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Haven't we "Over Burden" Our Skinners

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Haven't we "Over Burden" Our Skinners

Just felt that we have

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Hi folks!!!

Since last few days, I am feeling as we have "Over Burderned" our skinners.
For instance, in good old days of win9x and 2000 era, our skinners just had lesser components to customize. They just had to go for start button, task bar, menu bar, title bar, some buttons, and scrollbars (forgive if I have missed something). But now, just imagine how many components they have for customization.
In the same tredition, there were very few icons which needed to be customized but now a "Good" package should have atleast 50+ icons and bust must have over 70 customized icons.
Needs for customizing DX has increased too. Lots of gedgets, objects, layers, and scripting. Logon Studio, cursorXP, Boot screens, and right click have emerged as well ...

What do you folks say about it. ....
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
said your the biggest offender of critisizing others work..you cried till you got your comment removed...now who's the girly girl here ?


Ya know Fairyy, I've never done a thing to you, and your accusation of my critisizing is 100% unfounded and a bold faced lie. You seem to want to start a war with me because I called you on you sexist remarks. So I'll just do you a favor and ignore your babble from now on.. satisfied!
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm just coming back into skinning fresh and find all the options available, while intimidating at first, very exciting. Its harder yes but that just adds a challenge to it. I look over the progress the skinning community and apps have made over the past 6 years and find it amazing.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If skinning has become a burden to anyone, they need to find another hobby.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
#19 by Admin Jafo
Wed, May 18, 2005 7:33 PM

Most times if inything is dominated by one or the other it can be restrictive and insular.


I have sharp eyez now ...
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ya know Fairyy, I've never done a thing to you, and your accusation of my critisizing is 100% unfounded and a bold faced lie. You seem to want to start a war with me because I called you on you sexist remarks. So I'll just do you a favor and ignore your babble from now on.. satisfied!


~Your breaking my heart. yeah right.
For the record..your the one that answered my post first with your usual UN-helpful remarks. You may have done nothing to me...but I have seen your comments to others that uploaded a WB that only had 2 stars and was a 1st attempt....your comments were never said in a constructive way. So dont be in my face..truth hurts. Now Toddle off
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Let it go. https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=189&AID=75797#581810
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If skinning has become a burden to anyone, they need to find another hobby.


Oh, but NT, what better hobby than skinning is there?

The more there is to skin, the harder it will be to skin and the longer it will take...... Ahhh, but how much prettier is going to look.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh, but NT, what better hobby than skinning is there?

The more there is to skin, the harder it will be to skin and the longer it will take


This is what I mean to say ... it is the best of the best but hardest hobby of all ...
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Let it go. https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=189&AID=75797#581810 Link


I'm done..its become a chore fighting to log in today..

Carry on " gentlemen "
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Speaking of women, Alexandrie, Gillon and APB are really missed...

Speaking for me it is the versions that kill me. I tried to keep my DX themes and objects up to date but I gave up on it. One more reason is crashing apps (DX was a bugger for a long time) that let You begin at zero after having lost work...
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Personally I have to agree that the extra stuff to skin in WB IS a burden to me. I was never a prolific WB skinner (4 full WB and a port) and have turned my attention largely to DX now though even that is losing it's lustre somewhat and I am thinking to just go into helping people realise their dreams for DX rather than trying to realise my own.

For me the fun in WB skinning was always about pushing the boundaries, and making something unconventional which did something in a new way. I used to just about cope with working on a WB skin for long enough to complete one but now I get half way and I just don't feel motivated to continue. It's a lot of work and when you're sick of the sight of your own graphics it just isn't conducive to making a skin.

Maybe I'm just busier now, priorities have changed and I can't devote as much time to it. Maybe I'm just finding excuses. I believe the extra stuff to skin in WB is fantastic and it was a necessary thing as XP came in and there were instantly more things to skin and other products to compete with. I wouldn't go back but I do have massive respect for anyone that can actually complete a WB skin now.
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jep.
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Anyway....it's all very well somehow equating 'skinning' with 'Windowblinds' and ignoring all those other apps that can be as taxing as YOU wont them to be. Eg. Sysmetrix can [if you want] be as simple as a Beatnik or as complex as any WB skin.

Worth repeating, you know....

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So true Jafo. I try to skin suites most of the times and applications such as SysMetrix and Rainlendar have added a few extra items to their programs, but in the case of SysMetrix, I always thought that making a skin for it with just a clock it's too lame, after all the program was meant to display so much information.
Im still very loyal to Winamp 2x, but if I ever step up to v.3 or v.5 I would need to skin a lot more, so I'll stick to kicking the llama's ass with v.2x
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The fact that there got to be so much to do in a WB skin was the main reason that I gave it up. It's mostly a personal failing, but I just couldn't keep focused for the 3+ weeks that a good skin required.
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've been thinking the same thing. But then again it's not mandatory to skin everything.



Well according to the comments on the skins you upload, you have to skin everything.

I know the graphics section of this site, you can upload 'unfinished skins', but I really think there should be a section or a checkbox per section on not fully skinned items (as well as allow others to finish it since they want to comment on how it is not finished)
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well according to the comments on the skins you upload, you have to skin everything.


Depends on if you're skinning for public acceptance or skinning for yourself, and just making your work available to the public.

Again, something that's done completely voluntarily as a hobby cannot be considered a burden.

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Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, skin for yourself and sod the comments
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you have no intention to skin 'everything' the best idea would be to make specific note of that in the skin description...caveat emptor.

No-one can then moan that it 'must' be completed, only that they might 'like' it to be...

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That would be nice if they listed that in the description, so those that don't have unlimited download could save it for something else, and for those that want certain things skinned.
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
shure theres a lot of parts to a skin but i like it that way. i think that it would be great if there where more things to skin or more ways to modify them. i'm allways thinking that it would be nice to be able to change this or modify that but it's just not part of the program yet. yet being the key word here. more is good if you like options!

i agree with what was said up there some where. if your not happy with all the things that are needed to do a Full skin then just don't do them. icons just aren't my thing so i just don't do them but i know thats where i need to work the hardest so in time i'll work on them as i have done in the past. i love animations but most of my skins don't have them and why is that you ask? it's because the trial ran out on the software to do them. i just bought that programs rights so i'll be doing them from now on though.

i like to work on graphics and skinning is a great place to PLAY with creating them because when your done you have something tangable to show for the effort. when your creating a skin it's a lot of effort and, when your trying to make your next skin you have to do it with out duplicating what you did in the last skin and thats a chalenge when you start with the same basic design.

what amazes me most is the part where some one claimed some kind of ownership of us and nobody said anything about that!

haven't we "Over Burdened" our skinners? not this one!
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have found, that from the beginning of adding toolbars and animations, that if they aren't included people ask "Are you going to finish it?"
I feel, if a WB has toolbars and animations, you should count it as a bonus.
Some times it takes almost as long as making a WB.

And ~Fairy, I've made a couple for the ladies, because my girlfriend kept complaining that I didn't make any that were for the (girls).
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Reply to #42 and 43:
Your right.

So guess what? I'm going to do just that. I have a plethra of unfinished skins that I think someone could finish or make additions to. I'll put it in the comments and add the GNU (or whatever) contract so that anyone is free to finish skinning the skin... now if it only makes it through moderation... LOL
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wouldnt consider it over burdening... just think of it as a really good project to work on. Icons, for example, are easy to make (sometimes they are a pain, and yes, coming up with a theme is a bit of a pain as well), and althought they have a lot of components, what if skinners enjoy making them? You only complain about it if you are a baby, literally. Just my 2 cents!