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Getting back into skinning

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This Fall I’m starting to get back into skinning.  For the past 8 months or so, I’ve been the interim Project Manager on Elemental: War of Magic to get that game ready for release – which I failed spectacularly at. Sometimes, the answer is not to “work harder”. But I digress.

The problem I’m seeing with skinning is business vs. passion.  That is, Windows XP users still represent a near majority of the people using our skinning programs. The problem is, Windows XP is dead as a technology base. I don’t want to even support it any longer.  I want us to make cutting edge technology using WPF and Silverlight and other things that can show what is possible.

A lot of the new Windows technologies have been under used which is a real shame because there’s some great stuff there.

My main worry right now is that WPF is not being well supported by Microsoft and I don’t want us to get into a tech that Microsoft is going to abandon (GDI+, cough cough).

See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/microsoft_defends_silverlight/ for my concerns.

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 20
 

And this means ? Anything getting better regarding the desastrous state of Object Desktop ? Or is this just another of Your countless 'Oh, I will do something.' threads again ? Sorry Brad, but You have lost my personal trust over the last 1-2 years completely...
 

Then go away, c242. I really could care less what you think. In fact, let me show you the door.

Is that how stardock treats long time customers? Be ashamed. A littel self-criticism would be better.

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Skarnivorous, reply 23


DesktopX gave me a way to interface more directly with my computer experience and gave me power to 'make it and do it the way I wanted' without having to learn a fully fledged programming language. Find more ways to break the 'presentation' barrier and get us access to *all* the bits we want to see and touch and play with. Windowblinds, Deskscapes, etc gives us a lot of see and feel, DesktopX I think is still a key to the touch and play.

 

Amen!

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

one of the things that made skinning for me less fun was having to make stuff that would work on many different versions of Windows. At some point, it stops being a hobby/fun and turns into "real work".

 

Amen.

 

 

Altho, it beats making pizza's :pizza: X|

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting sViz, reply 27



Quoting Skarnivorous,
reply 23


DesktopX gave me a way to interface more directly with my computer experience and gave me power to 'make it and do it the way I wanted' without having to learn a fully fledged programming language. Find more ways to break the 'presentation' barrier and get us access to *all* the bits we want to see and touch and play with. Windowblinds, Deskscapes, etc gives us a lot of see and feel, DesktopX I think is still a key to the touch and play.

 



Amen!

Amen again....

 

 

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is a good thing.

I still have that little neon fish... Fishy I think.

Sitting here thinking of the blinds I still have on older systems, made by you.

Aerosoft is still one of my favorites.

B)

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Altho, it beats making pizza's

I can vouch for that, John!

 

Love eating pizza.....hated working at a pizza restaurant  :pizza:

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

damn, I just took a look at Brad's pages. I hope he's seriously considering doing some more.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm guessing he means getting back into the skinning side of Stardock. As in new apps, or updated old apps.  At least I hope that's what he means. We need a new focus.

 

In order to use WPF and Silverlight, we need apps that will support those.

Brad is talking like a coder, not a skinner.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 33
I'm guessing he means getting back into the skinning side of Stardock. As in new apps, or updated old apps.  At least I hope that's what he means. We need a new focus.

 

In order to use WPF and Silverlight, we need apps that will support those.

Brad is talking like a coder, not a skinner.

gosh, even though I figured it out at the beginning the title is "getting back into skinning".

so, silverlight appears to be more of a developer's tool for presentation and control. something that WC might use as an interface with the public but I'm just not getting why my little heart needs to get a flutter/twitter from my side of the fence.

would someone please explain to me why having to download silverlight to use this site would be a benefit for me?

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

thought so.