I really hope that the skin gets published Darren. I have been requesting a skin like this for awhile. I love the icons, and the layout! Good luck!

Douglas

Yeah, finally we have one more guy to make skins… I couldn’t make enough skins how many requests I’ve got from all users… Everybody is asking me to make skin like this, skin like that… too bad I don’t have 8 hands like octopus… ;D

Tipton, why didn’t you let me know that you want to see XP-style avast! skin before ? All you had to do, was to IM me… everybody does that, so why didn’t you ?

Darren, head up, everything will be OK. If Vlk find some errors, he will alarm you to fix them, and after that, your skin will be up there, in avast! skins download section… Good luck pal !!!

Sorry, next time I will IM you. I have a good idea for a skin in my head, but how do I get it from there to you? I really like dark colors. I would love a skin with a black background, and liquid blue buttons. The pirate skin is my favorite if I had to pick a skin. Look at my screenshot of Winamp…I love this theme, and would love to see a skin that looks like this. Like I have mentioned before, my main use for an AV is right clicking and scanning files I download from the net. Full system scans are few and far between, but a skin that looks kinda like my screenshot would be cool!

Douglas

For some reason my screen shot is not working. Let me try again.

Yeah, that’s MMD3, best looking WinAMP skin ever. I’m using it myself, but I’m affraid that guy who made it originaly has all those graphics copyrighted… so I shouldn’t play with that.

When I catch some spare time in the future, I’ll see what I can do about dark skin with liquid buttons, but my way…

No problem Tipton…

Regards !

Sounds good, I will be waiting!

Douglas

No problem, in the mean time, you may wanna check my latest skin BIONIC in avast! skins download section:

http://www.avast.com/i_kat_71.html

It’s also kinda dark, and it’s pretty much “connected” with antiviruses style look…

Regards !

Bionic looks good, I will try it out. On the skin I am thinking about, it would be really clean looking. Bionic has that eerie look to it. When I showed you the winamp screenshot, I didn’t mean make it look like that. I was using that to show the colors I like, and how I like the liquid style buttons. I was thinking something just square, with all the necessary features. Its hard to explain.

Douglas

No it’s not hard to explain… you want something that is kinda dark with blue liquid style buttons, but not too fancy… something simple but totaly different… I have one idea, I just need to catch some time to work on it…

Cheers !

EDIT: Maybe something like this ? I know, still is not flat like it should be, but look at that this way… if I make skin background too flat, those nice liquid blue buttons would look totaly inappropriate on that background… I don’t think that this skin is too fancy… I would really like to hear your opinion…

I really like it! I will tell you this, I either like a skin to be simple and “flat”, or it needs to be fancy. No in between! :slight_smile: The one you are showing looks great. And you don’t need to make it flat at all. This is definately one that needs to be fancy. What ever it takes to make it more liquid! I love it! I will stare at it some more and see what sinks in!

PS…I love the buttons and the colors! If it needs to look kinda 3D to acheive your look, thats fine. It already looks like it has some depth to it.

Douglas

Heres my desktop!

Do you know the link for downloading your desktop theme? :wink:

Its a combination of XtremeXP, and then I added the “black flag” desktop. I can send you the files, or hunt them up for you. I skim through alot of different theme web sites and then download the ones I like. I may not remember where I got it.

Heres another screeny!

Douglas

Can you do it to my email?
Thanks Douglas 8)

Actually I was able to find the link for it! It has both blue and green.

http://www.themexp.org/preview.php?mid=5248&type=vs&view=downloads&page=&cat=&name=Xbox+XtremeXP+(UPDATE+2).zip

Keep in mind that some consider theme XP spyware. Watch out for the themes that have the red asterisk by them. What you do is as soon as you visit the website, download a theme to your desktop. Then delete it. Now all the other themes you download will not have anything bundled with them. The very first theme you download per visit will be bundles with garbage. After that they are all clean.

Douglas

Ok Douglas, I’m glad you like it. I just need some time to compile everything into working skin… if you have any suggestions, let me know before I compile everything into one big unity.

Cheers !

What will the liquid buttons do when you hover the cursor over them? Or, what will they do when you click them as far as button animation? I know they will execute the desired task, but I am asking how they will “move” when you hover over them or click them. Like when you hover over some of the buttons in the pirate skin…they animate!

Douglas

Nothing too complicated… button state called “Roll over” will make button little bit lighter and when you press button, button will become little darker… anything more than that would be too much for this concept, IMHO…

Sounds good. And like I said, it doesn’t have to be flat, fancy is great with a skin like this!

What would it look like if you took the image of the PC monitor out of the equation? Hard for me to tell without actually seeing it.

Douglas

I tried, believe me… ugly. Totaly dry and unuseable… I already integrated that image into dispaly area (it’s not separate layer anymore), so if I want to wipe it out of the skin, I need to draw whole skin background all over again from the scratch… I usually keep all those layers, but believe me, this one would look so “empty” without that image… however, image is 50% transparent, so it’s not like it’s in the “first row”…

I believe it will fit on your desktop just like glove. ;D

Cheers !