The latest version of the TD Panther Series.


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IMPORTANT:


Install instructions:

1. Before you begin, please make sure you have installed
either a tweaked uxtheme.dll file or a copy of StyleXP
(from TGT Software). If you don't know what these are,
please visit the following web page where the entire
process is explained:

[link]


2.Included is a FONTS folder with the required fonts.
All you do is drag them into your windows/fonts folder.

For the 2 "Lucida Mac" fonts you drag the .INF file into your fonts folder, NOT the font files.

Please compare your desktop with the provided TD4-Preview image to see whether the fonts are installed properly or not.


3. This is a resizeable borderless theme, and therefore is designed to be used with a shadowing app. Y'z Shadow by Mr. Yamaguchi is therefore included in this release.


4. The Y'z Dock background shown in the Preview screenshot is included. (Set transparency all the way to the right)


5. The Y'z Toolbar theme shown in the Preview screenshot is included.


6. For this theme to look as it was designed to, you must enable cleartype in "Display Properties-->Appearances--> Effects".


7. The various docklets shown in the preview image, such as the comic and weather docklets found in the dock are by albeik and can be downloaded from [link] you will find many more docklets there.


8. For authentic OSX Bootup and Logon screens for XP please search the forums at [link].


Troubleshooting:

We are aware of the progressbar not stretching vertically, we are (after 3 months), still looking for a fix for this.
We are also aware that windows cuts off the right most tab in some tabbed windows and windows raises the active tab font, again we are looking for a fix for this.

If anyone has solutions please stop by the [link] forums and drop a line, or mail: teamno1@yahoo.com

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After a delay of 4 months people rightly believed this theme would never get released. This was in part due to this theme being a joint effort between Three Drives and Aquafying legend Iceman. Iceman took it upon himself to make this theme a worthy Panther sequel to his famous Jaguar 2.01 visual style. Shortly before release 3 months ago, and with only very small details still needing to be done Iceman mysteriously disappeared. Work on this theme therefore ceased until he could return.

He never did, and is still MIA. But this theme had to be released somehow, and with the help of the talented members below it is finally released as a joint effort.

Thank you all for having persevered and I hope you enjoy the theme!


~TD




TD 4.01
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Credits of the Intl. crew:


Three Drives (on a Vinyl - Greece 2000 (York Remix))
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EMRE6969, True Bogaz cocugu, from Beylerbeyi, Istanbul. Just somebody who wanted a 1:1 Panther theme for Windows.
teamno1@yahoo.com ---Taxim.

[link]



Iceman
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From Mexico, the Aqua Jesus himself, creator of the legendary Iceman Jaguar 2.01 visual style based on Apple Jaguar OSX 10.2. The living legend among the old school aquafiers. Currently MIA.

[link]



B0se
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From the UK, the man who literally saved this theme from going under. After Iceman's unexplained disappearance from the face of the net, B0se offered his expertise in the field of Visual styles. He turned out to amaze everyone with his very advanced skills at theming. Check out his other awesome styles at:

[link]



Goku
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A 3D Animator all the way from LA, the one person who had total free reign to say just how badly our work sucked and suggest ways to improve it. Endless source of late night (read: 06:45 AM) Mac screenshots. Handy if your living 8 hours back in time.

[link]



KoL
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From Puerto Rico. Master themer who so kindly allowed us to use his Smoothstripes theme as a base for TDK 3.0 and offered tremendous help. Check out his amazing themes at:

[link]



Matthias
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From Germany, creator of the famous MusicMatch 4.1 iTunes skin. Always offered to help out no matter how difficult the task. The most enthousiastic member by a long shot. Check out his MusicMatch skin in the [link] forums!

WHOOOO!!



GahbmwM5
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From the USA. The only sane person among this lot. Always ready to offer a helping hand in the form of "there's someone I know..."
This man knows everyone.



Ja450n
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Also from he USA. Another old school Aqua themer, helped tremendously with several key theming issues. Check his excellent work at:

[link] and [link]



Susumu
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From Japan, the one who actually started this idea off. Susumu was the first to make a panther theme, which was modded by Three Drives as soon as it came out, called S3D Panther (search the [link] forums). Later Susumu's panther base gave way to KoL's smooth stripes.

[link]



Mr. Yamaguchi
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Also from Japan, creator of the wonderful Y'z Dock 0.83, still the best dock out there for Apple Mac emulation. Unfortunately it was so good, that its development and distribution were stopped by Apple. Rumour has it that somewhere on the net it still exists.

Also creator of Y's Shadow 1.09, a wonderful little shadowing app, a copy of which is included with this theme.

[link]



Del-Graphixx
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For the wonderful blue and white Apple wallpaper.

[link]





Version History:


TD 4.02
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Update:

-Photoshop bug fixed! Thanks Stefanka.


TD 4.01
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Update:

-Fixed the issue with the progressbar not stretching vertically. Enjoy full sized rippled progressbars!


TD 4.0
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Update:


-Borderless yet resizeable windows
-Authentic font on dialog buttons
-Proper spacing between glyphs
-Correct progress bars
-IE scrollbar artifact fixed
-Correct colours for captionbar fonts (active & inactive)
-Better Start-menu and Icon font (similar to Iceman Jaguar 2.01)
-Entirely new start menu
-New borderless caption bars
-New taskbar flash, and newly installed apps highlight colour.
-Darkened the font in taskbar and all programs
-A long list of fixes and tune ups: i.e. taskbar group menu font colours, etc.


TDK 3.3
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Update:

-Completely new shadowed fonts for the taskbar, captionbar (titlebar), and menu's


TDK 3.01
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Update:

-Authentic Caption bar rounded corners and Glyph positioning
-Authentic Rippled Scrollbars


TDK 3
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UPDATE:


-Authentic tabs
-Authentic Panther combobuttons
-Authentic Panther toolbar mouseovers
-Modded with permission from Kol's Panther 1.5
-An improved TDK Panther 2.01.


For more information keep checking the forums on [link]





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Notice:

All graphics in this visual style which are also found in Apple OSX 10.3.1 and 10.3.2, are copyright of Apple Computer, Inc. All other graphics are copyright of their respective authors.

The unmodified theme may be freely redistributed in its original form and therefore including this readme. (Zip filesize: 2,512,714 bytes)

If you want to use it as a base for your own creations, please
be respectful to the job of the original creators and
DO NOT distribute it without my permission, doesn't matter how
many changes you have made.

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~Three Drives

Three Drives on a Vinyl - Greece 2000 (York Remix)


Made in Istanbul, Jan 10th 2004