[RELEASE] Longhorn Percept

Ver 1.1: Menu colour is adjusted. Sorry, I don't use windows menus as I have them hidden. I realised that they were a poor colour choice for those using menus in the explorer bar, and the problem is fixed. Thin taskbar version also has tasks altered to fit in with the theme. Quicklaunch buttons are fixed. 1.1 is better so please redownload.

Ver 1.1 Download link is the same. Find it in first post.

#344150

This is one theme that is making me switch back to the Aero/Longhorn vibe, i haven't used any others since Stefankas version.

I have been have looking for a new theme that made me switch back to using Aero/longhorn, and this is proving to be just that theme.

All i can say is great work , and Thank-You Sir

Btw, nice preview!

P.S - Matches Stefanka's AveIconifiers & AveText Skins

#344152

Yes, this work owes much to stefanka. His themes for windows and other skins were amongst the best ever made. He liked the skin, I think, so that can't make it all bad.

Still an early attempt, so when people spot the no doubt hundreds of bugs, post them back, and they'll be fixed in time for the January update if not before.

#344155

I don't preffer WindowBlinds, but... good work.

#344156

never mind. I still don't like this window blinds software.

#344163

nice shizzle! and funny too!

#344164

The title bars are bit too large for my taste (yes I know they are supposed to be oversized). Otherwise a beautiful work.

#344178

Looks nice, monkey-man :cool:! I'm quite satisfied with the result of your hard work. I can even admit I'll be waiting for applications skins to come with this WB skin.

P.S. Hehehe, no I won't - I'll make a pair by myself !

#344186

nice work!. But the title bar is so damn big!...

#344192

lol I love the comments you put in the screenshot compilation, those people are asses

#344195

The titlebars ARE big, but I like them so I guess it's personal preference. Thanks all for your comments and suggestions. I'll update it tomorrow morning to fix some of the bugs people have pointed out to me. Still quite new at doing something more or less from scratch so it's a steep learning curve.

As for the quotes on the preview, I can assure you it's only good humour, not being vindictive. You can't release a theme with 60px titlebars without a sense of humour...

#344202

I love the big titlebars, of course I'm of the opinon vista should look like the old builds of longhorn.

#344221

Awesome ! Lovin IT !!!!!!!

Hoping for an good FF Skin !

#344236

Quite nice Thanks for all the efforts my friend

#344241

The titlebars ARE big, but I like them so I guess it's personal preference.

But you are planning to release a substyle with usual/normal sizes, right?

#344287

I love the look of this theme but the transparency doesn't work, why is that. I have only been able to get one transparent theme to work and that is Vista R2 Blizz. Am I missing something or is it the theme? any help please.

#344294

Verrrrry nice work.

#344299

i really like the concept of this theme.. it is sexy, but i've been having a few problems with it..

also, if i go into display properties>appearance to tweak the skin there, the proper window isn't displayed.. just a bunch of garbled oversized- what appears to be the win2000 like theme, all large and just not right..

are other people experiencing these same issues?

#344300

The text override on windowblinds works for me personally. I'll ask my testers and see if they are having the same problems.

As for the display properties problem, the image is corrupted because of the insane titlebars, and the fact that the image preview is only designed to preview images with a max titlebar size of 64px. Any changes you make will still work, it's just that the image won't be updated to reflect the changes.

As for a thin titlebar version, Mike Bryant's Arrow and the wb5 theme dreamland are both not dissimilar in concept and have 'normal' titlebars, but if the theme proves especially popular, I'll make a version with smaller ones.

I'm going to add in a 5048 substyle with altered caption buttons and a new taskbar, along with a lot of other bug fixes for the next update. It should be available across the next couple of days. Then it's on to the app skins as promised.

#344309

awesome skin .. thanx a lot nicely done

#344311

its weird, cause when i first applied the skin, my desktop font sizes, stayed the same- set at the user override.. then i rebooted, and they were back to the size 8 sans serif, and if i tried to change it, the desktop fonts would stay the same..

also, i think the startmenu styling of the latest vista build would be sexy in glass. i'm not sure if that's what you meant by the 5048 substyle.

good luck with this.. it's one of the finest skins i've seen in a long time.

#344314

I meant the caption buttons actually, but you've got a good point about the new vista-style start menu. I've just tried a quick mock of it, jus quickly changing the graphics and content margins, and it looks really good, so I will add that as an update.

As for the text, I've been trying to duplicate it here and I can't, but I don't know what could be causing it because I thought all fonts were automatically changed by WB5 at the user's request, and I didn't even know that a skin could prevent it.

Also, it's interesting you said you got ms sans serif, because all the fonts in the theme are sergoe UI. All I can suggest is using settings in the WB config to prevent the theme changing any fonts, then set your own via display properties.

If I work out why, I'll post the solution.

#344333