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Published: 2010-05-21 14:25:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 18585; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 1637
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Description
Sodium 1.1 has finally arrived! [link]Welcome to Sodium
Sodium will be the best experience you will ever have. It is one of the most sleek and attractive visual styles you'll ever see.
Changelog
1.0 - Initial Release
Installation
Every step is explained in the Sodium project's installation manual. Also included is a Configuration manual, to setup the it as good as possible.
Features
Mostly explained in the picture above.
- Sleek non-transparent window borders
- Clean taskbar
- Most parts of Windows are skinned
Bugs
1.0 => Scrollbars are inproperly textured. Will be fixed in next release.
(Found a bug, mistake, or something totally weird? Notify me! You can send me a note, but please, do not report it here.)
Want more Sodium?
There is a CDArtDisplay skin suited with the Sodium look. You can find it [link]
Credits
Original mockup by ~Raypture
VS made by ~AppliArt
Explorerframe by ~InASeparateSky
Beta testing by ~Misaki2009
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Comments: 43
I like the grey screenshot, but don' care for the min/max/close buttons.
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Wonderful theme! Easy on the eye, gentle but not too sweet, with nice scrollbars. How can anyone want this heavenly blue of the taskbar to be grey???
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Thanks for the warm words!
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Looks awesome,mate, canΒ΄t wait to give it a try
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Thanks! I hope you will enjoy it!
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yeah the taskbar and jumplist, make them grey.
Minx Max Close, might want to make them like X2 Crystal or Gizdom vs, with smaller than normal button width.
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I'm currently working on some ideas for next releases. Grey suits the theme well, and those min/max/close style buttons too.
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uh..its kinda nice. But the min max close buttons don't look too good IMHO. And could you make it grey (neutral)? blue kinda doesn't match with some wallpapers.
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Are you talking about the taskbar?
And for the min/max/close buttons? Any suggestions?
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what a?))
min/max close buttons are lighting!
after installing the theme they are not shining, but now they are!
[link]
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Ok than!
I like them too!
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I like your work!
I just wonder which font do you use for text in picture above. I'll look neat as default font with minimal white pastel theme like this one
tnxx
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It's "Champagne and Limousines".
It is also the logo's font.
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tnx
keep up with good work bro
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a random mix of colours and textures.
some flat, some glossy, some blue, some black...
hmm.
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You love it or you hate it, that's Sodium.
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Do you think you can make one for Windows Vista? Would be great.
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I'm currently not using Vista, so i can't port it. If someone wants todo it, i would be nice.
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Can this work in non-aero system? it seems your start menu is semi-transparent
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It is an Aero theme, but i'm working on a basic version.
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Good job theming it, I'll probably use it for a while once I get my new computer.
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Oops, excuse-moi
I found it somewhere and it looked nice with it. Didn't know it was yours. Sorry.
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I actually like this quite a bit. Not to sure about the min/max/close buttons though.
Also, you're not trying to sell it to an investor or anything, so I would tone down the language just a little bit
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Thanks! Any suggetions about the min/max/close buttons?
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I'm not too sure to be honest, maybe just a light frame around each one? it's not intuitive where the borders end as it is.
You might want to make the title bars the same colour as the taskbar too?
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It definitely is, um, simple, but far from something revolutionary enough for me to think it has revolutionized my windows experience. Not to mention poor design choices like the scroll bar have me running away from this theme screaming for help.
Oh, and if you don't want criticism don't make something mediocre and call it the best thing ever created, since man himself.
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Just passed by this theme and all I have to say is, really?
Constructive criticism is a fundamental part of the art world, but I see a lot more condescending stabs than constructive points here. You've pointed out an area of improvement, and your observation is valid, but you stated it in a way that just makes you look like the enemy.
It's simply unnecessary and cruel to claim that the theme left you "screaming for help", that doesn't help him improve anything. Elaborate a little on these so-called "poor design choices" and actually attempt to introduce the artist to possible flaws instead of just tearing it down only because he claimed it was an excellent theme and you disagree with that. An artist is allowed to have pride in their work, especially on something as technical and finicky as a theme, and they shouldn't be put down based on that.
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Thanks for the warm words!
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There are still some small problems with the scrollbars, which will be fixed in the next release. But you can say that this visual style is different, at least.
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Of course it is, and it is not at all bad, I was just immediately put off by the claims of how amazingly superior your theme is to the many great themes out there.
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Yeah, maybe I will need to make some subtle changes to that than.
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