Velvet Waves by ThemeNorth
Windowblinds version
With a little help from SkinStudio, and permission by ThemeNorth, I bring you one of the best mmstyles, to grace XP, to Windowblinds. The original VS contained two colours - Marine and Moss, each with 3 sub-styles - a Full start menu, a Compact start menu, and a style designed to be used with a vertical taskbar.>p>
This Windowblinds version only gives you the Marine colour, along with the 3 sub-styles, but with the added bonus of having custom colour support. So now you have got potentially millions of colours to choose from. It shouldn't be too hard to find a wallpaper and icon set to match this theme...
Notes for use
Make sure you have the *very latest* version of Windowblinds (4.40) - otherwise the the Start Menu and the ShellStyle will look wrong!
Many thanks to ThemeNorth to allowing permission to release this.
Many thanks to Adam\SkinStudio for making it that much easier to convert this.
Link Discussion on Velvet Waves at Neowin.
Link Original at DeviantART.
Link Original at GetSkinned.
Permission.txt and original Readme.hta included.
***Update History***
14 Sep '04
New
Changed the taskbar clock's shadow colour to be less 'bright'
Using new advanced ShellStyles from Windowsblinds 4.4. ShellStyles are now 100% accurate to ThemeNorth's mmstyle.
IMPORTANT - REQUIRES THE LATEST VERSION OF WINDOWBLINDS!!!! Link
29 Aug '04
Bug Fixed - Always on top buttons in the + sub style are now pointing to the correct image - Thanks to Jim Wilt for spotting that
28 Aug '04
Skin has been rebuild using the latest version of SkinStudio, many new little things and bugs fixed. There are 12 Sub Styles in total, (3 groups of 4 skins)
UIS2: Standard, Compact, Vertical & Compact Vertical
UIS2: Standard, Compact, Vertical & Compact Vertical (+ Styles: with always-on-top button)
UIS1: Standard, Compact, Vertical & Compact Vertical
Other small things include:
User name on StartMenu is now in its proper place
Small Toolbar icons now included
Scroll bar thumbs now switch to a more suitable image when the thumbs size reaches 15 pixels or less
The always-on-top buttons are now using alpha blended .tga's
Taskbar and Startmenu now uses blurred shadows to match the mmstyle
The rest of the history can been viewed in the History.txt in the skin folder
There are probably some new bugs that I've missed, so please let me know and I'll try my best to fix them.
The Toolbar icons in this skin where originally put together by Marvilla, they are used here under the Design Science License Link
Comment #121 Saturday, September 18, 2004 12:21 PM