar (means no blocks) and the thicker taskbar. With that I'm going to ask PeterPL if he'd like to make the black theme more consistent with the Novus Blue and let him release that version.

Does anyone agree with this idea?

I like the idea.

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I'm also bringing back the startbutton icon from one of the earlier BlueSE mockups. I'm talking about the version with only the icon :) The startbutton from Novus just doesn't work with the thicker taskbar.

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Hm, I'm considering to fix the personal mod version and releasing that instead of making it a substyle for Novus. It has a clean captionbar (means no blocks) and the thicker taskbar. With that I'm going to ask PeterPL if he'd like to make the black theme more consistent with the Novus Blue and let him release that version.

Does anyone agree with this idea?

Great news. One more to agree. :)

I'm also bringing back the startbutton icon from one of the earlier BlueSE mockups. I'm talking about the version with only the icon :) The startbutton from Novus just doesn't work with the thicker taskbar.

:( I like the startbutton from your mockups. Maybe two versions (like in WE - with and without text?). Pleeeease? :rolleyes:

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I already said that I wont be using the colored flag for any startbutton. In fact, I even deleted all those layers. The screenshot which I was talking about can probably be found in the Watercolor Emico thread. It's the current Windows flag without the text and button. Since it's a mod, there wont be additional substyles. The only substyles which I might make are the font choices.

The reason why the startbutton from Novus doesn't is because the button doesn't stretch to the top from the taskbar. This means that the Windows flag is inside the button, which looks really weird.

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