[release] Opus

Hi,

Opus Visual Style

Permissions

- Binary: Permission to include his great OSX4XP cursor set.

About

- 4 Variations: Blue Windows, Blue OSX, Grey OSX and Metal OSX

- Each variation has both Tahoma (Windows) and Lucide Grande (OSX) font versions

- 3 Wallpapers

- OSX4XP Cursor set

Install recommendations

- Extract zip contents to '\Windows\Resources\Themes', using folder names.

- Make sure you select the desired theme via Display Properties -> Themes.

This will automatically load cursor set.

- Use Classic view for explorer windows - no shellstyle

(Tools -> Folder Options -> [Check] Use Windows Classic folders)

- Install fonts

(drag them from '\Windows\Resources\Themes\Opus\fonts' into your '\Windows\Fonts' directory)

- Use Mac-like font smoothing (much nicer on the eye)

(Display Properties -> Appearance -> Effects -> [Tick] Use the following....screen fonts

-> [Combo] ClearType)

- Use large icons

(Display Properties -> Appearance -> Effects -> [Tick] Use Large Icons)

Screenshot

(click to enlarge)

Download @ DeviantART

Comments welcome!

#52702

what toolbar theme is that? It looks so fit with the theme. Where i can get it?

#52711

Originally posted by Voodoo411@Sep 3 2003, 03:20 AM

what toolbar theme is that? It looks so fit with the theme. Where i can get it?

Honz's High Contrast, someone sent it to me not sure where to DL...

Will find out!

#52712

Yz Toolbar High Contrast theme Can be found here

Also will there be a WB4 version?

#52716

Amazing work! Always love your creation, bose

#52725

Excellent theme! I've been waiting for this one for a while.

I do have one little problem though... the text in my taskbar seems completely different than what you have in the screenshot(s).

Mine is much larger in font size and less refined (i.e. much uglier). I've tried both the Tahoma and Lucida Grande versions to no avail.

#52727

Also will there be a WB4 version?

Yeah...it would be nice if someone ported to WB4....

#52731

just downloaded it. will take a closer look soon, but the metal style really interests me, since i'm a big fan of metal themes in general. it looks quite sleek and elegant.

thanx b0se.

#52737

Sparkle, you using ClearType for font smoothing? Tells you how to do it in the readme!

And yes, Pas is working on a WB4 version as we speak...

#52795

Beautiful...Thank-you.

#52804

Yet another fine piece of work... :rule:

#52806

exactly what i would expect from you b0se, only the best quality and best looking themes.

is there a shellstyle ? because the zip didn't include one ?

anyway this theme is defienately going to be on my machine for awhile, i love it

#52820

Thanks

Radish is working on a Shellstyle atm, in the next release (final) they'll be included with some more wallpapers and Yz Dock skins (and hopefully the High Contrast Yz toolbar skin if Honz grants inclusion) permission...

#52836

I didn't think I would ever like anything more than Puma until this.

Was well worth the wait. I love it. Thanks. You make the best! (Y)

#52843

For those of you who may have issues when loading the VS...

Here are some things I found.

This line...

[VisualStyles]

Path=%WinDir%resources\Themes\Test.msstyles

Should look like this...

[VisualStyles]

Path=%WinDir%resources\Themes\Opus\Opus.msstyles

Looks like b0se left his test info in the theme files.

Could happen to anyone...

He also has the following lines in there as well...

; My Computer

[CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,1

; My Documents

[CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,0

; My Network Places

[CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,2

; Recycle Bin

[CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]

full=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,5

empty=D:\Program Files\Object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes\RossSnowE\SnowE.icl,4

Which won't work unless you have the IconPackager theme installed in the exact same directory.

If you don't have the IconPackager theme installed... just replace the entries with this:

; My Computer

[CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,15

; My Documents

[CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,126

; My Network Places

[CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]

DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,46

; Recycle Bin

[CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]

full=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,32

empty=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,31

BTW... I love this theme... Using it now.

Still hanging on to Puma though, I've kinda grown attached to it. :own:

#52849

Good stuff you've got here! Thanks alot!

#52914

You've made yet another exellent theme bose.

But is anyone else having problems connecting to deviantart?

#53081

:own:

Great work. Its so fast and easy on the eyes. (Y)

#53195

This Kicks Ass. I'm using this or a ximian port I found. Think it was by KOL. :woot: :woot: :woot: :bow: :bow: :bow:

#53326

rjohnstone: Thanks for making this tutorial on how to repair the missing entries!

Still I think Opus should correct those entries and then again put his VS for download as a lot of people get this error.

#53532

Very nice!

#53636

Update!

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Opus 1.1

- Added High Contrast Grey Yz Toolbar (Thanks Honz!)

- Fixed invisible inactive menu text bug

- Added two new wallpapers

Same download location on first post, enjoy!

#54208