Roue 2.x Megapack by Dario Manno (dario.manno@email.si)
20th November 2003

~ Pack 2: Roue 2.02 - Variation Two ~

This is a style based on Roue 1.1, with better controles. There really is nothing on this skin that would make it stand out from many simillar skins. I didn't follow the current fashion of copying Mac interfaces and skins. I didn't even use a glow effect of any kind, except in 204 pack. I just made this skin to enjoy a good, clean windows interface, something usable and pretty, but not distracting. Something that calms you down, while you work and is not in your way (Roue203 might not be the best choice for that...). I admit I copied many ideas in other peoples's skins, stuff I liked, but to be a true skinner I made all the images myself.

This skin can be used on any edge of the screen, although it looks best on bottom and on top of the screen. Now for the freaky part: There are 3 styles of start menu in there (with diferent colours pane, sharply contrasted and lowered pane, and flat pane), there are 40 colour variations (even if some colours look the same, they are not) and it has 3 font choices via the normal, large and extra large choices: tahoma, verdana and ariel. There are 120 combinations! Taskbar is slimmer than original Luna taskbar. The start button has been changed back to original Windows style with flag and text - I like it that way :-) Now lets break it in to sections:

 * Roue201: darker and optimized Roue 1.1. Carsten inspired me for this as wanted a Luna blue colour, so here is the rest of it. Thanx, without you this wouldn't have been done :-) It has black and red experiments for Roue202 - both dark.

 * Roue202: more contrasted Roue201 with sharply contrasted and lowered start menu pane.

 * Roue203: experimental variation of Roue201 with diferent colour start pane - I felt like playing :-) Some contrasts are freaky...

 * Roue204: plastic (or metal) variaton of Roue202, shiny and polished. It happend by accident and I just couldn't resist the temptation...

I would like to thank Rudi for finding me the information on how to change the taskbar and other parts of the skin, and for inspiring me to make the thin version of Roue in the first place! Thanx!

Also a big thanx to all the thousands of people that downloaded this skin and especially to those that commented on it!



This was made using TGTsofts StyleBuilder, PaintShop Pro 5 and ZPaint 1.4 by Steffen Gerlach (http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/).

I have decided to put this skin in public domain. Everybody can take it, use it, change it *AND* also re-post it everywhere and anywhere for whatever reason he/she wants. Yes, you can also say you made it, but you better not do that on Deviantart as they have a system for reporting such things :-) But I don't mind if you do it, the bottom line is that you can do *anything* you want with this skin. I give YOU my permission to do with this skin whatever you want. I only ask one thing: mention my name somewhere when you publish it, OK? And have fun while doing it. I know I had :-)


Roue's version track:

Status: completed, testing, no future plans for this skin, opened to suggestions

2.0x
 - stoped counting the changes :-) to many of them in to short time period, memory failed
 - mainly: new start button, menus, colours, styles; 3 font choices. All in all 120 combinations possible. Is that enough?

Previous release:
1.1
A note: I left the taskbar in normal size because I realized Windows Media Player 9 minimizes in to it and if I changed the size of the taskbar, it wouldn't look very good. *I* like this program and the way it minimizes it the taskbar. Want it thin? Do it yourself! :-)
 - added more colours: Brown, Green, Lime and Purple

1.0
 - first concept in Blue colour with Normal and Metallic controles (Ministry used as base)