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make the fonts a little larger, like in the default theme and the selected text in the menu gets white, please change the selection colour!

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I'd prefer a Commodore PET / Apple II (black/green, with chunky fonts) or Commodore 64 (navy/sky blue border) theme over a VIC-20. VIC-20 really had nothing much to speak of on its screen, just gigantic characters.

Hmm, but that gets me thinking... retro themes... old b/w Mac? Win 3.11 (Mosaic browser icon! Yeah!)? Palm?

What about making a WinCE theme? <evil laugh>

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Icons for 3.11 would probably be found easily and installed in this theme with a green background would be easy too....

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Great work, I'd also like to see the wide scrollbars from EchoWB included. These should be default for Maemo, imo.

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I considered doing some of those before not sure if it would be worth the time lol.

Re: Theme: New Windows XP Theme
 

New Windows XP Theme Update check it out Version 0.5 is first Beta Version. Lots of change can't wait to hear what you guys think.

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hi,
ive installed beta 0.4 the latest but didn't see any difference from the alpha version...

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amiga!!! :D

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Alot of the fixes where small things like a button to far to the right or several other things. also on theme to see changes I beleave if you update it while using it then you have to change to another theme and them back. Also an easy way to see if your using beta is on beta the home bar goes all the way to the right all the time.

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Did you implement the wide scroll bars, like on EchoWB?

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I went and installed EchoWB after rcadden mentioned it earlier. It is great having those big fat scrollbars everywhere!

EDIT:

First of all, great theme. Very cute to see the familiar blue bars and minimize/close buttons.

Andrew, I notice that you're calling every version "wds.deb"; usually you put the version number into the name of the .deb file.

But it sure is funny to get the message, "Windows successfully installed!"

I think the menu bar (on the left) should probably be made completely transparent. It doesn't quite look Windows-y enough as it is. And there's still lots of work to do on icons and window decorations on home screen applets (like the search applet). But I'll use it for a while, freak my colleagues out.

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still the selected text is white and cannot see it!!

ex: when i press powerbutton there are 4 option but the selected one is like invisible!

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Yes, me too.

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I'm not sure how to implement the large scroll bars I have made them but not sure how to make the theme use them. Anyone got any info on this?

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This is a problem I havn't figured out yet I'm sending my template to the guy who made theme maker so he can help me with that. Also anyone know how to Use large scroll bars, Change Icons. Please let me know how to do it.

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I'm more of an expert at complaining to theme makers ;)

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lol I've searched and searched and haven't been able to find out how to change icons or scroll bars. Also got any ideas to add to the theme? Going to start a Mac version next I think if I can find someone to send me some screen shots of some stuff.

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I think ah.sima explains how he (or she) did it in this topic.

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Version 0.5 is out get it while its hot.

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Hi Andrew good to see improvemets on this beta keepup, and a big thank you

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Thanks, If anyone has any ideas on how to make this theme look more windows like besides the icons let me know, I'm still trying to find out how to change the icons.

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well just a question why do you choose double color and drop down menu icon that arrow? and l hope you find the trick for the large scrollbars,
if we know the roadmap to this project we can suggest something like adding some vista icons features just a suggestion here. also the other applets have a slight rounded corners so if you can make the top-level bar look similar will make it more like maemo made.

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Hi,

Un27Pee, why would you add or want to add Vista icons to a Windows XP theme?

David

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Quick and dirty way is to repack the deb with the added files in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/hildon and add an gtk-update-icon-cache in the postinst

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Are you talking about the color and arrows on the application menu if you are those colors and arrow are taken from windows XP thats why. As far as I icons I will be adding some XP icons to it I might do a new vista theme after this theme and my Linux Mint theme are done.

As far as the icons go and the large screen bar they both require I repack my deb since the theme maker can't do that as of right now I'm not sure how to do it. Qwerty12 if you know how Can you help me with that or do it for me?

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harpgliss i was suggesting some icons to make it nice, i know xp and vista are diffrent but if we have some nice once it will do after all it is just a theme, i personally have xp with vista ui .
beta 5 allready looks nice.

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Two questions:

Even though I think the xp theme is fun I unstalled it some days ago. But it still shows up in the 'set theme' menu. How do I completely uninstall it?

A related question is that I'm trying to make my own theme but it won't show up in said menu. I copied the echo folder in /usr/share/themes to echo2, changed the theme name in index.theme and deleted the 'cache' files from the gtkrc folder in it, thinking it works the same way as with the icon cache. After rebooting I expected it to see in the theme selection menu but I didn't. Any idea why?

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I have no idea, I haven't heard anyone say that they couldn't uninstall the theme I uninstall it several times a day when I'm updating and it always go away. Try to remove it again and see if it works. The best way to make a new theme is to just use theme maker. Only way I know of.

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Sure, I can help you do it if you have a deb based linux distro, if not, I can do it for you.

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I have Linux Mint installed on one of my desktops but I can always install another one. I'll contact you on IRC later today about it if thats cool.

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I would rather use Vista or Leopard look-a-like theme - both look better than default XP.

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I just want to say that I'm sorry, Andrew, if you got the impression that this thread is a bunch of pages of people saying that they don't like your theme... I think there are a lot of people who like it, and we'd like you to keep going on it. If you have figured out some stuff since you made this theme, you should release a new version; as you can see from downloads, it is popular.

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I am gonna try this one.

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I may have been a little wrong with what I said on the other post I know there are people who like this theme but there are also people who don't like it. What I was trying to get across was it doesn't bother me if someone says something about this theme. Come to find out that guy really likes it and was calling him self a noob not me lol. Thanks for the support I might revisit this theme after I get done with the MerEcho theme. Which is also for Maemo as well. Thanks again for the support everyone.

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i have trouble with the installation, it says cant install windows.... What can i do???

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Believe me u don't want to install n8x0 themes on n900.

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Is there similar dossy themes for n900??