I've been fixing that Windows XP Royale theme for Mint!
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Dark_Fox_666
Is this for cinnamon de?
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
Yup, this is your regular cinnamon. I'll try to update the theme whenever I see there's a problem, but I don't promise anything.
I get a lot of trouble some times picking colours. Now I'm struggling with calendar colouring, I don't know what colours use in this case. Green? Blue? I just can't decide, so it looks AWFUL AS FUCK.
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
Ah, and most themes are more or less usable. That includes metallic, Zune, Royale Noir, and Embedded.
Apexx86
Is this on the most recent version of Mint? How did you get the titlebars to look not oversized?
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
A lot of effort, trial and error until I found out how to make it look appropriate.
I'm thinking in contacting the Boomerang Proyect, the guys that made this, and see if they can include my changes
Common_Jackfruit_916
Can you add dark mode 🥹?
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
Sounds like a good idea, I could try and see if it can workout. I need to investigate how the 'darkmode' switch works.
xm-mkj
Looking good!
Desperate_Caramel490
Holly jeebees
Dark_Fox_666
It works and it looks so good thank you
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
You're welcome! I'm also a nostalgic person
[deleted]
Thank you very much. Worked very good. I love it! Could you please tell me how to achieve the XP taskbar look please?
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
Ah, I'm still modifying it, so the latest changes have not been uploaded. I think WinXP Luna has some of them
TheGrandFinale2001
Wow, looks good.
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This looks wonderful. Good effort and thanks for the DL link.
clockworkCandle33
Username checks out. And the theme looks nice!!
Hawkeye_2706
wow impressive design may i have the stuff?
KimKat98
That's awesome, thanks for uploading this. I have a massive love of retro designs and I haven't found a good one for Cinnamon
jd31068
Love it!
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Wow, looks great! Brings back memories hah. I'd like to try it for kicks (unfortunately, I'm a dark theme person :) ) I remember messing with Uxtheme patcher in XP. It wasn't perfect, some (dialogue) windows had black background with black text... so sometimes I had to switch theme to read.
Nothing in "Releases" on that github though, I assume we can just download the zip from the top of that page? (the <>Code button). I haven't tried this yet though.
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
Ah, no I didn't make a release or anything, they're the rough themes. I will download it, that UXTheme and see if I can make a dark version or something based on that
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All good, tested it, looking great! You mentioned somewhere (I think?) some things are off, or not complete. One of them I noticed is the workspace switcher in the panel (task bar). No biggie, just FYI.
As for the Uxtheme pathcer, I also seem to remember you had to download some unofficial themes, the patcher were just to be able to use those themes (I don't remember any specifics, it's been a while lol).
Pony_Roleplayer [OP]
I'll investigate! And yeah, the cinnamon specifics part is missing. I've been manually changing stuff individually but is deiving me crazy, specially the colour management without variables and constants.
I'll see if I can adapt azurra framework to make cinnamon.css files when I get some time. I'm sure than when I finish it, I'll make a new post here.
CaioMartins12
wow, beautiful!
runeehrenreich
What height is your panel and what is your icon pack? Looks great and can't wait the update to fix the menu.
miksa668
Great effort, getting a good looking, smooth and modern desktop to look like an outdated and woefullly inferior one. Well done you!
Need this in my life
Pony_Roleplayer [OP] 30 points · Nov 2024
I forked a repo and uploaded the stuff!
Here: https://github.com/PonyRoleplayer/Windows-XP-themes/
I started editing them for my own personal use, and then I said "Welp, is lookin' good!" so I decided to upload it
UBSPort 10 points · Nov 2024
Royale Dark (Noir) was the best
Pony_Roleplayer [OP] 8 points · Nov 2024
It should be there as well, I hope it works peoperly! I'll try to upload my changes tomorrow so the start menu looks as it should.
_ayushman 5 points · Nov 2024 · M1 2020 | Golden Gate
What about we use this font in the system? https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1888398/fs-tahoma-8px-9
Pony_Roleplayer [OP] 3 points · Nov 2024
I've just installed it, all the sizes look pretty bad. That's one of the reasons I'd rather use a more modern font u.u
_ayushman 2 points · Nov 2024 · M1 2020 | Golden Gate
Ah my bad it was just a suggestion :<
Pony_Roleplayer [OP] 1 points · Nov 2024
I've just realised that the OG fonts work better, straight out of Windows XP SP3
_ayushman 1 points · Nov 2024 · M1 2020 | Golden Gate
Wait.... You have XP SP3?
Pony_Roleplayer [OP] 2 points · Nov 2024
On a virtual machine! I only have Windows 98 in my classic PCs :p
_ayushman 1 points · Nov 2024 · M1 2020 | Golden Gate
Whoaaaaa
AndyManCan4 3 points · Nov 2024
Old school cool over here… 👈