The last days I've messed around with Foobar and the columns_ui, trackinfo-panel and album art plugins. As a total newbie, I'm still confused about one part of lay-outing foobar:

A number of screenshots show foobar-displays where the standard windows-colors (as in my windows-classic look of XP) are replaced by skins as used in tools as Winamp etc.. I know how to change the views of individual panels, but how do I change the design and grey color of column headings, volume / progress sliders, scrollbars and splitters, without changing my windows theme?

Apologies if this is the wrong place in the forum to post this one...

That stuff can only be changed by the windows theme. You can buy software to do that, or use a modified uxtheme.dll file and download free visual styles from many places. If you only want to change the appearance of fb2k, I think you can control skinning of individual apps with a program called Windowblinds.

(edit: except there is a UI replacement called "foo_looks" or somesuch for version 0.8.3 which allows full skinning... but...)

Thanks for the info. I'm not going to use windowblinds or something similar at this stage. It would take the 'lightness' out of Foobar2000 altogether. I stumbled across the ' foo_looks' but it wasn't fully what I was looking for. (I don't need a total new skin, just ways to change menu-colors etc.)