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Rob Mensching
Monday, January 29, 2007 12:01 AM

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Zune desktop theme: Black is back (downlevel).

I've been doing a fair bit of UI programming (more on that later).  Kinda' scary to think that they let me write code that draws pretty pictures on the screen.  What's even scarier is that I'm actually having a good time with it.  I think it has a lot to do with the kick ass designers I work with.

Anyway, I was sending some screen shots around to the designers on my team and Jascha (King of Designers for Windows Marketplace) commented that the progress bar should be green.

VistaSetupPrep.exe

I chuckled and mentioned that my progress bar was orange because I installed the sexy new Zune desktop theme.  I promised that the progress bar would be green when viewed in the standard Blue Windows XP theme.

Anyway, I just wanted to toss that out there because:

1.  I'm going to be posting some screen shots of some UI stuff I've done lately and didn't want anyone to think the black title bar and orange progress bars were something I did.

2. The black Zune desktop theme for Windows XP is freakin' cool for machines that can't run Windows Vista.  I like Vista's black better but Zune does it alright for the downlevel.

In the meantime, keep coding, you know I am.


13 Comments

Comment by
daemon
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:28 AM

yeah, it should be green i think. can you tweak it? anyway, i like vista i have a genuine copy of it but i think it doesnt suit for the moment, im still running legacy softs. couldn't figure out how to use virtual pc as of now, so i'm back to xp again.

glad ms released noir, at least it'll serve as a compensation for me :p

Comment by
Gazza
Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:38 AM

Love it ty

Comment by
RIAZ
Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:59 PM

send me the black theme

Comment by
Luis
Monday, November 05, 2007 3:43 PM

THANKS MAN!! IT MATCHES MY MOZILLA FIREFOZ THEME!!

Comment by
Oliver
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:54 PM

I love this Theme!! Thx man for Doing this...

Comment by
Mad
Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:02 AM

Damnit.. Orange button.. -.-

Im looking for a black, black, and black theme who match my firefox.. But I CANT FIND IT!! :((

btw; Thanks for doing this. Great work..!

Comment by
Roops
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:18 AM

I love it!!! Much better than the blue & green!! Thanks

Comment by
Richard Carpenter
Sunday, May 25, 2008 2:07 AM

The Zune Black Theme really gives your desktop a Bold-Professional look!

Go Figure!

Comment by
FaNtAz
Sunday, June 15, 2008 2:24 PM

Black theme rule.. thnx alot

Comment by
smokey08scot
Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:21 AM

ware can I get this theme coz I want to have a black desktop to match my pc and software, a blue desktop dosnt match a machine that liturly jet black

Comment by
:D
Saturday, November 22, 2008 5:32 AM

cool .

Comment by
Alps
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:43 AM

absolutely owsome....

really amazing that how by changing theme can change your interest to open ur pc :)

really amazing ... worth trying... go for it

Comment by
mesh
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:21 AM

it doesnt work with vista only xp

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