No.

Just because the most common 'junk' cars ever built are Corollas...and VW beetles doesn't mean there's no market for "real" cars....Ferraris...BMWs....Jags....Gogomobiles....cars with ACTUAL character....

I'm not impressed with the ton of look alike/multiple version/beta/half finished VS's that I see at DA. I would rather apply a well thought out and fully functional WB, but that is just my take.

Jafo and 2of3 

Quality over quantity. Any day. Everyday.

Yeah, I think so, Essorant, DrJBHL. There are too many things for our skinners to do to have a complete skin for THREE operating systems. Anyway, I still love WindowBlinds so much. Big love to our great Skinners and Stardock .

Because people still use Vista as they may not see any reason to pay Microsoft more money.

I often switch between custom visual styles and windowblinds. I think there's a huge difference between the two. Windowblinds allows for a more custom layout, for example - I've never seen any kind of visual style that looked like Venom by Vstyler. They each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

I don't think windowblinds will ever die. It's becoming more and more popular, for those who aren't comfortable hacking system files. I follow many artists on deviantart too, and I agree that there are tons of high quality themes there. I use many of them. But, windowsblinds is a different, unique kind of customization that will never lose popularity.

That's my opinion.

Hey Sir WOM how are ya?

In theroy you could build just 1 skin that would work on all 3 but here is what I ran into ..1 skin all elements ...looks good in XP so on to Vista...looks good on Vista except there are some unreadable menus So we correct the text issues at this point for me XP was till usable just not perfect .....So on  to win 7 now there are only apprx.15-20 MUST HAVE images in 7 that arent needed in Vista so if we included ithem in the Visya skin that would take care of that but then you will find some menus that just dont work right so,fix those and we have 3 sub-styles....

Now if you had abolutely perfect forethought I guess you could do it especialy if all yout parts were microsoft colors but then you would still have to test all 3.....

Ok I just pulled another hand full of hair out ! lol

Applying Visual styles cost nothing, thats the main difference, there are bound to be more of an abundance of users, and skinners, as someone said, most of them are copies, rehashes of whats around already. The last time I saw an impressive visual style..

... I made it

What does porning mean ?

I appreciate your effort Jimster

Thanks John. I appreciate the opportunity. And the graphics. 

Personally I'll use WindowBlinds over Visual styles simply because one is meticulously thought out and applied over many different aspects of the desktop whereas Visual Styles in my opinion are just adding different colors to what already exists as opposed to actually skinning stuff. Maybe I'm wrong having never skinned more than a calendar but once for me is enough. I had downloaded a VS called Blue Cube 1.0. It looked good  and I thought since I'm not using WindowBlinds at the moment I'd give it a shot. It was off my machine in less than a minute. It's very dark, too dark to be usable and the text is either blue on black to the point of invisibility or black on black and therefore useless. I'm not saying they're all bad but I'd rather have something I can put on my machine and enjoy it. Besides...there are those skinners like Vampothika, vStyler, RedneckDude, amitsaran, jazzilady, to name just a few who take originality and give it new meaning. Visual Styles may be more prolific but that's only because they are easier to do, I think. Again I may be wrong but there it is. Quality over quantity is what I'd rather have. Also because I'm biased in favor of WB's. They have a certain flair (I wanted to say the french name for it but I don't know how to spell it).  

I ain't touchin' that one.

I have tried a couple of other types of themes other than WindowBlinds.

The verdict? A good WindowBlinds skin beats the pants off of all the others!

sViz has a great tutorial on analog clock making. And, I might add, a bunch of other tutorials on DX.    http://sviz.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=162744   I'm a skinner, not a writer.

There is a plugin for it, in DX, comes with it if you use 3.5. But it don't work on 64 bit. sViz's does.

You know, there really is no reason to make a big stink about one comment made by a WC subscriber who was merely stating an opinion, as everyone here does from time to time.

I have given this as much attention as it needs.