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Clearscreen Sharp for Vista by *K-Johnson:iconK-Johnson:

Categories Customization > Skins & Themes > Windows Vista Utilities > Visual Styles

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Hey all,

I've been working on these themes since last year. I redid 99% of the images in the .msstyles, support all the DPI's, and some optional extra's (navigation/shutdown buttons, userpicture, welcome center). Windows 7 is going to be released soon, and I have preordered it (Oct. 22) but will start working on it before the storewide release date.




INFO & DOWNLOAD


Clearscreen Sharp is the sharper and lighter version of Clearscreen Round.


This is the second of three themes.

* You can download all the versions in one easy link: *Uploading

* Or download the currently viewed theme by clicking "Download" to your top left.

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Installation: Check out this great guide at WinMatrix -> [link]

You can also apply the themes without messing with any of your files by downloading StyleSelector (32-bit OS only), AveStyler (Shareware), Tuneup Utilities 2009 (Shareware), or UXStyle (Free & Shareware).

*** READ THE README FILE IN THE .ZIP FILE for THEME INSTALLATION! ***



KNOWN ISSUES


  • Resource Monitor shares with the titlebar text color (white) -- becomes difficult to read on the gray gradient it sits on. This will have to be fixed outside the theme by hacking the Resource Monitor (maybe hexing the gradient or replacing the image)... wouldn't know where to look, though :(.





    • PERSONAL NOTE

    Thanks to: ~thepanda-x, Ave, ~ZEUSosX, =Satukoro, ~sweatyfish, ~GrzegorzJZD, ~invaderjohn, and everyone who commented and reported bugs!

    /etc: I used Photoshop CS3 and Vista Style Builder to create these themes.


    CHANGELOG


    V4 (FINAL):

    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Added 24px Taskbar option, Max Transparency option, and Userpicture option
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Support for 120 / 144 / 192 dpi (completed the high dpi graphics set)
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Re-enabled context menu seperators to prevent Tablet PC Input Panel menu's from breaking ([link])
    [Sharp] Fixed shadow to appear under titlebar on maximized windows (for Max Transparency version)
    [Sharp] Fixed restore glyph clipping ([link])
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed clock to display fully in heightened taskbar mode
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed tray icon tooltips and menus from overlaying taskbar
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed alignment issues in Group menu
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed tooltip to appear correctly (You may have seen the double-shadow bug while hovering over a button in Firefox)
    [Round] Fixed styling of disabled menu entries to 'normal' instead of bold
    [Round] Fixed the taskbar stretching margins
    [Shellstyle.dll] Redirected dtb() method of the Control Panel Folderband BG image to pull image from CommandBar instead of the rebar BG as it was probably intended. Read about the goof-up here: [link]
    [Shellstyle.dll] Changed Folderband font styling to match other areas
    [Shellstyle.dll] Fixed text alignment of hotlink "Show more details..." in the details pane when more than 15 files are highlighted
    [explorer.exe] Added custom shutdown buttons and userpicture option
    [shell32.dll] Removed overlaying design on Control Panel navigation
    [browseui.dll] Added custom navigation buttons
    [oobefldr.dll] Modified Welcome Center to fit the theme



    V3.5 (MORE BUG FIXES & POLISHING):

    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Swapped solid bordering on buttons with transparent ones
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed text clipping in menu's for longer/wide-character languages (like Chinese)
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed text clipping in Windows Security Center
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed text clipping with Toolbar button text
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed CommandLink button to retain fidelity on its bottom edge when stretched vertically
    [Round/Basic] Fixed gradient banding on the gloss of the Start menu & Taskbar on clsRound and clsBasic, much thanks to ~sweatyfish
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed unreadable Help window and Alternate Toolbar area ([link]) to match the other toolbars for a consistent look
    [Round/Basic] Aligned group menu icons with the icon on the grouped taskbar button
    [Sharp/Basic] Added matching vertical progressbars
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed x64 graphical glitches (seperator, indeterminate progress bar, explorer navigation pane, disabled button, commandlink)!

    Hopefully these are the last of the major bugs. Perfection and compatability with everything is an impossible task with custom msstyles on Vista, but I want to get as close to it as possible! :) The reason why it is impossible: Some programs use their own code along with code pulled from the msstyles -- that can spawn problems as the programmer created the program to work with the default Vista Aero theme. Also, because Vista msstyles does a lot of sharing with global properties. I had to implement many properties in many different parts and states for custom styling! xD So let's hope this version goes smoothly so we can get some variations going for V4!



    V3 (BUG FIXES & POLISHING):

    [Sharp] Fixed Breadcrumb bar vertical seperators to match Round (how it was originally supposed to be)
    [Sharp] Changed TreeItem hot state to match the sharp corners of others
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Redid Scrollbars for better contrast, redid slider trackbars for a sharper look.
    [Sharp] Changed Padded Border Width to 1 from 0 to prevent dialog window frames from breaking.
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Placeslist images reworked (truesize value now set to stretched to fit other languages with more/wider characters)
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed taskbar 1px bottom row of inactivity
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Fixed start menu program name clipping
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Made Folderband/Communications/Media/Toolbar buttons transparent -- Help menu now visible
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Recolored indeterminate progress bar to match normal progressbar and saved as 32-bit PNG
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Centered Scrollbar Gripper on bottom scrollbar
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Darkened disabled checkboxes and radio buttons a bit
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Made flashing taskbar window button's orange glow more vibrant
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Made transparent tab area solid -- no more black gaps in some apps in the filter sort
    [Sharp/Round/Basic] Changed contentmargins to fit the icons within the addressbar and searchbar (seen in FireFox default skin), thanks to Sweatyfish


    V2:

    - No more third party theme changer needed (hopefully)!
    - Packed in "No Folderband Autohide" shellstyle




    Clearscreen Sharp (currently viewing)
    Clearscreen Round
    Clearscreen Basic

    Comments


    :iconfediafedia:
    =fediaFedia Jun 19, 2009, 7:04:10 AM
    Absolutelly awesome! Great job!

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    :iconbradguzek:
    ~bradguzek Jun 19, 2009, 7:27:08 AM
    Okay, probably a dumb question, but I followed the instructions on WinMatrix and installed the them fine, and it looks great, the only problem is that I can't get transparency.. did I do something wrong?

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    ~DM-moinmoin Jun 19, 2009, 7:28:45 AM
    I can`t test it (Win7) but it looks great. Nice job K-Johnson. :)

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    ~crystal-coke Jun 19, 2009, 7:39:50 AM
    That's pretty awesome
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    *K-Johnson Jun 19, 2009, 7:45:03 AM
    Hmm, I wish I could answer you. I'm sure some of the theme guru's will be able to :)

    I bought AveStyler and before that I used StyleSelector (freeware). I did have it patched at one time and ran transparent (Aero) themes just fine :S
    :iconbradguzek:
    ~bradguzek Jun 19, 2009, 7:57:27 AM
    Ah, it could be something like that. I did get another theme to work on Aero without much issue, but there I had to switch it (in the Windows Theme window) from Windows Basic to Windows Aero. I'll give that a shot with your theme and see if it works. =]

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    'If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.'
    - Alice Walker
    :iconbradguzek:
    ~bradguzek Jun 19, 2009, 8:00:20 AM
    Unfortunately, my previous idea didn't work, it just set it back to the default Aero theme.

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    'If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.'
    - Alice Walker
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    ~DocMARs Jun 19, 2009, 8:11:12 AM
    Dang. :) Wow.

    One of the best rare few original, well-thought works I've seen! Good job!
    :iconkilldrone999:
    ~killdrone999 Jun 19, 2009, 8:29:04 AM
    Best theme I have seen in years! Congratulations!
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