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Description THANKS fediaFedia FOR THE DAILY DEVIATION and I'm glad that people out there still enjoy using this theme! )
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Note: For current news regarding Clearscreen Sharp for Windows 7, please view: [link]

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Hi all,

Here is the Clearscreen port for Windows 7. Much has been polished and much had to be redone, thus some things have been changed -- some compromises here as Windows 7 shares even more resources between different parts of the theme. So expect some details to be lost (like the etched look on the group sorting headers -- Windows 7 ignores the property and only allows a 1px height for the seperator), or the unique "New Application" button state for the Start Menu (that image is shared and grossly distorted in another area), amongst other things.

You may be wondering where the navigation buttons and other resources are -- I am having trouble replacing my resources in System32. Replacing Explorer.exe works fine, but as soon as I replace a .dll file, things go to crap. I had to repair my OS 8 times yesterday and don't feel like having another go for a while. I'm taking the same steps as I had on Vista x64, and I had no problem on Vista, so this is very strange. Any help is appreciated

I am working on Clearscreen Round, which shouldn't take as long, as the base that these two themes share is now complete. Won't give an ETA; it'll be done when it's done.



Known Bugs / Limitations:


  • Because of the nonstandard frame and padding size (both set to 1) of this theme, you may see the frames distort in some areas... unfortunately, there's not much I can do there as Vista's default Aero also has problems when scaling it down to this size; fidelity of the edges and corners are lost. [limitation]

  • Aero Wizard dialog uses the bodytext color property (which is set to black in my theme) for the titlebar text for whatever reason (coding laziness?) -- basically, black text on black shadow == difficult to read... [limitation]


  • Volume mixer line goes a few pixels too far -- this is because the padding size is low, which allows for more vertical and horizontal space, allowing the vertical seperator to come into view and cross the horizontal volume mixer line. [limitation]

  • Resource Monitor accordion text color is white and sits on a light gray background. [limitation]

  • Start Menu may show up blurless near the top when you first open it, but it fixes afterwards. This is because DWM assumes that there is a solid graphic there like in the default Aero, so it doesn't blur it. Unfortunately, there is an intentional gap up there to fit the style, and I don't want to change it. It's not a big problem, but a minor annoyance for some.





Updates

    v3.2 (November 1, 2009):


    • Fixed x86 white/blank graphic bug (Systray, IE8 Search)...again.





    v3.1 (October 31, 2009): Bug fixes & Polishing


    • Fixed Start Menu's Userpic in Top Superbar orientation.

    • Revisted the Superbar Thumbnails section, still not sure about it, but I think it looks better than it did.

    • Improved Start Menu blurless area limitation (seen when you first open it, DWM fixes it afterwards) by expanding the white area (Programslist) horizontally to cover it. I can't fix the top part, unfortunately, or that would mean that there will be no gap up there, and I like the gap

    • Removed Fading Animation in Explorer Documents section/template. It was an experimentation that I forgot to remove.

    • Fixed Vertical taskbar graphics to stretch proportionately





    v3 (October 30, 2009):


    • Fixed x86 white/blank graphic bug (Systray, IE8 Search)

    • Fixed SIZINGMARGIN property for progress bar left and right edge -- edge retains fidelity when progress bar is stretched or shrunken.





    v2.5 (October 26, 2009):


    • Fixed Treeview bug (Seen in CCleaner, Regedit)

    • Fixed Start Menu panels from distorting in Large Icons mode

    • Fixed Shadowless frames (left and right) to match top and bottom frames

    • Optimized frames for current padding/sizing border (1)

    • Added a bit more contrast to highlighted text (highlighted text now set to #000000; highlight fill = #CDCDCD)

    • Fixed Disabled SplitButton Dropdown graphic




    v2 (October 25, 2009):


    • Updated Explorer.exe to current version [6.1.7600.16404] (x86 & x64) -- thanks to ~drake04 !

    • Fixed Large Icons view in Start Menu from distorting the menu panels.







FAQ

  • Q: Where can I get the green wallpaper in the preview?
    A: Sorry, that isn't a wallpaper. It is a background made for presentation purposes. Maybe when I have the time I can create a wallpaper like it.


  • Q: What about the ones in Explorer? Where can I get those wallpapers?
    A: I do not remember where I got them from, so out of respect to the authors I won't share them.
    I think the ones in the preview came from Flickr. You may be able to find them in some of my favorite photographers galleries and shrink them down to your resolution yourself:

    [link]
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  • Q: Are you going to make a large triangular Start button?
    A: Sure, when I get the time. The reason for its current absence is because the triangular Start button is shared in all four Superbar orientations.



  • Q: Help! I can't make out the text in X program!
    A: Programs that rely on their own graphics or font colors along with resources from the theme (colors, font, images) for their GUI will often have usability issues (black font on black background, for example). This is unfortunately out of my hands. Programmers design their program around the default Aero theme as that's what the overwhelming majority would use.


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Comments: 708

Enkiii In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 11:02:04 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, thanks

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fediaFedia In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:48:08 +0000 UTC]

One problem: the gadgets window fonts look ugly...

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fediaFedia In reply to fediaFedia [2009-10-25 10:49:07 +0000 UTC]

Also when you disable shadows the right and left frames dont match

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K-Johnson In reply to fediaFedia [2009-10-25 19:16:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the bug reports. I don't use gadgets so I will have to check them out.

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Drugi In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:39:08 +0000 UTC]

I love the way of your presentation .... it just looks so awesome bro

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K-Johnson In reply to Drugi [2009-10-25 20:42:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks div^ x)

I forget your new nick lol

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Drugi In reply to K-Johnson [2009-10-25 21:58:44 +0000 UTC]

D

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Drugi In reply to K-Johnson [2009-10-25 21:41:40 +0000 UTC]

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emecoelho In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:37:34 +0000 UTC]

Hi.
Thanks for sharing this great theme with us.
I found what I think is a bug in the systray:[link]
What should i do to fix it?

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xerz In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:33:39 +0000 UTC]

Great work! But still I have a problem with the taskbar. Its show white background at notification area. Now I have to hide all icon. Hope you can fix it.

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ak-i In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:31:41 +0000 UTC]

i got that white bar too on my system tray. otherwise this is great!

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crunch-fx In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:31:02 +0000 UTC]

Really nice work!!!!

My Favorit Theme!!!

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diyabolic In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:24:53 +0000 UTC]

wow...love it!

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NielsHakMusic In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:21:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I decided that I wouldn't mess with themes in windows 7.

Now I just did

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Redmile In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:16:12 +0000 UTC]

Real good ! Keep up the good work !

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FelixBurchardt In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 10:12:09 +0000 UTC]

Once im using w7, this will defo be one of my vs.

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lennartb In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 09:40:38 +0000 UTC]

Incredible, by far the best VS for Win7 yet.

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BilarCrais In reply to lennartb [2009-10-25 14:22:19 +0000 UTC]

Agreed!

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sunBeam2000 In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 09:31:57 +0000 UTC]

MASTERPIECE!!

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RajTheeban95 In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 09:20:14 +0000 UTC]

finally!
currently my first visual style for windows 7 !
cleary fav

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umar123 In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 07:03:57 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, finally Mac users can say windows ain't bad either thunbs up

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arcapadine In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 06:48:36 +0000 UTC]

Like Quagmire would say: All right!!!

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garbanzox In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 06:32:37 +0000 UTC]

this is beautiful. working great with x64. it's cool to see some professional quality work being done already.

can you please tell me the font being used so i can get some of my other apps to match?

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K-Johnson In reply to garbanzox [2009-10-25 06:49:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Segoe UI provided by Windows 7:

Segoe UI 8 Semibold (Base font)
Segoe UI 8 Bold (Selected Tab, GroupBox Title)
Segoe UI 9 Semibold (Titlebar)

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axldvn In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 05:53:00 +0000 UTC]

awesome!!!>

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iBenster In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 05:48:16 +0000 UTC]

OMG! You finally made it :]
Been waiting for ages

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Jirbytaylor In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 05:41:25 +0000 UTC]

Besides the strange white bg bug that has occurred with others (I'm using x86 RC), this is beautiful. Finally a decent Windows 7 theme!

Awaiting ports of your other themes too. %D

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Edercoree In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 05:36:35 +0000 UTC]

Amazing

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xanKazo In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 05:33:21 +0000 UTC]

WOW!!! This looks AWESOME! Keep this up man!

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SlavaKM In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 04:59:48 +0000 UTC]

Ooooh this is sooooo sexy.

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ThreatDown In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 04:23:12 +0000 UTC]

This is the one and only good theme I have ever seen for vista/win7.

Great work. Not some shit aero color mod, its not so ub3r customized its unusable. Just looks great

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Genedon In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 04:09:23 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely beautiful and usable but one big bug [link] hope you will solve this.I'm on 7600 OEM so i don't know is the problem at my PC.

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K-Johnson In reply to Genedon [2009-10-25 04:11:38 +0000 UTC]

Hi, are you using Windows 7 x86?

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Genedon In reply to K-Johnson [2009-10-25 04:13:30 +0000 UTC]

Yes it's x86 sorry i didn't note that.

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IzzuThug In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 03:33:46 +0000 UTC]

nice port, don't worry about the fixes you're not the only one that has problems at the moment, great job and keep up the good work

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vekanoid In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 03:05:11 +0000 UTC]

Bravoooo! Very nice!

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Cyntar7 In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 03:04:36 +0000 UTC]

BRAVO!! Amazing work my friend once again!

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Satukoro In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 02:56:39 +0000 UTC]

Cool, I'll be using this for a while.

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BladedThesis08 In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 02:56:19 +0000 UTC]

It's rare that I take delight in a visual style created by anyone but myself, but well done.

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drake04 In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 02:49:27 +0000 UTC]

It looks great here.

Sent you a note regarding system files.

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K-Johnson In reply to drake04 [2009-10-25 02:52:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks you!

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uvectorcell In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 02:27:08 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! Love it!

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mofabo In reply to ??? [2009-10-25 02:26:55 +0000 UTC]

Is this for the RTM? I'm running the RC and the small taskbar hover images look kinda wonky. Not sure if that's the way it's supposed to be or not. And the tray icons have a white background and the the hover images don't look right. Other than that, the theme looks great. Here's what I mean [link]

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xGameGuy360x In reply to mofabo [2009-10-25 02:49:29 +0000 UTC]

I have the same issue on RTM x86

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K-Johnson In reply to xGameGuy360x [2009-10-25 02:53:48 +0000 UTC]

Let's hope the problem is isolated to x86, because x64 works fine here. If x64 is having this problem, then I am pretty clueless as to why it is occurring.

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mofabo In reply to K-Johnson [2009-10-25 03:01:54 +0000 UTC]

I'm running X86 RC. If I knew a program that I could use to easily replace the resources, I'd do it myself. I was using Restorator because it was pretty easy to use, but the 30 day trial ran out on that a long time ago so.

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iareruss In reply to mofabo [2009-11-13 11:25:43 +0000 UTC]

If it's popular, you might find a crack for it. Check torrents. That's what I would do.

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K-Johnson In reply to mofabo [2009-10-25 02:40:44 +0000 UTC]

Hi,

This is for RTM. Are using x64 or x86?
I ported this on Windows 7 Professional (RTM) x64.

Something similar cropped up last time when I released a theme that was created on x86... x64 users had blank/white areas. I don't know why it occurs, but that would be my first suspicion.

If you are using x64, then it could very well be because you are using RC. I don't think there is much difference in the MSSTYLES file between RTM and RC, though I could be wrong.

Thanks for your report.

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vekanoid In reply to K-Johnson [2009-10-31 19:25:24 +0000 UTC]

I also have that problem with white background on tray bar. I using Win7 final retail (not RTM).

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Evolyptic In reply to K-Johnson [2009-10-25 04:37:46 +0000 UTC]

I'm using the x86 RTM & I've got this problem; I see that you're currently working on it with the help of drake04. I can't wait for the fix. It's a beautiful theme.

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