After seeing the popularity of transparent themes in the past few months I thought it was time for me to put my own version of the concept together. Hopefully I can do it justice, and provide a high quality Master skin with my own take on it.
The basic concept is a stripped down, very transparent, very fast WB that is perfect for screenshotting and showcasing wallpapers
There will be zero bevels or gradients, all the buttons will be flat and designed to be more like a touch screen interface.
It will have a white text and black text start menu substyle for use with light or dark wallpapers.
Heres a small screeny of what I have after a couple of days, I'll try to expose more as I strip it down.
I hope everyone can get Naked soon
Good points all around.
However, since I...
Rarely use the Start Menu, and never use the search bar
Never use the Preview, Nav, or Details panes (though the latter is skinned at least)
Always use Firefox, which does have the glassed command bar, etc. option with the skin I mentioned
Have plenty of desktop real estate so I never need to full screen an explorer window
...I guess it just worked out that this transparent glass approach worked perfectly for me (re: screenshot above).
But yeah, those issues you mentioned would HAVE to be addressed to make things work for a skin you wanted to take to the maximum number of users.
It's a shame those parts aren't skinnable yet.
Thanks to everyone...
..little changes... added darktext sub..
Looks great Bilbo!
The dark subtext looks really good, bilbo!
I agree with Doc...Excellent work bilbo !
I'm thumping...naked.
That's some great work up there bilbo!
Thanks my friends!
Look like, the monkeyborg workin on great Naked xion .. Nice work mess!
Well thumpin monkey's! Looks good buddy!
As soon as you get this baby done John I'll do a Winstep theme for it!
Lookin good Munk & B
Sounds good WG
Having some issues with the frames in Vista, Neil is having a look for me.. WB is being a stubborn ass.
Hope to finish it soon as long as I can get the issue fixed. Thanks everyone.
Remember "The Carpenter's Rule: Don't use force, use a larger hammer."
The WindowBlind and Widget/Gadget look excellent. Just need a few more items and damn, we are going to have a brand spanking new theme to apply.
coming together beautifully...love the growing list of bare essentials guys....
Is it done yet! Come on! I wanna get Naked!
Well , after a fairly lengthy conference with the man behind the curtain and a couple of the best in the business, seems what I thought I'd pulled off before isn't even possible... SO.. after some Vista design changes... back on track, few days should see it done.
Yipee
Btw.. today was THE perfect beach day, solid sun, light breeze, flat calm seas with rolling smooth waves, temp 88 degrees.
Great Mothers day for all who went.. and lots did. Had a super time.
With a naked WB? Naughty naughty
you skinny dipping v?...
Anyway.. Vista coming along nicely now, I'm leaving the explorer backgrounds almost opaque white but with one slide of the transparency slider in WBconfig one can obtain basically a full glass window.... as shown.
Anyway... hope to have this done by mid-week.
then maybe everyone else get naked too. I'm loving it myself
Hey V.... I'm seeing "Streaking". Is that a product of getting Naked or is it the 'skin'....and should I be putting SP15 on the screen?
What your seeing is a built in diagonal Vista-like pattern that shows thru in very trans. skins, Its a part of WB.
Absolutly awesome...looking really...um...NAKED!!!
Naked WB Teaser
Monkey got the Naked Xion covered, Bilbo blasted the Naked multi-widget, and OMG WebGizmos is going to match up a Naked WinStep too!
All this screen shootin' ammo got me seriously flippin'!
Put me in for $10 Doc! I bet he does too!
@Sydney!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had to sneak that one in there didn't you?
WebGizmos is making Naked Extreme....but I bet he calls it..."Extremely Naked".
I'm loving the Vista version of this! It looks so sexy on my desktop.
Give us a screeny you little munkeh!
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