New VS mockup I'm working on. I had to do it completely from scratch, cus my hdd decided that a headcrash would be a fun thing to do. I disagreed.
Any suggestions, comments, critic?
edit: some additions and progress
and my HDD was able to be recovered \o/
That means I can also release my icon theme, I was working on, with the theme together (when I have the money to pay for the recovery, donations will be accepted and apprechiated!

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the font is "haxcorp" and my own "ventzer0 normal" theyre bitmap fonts ... but i will make a normal font variant.
I'm not sure about using windows' regular close/minimize buttons as a template, that's what every single theme does. They're the same ones, but with anothe cross, another highlight glow or another tone. It's kinda dull. I personally haven't found a theme that beats clearscreen sharp yet, and that is with the clsoe/minimize buttons taken into account. They're formatted like in XP, but smaller and without being "boxed" up.
I feel like this comment is more like plain criticism than it is constructive but... Well it's more of a personal preference I guess, I still really really (!) like the colors and the mix of white and black. I'd also like to hear if you pick up on anything I wrote because I really feel this theme has more potential than many other themes have
the caption buttons have the same size as the default ones, yes, but everything else is new about them the shape, the glows,..
they maybe are boxed in like most others, but I like that and for the feel I wanted to create and it works fine. the big problem is: the close button has a fixed size, you have to kinda of cheat to get it as small as the others, and because of that the symetry will shift to the left a bit. when they are not boxed in like in clearsharp you can do that without breaking the symetry.
here are 2 examples [link] & [link] ... actually the second version looks quite good.
anyways thanks for your comment/critique