The Most Popular XP themes..

sinewavesinewave
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
Look like the Mac OS



<a href="http://www.themexp.org/view.php?type=vs"; target="_blank">http://www.themexp.org/view.php?type=vs</a>;



And even though the "Sosumi" theme listed there looks like my OS X Sosumi theme I didn't make it. But I know who did.

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  • Reply 1 of 15
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
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  • Reply 2 of 15
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    Naw not really.. it doesn't really look like Sosumi.
  • Reply 3 of 15
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Those OS X themes are so bad. It's like an insult to Apple.
  • Reply 4 of 15
    alpha macalpha mac Posts: 463member
    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>Those OS X themes are so bad. It's like an insult to Apple.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yep.

    Do you think Apple legal will get on too him, you know Look and Feel law suit. Or will they leve it cos it's a bit of advertising for OSX.
  • Reply 5 of 15
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    All the ones that look like Aqua really SUCK. What's worse than Aqua? A really bad hack of Aqua.
  • Reply 6 of 15
    artman @_@artman @_@ Posts: 2,546member
    Hilarious.

    My favorite XP "Theme"?

    Right-click the desktop, select Properties, click the Themes tab, and choose Windows Classic from the drop-down list....har.
  • Reply 7 of 15
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    That Sosumi one is pretty nice, using it now. The minimize bar is way too wide, though. yeesh.
  • Reply 8 of 15
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    [quote]Originally posted by groverat:

    <strong>That Sosumi one is pretty nice, using it now. The minimize bar is way too wide, though. yeesh.</strong><hr></blockquote>





    Speak to TheRoadWarrior over at Macmonkey. He is the one that made it. Not bad for his first theme.
  • Reply 9 of 15
    theroadwarriortheroadwarrior Posts: 46member
    I'll take that into consideration for the update I plan for it soon



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  • Reply 10 of 15
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Cool.



    I'm using Watercolor (the one that didn't end up shipping with XP ) now. Anything to make the window widgets smaller makes me a happy guy.



    Very nice work for your first time out, RW.
  • Reply 11 of 15
    theroadwarriortheroadwarrior Posts: 46member
    I've learned alot about the "engine" that draws the GUI in Windows and it's actually pretty retarded compared to how the MacOS does things (I did a few themes for Kaleidoscope a few years ago and it was much easier).



    For example, the application windows, the "explorer" windows, tabbed windows, etc. are all different and require different graphics for each.



    I think that Microsoft went too far with the default color schemes. You don't want the GUI screaming "Look at Me!" when you're trying to work



    Thanks for the comments, BTW.
  • Reply 12 of 15
    theroadwarriortheroadwarrior Posts: 46member
    BTW, here's a link to a fixed file (made the minimize lines smaller and fixed a few bugs when changing the pixel depth of the title bar).



    <a href="http://www.thecomputerpub.com/downloads/sosumixp.zip"; target="_blank">Revision 1.01 of SosumiXP</a>
  • Reply 13 of 15
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    [quote]Originally posted by TheRoadWarrior:

    <strong>I've learned alot about the "engine" that draws the GUI in Windows and it's actually pretty retarded compared to how the MacOS does things (I did a few themes for Kaleidoscope a few years ago and it was much easier).



    For example, the application windows, the "explorer" windows, tabbed windows, etc. are all different and require different graphics for each.



    I think that Microsoft went too far with the default color schemes. You don't want the GUI screaming "Look at Me!" when you're trying to work



    Thanks for the comments, BTW.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    While Kaleidoscope was easy to make themes.. the Extras.rsrc has over 600 pxms pict resources. I am sure it's just as much as a cluster**** as XP's
  • Reply 14 of 15
    shahzaibshahzaib Posts: 1member
    where can i get these themes people??
  • Reply 15 of 15
    smithmark.1976smithmark.1976 Posts: 1member
    Lightstar is awesome and I really like it so much. Thanks for the link.
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