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Is there Royal skin. for classic shell?

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vip
2010-07-06
2013-12-24
  • vip

    vip - 2010-07-06

    i use royal theme for windows 7 but there is dirrence in color of start menu
    and task bar as there is no royal classic shell skin.

    royal theme link :- http://satukoro.deviantart.com/art/Royale-port-to-
    Win7-Aero-158227540

    can i change it myself.

     
  • vip

    vip - 2010-07-06

    can i place these item above

     
  • Ivo Beltchev

    Ivo Beltchev - 2010-07-06

    No, there is no such skin. You have to make one yourself. Start by reading the
    tutorial: http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/skintutorial.html

    You can move the recent items below the contents of the Start Menu folder. Set
    RecentItemsTop=0 in the StartMenu.ini file.

     
  • vip

    vip - 2010-07-06

    thnx........

    but is very difficult to make your own theme i know nothing about image
    editors like photoshop,gimp etc

     
  • Ivo Beltchev

    Ivo Beltchev - 2010-07-06

    Well, yeah, but there are thousands of themes out there. You can't expect me
    to make a start menu skin for every theme, do you? :)
    Besides, I'm a programmer. I'm not very handy with Photoshop either. It takes
    great effort on my part to do the graphical design.

    Maybe once Classic Shell becomes more popular, the people that make Windows
    themes will also create a matching start menu skin. They must already have the
    right combination of artistic skills and knowledge of resource files. Also
    unlike creating a Windows theme, the skin process is well documented and
    supported.

     
  • vip

    vip - 2010-07-06

    hi have just created royale theme but there is little colour mismatch

     
  • Ivo Beltchev

    Ivo Beltchev - 2010-07-06

    What's the matter? It looks perfect to me :)

     
  • kilmatead

    kilmatead - 2010-07-06

    My guess is he meant something more dark-bluish with white text, like this
    quick try:

    Closer to the original photo anyway, though I banjaxed the lighter blue hue.
    :)

     
  • kilmatead

    kilmatead - 2010-07-06

    Hmm, image doesn't seem to be working...

     
  • vip

    vip - 2010-07-07

    i mean difference between taskbar and startmenu hue. i am trying different
    hues which look more close i'll post.

     
  • vip

    vip - 2010-07-07

    how to change text to white and background to blue. i search in startmenu.ini
    but there is no background option.

     
  • Ivo Beltchev

    Ivo Beltchev - 2010-07-08

    You have to edit the skin file, no way around it. Edit the bitmap to change
    the background color. Edit the text to change the text color. Be careful not
    to mess up the alpha channel, or you'll get opaque menu.

    You'll have to wait for the next version to see the user name.

     

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