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Artist's Note

Part of the Decadence suite by Nuance

NOTE: With the exception of the wallpapers, everything in DECADENCE SUITE IS 'OPEN SOURCE.' Consider permissions granted to edit and distribute the skins/visual style/icons/litestep theme as you like, so long as no money is being made off their distribution and both nuance and the original author are credited.

There are several versions of kroeger 05_55 caps floating around, so make sure to install fonts before use. Also, be sure to apply the 3dcc! Dark visual styles need that extra bit of love. (I should've added this to the readme.)

Three font versions included: kroeger 05_55 caps, standard 07_57 caps, and avant garde lt medium caps.

Arrived at the design via some photoshop tennis with advent, so he's as responsible for the direction it took as i am, i just built it :p But right, my first visual style, so don't hate.

OOPS: I uploaded the wrong package.. shellstyle's misplaced, and the wrong kroeger's included. (Download the updated package at www.nuancegroup.org!)

WINAMP SKINS: http://www.customize.org/details/46910
WALLPAPERS: http://www.customize.org/details/46907
ICONS: http://www.customize.org/details/46909

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amp.angel says:

Been using this on my windows partition for a few weeks now and I am still loving it. :D TooUglyForU Yes the fonts are supposed to be only 6 pixels in height. That is the way the font was made. As for your start menu problem: Right click desktop -> Properties - > Appearence -> Effects -> Use Large Icons. Fixes it.

Wed, Sep 13th at 12:50am (3 years ago)
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Whatever the response to our VS may be...all i havta say is that since the day we put together the first scrap vs, i've been using it and i still love it.

Wed, Sep 13th at 12:53am (3 years ago)
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Static- says:

shit guys .. great suite .. glad to see this finally relesed. been to busy to hang around IRC but ill be back soon :)

Wed, Sep 13th at 01:02am (3 years ago)
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I've been waiting for this. Looks great. Using it now.

Wed, Sep 13th at 01:49am (3 years ago)
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Maximhuz says:

;)

Wed, Sep 13th at 02:17am (3 years ago)
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kidrocky7 says:

sweet job :) great minimal suite

Wed, Sep 13th at 02:17am (3 years ago)
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kinetx says:

fucking awesome, it certainly is here to stay

Wed, Sep 13th at 02:38am (3 years ago)
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holy shittttt

Wed, Sep 13th at 04:25am (3 years ago)
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jzatt says:

Great suite! Loving every tiny bit of it :)

Wed, Sep 13th at 05:55am (3 years ago)
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nitzua says:

kroeger def looks the best out of all the fonts...my favorite part since i first saw the preview on GSM is the skull clbutton

Wed, Sep 13th at 07:20am (3 years ago)
888

clever clever vs.
excellent work guys, all the time and effort payed off.

Wed, Sep 13th at 09:03am (3 years ago)
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neodude says:

They it is! Looks sweet as, well done all

Wed, Sep 13th at 09:16am (3 years ago)
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relik says:

:O

Wed, Sep 13th at 12:18pm (3 years ago)
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dive says:

:-D

Wed, Sep 13th at 01:23pm (3 years ago)
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dsp_418 says:

finally a usable light VS! great job, thanks -

Wed, Sep 13th at 01:43pm (3 years ago)
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The font in the Firefox adressbar is unreadable with the black sub-style, so is the text in WLM chats.
akka: i changed back to the standard skin, works now. BTW: any tutorials around for the Firefox "hacks"?

Wed, Sep 13th at 02:25pm (3 years ago)
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akka says:

lautsprecher: strange, shows up fine for me: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/9392/ad
dressrj6.jpg


maybe you have a setting in firefox to use a specific color that would override system colors? and, don't know about wlm. some specific apps just don't like dark vs'es.. the price you pay. // still strange that one font worked while the other didn't, they both read from the same colors. swmmng: capx will be releasing the litestep theme sometime in the next few days. and yep, that's the one. toouglyforu if you don't think it's legible, there are two other font options included.. try loading up the large font or extra large font versions. i'll look into the start menu bit.. i'm running litestep now, but didn't notice it on explorer. // thanks for all the props everyone :]

Wed, Sep 13th at 02:34pm (3 years ago)
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The dark vs isn't as smooth as the white version, but who cares - definately high quality skin pleasures here :>

Wed, Sep 13th at 02:41pm (3 years ago)
635

Looks amazing. Nice work.

Wed, Sep 13th at 03:19pm (3 years ago)
429

this is the kickass

Wed, Sep 13th at 03:21pm (3 years ago)
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R I P says:

you guys did a fine fine job, give yourselves a pat on the back for a job well done. this has got to be one of the best vs's ever. again well done :)

Wed, Sep 13th at 03:26pm (3 years ago)
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swmmng says:

Where's this Litestep I see in your description? Also, I feel stupid, but how do you use 3dcc? And is the one at http://jote.pai.net.pl/jn/3dcc/ the only one around anymore?

Wed, Sep 13th at 04:48pm (3 years ago)
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Is it normal that the fonts are so tiny?
Another problem I'm having is that the "My Documents", "Recent Documents", "My Music"..etc in start menu have some text beside them.
Cool theme by the way!!

Wed, Sep 13th at 08:47pm (3 years ago)
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totalcool says:

nice work

Wed, Sep 13th at 11:13pm (3 years ago)
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OftenK says:

The first VS where I actually like the Dark version as much as the Light version. The whole suite is great. Nice work, guys.

Wed, Sep 13th at 11:46pm (3 years ago)
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heylove says:

Nice work!

Thu, Sep 14th at 05:08am (3 years ago)
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staticuxo says:

congrats.

Thu, Sep 14th at 10:53am (3 years ago)
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split says:

great job christian! congratulations.

Thu, Sep 14th at 01:54pm (3 years ago)
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Nylons says:

Lookin' good!

Thu, Sep 14th at 04:43pm (3 years ago)
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fate0000 says:

I didn't comment here - well, this'll be number 30 for you, dear.

Tue, Oct 3rd at 11:34pm (3 years ago)
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Compo says:

can't believe i missed this, great look vis style!

Thu, Nov 2nd at 02:07pm (3 years ago)
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ommmie says:

Good job akka, i know you put a lot into this and it shows. Great work!

Mon, Nov 6th at 02:04pm (3 years ago)
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akka says:

hey, thanks for the feature.

might give this and the winamp skin a small update soon, they need some polish ;x

Tue, Oct 16th at 11:59pm (2 years ago)
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egolatra says:

well deserved mate, congratz

Wed, Oct 17th at 12:13am (2 years ago)
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pjdark says:

awesome stuff akka.

Wed, Oct 17th at 08:13pm (2 years ago)


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