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BabyFaceLima
Comment #22 Saturday, January 1, 2005 8:43 AM
Comment #22 Saturday, January 1, 2005 8:43 AM
Very nice skin. Modern and stylish. Excellent work, thanks!!
werewolf
Comment #23 Saturday, January 1, 2005 7:53 PM
Comment #23 Saturday, January 1, 2005 7:53 PM
Hey rbegger, I've been using this for a few days now. It really is sweet.
I've ported it to everything I can think of and am working on winamp atm.
You really don't need to do color variations as it colorizes and the images which are not changed in the wbconfig.exe color changer can very easily be changed in skin studio..
I've ported it to everything I can think of and am working on winamp atm.
You really don't need to do color variations as it colorizes and the images which are not changed in the wbconfig.exe color changer can very easily be changed in skin studio..
1ke
Comment #24 Sunday, January 2, 2005 2:49 AM
Comment #24 Sunday, January 2, 2005 2:49 AM
It's tidy, but beige makes me ill. For some reason the scrollbars don't look right, and I can't put my finger on just why. Good concept, though.
rbeeger
Comment #25 Sunday, January 2, 2005 2:12 PM
Comment #25 Sunday, January 2, 2005 2:12 PM
@werewolf: I haven't planned to do a Winamp theme since I don't use Winamp, but I'd be interested to see yours. I could create a "Third party akins" page on the Squareness site and link to your Winamp theme and others.
werewolf
Comment #26 Sunday, January 2, 2005 7:22 PM
Comment #26 Sunday, January 2, 2005 7:22 PM
that would be cool, thanks...I'll let you know when I'm done.
Stockholm Syndrome
Comment #27 Tuesday, January 4, 2005 4:07 PM
Comment #27 Tuesday, January 4, 2005 4:07 PM
This is really my kind of skin, thanks. I like the full size start panel but it was easy to fix w/ your instructions. 
Stockholm Syndrome
Comment #28 Tuesday, January 4, 2005 4:59 PM
Comment #28 Tuesday, January 4, 2005 4:59 PM
This is really my kind of skin, thanks. I like the full size start panel but it was easy to fix w/ your instructions.
Fairyy~
Comment #29 Tuesday, January 4, 2005 11:32 PM
and I liked this because it was a compact.....very nice
Comment #29 Tuesday, January 4, 2005 11:32 PM
and I liked this because it was a compact.....very nice
EMoreno
Comment #30 Friday, September 22, 2006 5:25 PM
Comment #30 Friday, September 22, 2006 5:25 PM
The simpler the better. I was looking for something like this a long time ago. If I find some bug, I' let you know. >Thanks.
Phoon
Comment #31 Friday, September 22, 2006 6:01 PM
Comment #31 Friday, September 22, 2006 6:01 PM
Yes indeed, this is reminiscent of Essorant flat style but those are some of the most clean and well functioning skins out there. This one is no exception to that rule.
Fantastic job, and I am doing my part to bump the stars up for you!!
Fantastic job, and I am doing my part to bump the stars up for you!!
boopish
Comment #32 Friday, September 22, 2006 7:13 PM
Comment #32 Friday, September 22, 2006 7:13 PM
This is a nice, simole simple skin.
But it's not so hard to make a compact substyle..in fact it only involves a few easy steps: 1) go to the add Substyle menu in SkinStudio - it's at the top right side, click on the little + sign beside the skin name (we'll call the skin abcdefg for this example). Check Duplicate this substyle. Name it something like : abcdefg compact 2) Look to the far left side of Skinstudio at the tree, locate "taskbar" click on that and then look back at the far right hand panel...see that little file folder icon? Click on it, now look in the lower center panel of Skinstudio....you should see a file name that looks something like this: abcdefg\XPStuff.xp. Now just change this so it reads abcdefg\abcdefg compact XPStuff.xp by simply placing your cursor ahead of the / and typing the name of the compact substyle in front of the XPStuff.xp bit. 3) Now make the change to your start panel by clicking on the user panel and changing the size to whatever you wish. Remember to check your margins so that no text shows. Save your skin. And voila! You have a compact submenu,retained the original skin and only increased the file size by the changes in one image!
I usually do this once I have completed the skin, made the animations and put in the throbber and toolbar icons. That way, it tells windowblinds to use all the same images and parameters except for the one you have changed.
But it's not so hard to make a compact substyle..in fact it only involves a few easy steps: 1) go to the add Substyle menu in SkinStudio - it's at the top right side, click on the little + sign beside the skin name (we'll call the skin abcdefg for this example). Check Duplicate this substyle. Name it something like : abcdefg compact 2) Look to the far left side of Skinstudio at the tree, locate "taskbar" click on that and then look back at the far right hand panel...see that little file folder icon? Click on it, now look in the lower center panel of Skinstudio....you should see a file name that looks something like this: abcdefg\XPStuff.xp. Now just change this so it reads abcdefg\abcdefg compact XPStuff.xp by simply placing your cursor ahead of the / and typing the name of the compact substyle in front of the XPStuff.xp bit. 3) Now make the change to your start panel by clicking on the user panel and changing the size to whatever you wish. Remember to check your margins so that no text shows. Save your skin. And voila! You have a compact submenu,retained the original skin and only increased the file size by the changes in one image!
I usually do this once I have completed the skin, made the animations and put in the throbber and toolbar icons. That way, it tells windowblinds to use all the same images and parameters except for the one you have changed.
PurrBall
Comment #33 Friday, September 22, 2006 9:02 PM
Comment #33 Friday, September 22, 2006 9:02 PM
Nice skin, only thing I don't like is that the taskbar icons are shrunk.
werewolf
Comment #34 Friday, September 22, 2006 10:06 PM
Comment #34 Friday, September 22, 2006 10:06 PM
Thanks so much for updating this skin! I really like it and use it often
rbeeger
Comment #35 Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:44 PM
Comment #35 Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:44 PM
To all: Thanks for the nice comments.
To "Meowy the PurrBall": What do you mean with "taskbar icons are shrunk". They aren't shrunk in any way here, standard 16x16 icons. Or is it the small start button you don't like. Please file a bug report here ( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=97037&atid=616791 ) with screenshots that show the problem. If it's a bug I'll try to fix it.
To "Meowy the PurrBall": What do you mean with "taskbar icons are shrunk". They aren't shrunk in any way here, standard 16x16 icons. Or is it the small start button you don't like. Please file a bug report here ( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=97037&atid=616791 ) with screenshots that show the problem. If it's a bug I'll try to fix it.
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Comment #21 Saturday, January 1, 2005 8:35 AM
@Graypony: As werewolf already said, it's quite easy to change the start panel to standard size. Please read the instructions here : http://squareness.sourceforge.net/skins/windowblinds.html .
It would be a bit time-consuming to take care of two subskins that really only differ in the width of the start panel. Other skins that use gradients and other special effects have to do it, but Squareness doesn't use any such effects and so here it's only a matter of tiling an image on 145 pixels more or less.
And I'm planning to add other color variations in the next version. That would be an exposion of subskins if I had to do each skin twice - once for compact and once for standard sized start panel.
BTW: Happy new year!