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ZestycloseReception8
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Material You Skin

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I'm trying to recreate this skin I saw on Reddit: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPWvdJpjxk_tf1FceaprlzspoNVf_kSFuj405hp9lP2y_n9todYc5zqZMCo8S6mEA?pli=1&key=dlFsV2JHbl94LTRaYktHLTJJXzZwelNYVS1keHVR Unfortunately OP when answering questions about how he did it in the comments he didn't give much to go off with. He said that he used pre made skins and edited the .ini file to get it how he wanted it to look. I'm looking to recreate this skin including the taskbar and the Explorer bar thing on the top of his desktop.
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Re: Material You Skin

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ZestycloseReception8 wrote: July 28th, 2023, 2:21 pm I'm trying to recreate this skin I saw on Reddit: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPWvdJpjxk_tf1FceaprlzspoNVf_kSFuj405hp9lP2y_n9todYc5zqZMCo8S6mEA?pli=1&key=dlFsV2JHbl94LTRaYktHLTJJXzZwelNYVS1keHVR Unfortunately OP when answering questions about how he did it in the comments he didn't give much to go off with. He said that he used pre made skins and edited the .ini file to get it how he wanted it to look. I'm looking to recreate this skin including the taskbar and the Explorer bar thing on the top of his desktop.
Your link doesn't work (or doesn't contain any photo), so either post a correct link or attach a screenshot to your post with the said image. In any case, just from your description which seems to indicate a more complex skin, I can tell that without the original skin, it won't be that easy to recreate it, and you'll be the one to do it (i.e. we'll help for sure, but won't write all the code for you).

A valid image to see how it looks like is needed anyway. You or anyone trying to search it might get lucky and find it via an image search, depending on how close the said image is to the skin preview image, if any.
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As Yincognito said above, the link is not valid. The easiest way to include an image into your post, is to upload it directly here. When writing your reply, click the Attachments tab below the field in which you're writing your reply, click the Add files button and look for the image you want to attach. When the image has been uploaded, you can either leave it so, or can include to certain place in your reply, using the Place inline button, next to the uploaded image:
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So, no need for external and many times not-working links.
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Re: Material You Skin

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Yincognito wrote: July 28th, 2023, 3:14 pm Your link doesn't work (or doesn't contain any photo), so either post a correct link or attach a screenshot to your post with the said image. In any case, just from your description which seems to indicate a more complex skin, I can tell that without the original skin, it won't be that easy to recreate it, and you'll be the one to do it (i.e. we'll help for sure, but won't write all the code for you).

A valid image to see how it looks like is needed anyway. You or anyone trying to search it might get lucky and find it via an image search, depending on how close the said image is to the skin preview image, if any.
I think i know the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/135s87x/themed_all_my_devices_inspired_from_googles/

this is what i found which matches his discription
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Re: Material You Skin

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aaronj3245 wrote: February 19th, 2024, 10:38 am I think i know the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/135s87x/themed_all_my_devices_inspired_from_googles/

this is what i found which matches his discription
Thanks, hopefully it's the skin the OP referred to, and if so maybe somebody will be able to identify it. ;-)
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For the record, apparently someone did make a Rainmeter plugin for this (using Material You colors in a skin), see:
https://github.com/Reallukeisbest/meterial-you
I didn't test it, so that part will be up to anyone interested in using it. It's probably not the skin the OP is looking for, but it offers some clues on how to use such colors for future readers of this thread.
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Re: Material You Skin

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Yincognito wrote: March 3rd, 2024, 4:25 pm For the record, apparently someone did make a Rainmeter plugin for this (using Material You colors in a skin), see:
https://github.com/Reallukeisbest/meterial-you
I didn't test it, so that part will be up to anyone interested in using it. It's probably not the skin the OP is looking for, but it offers some clues on how to use such colors for future readers of this thread.
I took you up on a testing how this works: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=222004#p222004
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Re: Material You Skin

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eclectic-tech wrote: March 4th, 2024, 5:38 am I took you up on a testing how this works: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=222004#p222004
I knew you would (though I thought you'd do it in the other related thread) - nice work! Hopefully it will be of use to the OP as well! :great:
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