Hey, SDers and WCers...I hope your holidays were exceedingly excellent, and that you're all ready to enjoy the happier, healthier, and all around better New Year we wished each other full of great older classics and new, fantastic skins, better apps and great tech stuff!
This month I'll be bouncing between two desktops (and maybe more).
The first is Enscape by Lightstar because I simply love the hues and shades in it and the green desktops I can add as backgrounds...
The second is Sakura WB by vStyler and Winstep by WebGizmos because I love the warmth and the simplicity of the skins and the background...all somewhat modded to show and obscure...
So get busy, people!
I'm dyin' to see your new stuff and desktops!
c242, that's with the system in dark mode (which I assume is the state of your system).
In light mode, the ribbon appears as a silvery color.
I'm working a something new to me (and out of my comfort zone), a dark themed skin that will (hopefully) work in Dark Mode on Win10, and Win11 (WB11, Start11). This is a new adventure for me, hope I get this right, when finished, it will be a free skin, here's what I'm working on; Deep Red.
A Carbon by Adni18
Might be out of your comfort zone, Don...but it just parked in mine! Outstanding blind!
Mine atm...Alpha Nebula Premium by adni18...Workshelf Docks Galaxus Xtreme ported by WebGizmos (and recolored) from the Galaxus 7 WB by roflmaoo. Wall from the web, modded.
My second SSD for Win 11 is John Wick Theme, did not like the Taskbar so changed it out using my modified Taskbar from neone6 Tron , changed the text colour and size for Start Menu and a few bits and bobs along the way
Still working on my own desktop wallpaper for this skin, but keep an eye out on the site next week for my latest Master Skin release called Kodiak. Had a lot of fun with this one!
Looks like it was a bear.
I like it. The illuminated right panel looks great! Bet it recolors well, too.
nice! thats a sale from me
I am glad to hear you are putting in some support for Windows 11! You have always had some.of my favorite skins in the past, but I have graduated away from windows 10 and even the windows 7 / 10 command bar so I haven't found a lot of compatibility for skins on windows 11. I have been hoping more skinners could support the new explorer tabs to help draw me back into win customization arena.
That that tabbed area is hard to work into themes that dont use color schemes similar to them. Those hard-coded white/brownish backgrounds are a headscratcher. Its probably why a lot of the skinners here have not messed with the windows 11 support much. I have tried my best with my 2 themes to work them in as best as I could. Now Im just hoping stardock sees the issue I posted about the color options for explorer background for auto light/dark mode. As of right now, we can only set the color that messes with both modes. Been trying to add in light/dark mode support into a new theme I have been working on. If I set explorer bg to white, its also white in dark mode. I think they missed the added color options for that in skin studio.
Working on my next Windows Theme port. This time, Windows 10 for windows 7/8/11 systems. Would be silly to use on 10 machines though.
Your work on Windows 11 has been great. I thought Don also deserved some props for attempting it as well.
Windows 11 is a pain to develop for in general because it is like hitting a moving target. Not only do the developers have to perfect windowblinds 11 / start 11, they also have to keep up with these new "moment" updates. I.e.explorer tabs in the first and taskbar changes in the seccond.
I do hope Stardock develops off of your feedback since you are one of the first to truly try to skin Windows 11.
WB?
No RND. It started out as a Skinpack, then after all the work that was done in changes, and once i was happy with it, its now back to Being Theme Files, so the flip side of the Two customising options open to us right now. I was hoping WB 11 would be as good to go as WB 10, but with all the ongoing issues from MS causing untold issues for those using it, i just do not have the time to work out all the issues we are reading about in the numerous topics, so i am sticking with Themes for now as they give me less aggro and work right out of the box, only have to change what i do not like and boom a custom Theme, building a good collection of them too. I still have WB 10 on two SSDs but i hardly use them except to keep them updated.
Like the Egyptian cat icons. Where can I get them?
Blackfire by neone6 recolored.
Nice one, Jan.
i still have that whole Egyptian suite, icons the blind and the wallpapers, was one of my favs back in the day.. it actually still works very well on windows 10 and 11.. i apply it from time to time
My next style. The Cloud, based on the style of Creative Cloud Products. Still trying to find the right look for the taskbar buttons.
Lots more work to do on this, but thought I'd show everyone my latest Master Skin WB releasing next week called JagZ, using the great colors of the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team. They did pretty good this season!
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