pantsaregood
September 12th, 2010, 09:24 AM
What I'd like should be simple for anyone with any sort of experience with creating themes and a half-decent artistic mind. Unfortunately, I lack both of these.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and I basically want a conversion of the standard Aero Glass theme to black. The themes I've found all have either altered taskbars or maximize/minimize/close icons. The native ability Windows 7 permits one to modify the Aero theme is, at best, mediocre. When I maximize windows, I get black-on-black text, rather than glowing white-on-black text as I'd like. I'd like a black "selected" look to show up on menu boxes, rather than the default look. I'd also like black window frames and backgrounds.
I was actually a fairly big fan of "Basic Black" from MrGrim, but it had a modified scrollbar, modified icons, and lacked glowing text.
This probably sounds like a ridiculous request. There's actually a reason behind it: I'm colorblind, and brighter colors just don't work well for me. The high contrast classic themes are ugly (and the classic theme just looks terrible on 7), and I can't figure out how to properly make a simple black theme for 7.
Thanks.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and I basically want a conversion of the standard Aero Glass theme to black. The themes I've found all have either altered taskbars or maximize/minimize/close icons. The native ability Windows 7 permits one to modify the Aero theme is, at best, mediocre. When I maximize windows, I get black-on-black text, rather than glowing white-on-black text as I'd like. I'd like a black "selected" look to show up on menu boxes, rather than the default look. I'd also like black window frames and backgrounds.
I was actually a fairly big fan of "Basic Black" from MrGrim, but it had a modified scrollbar, modified icons, and lacked glowing text.
This probably sounds like a ridiculous request. There's actually a reason behind it: I'm colorblind, and brighter colors just don't work well for me. The high contrast classic themes are ugly (and the classic theme just looks terrible on 7), and I can't figure out how to properly make a simple black theme for 7.
Thanks.