Thanks Scott. I'm glad for your sake your designer skills are better than
your analogies. :p

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Scott Barnes <[email protected]>wrote:

> Metro is so dead simple to do inside WPF its like stealing design pixels
> from an overweight rich design pixel dude..who owns..lots of pix...ya know
> what, i have no analogy here but suffice to say metro is simple.
>
> Tip: Wireframe your UI, then color it in.
>
> Stick to three primary colors, Chrome (aka Accent) | Brand (usually just 1x
> color can be 2 ..UPS (Brown/Gold), Aust Post (Red) etc... and Input (Like
> your car, you pop the hood and anything yellow means "touch friendly"
> anything not yellow, leave it alone..same principle applies.
>
> Now you've been taught metro ;)
> :
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Scott Barnes
> http://www.riagenic.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Winston Pang <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Yeah, I'm not sure if there's any solid WPF Metro theme packs around. Our
>> application (MetroTwit) was the victim of markup theft from the Metro
>> Toolkit, hence the copywrite infringement you saw on the codeplex site. They
>> literally took all our XAML and dumped it in a zip, without even modifying
>> the namespaces so there was MetroTwit references all over it.
>>
>> It took us a good few months till all our theme files were matured up.
>>
>> I think Chronos might be the best bet for now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Winston
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Stephen Price <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Am back into the WPF scene, just started a UI Designer role. I want to
>>> have a Metro theme, and the client loves it. So far I've found Chronos WPF
>>> which looks to be in beta, and Metro Toolkit (which says don't use it until
>>> they resolve a copywrite infringement).
>>> Just wondering if anyone has come across anything else? So far in my
>>> searching it's looking like the Metro theme is primarily in the Silverlight
>>> world.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Stephen
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