Many thanks for downloading the

Ubuntu Light Theme 10.10

for Windows XP !

Update:

~Aerilius has updated the theme to Ubuntu Light Themes 12.10.
You most likely want to download it instead, because it has fixes for almost all the bugs and includes a Radiance color variant in addition to Ambiance.

This port to Windows as well as the original Light themes for Linux are under a Creative Commons License, that means you can feel free to share, redistribute and (please) edit !

My intention was to bring the new polished look of Ubuntu and a more consistent visual appearance into my Windows programs in Virtual Box or Wine. As XP is still more widely used than Windows7 (especially in VirtualBox), I started with the Ambiance color scheme in XP msstyles format. Contributions of any kind are highly welcome!

This is a work in progress and there are still some bugs. If you have more knowledge of Windows Visual Styles, it would be great if you could help me:

• Unfortunately, many parts of XP styles cannot be skinned (context menu, rectangular text inputs, etc.). In addition most windows programs do not consistently use system colors/fonts, but override them with hard-coded colors/fonts (black) which can cause weird results. If you know how things could be improved, I would appreciate any help.
• in general Windows uses smaller sizes of fonts and controls
• some font colors still do not match
• problems with the dark menu background (some apps override it and display both text and background white)
• I couldn't get the progress bar to work
• an icon theme would be awesome, aswell as Radiance and Ambiance Dark color scheme
• fixed: magenta toolbar backgrounds in Wine
• updated: window captions and final Ubuntu font

How to use:

• for using custom Windows themes, you always need to have a patched uxtheme.dll, for example with UXtheme Multi Patcher
• you can get the window buttons on the left side using LeftSider
• right click on the task bar, then 'unlock' and move it to the top

How to edit:

• either you use StyleBuilder
• or you use Resource Hacker

source files:

rapidshare.com/files/739471789/UbuntuLight12.10.2_dev.zip