winclassic
==========

Windows Classic theme designer: a utility to help ease the development of Windows Classic themes.

This tool allows you to design a Windows Classic theme without needing Windows' Window Appearance dialog. Currently, you can only customize the colours (which is really the most significant part of the theme), even the hidden ones.

*More documentation will be added once there is something usable*

One of my hobbies is to develop themes using the [Windows Classic style](http://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Windows%3AVisual_Styles%3AWindows_Classic).
This, of course, requires Windows. When I managed to finally install Arch Linux and made it my primary OS, I was left with two options if I wanted to continue the hobby: reboot to Windows whenever I wanted to develop a theme, or boot a virtual machine.

Rebooting to Windows is highly impractical. My computer only has 4 GB of memory, so booting a virtual machine also wouldn't work very well. This tool is my solution to this problem.



winclassic
==========

[Windows Classic theme designer](http://tpenguinltg.github.io/winclassic): a utility to help ease the development of Windows Classic themes.

This tool allows you to design a Windows Classic theme without needing Windows' Window Appearance dialog. Currently, you can only customize the colours (which is really the most significant part of the theme), even the hidden ones.

*More documentation will be added once there is something usable*

Background
----------

One of my hobbies is to develop themes using the [Windows Classic style](http://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Windows%3AVisual_Styles%3AWindows_Classic).
This, of course, requires Windows. When I managed to finally install Arch Linux and made it my primary OS, I was left with two options if I wanted to continue the hobby: reboot to Windows whenever I wanted to develop a theme, or boot a virtual machine.

Rebooting to Windows is highly impractical. My computer only has 4 GB of memory, so booting a virtual machine also wouldn't work very well. This tool is my solution to this problem.

See also [Windows 93 – I plan to do better... eventually](https://tpenguinltg.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/windows-93/).

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