Beacon
Average Rating: 9
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Beacon

Updated Jan 23, 2003 by MikeB314


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DavidK
Comment #41 Tuesday, August 6, 2002 1:23 PM
Excellent work Mike! This is one that really comes together perfectly. Thanks for a very usable and classy skin, you obviously put a lot of work in this.
dgerghehdf
Comment #42 Tuesday, August 6, 2002 5:55 PM
As bloody usual Mike, another bloody great skin...good on ya mate!...
bmetelsky
Comment #43 Tuesday, August 6, 2002 11:22 PM
As I commented earlier, I love this skin. One small problem - when using it in the vertical mode, one of the icons in the systray (notification area) pushes too far out to the left - is there a way to fix that?
Mike Reeder
Comment #44 Wednesday, August 7, 2002 12:26 AM
WOW! I found a my new skin. Great work! I used to think Essorant, Treetog, liquidx and Dangeruss were the king skinners but I have to add your name to the top of the list. This is just awesome! First black skin with a light enough color scheme to be usable. THANKS!
Mike Reeder
Comment #45 Wednesday, August 7, 2002 12:29 AM
Oops, I left out DavidK from the list of the great (Sorry). And thanks to all the great skinners who spend so much time creating artwork that they share with us freely.
MikeB314
Comment #46 Wednesday, August 7, 2002 6:35 AM
Mike Reeder: Hehe, you also left out Alexandrie, Hippy, Mercury, and others, but I don't think I quite belong there yet. I do appreciate it though.

bmetelsky: I admit, I tend to neglect the vertical task bar a bit, but since you asked, I'll see if I can tidy it up.
c0d3r
Comment #47 Thursday, August 8, 2002 12:29 AM
Super skin!!!

The only thing is the taskbar still in gray color under win2k I wish it had the same look as the preview. Is there a way to achieve this ?
pliant
Comment #48 Friday, August 9, 2002 6:24 PM
how come my start menu didn't change to the one illustrated??
pliant
Comment #49 Friday, August 9, 2002 6:29 PM
oh i figured it out...it can't be set to classic
MikeB314
Comment #50 Friday, August 9, 2002 8:52 PM
c0d3r: If you use ObjectBar, you can set it to import the XP taskbar and start menu from any WindowBlinds skin that includes them.
c0d3r
Comment #51 Saturday, August 10, 2002 6:14 PM
Many thanks I'll try it
Doc Kids
Comment #52 Sunday, August 11, 2002 12:36 AM
Great Skin, but am having some trouble with Win XP. SOme of my video editing software won't run if I set it as the default skin of the system, but if I use another skin (which I don't want to), and set Beacon as the skin for the Video Editor software (ULead), then it runs.
paxx
Comment #53 Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:36 AM
Amasing work Mike! I think this is going to be the only skin not made by Alexandrie that I use in over 6 months!
The only small issue I see, is what MessiahWWKD said: in the menus that have a checkmark, the black checkmark is hard to see on the dark grey background. Is there a way to put that checkmark white? I haven't skinned Windowblinds in a long time, so I don't remember...
MikeB314
Comment #54 Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:54 PM
Unfortunatley, the only way to make those checkmarks white would be to make tons of other windows elements white as well, because they use the same color setting. I just had to live with this one small blemish to make the overall skin look right.
DrMetallica
Comment #55 Sunday, August 18, 2002 8:59 AM
I have XP i'm having a problem with the fonts...Beacon used to work fine until I rebooted my comp...then the fonts became very small and hard to read...i tried re-installing windowblinds...didn't work...im sorry about this long run-on sentence...can anyone help?
wh1t3y
Comment #56 Monday, August 19, 2002 7:09 PM
Yeah DrMetallica heres what you need to do. You need to get yourself winrar so you can extract all of the files from the beacon file, because all it is is a bunch of packed images and fonts and what not. Then you have to find the font that Mike uses inside the beacon file and then install it to your font directory and that should make the fonts normal.
Aaron W.
Comment #57 Friday, January 24, 2003 2:56 PM
Makes me want to install XP again As soon as my new comp arrives...

Doesn't WB3.4 have a checkbox skinning feature? Like you can replace the checks with images? And that image could maybe be white?
st_nick
Comment #58 Friday, January 24, 2003 5:49 PM
great update to one of my favorite skins. glad to have such a great example to go with the new WB4 alpha
xXMaximumBassXx
Comment #59 Sunday, January 26, 2003 5:04 PM
You... and this skin... are amazing! definatly one of my top 3 favorites. How bout a beacon plus with min to tray and the other goodies you have in some of your other skins.
insanelight
Comment #60 Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:23 PM
Amazing skin! Really cool!
But I have this problem: I'm new about Windowblinds so I don't know how to change the start menu in XP. I have installed ObjectBar how you told to other users but it ask me about a .obbar I can't find in your skin package! What is my mistake? Please help me, I really like this skin!

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