- The main visual style is just about complete, still need to do vertical taskbar, logonUI, cursors, shell32 animations and icons
- There are 14 color schemes most of them are based on a light color but a few, namely 'Black2', and 'Graphite' are very dark, great at night but I don't recommend using them for too long...it'll affect your mood =)
- Some of the color schemes from the MMD3 Winamp3 skin match some of these color schemes really well
- All the images have been optimized so don't worry about performance
- If you want to host this theme on other sites, let me know BEFORE you do and please include this readme.txt
Installation:
- Install StyleXP or uxtheme.dll patch both available at www.tgtsoft.com
- Install font 'Bank Gothic Medium BT' (included)
** I had to split the .msstyle into two cos my StyleBuilder compiles a max of 10 color schemes per .msstyle file.
There are two ways to run it,
1- You can extract everything to a folder and go double-clicking all the .msstyle files and manualy change the color schemes and matching wallpapers or you can
2 - Extract all the .theme files and 'Sentinel_A' and 'Sentinel_B' folders to your %WINDIR%\Resources\themes\ folder and select the color schemes from Display Properties, this way is quicker but it takes up a lot of space on your themes list and you'll most probably loose your cursor, screensaver and the default desktop icon settings
Warning!
- Use Normal Size fonts
- DO NOT use large icons in the quick launch area
- Use ClearType font smoothing, otherwise titlebar fonts look blocky
- Disable the 'Address' Toolbar from your taskbar cos it throws it off sync when you're using multiple-line taskbars.
- Disable the 'Language Bar' from the taskbar (ugly)
- No vertical taskbar yet! (next release).
- The rollover text is almost invisible in the "New" context menu and in History/Favorites panels of IE
- Titlebar text overlaps titlebar image in 'some' small windows and image becomes distorted and looks like ass in extremely small windows.
Changes since last version (Alpha 5):
- Added Black & Black2 color schemes + edited Deviant a tad
- Shellstyles!
- Minor changes to some other parts
I really hope you enjoy it! Please contact me with your opinions, suggestions and bug reports.
If you are willling and able, any donations would be greatly appreciated! - Paypal.com -> chaninja@yahoo.co.uk