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:icondpcdpc11:
hey people... here's some primitive WIP of my next thingy...
damn this windows theming is addictive!

what do you think so far?
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from where the gadgets are coming in the screen shots..........I tried to find what it is I didn't got it what is it?
Is it a third party tool..........?
can u give a link to me.........?
thanks..........
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:icondpcdpc11:
it's a Rainmeter theme called Illustro modded by me.
I think Illustro comes with the default Rainmeter installation but I'm not sure... I don't use Rainmeter anymore.
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~unperse Nov 20, 2011  Student Interface Designer
awesome man, but Toolbar's background in foobars looks ugly for this perfect VS. Also, Try to change rainmeter skins to smth squared&transparency
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:iconatigr:
well.... It's cool of course... But still, I felt it's a bit too black.
Lack some sense of life or energy in it.

Maybe something light would improve it.
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:icondpcdpc11:
what exactly do you think it's too black: the taskbar or the window frame? these are the only elements skinned in the shoot... personally I really like the taskbar a lot but I'm not totally convinced about the window frame... it has a 1px glow around it before the shadow which is cool and all but I dunno... something is missing. I'm not really into black/dark window frames because they are not really easy on the eyes and usability is king for me. The taskbar on the other hand looks pretty cool even though it's really dark.
what do you think?
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:iconatigr:
Actually It is the window frame that had been too black.
You know that we are kinda stucked to window frames all day long as soon as we don't make apps fullscreen. And what windows sucks is that all their default windows frame look awful and gradually kill us every second of the day.

The blackish feeling of this new windows frame even reminds some of the Vista experience, which looks fancy at first and soon exhausts my eyes. So I think we share the same attitude on the usability side.

I think the part missing in the window frame is |Life|. Like what you did in the minimal taste flat, the grey gradient brings purity to life and easy for us to stay all day long enjoying watching it. Though I said earlier a little bright color would make it even better to see. (That's exactly why the tiny part of Traffic light buttons in Mac OS impresses people that much. They just pop out.)

And in the new all black window frame. Nothing pops out. And I always felt it alive only when something pops out just like saying, look at me~~ XD

As the taskbar goes, it look gorgeous. The progress color, even only 1px or 2 colorful, gives the feeling of poping out. I loved it!
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:icondpcdpc11:
We're on the same page here... the concept here was to give the windows frame the same color and transparency as the taskbar... it looks ok but it's not really practical. One cool thing about the frame are the caption buttons which have a really cool morphing effect... I'm talking about the glyphs to be precise.
And if I make the frames just transparent, they will look so plain and much like other 90% of windows themes and I really don't want to do that!
I'll try keeping the top frame dark and leaving the rest transparent and vice versa. Now just to get some time on my hand and I'm good to go.
Glad you like the taskbar though... I've spent quite some time making it look good. I'll post some screenshot with the progress of my next theme to get some feedback so stay tuned!
Thanks for your feedback!
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:iconatigr:
through your minimal taste flat I know your theme would be a great one because you understand how a great theme work and modifies Windows theme with less distracting elements and emphasizes the key ones.
Do put up your WIP updates. I can't wait to see the final version. :P
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~kamoteprotocol Sep 21, 2011  Student Interface Designer
nice work ,,, :) do you have a smaller version of your taskbar,... probably the smallest one .. thanks... :)
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:icondpcdpc11:
thanks but I'm not sure what you're saying... are you asking me if I have a smaller version of this taskbar? in this case I can't make the taskbar any smaller.
and hopefully by the end of the month I will finish this new theme.
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