Great! thanks for the fullscreen it sure looks trippy in such a low res haha

I can see that your user name is off need to correct that

And damn those logoff/shutdown buttons are ugly and wrong color! need to redo them so they look ok haha

Dont worry im sure its the skin i havent had the possibilty to make it XP perfect yet! but we are on the way there

Thanks for all the help!

btw how do you like the cubes on the startmenu kinda makes it hard to concentrate on what you are doing haha but the look cool anyway

I tried it on xp last night, and decided to wait until I could see it on Vista, since that's how you built it.

Now that I've seen it on Vista, I have to agree about the dark on dark text, particularly in the menus. Also, the light gray text on dark gray background in the navigation bar has a nice contrast,until you mouseover the nav bar--then the nav bar becomes a brighter gray, and the text gets lost.

I'll try it again on xp tonight and let you know what I find there.

I wholly agree. Nice job on the animation, but I think it detracts from the skin, IMO.

Mirsguy, ill send you the updated file

My updated desktop (with some personal modifications to the Xion media player -- I added the title bar from the skin to the top of TriNity).

Looks like one mean green machine that!

But the username is still there hmmmmmm.. i thought i had it at -2000 or something in margins have to check it again... dammit

[quote]Systemtray icons should not change size... neither quicklaunch... they stay the same witchever skin you use:)[/quote

Actually they will get resized if text\content margins aren't set correctly accross the board for all taskbar elements.

Ok good to know, ill have to check em then.. used another blind for template som might be that....

And no heh a dancing username wasnt the plan

Here's the latest and greatest.  I notice that you changed the taskbar buttons.  Now it's just a tiny green egg at the top of the buttons.  That's so modern!  I truly love the start button.  I could just turn on some trance music, mouse over the button and watch the animation until I'm hypnotized . 

Testing version 3 on xp now.

The contrast in the skin is much better now; I've not seen anything that is absolutely unreadable. Some parts still much too dark IMO, though.

The gripper pattern on the scrollbar dragbar (sorry--don't know the technical term) has some magic pink showing through.

Don't know why, but the start menu animation doesn't show up on my xp machine. It does on Vista, though.

More opinion: Not too crazy about the little things that pop-up when you mouseover a window close/minimize/restore button, or on the regular push buttons. I think the window buttons are fine as they are without the pop-up thingys, and the regular push buttons could have that ornamental doohickey on them all the time...

Coming along nicely, me thinks!

Good tip. I only took a quick, casual look.

There is 2 ways to do the srollbar gripper.. thru the arrow pic or the glyph pic... the magic pink shines thru the arrow pic... and i use a glyph on there gonne check if those boxes are checked... mabye ive missed it because i havent seen any pink on my system at any time... the quick fix is to re-apply the skin then it should go away....

dont know what to do about that..

Heh running out of screen? time to get a bigger screen

pop up? dont they pop down? or didnt i send you the updated version hmmm...

The thingys on the pushbuttons cant stay on at all times it will look bad and clipping will appear on really small buttons like the "..." button in sks.. when its just mouseover you wont notice it as much... but ill look over it and think about a redesign because they are a bit buggy and sticks on buttons even when you dont mouseover it....

And where do you think its to dark?

Thanks for the feedback guys...

By the way, I don't get the animation on the start menu either.  I've looked in SKS6, and I know what it's suppose to look like (AWESOME), but it doesn't translate into the applied skin.  I still can't figure out why the name shows up, either.  That has me totally stumped.

Hmm need some help on this one... anyone? last time i did a start menu animation it was for XP and that worked dont know why it wouldn't this time...... and works on vista but not xp something smells funny and it aint me... well a little me but i can shower the blind cant...

Yes, I got it. Pop up, pop down... you say potato, etc...

I just mean in general. And again, it's only my opinion. I'd rather have all black, or black with light, than black with dark gray.