Original UI background?

[loramin]

Back when Green was first announced, a brave group of P99ers saw that the staff was going to use a non-classic UI, and they rebelled! They caused such a fuss that the staff agreed to let them make a classic UI ... and that's how we got the UI everyone knows (and loves?) on Green.

That UI was based on a classic UI, but it wasn't one most people knew, because you had to hit F10 (or something) to see it in the original software. Instead, most people know the "gray stone" UI, which you mentioned.

As I recall, the "UI warriors" wanted to go with a stone UI originally ... but couldn't make it work with Titanium (and the much greater resolutions that people play at today). However, I believe they got as far as a first draft of it, before giving up and building the current one.

I'd talk to them (I believe Jibartik was on the UI team? Can't remember who else, but a forum search should turn it up). See if you can get their half-done stone theme, and if you can somehow make it work (on Blue; as noted you can't do custom UIs on Green) I think you'd have a pretty good chance of the staff making it an official Green UI ...

... but if all our great "UI warriors" couldn't make it work, just know that it will be an uphill battle.