[spmwinkel]

Update January 21, 2008A PhoneWeaver addition to the Mono suite has been poster here:
http://forums.sbsh.n...showtopic=19805


Update January 2, 2007 - I have just upscaled the PocketBreeze skins, iLauncher meters, Clock skin and Category icons for VGA.
They are not reworked, just 200% of the QVGA version.
Screenshots are available thanks to ANETO:
PocketBreeze and iLauncher

Download the "vga" package here:  VGA_upscaled.zip (287.15K)
Number of downloads: 71
There will be no additional support on the VGA package since I don't have a VGA device and can't test it, so this is provided 'as is'.
Many thanks to ANETO and BoB_55 for the screenshots and help on the iLauncher meters!
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Hi all

I wanted a skin with white icons on a black background, and found that a simple skin like this was missing. So I created it myself!

After doing that, I figured that I could just as well turn it all around, and make the same skin in black. So I present to you the Mono skin, which is in fact a double skin since it is in two colors.

 BannerSmall.jpg (3.71K)
Number of downloads: 4  Mono.png (2.56K)
Number of downloads: 0

Except for the pixels that are drawing the icons, the rest is transparent, so the icons don't have a background.
Therefore it is a light skin that also works good on Today themes with lots of detail, or potographs!

Preview

 PB_Bs.jpg (17.41K)
Number of downloads: 56  PB_W.jpg (17.11K)
Number of downloads: 23  PB_B.jpg (16.17K)
Number of downloads: 14

 SBSH_Clock.jpg (8.41K)
Number of downloads: 14  Clock_B.jpg (7.8K)
Number of downloads: 5

 iL_W.jpg (54.25K)
Number of downloads: 13  iL_B.jpg (18.32K)
Number of downloads: 6

 Category_icons.jpg (9.98K)
Number of downloads: 11

Download links

PocketBreeze skin in both colors
 Mono_PocketBreeze.zip (83.25K)
Number of downloads: 171
SBSH Clock skin in both colors
 Mono_Clock.zip (4.36K)
Number of downloads: 41
SBSH iLauncher in both colors: 2 meter sets, tab icon and top bar meter
 Mono_iLauncher.zip (64.96K)
Number of downloads: 109
Category icons in both colors
 Mono_Category_icons.zip (2.95K)
Number of downloads: 101
Today themes 2 black and 1 white
 Mono_Today.zip (3.18K)
Number of downloads: 127

Some general comments
Use the Mono Black today theme with the Mono White PocketBreeze\iLauncher\Clock\Category icons, or the Mono White today theme with the Mono Black PocketBreeze\iLauncher\Clock\Category icons.

A lot of the icons are based on my Nayla skin. I'm not a graphics expert, and the icons I created for Nayla worked fine so for quite a few I just reworked them for this skin. As I said, I just wanted a clear white skin on a black background and didn't need fancy graphics or the black icons (but I included those black icons anyway ).

iLauncher
This skin suite has top bar meters included in both colors (one set is visible in the above iLauncher screenshots, and the other in the "custom use" screenshot below).
To apply this, copy the four files to \Program Files\SBSH\iLauncher\images, replacing the excisting files.
Make sure you backup the original, excisting files if you want to return to the original red-to-green meter later on!
To apply the new meter, you might need to disable iLauncher and enable it again, or soft reset.

Also included are 2 sets of meters for 16x16 and 32x32 (Thanks Trewblue for your comments!), and a Tab icon.

Category icons
These are nothing special, but I created them for myself so I thought I might as well include them .

Today themes
Included are the 3 Today themes you see on the PocketBreeze preview.

Regarding the Mono Black Solid theme, note that it places info in your registry to skin the top and bottom bar, and this info is saved even if you delete the Today theme. To delete this info, go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\ and delete the Mono Black Solid.tsk folder. Only tweak the registry if you're confident about it, since you might mess up your device if you make mistakes in your registry.

For a little preview on how this can look on a custom Today theme (so this one is not included, and since it was in a commercial suite I cannot provide it!):
 PocketBreeze_Custom.jpg (65.17K)
Number of downloads: 14

That's it, enjoy!

[mickesjo]

Absolutely love the way the simple graphics show on the image backdrop at the bottom of the first post (the others look great too but that one is just brilliant!)! I never thought about it before but it's clear that if you want a beautiful and detailled backdrop, Stefans skin shows the way one should do it (i.e. keep the other things as simple as posible)!

Great work!!

[KTamas]

Wow this made me change my default PB/Today theme after weeks. Excellent job!

[spmwinkel]

Thanks for that comment!
Great to hear someone finds it useful.

[amitregev]

This looks GREAT Stefan!! Congrats for another great skin suite release!

Many thanks for the hard work on the skin suite!!

[spmwinkel]

Thank you sir!

[SinisterJunkie]

Just moved under the Resources forum and Thanks Stefan for the hard work. Nice work!

[JudgeDredd]

Stefan, That is Awesome!! I am a sucker for those dark skins. This one will be going on my PDA right now.

[spmwinkel]

Thanks JudgeDredd! Awesome to hear this from you. I liked your idea for WAD skinning (the realistic desktop), but I only didn't use WAD

@ Mike - Thanks for your comment and for moving the thread!

[SinisterJunkie]

Sorry I didn't think of moving the thread from the Beta forum. Things have bee a little hectic to say the least.

[spmwinkel]

I understand, of course. Christmas and the beta release, that's double hectic. And then there is of course more in life then just those two.

[hrb]

Want VGA !
Want VGA !
Congrats for this great skin, spmwinkel
VGA ?
Cheers
hrb

[spmwinkel]

Thanks!
Hehe if I'd have a VGA device I would have created the VGA skin in the first place, and then reworked it for QVGA... Unfortunately I only have a QVGA device . So that makes it pretty impossible for me to make it in VGA resolution. Sorry!

[KTamas]

Thanks!
Hehe if I'd have a VGA device I would have created the VGA skin in the first place, and then reworked it for QVGA... Unfortunately I only have a QVGA device . So that makes it pretty impossible for me to make it in VGA resolution. Sorry!

While I'm usually against this solution, due to the simple nature of the skin, I think it would not look bad if you would just scale it up to VGA (at least it is worth a try).

[spmwinkel]

Okay anyone can download the following package. It contains the black icons for PocketBreeze. I just made them 200 % of the original, and that\'s all I\'ll do about it.
There simply isn\'t a lot of fun in tweaking images if I don\'t have a device to test (and use) them on, which means I have to guess if they will look decent.

If you download it, please put it on a light today theme and post a screenshot if you want.

If they look good, everyone is free to scale them up. PM me and we can discuss if we should include them in the start post or open a new topic for them. I\'d like to keep the downloads organized and not spread through a topic.
(If they don\'t look good, you can scale them up too but there\'s not much fun in using and displaying them )

This post has been edited by spmwinkel: 02 January 2007 - 08:01 PM
Reason for edit:: Removed download to avoid confusion, please check the first post for download link.