I recently uploaded my first WB skin. requesting input, criticism... thus far it has been quite helpful and not at all insulting. but I do understand what you refer to with what seems to be growing lack of courtesy. perhaps it's a generational difference but where there are open forums there are hecklers. from what I have seen, skinner's do it because we enjoy doing it.
also something i found in a self installing theme a while back, but i havnt been able to find any info/instructions online on how to create the effect.. its centering the taskbar icons and making them behave like a browser's tab-bar. meaning the width of the buttons grow or shrink to fill the length of the bar. generally i just have windows explorer and my browser pinned to the bar so those 2 buttons take up the entire width and scale down as i open more items.
recently bought tiles and so far I have no complaints. i have scanned over the options in the editor related to tiles but I would like to ask specifically if it is possible to have the background skin swap like a background switcher would with wall papers either chronologically or if I were to switch desktops with something like dexpot. the facility to make this an RSS slideshow from image sites would also be a great idea in my opinion. or perhaps there is some other application that
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