Artist's Note
*** FEATURED AND RELEASED ***
First of all a big thanks to Lifehacker for the feature, something totally unexpected.
Second, most of the skins have now been released.
You can download them from here.
If you would like to add anything to this opensource suite, then you are more than welcome. Let me know if you do so I can add it to the Myriad Suite page.
Myriad on Windows Vista SP1
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History
I ventured into the realm of desktop customization while I was on 98se and stumbled across the invaluable resource of WinT's forums. He was king of the smooth minimal look, and would hack everything that he could. Ever since them I've always tried to make my desktop look as least "default" as possible. I like change, and I can't resist a nice minimal, yet useable look. With Vista came a whole set of new challenges though as I myself haven't yet tried to make my own Visual Style. Thankfully there is some great work being done some very clever people. The artists that come to mind are invaderjohn, sweatyfish, nindijin, dimage, and MANNiEmedic.
Details
This theme came about when I was looking back at a previous screenshot of mine when I was on XP, I was using Mirev2 - a fantastic dark minimal opensource XP Visual Style. Not long after that I discovered the BASIC (non-aero) version of MANNiEmedic's Antar VS. It was fairly close to what I was looking for. It was the first Vista VS that effectively pulled off a dark explorer window background. Invaderjohn had featured several screenshots of WIP's but he was encountering a few color issues so they got out of beta. This however did the job, just needed a good dose of the 3dcc to fix up some of the colors.
Credits
All the skins details are below, but I would like to especially give credit to MANNiEmedic for his great work on the VS, and to pepijnnuland & asuraci for their work on the mirev2 suite. Lastly to WinT, possibly the father of windows desktop customization.
Borrowed Skins
Vista Visual Style // Antar Basic by MANNiEmedic
Wallpaper // minorkeyWS by ether
Icons // affel by bobbyperux
Modified Skins
Winamp // Myriad - my mod of Mire v2 Winamp by biftek.
CAD // Myriad - my mod of Pure Adium by Nevezen
Colorpad // Myriad by me (loosely based on Sonetto by eos8)
Rainmeter // Myriad by me - (code borrowed from spr33 and AKH-Arazand)
Original Skins
Rocketdock + stacks docklet // Myriad by me
Skincalc // Myriad by me
Codepad // Myriad by me
Shutoff // Myriad by me
Media Player Classic // Myriad Logo by me
Same Game // Myriad by me
3d Color Changer // Myriad by me
Resource hacker // changed program icons to blank icon, changed power and network status icons in the systray
Unseen
Other little apps running hidden to improve functionality & productivity
Hoekey // mapped winkey + (letter) to launch all my favourite little apps (skincalc, colorpad, codepad, notepad2, shutoff, console2)
Desktop Media // creates a shortcut on the desktop whenever a USB drive / cd is inserted.
Ditto // the best clipboard catcher I've used
Magic Mail Monitor // checks my Pop3 account
QTTabbar // adds tabs and a whole lot more to Explorer
Licensing: the artist has specified that ports and mods are allowed.
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Comments (10)
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This is the best vista desk I´ve seen.
Great work there : )
Mon, Jan 12th at 07:00am (1 year ago)
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Very nice :)
Mon, Jan 12th at 08:29am (1 year ago)
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Dude. THIS is sweet.
Mon, Jan 12th at 01:34pm (1 year ago)
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Pure awesomeness man. Made my day to see such great custo. Well done my friend. :-D
Mon, Jan 12th at 06:26pm (1 year ago)
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Small pink lights ;)
I like it.
Tue, Jan 13th at 10:14am (1 year ago)
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wow, loved the whole customization enviroment...
Tue, Jan 13th at 05:02pm (1 year ago)
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This is a hella sweet Vista setup. Nice work.
Thu, Jan 15th at 08:35am (1 year ago)
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that calculator is SEX
Thu, Jan 15th at 07:49pm (1 year ago)
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kowic: woah thanks mate, theres still alot that could be better, thanks for the compliments though
mizu: glad you like it =)