Since the skin was never released (or reached final adjustments) there are a few issues with it: some of the colors don’t meet the overall “feel” (they’re too purple-ish compared to the greys of the bitmaps) and the inactive titlebars are a little too dark. The result is an aesthetic black skin named “Royale Noir”, it even works with Office 2003.
W3bbo writes,ĭuring Royale‘s development (the XP Media Center theme), the graphic artists also produced a black version of the skin, sans the overused “glass” effect. After some dedicated searching, he finally uncovered this mystery Windows XP theme by Microsoft. One theme to rule them all.ĭevoted Channel9 member W3bbo spotted an interesting theme on one of the “ people_ready” television commercials airing in the Kingdoms. Now, a young hobbit man by the name of W3bbo saw light of this unheard of theme, and traveled far and wide to uncover its mysteries. It was believed to be too powerful for public consumption and forever archived in the servers at 1 Microsoft Way. Sometime after the launch of XP, somewhere in Redmond, someone on the Microsoft design team was in the progress of developing something for Media Center.
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