Appows7 by neiio in Screenshots

Artist Notes

Working from my previous setups and further exploring skinning the Windows 7 beast.
I’m hoping to polish these up for a proper release. Think of these as WIP screen preview teasers. If anyone’s interested in getting onboard for some app/wall skin collabs give me a shout. All I really have time for right now is to concentrate on the VS’s. There will be one more style with a light taskbar that I’ve yet to start on. Possibly a ‘Base2’ style suite. It’s actually an extension of previous style I did for xp NiteLiteXP which turned into Base for Vista. The similarities to pjdark’s Ribbon shot were not intentional but the subconscious is a funny thing, so credits to Patrick as well.
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Win7VS, explorerframe.dll, startbutton, wallpaper, miranda done by myself along with various Windows hacks.
Images: from Tabs custo gallery colossus72
Side Panel Icons: MINIUM2 by RADE8
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jg

Submitted: 01/07/2010
Reviews: 14
Views: 1798
Downloads: 104
Admin Rating: 89.50
User Rating: 92.20
Featured: 01/11/2010

fate0000 [89] wrote:

Looking good. Would probably like the taskbar fonts better without anti aliasing, if that’s even possible. Everything else is crisp and tastefully done.

nitzua [87] wrote:

not too hot on the font, but otherwise real nice. great work on the explorer window.

@jamie: yeah, the font doesn’t look bad by any means, it’s just not my personal favorite.

antimatter [87] wrote:

I’m impressed. The dark taskbar looks fantastic; I hope that color scheme is carried over to the windows, as well. I’d definitely love to give this a run, see if I can’t learn to love Windows 7 after all.

neiio wrote:

@fate0000 | thanks, in Win7 there’s not a lot of options when it comes to the taskbar text color. There isn’t a way of differentiating between the various states. (normal, hot, etc…). Therefore there is a slight glow around the text because I find the light color gets too washed out when the taskbar animations and such kick in.
@nitzua | thanks as well. I realize that is your tagline, but fonts are such a personal preference anyhow. Skinning for 7 is still rather early, and actually even more difficult than Vista. Just trying to display that it does have potential.
Cheers.
@ecoo | glad to see you getting back into it Pep.
@pjdark | Actually I hadn’t really thought of it either until dmone @ dA mentioned it and I went back and had a look at it and realized, especially with the caption buttons it was similar enough to warrant a mention.
@Narcot1c | it’s a combination of the VS and using shortcuts rather than recent items.

Thanks for the feature Josh also the the kind words guys.

akka [92] wrote:

rating on the preview: classy, and well detailed. great colors. if you do end up releasing, this is what i’ll be using on my win7 machine.

ecoo [89] wrote:

I really like the titlebar, caption buttons and wallpaper. This is a very good ‘got to get myself into skinning Windows 7’ screenshot, which I will soon. 4imp is coming with new stuff in 2010 and it will be Windows 7 based =D

pjdark [95] wrote:

Great desk man. I would not have ever thought about my Ribbon desk from looking at this. I mean yeah, the caption buttons, and maybe the taskbar are kinda similar but this is all uniquely yours man. Wonderful stuff. :) The explorer window does look fantastic too!