Winstep Xtreme theme

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A '''Winstep Xtreme theme''' is a theme/skin for Winstep (not related to [[NeXTSTEP]], despite the name), a suite of [[Windows]] "desktop enhancement" programs that replaces the default shell and adds "widgets" to the desktop, originally written by Jorge Coelho and John T. Folden<ref name="early">https://www.winstep.net/Help/Ns1/NextSTART.htm</ref>. Winstep Xtreme themes can also set the desktop background. The website claims that it is available for up to [[Windows 10]]<ref>https://www.winstep.net/products.asp As of May 2019</ref>, but it seems as if these things had their heyday in the [[Windows XP]] era, when extremely elaborate GUI decorations were newly possible, and therefore a novelty.
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A '''Winstep Xtreme theme''' is a theme/skin for Winstep (not related to [[NeXTSTEP]], despite the name), a suite of [[Windows]] "desktop enhancement" programs that replaces the default shell and adds "widgets" to the desktop, originally written by Jorge Coelho and John T. Folden<ref name="early">https://www.winstep.net/Help/Ns1/NextSTART.htm</ref>. Winstep Xtreme themes can also set the desktop background. The website claims that it is available for up to [[Windows 10]]<ref>https://www.winstep.net/products.asp As of May 2019</ref>, but it seems like these things had their heyday in the [[Windows XP]] era, when extremely elaborate GUI decorations were newly possible, and therefore a novelty.
  
 
A Winstep Xtreme theme is a [[ZIP]] file containing (in a flat directory structure) the main (shared) theme images, as well as elements specific to its subprograms, which are:
 
A Winstep Xtreme theme is a [[ZIP]] file containing (in a flat directory structure) the main (shared) theme images, as well as elements specific to its subprograms, which are:

Latest revision as of 23:06, 12 May 2019

File Format
Name Winstep Xtreme theme
Ontology
Extension(s) .xtreme
Released 1999[1]

A Winstep Xtreme theme is a theme/skin for Winstep (not related to NeXTSTEP, despite the name), a suite of Windows "desktop enhancement" programs that replaces the default shell and adds "widgets" to the desktop, originally written by Jorge Coelho and John T. Folden[1]. Winstep Xtreme themes can also set the desktop background. The website claims that it is available for up to Windows 10[2], but it seems like these things had their heyday in the Windows XP era, when extremely elaborate GUI decorations were newly possible, and therefore a novelty.

A Winstep Xtreme theme is a ZIP file containing (in a flat directory structure) the main (shared) theme images, as well as elements specific to its subprograms, which are:

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  1. 1.0 1.1 https://www.winstep.net/Help/Ns1/NextSTART.htm
  2. https://www.winstep.net/products.asp As of May 2019
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