[VS] Opus

[b0se]

Hi,

Opus Visual Style

Permissions

- Binary: Permission to include his great OSX4XP cursor set.

About

- 4 Variations: Blue Windows, Blue OSX, Grey OSX and Metal OSX

- Each variation has both Tahoma (Windows) and Lucide Grande (OSX) font versions

- 3 Wallpapers

- OSX4XP Cursor set

Install recommendations

- Extract zip contents to '\Windows\Resources\Themes', using folder names.

- Make sure you select the desired theme via Display Properties -> Themes.

This will automatically load cursor set.

- Use Classic view for explorer windows - no shellstyle

(Tools -> Folder Options -> [Check] Use Windows Classic folders)

- Install fonts

(drag them from '\Windows\Resources\Themes\Opus\fonts' into your '\Windows\Fonts' directory)

- Use Mac-like font smoothing (much nicer on the eye)

(Display Properties -> Appearance -> Effects -> [Tick] Use the following....screen fonts

-> [Combo] ClearType)

- Use large icons

(Display Properties -> Appearance -> Effects -> [Tick] Use Large Icons)

Screenshot

(click to enlarge)

Download @ DeviantART

Comments welcome!

[RadishTM Veteran]

:woot: ! ....

Great work m8! :happy: ....

Radish?

[quick]

Wow Looks great :D

Dowloading.... :cool:

[b0se]

Thanks Rad (and quick) :)

[KebecoiS]

Wow, again, quality work b0se :woot:

Cheers.

[vip]

looks good ross :p

[[hxc]]

quality... very nice b0se! downloading now :D

[Jessterw]

Awesome work b0se. Still not entirely fond of the buttons, but that's a minor gripe for such a well done visual style.

[nXP_151 Veteran]

WOW! that's very nice man!

Excellent work :D

[antoxicion]

great visual style

[m4ch1n3g0d]

Me likes alot!!! bose Visual Styles are always my favorite. Thanks for your hard work.

[adamp2p]

Thanks BOSE!!!

Excellent work!

:D

[doh]

Very nice. Thank you for your effort.

[spacey]

looks pretty

i wonder if i can tear me away from ximian.

[King Trode]

This is already tearing me away from everything else I am going as far as to give my computer a fresh clean install just for this.

[aggrophobik]

Now that's dedication.

[JT2046]

The four theme files are not working. Errors prompting for missing files referred to in the theme files. No go for those have no ObjectDesktop icons. I have to do it the manual way.

[xcession]

Very smooth b0se... great work

[Veedems Veteran]

it's ok, I hate to say it though, but you've done better. I just don't care for the shiny squared buttons.

[grubmonster]

Didnt like the scroll arrows uneven push motion and those shutdown buttons look way out of place.Is it me or is time to maybe put the mac themeing to rest and try something original.

[rezza Veteran]

wow. i might have to fire up my winXP box just to try this out :)

[peter85]

wow i really love this style

thanks!

[b0se]

Thanks for the comments!

Realised that the themes's aren't working earlier, to manually fix them open with any text editor and remove:

; My Computer

[CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,1

; My Documents

[CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,0

; My Network Places

[CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,2

; Recycle Bin

[CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]

full=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,5

empty=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,4

from under [Theme]

And change the Path (directly under [VisualStyles] at bottom)

Path=%WinDir%resources\Themes\Opus\Opus.msstyles

bangbang, this isn't aimed at people who don't like shiny buttons, it's for people who do ;)

grub, it IS original for a mac theme. Just because the buttons are shiny, and some corners are rounded, that instantly makes it a mac clone? So what about the million other themes with squared buttons / corners...

Every single image used (and I mean EVERY image) was created from scratch, can't get any more original than that :)

Radish (cheers man!) is working on a / some shellstyle(s), hopefully for all four but I'm not sure (and won't pressure him to do more than he wants). I'm sure he'll let you know when he has something to show, thanks again mate (Y)

[Intzman]

really cool work bose :woot: :woot:

[xe9rox]

yeah, really cool work :D