Binary Posted December 23, 2002 Author Share Posted December 23, 2002 The search feature is messed up... when I click the link to go to a certain post number, it just goes to the first page of the thread. hmmm your right, sorry I dont know then :( I dont use the winamp taskbar controls. Chris Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-559961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshie Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 I find it bizarre to think changing a tiny flag to a tiny apple will miraculously improve the entire feel of the OS, especially if one thinks the OS is restrictive and dull. It's just a few pixels, after all. If changing one tiny little icon to the logo of another OS can make Windows change from crappy to divine, then I think the problem is entirely in the eye of the beholder. -_- Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-561759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyu Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 I don't understand the fixation with adding an apple to a theme that has nothing to do with Macs in the first place! Watercolour came from the Whistler builds and it has nothing to do with Macs. Besides, it's up to Binary whether he wants to add it or not... and it seems his opinion is pretty much against that. :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-561796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted December 24, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 24, 2002 well i know he'll say know ;) i agree, some peopel are just too damn lazy to open up reshacker and edit the bitmap lol just do that yall instead of getting others to do it for u ;) read the start of one of the watercolor threads where binary told u how to fix it thats how it should be instead of the creator going right and left fixing things others want :huh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-561886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bART- Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 IMHO macs are ugly, and especially alot of mac icons. It has nothing to do with style. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-562493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted December 28, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2002 Binary, could you make the ShellStyle.DLL white, where it says 'These Files Are Hidden' etc :) ...., cuz the backround is a blue which does not match the Watercolor blue :( .... Thanx m8 :) .... Radish. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-569117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted December 28, 2002 Author Share Posted December 28, 2002 Binary, could you make the ShellStyle.DLL white, where it says 'These Files Are Hidden' et:):) ...., cuz the backround is a blue which does not match the Watercolor blu:(:( ....Thanx m:):) .... Radish. I'll be making new shellstyles very soon. But right now I'm trying to solve the resize bug, which I must say isnt comming along very well. I just cant figure it ou:(:( It seems my style is the only one with the problem, and some others that used my theme as a base. But I have even dumped the graphics into the luna theme, applied, and it's still there!:angry:y: It's really annoying me. So either it's something with the graphics, which I cant figure out, or It's curse;);) Anyways that my top priority, and the 24 bit depth checkbox bug. Once those two things are solved, I believe it will be hopefully totally bug free. Then I'll work on the shellstyle:D:D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-569645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted December 28, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2002 Binary, could you make the ShellStyle.DLL white, where it says 'These Files Are Hidden' et:):) ...., cuz the backround is a blue which does not match the Watercolor blu:(:( ....Thanx m:):) .... Radish. I'll be making new shellstyles very soon. But right now I'm trying to solve the resize bug, which I must say isnt comming along very well. I just cant figure it ou:(:( It seems my style is the only one with the problem, and some others that used my theme as a base. But I have even dumped the graphics into the luna theme, applied, and it's still there!:angry:y: It's really annoying me. So either it's something with the graphics, which I cant figure out, or It's curse;);) Anyways that my top priority, and the 24 bit depth checkbox bug. Once those two things are solved, I believe it will be hopefully totally bug free. Then I'll work on the shellstyle:D:D Hope you get on top of these probs m8, and make it a even better V:happy:y: .... Radish. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-569692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cjohn Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 What are some good looking wallpapers to go w/ WaterColor? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-576209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_Deleted Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Sweet another new update Kewl Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-576481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KICK Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 i cant look through the whole thread, can some1 gimme d/l link for the watercolour theme :cry: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-577582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted January 1, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 1, 2003 i cant look through the whole thread, can some1 gimme d/l link for the watercolour theme :cry: There's a link in the very first post :rolleyes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-577587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainashi Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 first post on the first page... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-577588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirPsychoSexy Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I never looked at this thread and ive seen watercolor screenshots before, but i was always like i dont know. Now im using it since yesterday and DAMN THIS THEME IS FREAKING NICE. It has an classic feeling, i think im using this for a while. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-577758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted January 2, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 2, 2003 Does anyone have or know where I can find a Watercolor Ergonomic Winamp skin? .... Thanx :) .... Radish. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animaniac Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Does anyone have or know where I can find a Watercolor Ergonomic Winamp skin? ....Than:):) .... Radish. www.winamp.com .... ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted January 2, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 2, 2003 Does anyone have or know where I can find a Watercolor Ergonomic Winamp skin? ....Than:):) .... Radish. www.winamp.com .... ? Tried that m8, no luck:wacko:o: .... Radish. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billo3121 Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Ok guys, i've compiled some links from this whole thread: Watercolor 4.3: http://www.alexkelm.com/~binary/Watercolor43.exe Blue Winamp skin: XPAmp11 Ergonomic Winamp Skin: http://members.rogers.com/binarymix/ergo.wsz *My* Ergonomic Trillian Skin: http://webpages.charter.net/billo3121/temp...onomic_v1.2.zip Ergonomic WMP Skin (does it even need it? :p): http://members.cox.net/timan/Watercolor/Wa...r-Ergonomic.wmz Quicknotes skin: https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...97&goto=newpost Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted January 2, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 2, 2003 Ok guys, i've compiled some links from this whole thread:Watercolor 4.3: http://www.alexkelm.com/~binary/Watercolor43.exe Blue Winamp skin: XPAmp11 Ergonomic Winamp Skin: http://members.rogers.com/binarymix/ergo.wsz *My* Ergonomic Trillian Skin: http://webpages.charter.net/billo3121/temp...onomic_v1.2.zip Ergonomic WMP Skin (does it even need it? :p): http://members.cox.net/timan/Watercolor/Wa...r-Ergonomic.wmz Quicknotes skin: https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...97&goto=newpost Good idea about the links m8 :), and thanx alot for the Ergonomic Winamp skin :happy: .... Radish. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 Yeah great idea :) I really should start a watercolor portal or something now that Watercolor seems to have gained alot of popularity recently. Maybe we can start the WWW Wonderful Watercolor Webring ;) :p or maybe Wicked Watercolor Webring :woot: ok now I'm just being dilussional :D Updates will come hopefully within the next week, which will include, but not limited to: - Last remaining Bug fixes - More optimizations I just realized the other night that watercolor is more then 1 MB less then luna, and still has four substyles compared to Luna's three. It's also quite a bit faster under a strained or slowend system ;) Chris Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 Oh speaking of speed... I downloaded the most recent build of skinbench, and tested watercolor against a few WB skins. And although watercolor is visually faster then the skins I tried for WB (yes I know there are some faster ones but I wanted to test this out) Watercolor failed miserably. I wonder why this is. hmmmm Chris Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHROZTEDcoolerguy Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Oh speaking of speed...I downloaded the most recent build of skinbench, and tested watercolor against a few WB skins. And although watercolor is visually faster then the skins I tried for WB (yes I know there are some faster ones but I wanted to test this out) Watercolor failed miserably. I wonder why this is. hmmmm Chris :gasp: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-578616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted January 2, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 2, 2003 Anymore info on the Shellstyles m8? :unsure: .... Radish. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-579653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesireToFire Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Has anybody done any performance testing comparing the effects of stretching or tileing to see which is fastest and if using larger or smaller images gives better performance. Generally Id suspect tileing and large images to produces the best performance, ive certainly come across many cases in the past where tileing or stretching a small image is significantly slower than performing the same on a larger image, of course it depends how microsoft implemented it all. It might be easy to make images very small in pixel size especially with flat styled themes but is it better to keep these images a little larger? I may look into testing this if noone has before. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-579706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 Frogboy (stardock) has stated before that tiling is better then stretching in WB skins, so I assume its the same for msstyles. I am making all my window elements tiled so I can test this for myself. taskbar and menu bitmaps wont matter because they are pretty much stationary. Chris Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/32604-watercolor-v43/page/21/#findComment-579765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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