Dazza Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Im probably thinking wishfully here, but are you going to extend the theme to cover other areas, such as Screensavers, Logons, Bootscreens, Winamp, MSN, Trillian, Firefox, Samurize, ObjectDock, etc? I would love to see a fully themed PC for such an awesome skin, especially if it's all above-board legit "authorized" stuff. I totally agree with what was said above my Frogboy and TSF. The reason these skins looks so good is because they are perfectionists. Every project they do they spend days and days designing, then creating, then perfecting their work until you get something such as this. They dont then want some guy to come along and do a half-assed rip (and that's what it would be) to a VS format. Its just like spitting in their faces. So indeed, another excellent release by TSF, and here's to many more in the future (hopefully more for alienware :D :alien: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat75 Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 They told me they wouldnt do a trillian skin.... I guess someone has to make one themselves :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyC Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 woah! amazing work TSF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat75 Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Anyone know of any decent wallpapers to go with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwon Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Since I dislike (read: hate) the look of Alienware machines, I'm surprised I like this. Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=NeoDoug1=- Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Any chance of a WindowsMobile 2003 version of this? It would be really cool to have matching PC and PocketPC! Oh, and somebody PLEEEEEEASE make a skin for Trillian and WinAmp 5! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat75 Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Any chance of a WindowsMobile 2003 version of this? It would be really cool to have matching PC and PocketPC!Oh, and somebody PLEEEEEEASE make a skin for Trillian and WinAmp 5! :D Before we start rioting!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XavierHyde Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 An awesome work of art by The Skins Factory. Very sleek. Some comments on earlier posts: @frogboy: UXtheme.dll patching is not a grey area. It is "patching for interoperability", which is definitely allowed by current copyright laws. If it was a grey-area, I highly doubt there would be an official Neowin uxtheme.dll patching tool. So using an uxtheme patch would really not be a problem for TSF if the skins could actually be made using msstyles (which is not the case here, obviously) and the themes remain unsupported (or community-supported) freeware. The commerical proprietary software called StyleXP is also in reality an uxtheme.dll patcher, although it does it in a more "elegant" way through realtime injection (either by signing the unsigned themes (which would mean StyleXP team have worked out how MS signing works) or by making uxtheme.dll not check for the signature, not really sure which one is the method used) and not by patching the actual binary residing on the HD. The "Patching for interoperability" exemption does NOT allow for money to be made from making a patch, so StyleXP is really worse than both WindowBlinds and the regular uxtheme.dll patchers. WindowBlinds is the only known software (except for CustomEyes and derivates thereof) which does not in any way patch uxtheme.dll in memory or on disk, but completely replaces the Windows skinning engine with its own code, which is also usable on non-XP Windows systems. However, WindowBlinds remains proprietary commercial software, which can only be bought online directly from Stardock. If it were available generally in software stores across the world, I would buy and use it, but as long as it's the typical "shareware" title I'm not going to be able to use it. That being said, I still think Stardock makes some truly AWESOME software and would like to use it and support them. As for the "standard" label, neither format (msstyles or wbskins) really qualify. While WB skins have become a de-facto standard, it's a proprietary format which does not have official documentation of its innards and which is subject to undocumented changes at any time Stardock feels like it. The same goes for MSstyles, just exchange "Stardock" for "Microsoft". Just my $0.02... :sleep: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krankyiuys Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 would anyone know how to extract the icons so i can use them in iconpackager? i've tried installing the thing but there is no sign of the iptheme file.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The One! Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Will it work on SP2 machines ? : :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueshirt Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Wow I just saw this. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_Deleted Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Will it work on SP2 machines ? : :unsure: yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_Deleted Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 would anyone know how to extract the icons so i can use them in iconpackager? i've tried installing the thing but there is no sign of the iptheme file.... change the file extension to zip or rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpard Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 theres a icon packager theme at wincustomize.com i thought.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diablous Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 not to be picky anychance you could tell me how to edit it, want to change the blue to a red. will suit my PC look brilliantly then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hush66 Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 (edited) Never mind. Edited September 1, 2004 by hush66 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repLay. Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Where can I find the iconpacker theme :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe User 99 Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Download and install the theme manager, then navigate to it's folder, and you can find all the extracted packages. Copy them to another folder and uninstall the theme manager. Now you have all the packages, without the theme manager. Including the windowblinds themes, icon packager themes, media player skins, wallpaper, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digital vibe Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I tried those links posted earlier in this thread and they keep timing out when you try to get the theme :( . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Geek Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 windows media player 10 will be out soon so will the skin factroy be making skins that work with windows media player 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=NeoDoug1=- Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Will it work on SP2 machines ? : :unsure: I've got it installed on my SP2 machine, and it's looking damn sexy! There is, however, one problem... according to the original (first) post, there should be an arrow icon at the very left-hand side of the titlebar that allows you to roll-up the window (or right-clicking on the title bar should do the same). The icon is missing on mine, and right-clicking just brings up the normal menu... Is this something that has been removed, or is it something to do with SP2? Or am I just doing something wrong?! :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Awesome skins, thanks for letting them out into the publics hands. I hadn't even reinstalled WB since I did the XP SP2 reformat and install, but this skin made me break down and reinstall WindowBlinds. This skin looks great on my main comp and my laptop. Once again thanks a lot for your hard work and here's to more great stuff in the future. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 NeoDoug, you have to enable the UIS2 version of the skin. It applies the UIS1 version by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=NeoDoug1=- Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 cheers chavo! I've found another problem though... I seem to be incapable of reading earlier posts, or I'd have known that! :whistle: How stoopid am I? :blush: (Please don't answer that!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karma_police Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 The Skins Factory = Top Quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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