Hey guys - we are thinking about changing the default Particls skin - what do you think of this.. (by the way - that's a sneek peek at the new Particls sidebar - coming out as an ExperimentalBuild update very soon)

Good, bad, ugly?

nah, stick with the green. this is too contrasty.

Green? There was no green lol

On some monitors, the default skin can appear slightly green. 

i like the wordwrap... Don't forget some room for the scrollbar

This was the original one http://www.particls.com/about/screenshots/typical.htm

@Ashley - seriously? Hah I never knew that

...Just a touch...

What if we include the old skin as the 'Particls Classic' skin when we do the skin chooser

The thing is the old skin looks crap with the sidebar

personally, i prefer this skin http://www.dallasfreeman.com/blog/?p=129

gives me the personal particls touch 

Haha we can't include your own personal skin branded with your name as the default skin!

Well we could I guess... no one could stop us

hehe i like where this is going !!!

i'm going to start talking to the microsoft developers to make a skin for their next OS based around me as their default skin, whatcha think?

back to your original question, i like this new skin, easier to read 

Start with delicategenius - he's a very influential MS guy Isn't that right Delicate?

Great to hear Dallas - That's one for, and one against

Although the fact that the current one looks green on some screens is not great hah

Yeah I don't know - you don't want to make the output device too prominent. They need to be as invisible as possible. The moving text will altery people when they need to be alterted - a dominating colour block on a users desktop will have them resent it.

Might want to check this out: http://metalinkltd.com/?p=91

Actually by making it dark/close to black I was hoping to have it NOT draw attention to itself and be as invisible as possible

Are you saying I failed 

I dont know if we want it yellow with green text though Elias

I always try to get the backround of particls to match the standard XP background blue, and I replace the particls logo with the feed logo

That was another option - try to adopt current the windows colors for the user - but for Vista that doesn't work very well