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WinFCE Dark

Author: tzenrick
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Uploaded: Feb. 18 2009
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So I've updated this.  The newest version is http://www.ls-themes.org/themes/winfce-dark-1.0

It adresses the issues listed below, and adds optional transparency to the whole thing.

It has all the same features, it's just fixed now.  I have noticed 1 issue that I'm currently tending to.

The theme is broken on multi-monitor systems.  for some reason xTray is getting the absolute right side of the screen, and setting the tray over on the 2nd monitor.

So, I'm already looking into it.

This is just a modified WinFCE 1.7 theme.

WinFCE Dark
Modified From WinFCE 1.7
18FEB2009

Swapped Foobar200 into the E-Mail
slot on the DockBar.

Run Box works now.
Swapped with WinFCE 1.6

Changed TopBar date format
Now showing 24h time and mm/dd
US type date.

Inserted a Dynamic Popup in the Apps
menu to show the desktop contents.

Changed the colors to a darker Scheme.

Mostly white on black.

All creative credit goes to the original
Author of this theme: Eiki

I've also included a few wallpapers that seem to rock with this theme, and the XXX.msstyles that also rock out with this.

I also reccomend Foobar2000 for Audio, no skins needed.  Plays nice with the XXX.msstyles.

I did this because I wanted all of the simplicity of WinFCE, but in black.

3 Comments

pabst wrote on February 20, 2009 at 13:28:

Quite the rockin theme. I swapped AIMP2 for foobar2k as the non WinAmp audio player but that's just a personal preference. AIMP2 itself didn't need any manipulation or a separate dll to have the song title playout like with WinAmp. One thing I'd like to call to your attention, when using the right-click popup menu and accessing the programs list within I can't seem to trigger a scroll up or down to the unexposed items using a mouse hover (I have more items than will fit in one column). This can be circumvented by using the Program Files (fullview) in the applications menu, but it'd be nice if both worked. This is a small thing though, all in all great work. Smooth looking theme and thanks for the heads up on the Tango Icon set. Edit: I've found that using pgup and pgdn work to navigate the program files list, but still no luck with mouse hovering.

tzenrick wrote on February 21, 2009 at 18:51:

I can't seem to get the desktop Programs menu working either.  I dug around a bit, and that menu isn't theme controlled, it is static from theme to theme.  It is in $litestep$\profiles\{name}\personal.

I'm going to continue looking at this bug and see if I can't find a workaround for it.

 

EDIT:  10 minutes later...

OK, I found it. this fix is entirely too easy.

 

open up $litestep$\profiles\{name}\personal\popups.rc

It should look like this:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;   sample popup config file: edit according to preference
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Popup ".:LITESTEP:." !New !Popup ;DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE

 

Add one line to it, and modify another, so it looks like this:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;   sample popup config file: edit according to preference
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
deskmenuAutoMenuBreak                true
*Popup ".:LITESTEP:." !New !Popup deskmenu ;DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE

The addition of a couple more lines, enables icons in the menu.

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;   sample popup config file: edit according to preference
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
deskmenuEntryShowIcon                true
deskmenuEntryFontLeftBorder            25
deskmenuAutoMenuBreak                true
*Popup ".:LITESTEP:." !New !Popup deskmenu;DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE

And Viola!  Auto break on the desktop popup menu.  So far, It doesn't seem to break anything else.  I hope.

If this causes any probles for anyone that tries it, lemme know, I'll see what I can do to fix it.

pabst wrote on February 22, 2009 at 07:12:

Well the fix you describe does the trick but it affects other themes also and some don't play nice with Icons. Another way to deal with it seems to be using the popup.rc within the theme, it seems to deal with the same desktop popup menu in a theme specific manner. So using your lines but replacing the deskmenu prefix with xPopup seems to do it, along with deleting (or commenting out) the existing xPopupEntryFontLeftBorder entry result in the same effect. xPopupEntryShowIcon true xPopupEntryFontLeftBorder 25 xPopupAutoMenuBreak true Well I'm rather new to Litestep so this is just what I found through fiddling around, hope it works for everyone.
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