In my experience the show desktop button should never be wider than 15 pixels for a single state. I find that a total canvas width of 45 pixels is pretty much the best you can have without weird distortion happening. Try side by side states rather than stacked too.

An example of one of my typical show desktop button:

SkinStudio is missing the section for the classic progress bar, aka the [Progress] section.  When creating my skin, I had to manually add the section in Notepad.

Why are you trying to add that section?  It is obsolete and has been for a very long time.

The "edit in SKS" button in WB Config opens a web page to download SKS.

That is because the path to SKS is set wrong in WB8 Jim. SKS8 installs to a different location than SKS7 did. I have no idea why they did that though, SKS8 lists as an upgrade, yet it installs to an incorrect location.  For instance, because of font issues I have pointed out for when I try to change Windows 7/8 fonts, I had to install SKS7 and SKS8 on my Windows 8 in order for the SKS8 to work. But in WB8 when I click the Edit in SKS link, it launches SKS7 and not SKS8. Lots of issues to still work out.

Uninstall the build of SKS you have and install the latest version.  Those issues were resolved.

I have SKS 8.0 beta....."open this skin in skinstudio" does nothing (WindowBlinds 7.98 (014 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS).

On W7 HP x64.

I wish WB 7.98 would open SKS like it used to. Now I have to search for it in the Start Menu. Also, I can't pin it to the task bar.

* Sorry, Tim. Was on page 1 and didn't see your reply.

Pin something else there then change the target and label....bingo!

Well that kinda works. I pinned mspaint there and edited the target, label and icon. The icon on the taskbar never changed but it did open sks. I tried a log on log off and the shortcut was gone.

Yep, does it to me too, after rebooting it was gone.

I did however work on pinning it to the startpanel.

Well here's a good question. Where did you put the settings for the task bar toolbar buttons (horizontal and vertical) and related settings at? They are no longer in SKS8, and now I have to put the old SKS back just to change them. Extremely disappointed, major oversight.

Which settings?

I see the taskbar button sections for horz and vert taskbars here.

You should remember some older unused sections (AKA XP only) have been removed from SKS.

I think he means quicklaunch buttons

They are still used for toolbar arrow mouseover.

Quicklaunch and pinned app settings are only shown in tree mode view. The are omitted from the section based view.

Well that's downright ridiculous, I don't use tree mode. Hope they put it back into Section Based view.

I never use tree mode either. It's ironic, though. Remember going over from sks 5 to sks 6? That was one of the things us skinners were adamant about....."we NEED to have the tree mode back" (it wasn't in the first betas of sks 6). I did use it in the very start but gradually stopped.

Still kinda miss the click-able preview from sks 5, though. 

Hey Neil, can these items be put back in the Section Based view please?

The latest release of SKS8 keeps crashing a lot on Windows 8. I am in the middle of checking a skin out for issues, and 7 times now (yesterday and today), SKS8 crashes and gives you a dialog that saying so and that the application will close and Windows 8 will tell me what happened, but nothing comes up at all. This problem is not occurring on Windows 7.

Tom...SD has a utility to collect a log file for you to send to Support. Pm Zu (or write to Support). I think you'll get an answer faster that way.

http://sd.stardock.com/SDSupportTool.exe

This is a tool that we use to gather relevant log files and basic information about your computer. Once the utility finishes running, please send the .zip file it creates on the desktop to [email protected] with a description.

Thanks Doc, I emailed support.