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Karmacom — Hybrid V1
Published: 2007-05-28 11:05:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 33437; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 27393
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This is my first Visual Style, it is based on and inspired by XPHunt3r's "Longhorn", Windows Vista, Photoshop CS3 and Apple, thus calling it "Hybrid" mixing it all together.I like subtle styles, minimalistic, so tried make this as slick as possible, I hope you like it.
There are 8 different styles, both with black and silver statusbar and windows.
Screenshots: [link]
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Comments: 30
it looks really great. Thanks 
as for suggestion if you can make the minimize version of start menu it would be greater
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The best skin i've seen on the web.
Even better than jemaho or stefanka which skins are perfection.
Amazing work dude!
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Great work! I'm going to use it from now. Can I make a suggestion? Take off the points around the image in start menu. It will agree to the modern visual you created.
Trully Beautiful! Keep it up!
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Hey... still waiting for V2. When will it be completed?
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This is a very excellent theme for the following reasons:
1. The active window on the task bar is very easy to identify from the other windows (white text on black).
2. The start button works perfect no matter how tall your task bar is (mine is set to double-height).
3. The "large" and "extra large" font settings work perfect (my laptop resolution is pretty high and the screen's only 14", so the extra size is really helpful). When you change the font size, the control buttons at the top right of each window resize appropriately. Many other themes don't do this correctly.
4. I love a white or silver theme and most of the good ones out there have the nasty Apple icon for the start menu.
Excellent work!
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do you have an expected launch date for V2??? --> awaiting...
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I recon a couple of days, give or take.
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Really good theme ! It's impressive that's your first. I think that you should do a version where the close, maximize and minimize buttons are squared instead of rectangular (the same size for witdh and height).
Congratulations again.
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You read my mind, or - almost, i'm making the close/max/min buttons without the frames in V2, and they "light" up instead, sharper, a bit smaller and "cleaner" IMO, I will also include a substyle where the frames are there but completely square.
Thank you for your comments.
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Note: why does the screenshot show a white taskbar? I got an Aero variant. I should also add that I like the Aero variant.
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There are both there in the substyle, the substyles with "silver" in it has a white taskbar, the others have an "aero"-black taskbar.
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This is your first VS? I'm impressed.
Reasons why I'm impressed:
1) An excellent Start button implementation
2) A decent DARK menu
3) No silly-assed color-shaded variants included in the style ("let's put blue / green / orange / purple variants in there")
4) Nice tinges of blue
Things that shouldn't be there (since it is a dark skin):
1) The blue text in Control Panel
2) a little work needs to be done on the window controls (close / minimize / etc) to make them a bit more distinct
3) Lost the second and third style variants and keep the first one - it's easily the best and most well integrated as a whole.
4) No white menus - this is a dark style, so keep it that way.
Very well done.
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Thank you for that detailed critique.
About the text in control panel, do you mean "the" control panel, in windows? where you e.g setup different things? I'm not sure I see blue there, could you post a screenshot?
About the minimize etc. buttons, yes, they will be a bit different, hopefully for the better.
About white menu, I did that for the contrast, since some of the substyles has a white taskbar aswell. I will try to experiment with a fully dark style aswell, within the boundries of being usefull to avoid the oh-so-classical "form over function"-trap (IMO).
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Hello Karmacom,
Thank you for your feedback on my feedback...
There was a very cool VS I downloaded from a different designer a loooong time ago. Anyway, that style had a unique way of highlighting the taskbar tabs when you scolled-over them. It highlighted JUST THE BOTTOM (and the left and right edges of the tab, just slightly). The middle part was virtually unlit (only a very bit was highlighted) But, overall, it made a really cool and unique effect. The highlighted part was a bright lazer blue and showed up really well.
Also, have you ever thought about making the buttons --> (OK, CANCEL, APPLY, etc...) an oval-ish shape (like the ones that Mac uses)
I think i understand, I will try to make an effect like that for the taskbar tabs in V2.
About the buttons, allthough i'm a bit sceptic about oval buttons, I will surely try it / experiment with it, and if it turns out good I will include it in V2.
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Your vs looks absolutely wonderful. I havn't seen ones of this quality lately. But since you are planning to make a v.2, here are some suggestions:
If you want to make the start menu white, be sure to made the currently white section of the start menu black or grey. The contrast would look good.
Also, rounded window borders would look too.
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Thanks for the design & contrast tip, I will keep that in mind for V2.0 (The window borders are allready rounded in 2 of the substyles "round" in the VS )
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Very very good style. I always wondered why no one was making a WHITE visual style (made for XP). Everyone was alllways making BLACK BLACK BLACK. Black has already been done a million times. It is good to have a good color variation to this. Good job Karmacom. --> If you are interested in some input on enhancing this style, it would be nice to have the start MENU (not the button) in a white background. Right now, it is black. Also, maybe make the taskbar, when scrolling-over the tabs, tohave a better shade of blue... Anyways, all in all, this VS is a keeper. Thnaks.
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Thank you Fiz for those comments. I made the start-meny black while leaving the taskbar white to get some contrast.
I will make a V2 of this style soon, and I am sure to take you up on your advice, making:
A: With a white background on the start-meny aswell
B: More color-templates, e.g gray, lightblue etc, not just black / white.
C: Refine the shade of blue on the tabs (the one where it shows the program you're running etc?)
Your critique and comments are worth it's weight in GOLD to me and it gives me alot of new ideas now for V2,thanks again fiz - you will be the first to know when I refine this visual style.
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Impressive. Like it a lot.
It's rare to see so much choice in the substyles, a very good job, thanx !
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"It's rare to see so much choice in the substyles, a very good job, thanx !"
Thank you
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Good work, I like it
The startmenu looks very nice
...and welcome to dA
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Thank you very much, and thanks for the Welcome
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Please feel free to comment or add requests for refining it in V2.0
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