Resurrection of Stardock's StarFox skin is finished. Classic 1/2, and Win7 styles. Have to use CSM v4.3.0
Various problems with this skin.
The scanning lines create havoc with text, so "text shadows" option can help.
To get sharper text, change "Font Smoothing to "Standard".
It is not original background picture. It had to be modified to work with CSM stretching menu.
Due to patterns are not available on submenus, there is a choice of plain background, or sudo tile pattern.
Sudo will compress, and look weird at times.
Menu skin can work on 96 DPI, or 144 HDPI. Not for 120 HDPI, as elements go out of alignment.
I put an option on classic style two column, to use extended bottom padding.
You need to load the xml file along with setting up the two icons.
Put the folder "StarFox Bottom padding xml" in drive C. Don't hide in another folder.
Put skins in Classic Shell skin folder.
Load the xml file, and it should switch to StarFox classic skin, with the icons at bottom.
If you want to use a different skin, load the other xml file to get back to normal(without customization}.
Menu skin only comes with one background picture.
There is an option to use another background picture.
The screenshot shows a couple other examples.
There are many wallpaper sites with pictures to use.
http://wallpaperswide.com/You will have to crop them,
as most of what we see on the menu is top left of a bigger picture.
Why are there incredibly tiny selection buttons for extended bottom padding setup?
When xml option switches to icon button(without text), and if no icons are selected, guess what?
The selector reduces to just a few pixels high.
For some odd reason there is some interaction between 1st and 2nd columns that make selector bigger on 2nd.
So I took advantage of it, and put fake icons behind the semi transparent selectors.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
Also, in past skins I used a custom blank item to push the above text out of the way.
It does not work when no icons are selected, and since Stardock made original separator as invisible padding,
I use a bunch of those to make buffer space above.
That's why no visible separators in second column, when extended.
I had to make the separators brighter to offset the scanning lines interference. I don't use them, as they get in the way.
Last thing.
StarFox's Mama said, "Never look at the sun. You will go blind".