Longhorn Skinning

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I was just looking at Stefanka's latest screenshot (it is a longhorn VS)Link

I am curious on how Longhorn themes work. Did microsoft remove the protection of uxtheme (if longhorn has it) or what?
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't think your link points to a genuine Longhorn visual style. Though it looks pretty good it's only inspired from the visual styles that we could see in the Longhorn Alpha builds that have leaked so far.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't think your link points to a genuine Longhorn visual style


I thought the same thing till I saw the comment by Stefanka in the second page. He said it worked for build 4074.

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
From what I have heard, Longhorn skinning will be a lot less flexible than it is under xp. There's no skin format, just bitmap replacements. Unless you have something like WindowBlinds.