Unamed WindowBlind WIP
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Kevin_Walter | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
So yeah, there's a bit of a story with this one. A while back, I spotted an amazing looking mockup on DeviantArt by a fellow named Bubbabyte. I thought the mockup was awesome but I was currently working on other projects.
I recently finished those other projects (or they're on temporary hiatus... 
), and thus, I decided to ask Bubbabyte if he would allow me to try my hand at turning his mockup into a functional skin. He quickly replied with a "sure" and sent me the .psd file.
Now, I've only been working on this for a couple days, and it isn't EXACTLY like the mockup image (I removed the scanlines and such), but I think it's turning into a rather nice blind.
As the title suggests, this skin is also unnamed, so if anybody has any ideas, please post them here. Bubba thought "Manga" sounded good.
Anywho, here's the original mockup on da: [link]
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Reply #2 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:40 AM
I thought Manga would be a bit confusing, myself.
A lot of the images and stuff are placeholder, as well. As of right now, the window buttons, navigation buttons, and the logoff buttons, don't even have alternate states. They're the same whether you hover or click. 
Start button changes though. There's still a lot to do.
The search and navigation backgrounds were tricky to say the least. But I can't take credit for that, that's all Bubbabyte. 
Reply #3 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:14 AM
I've loved this skin since the first time I've seen bubbabyte's work. I even post it on Venom WIP because I liked his idea so much. But this is much more then i was hoping to be. It's simply outstanding. I would not change a thing about it, it looks perfect. Can't wait for it to be done. 
Reply #4 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:27 AM
Lookin' good!
As far as a name is concerned, how 'bout "Burnt Sienna"?
Reply #5 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:49 AM
sweet... 
reminds me of cherry liqueur chocolates...but doubt you want a chocolatey name... 
how about....
Vulcan ......the god of fire in Roman mythology...
Pele.....is the Hawaiian Goddess of volcanoes
Elixir
Scarlet
Bloodmoon
Bloodoath
Saffron
Chéri-Suisse 
now I just feel like one..
Reply #8 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:59 PM
As far as a name is concerned, how 'bout "Burnt Sienna"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_sienna
Burnt Sienna sounds good. 
Elixir
Saffron
Those sounds really good, too. I'll have to take those up with Bubbabyte. 
Thanks for the comments. Hopefully, this one won't take as long as my x360a skin.
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:56 PM
I like your style Skillet. Everything is very clean. I'll be sure to watch progress of this one 
Reply #10 Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:50 PM
Might I made a name Suggestion? When I first saw it 2 words popped into my head. "Swift Copper".
Reply #11 Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:08 PM
hmm...a little from column A and a little from column B... Burnt Copper.............Sienna Copper
Reply #12 Friday, June 25, 2010 12:15 PM
Hmm. I like Burnt Copper.
I know Bubbabyte likes Saffron.
We'll see how it goes. I have the right-click menus finished, and once I get the scrollbars added, the windows will be finished. Then it's on to buttons and tabs and Win 7 sections.
Reply #13 Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:52 AM
The right-click menus are looking great 
There will be an XP version of this skin, right?
Reply #14 Saturday, June 26, 2010 1:11 PM
Sadly, not at this exact point in time. I'm going to TRY to do it. But it probably won't be released when this version is.
Reply #15 Saturday, June 26, 2010 1:29 PM
I might be too late.... Skillet.... how about 'Red Silk'?
Reply #16 Monday, June 28, 2010 9:17 AM
It looks a little more hard and cool than silk. Oh My! 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:23 AM
Impressive work Skillet! Only thing would suggest is a different text color on the start menu areas on mouseover and toning down the logoff images a bit. Those explorer search box and navigation images are unique, never seen that before. Go guy!
Oh, and not sure about naming it Manga, how about Magma?