
Behold, the new plastique... little suite, plan to live in it until MS brings out some new OS,
and change is needed anyhow, so it will grow. Freeware only, well, that is, I've never paid a
thing to have my own visual style running in XP, you don't have to either. /me has respect for
the work that went into the stylebuilder though, introduction of the company could have been a
bit better ;).

So far, these are skins for QuickChanger, ColorPad, qRool, ControlBar, theme for Eppie (95/98)
and the visual style (XP).

QuickChanger is a skinnable wallpaper "manager". That word doesn't even begin to describe the
options, this is a pretty advanced tool. Find it here: http://www.enclave-i.com/quickchanger/.

ColorPad is a colorpicker, community favorite. Just in case: http://www.entic.net/~vmoya/. It
has a unique skinning format that should be used more often.

qRool... well, you can download it here: http://www.skinnables.org/orphanware.php. It features
two cursors and can tell you everything about their position on the screen, distances, single
or related to eachother. Yes, developer is gone, anyhow know how to contact neophile, please !
Yes, I'm the only one skinning it. Yes, I admit, I've got no use for it. Why bother (?), just
this - it's the app which is most fun to skin, promise. Complex, but clear. A challenge, lots
of options for composition, has everything; you need to do cursors, numbers, figure out a way
to do the docking.. ah, can't explain fully, just so cool.

ControlBar is a lauchbar that hides at the edge of your screen, one of the first things I need
with a fresh install: http://www.geocities.com/phtm77/.

Eppie(Desktop) enables you to apply your gfx on any windows min/max/restore/close/help buttons.
For 9x only for now, takes almost no resources. http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/eppie.html.

The style... well, I'm pretty much aware this is not gonna cut it for most, as will this whole
suite. Just really dislike the default and variations (...), and this is a bit faster too :p..
Extract to %windir%\resources\themes. Wallpaper is 1280x1024. I doubt anyone will use it, but
if wanted I'll make it for other resolutions. Bin icons are only included because XP didn't
wanna eat the .theme file without this setting, couldn't (get) use(d to) the default ;). These
are from |copland|, find the full set called "Be" at his place:
http://www.graphicsdesign.org/copland/. Not the icon set I'd recommend for use with this theme,
btw. A set that fits perfectly is prime/preemo by Scrow (just don't like the bin):
http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/. Scrow also made the best, and only freeware iconchanger
app, IconPhile.

Have fun,

plastic


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