PC Magazine do it.., why wincustomize don't?

Sunday, April 22, 2007 by TYCUS | Discussion: Community

not only PC Magazine have made something like a "Looking through our life" article every time they can, also other magazines have made this, so why Wincustomize hasn't made? We can have a little space (between the Sponsors and the Recent forum activity), in which we can show one of the first skins that came here on the beginnings of Wincustomize...

...my two cents.   

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TYCUS
Reply #1 Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:34 PM
i know that u will say, "Wincustomize is not a magazine...", but to me it's a good idea...

seldomseen
Reply #2 Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:25 PM
Maybe call it: 'Back in the Day'...? 'Antique Showcase'?
"Noticias por los pedos viejos" (jk, TYCUS, I'm one of those!   )

PoSmedley
Reply #3 Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:29 PM
I think it would be good. Certain skins were the first of their kind as it pertained to the development of Windowblinds and DesktopX advancing in what they can do and offer. I've gone back, looking at older skins that I could play with and see if I could update them. You go back to something like 'Trek Pad' that didn't even have the taskbar skinned and you realize how far it's come. The same could be said for cursors and iconpackages.

I think an occasional 'look back' would be interesting, with some input from the people who had to figure out the codes as things advanced.

seldomseen
Reply #4 Sunday, April 22, 2007 5:04 PM
with some input from the people who had to figure out the codes as things advanced.


Now that would be really interesting! I remember trying to configure Hoverdesk with the original pixtudio suite*, and it whacked my brain. Never could get it to work right. Then took VB6 in 2002 at a tech school here and realized what all goes into a mod of any kind. You creators are amazing, when I think about the part of themes/skins that's in addition to 'just' the artwork. Took me a whole semester just to code a tic-tac-toe game!

*check out the suite, it's as full as Heavy Equipment! Yep, those were the days...

elvee
Reply #5 Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:54 PM
I remember when Pixtudio was a Premium Skin  

seldomseen
Reply #6 Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:02 PM
One of the all-time greats! PIXTUDIO SUITE

TYCUS
Reply #7 Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:07 PM
u see? this and other skins from that time realy deserve a quote on the from page, if a admn. see this thread please let me know what u think about it!
 
 

elvee
Reply #8 Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:16 PM
A long while back I had brought up a Skinning Hall of Fame idea, But I didn't follow though with it.(got real busy with life and all)  

Zoomba
Reply #9 Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:37 PM

I think it's a great idea, and would love to see members of the community write up their "skinning history" so to speak.  We have an article system here that is woefully underused.  This is exactly the sort of thing we'd love to see the community use that space for.

So I say go for it, write it up from your own perspective.  Give your own thoughts and insights on how you got started, what things were like "back in the day" and how they've changed since then.  I often feature good community articles on the front-page news, so it would most certainly get some attention!

 


TYCUS
Reply #10 Monday, April 23, 2007 12:38 AM
ok, i'll try to contact Treetog and make something like an interview about Pixtudio. Just a five questions interview i guess.   

TYCUS
Reply #11 Monday, April 23, 2007 12:54 AM
...but Zoomba, this will go directly to the articles area or what?

seldomseen
Reply #12 Monday, April 23, 2007 12:56 AM
Wow! Any comments from treetog would be great.
[...something about 'Overseer'Z, and that avatar is just scary... ]

TYCUS
Reply #13 Monday, April 23, 2007 12:58 AM
ah! but every week i would like to have some sugestions and see which skin i would choose to make the interview.

elvee
Reply #14 Monday, April 23, 2007 2:20 AM
This is called 16 Volt by Ruinedinc. It was done sometime in 2001 I think.

WWW Link

WindowBlinds, Winamp, EZpop, ColorPad, Coolplayer and Wallpaper in Screenshot.

Skinning's Past

Uvah
Reply #15 Monday, April 23, 2007 4:05 AM
Screenshot looks as if it was just made not one that is six years old. I like it. Kudos to the author.

TYCUS
Reply #16 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:08 PM
eeeh, ok, i send an email to Treetog and i didn't get any answare.., maybe he thought it was a joke     ..., so maybe i should choose someone else..., any good idea?

Island Dog
Reply #17 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:18 PM
...but Zoomba, this will go directly to the articles area or what?


You can create a new article and it can be displayed both in the forums and in the article section on WinCustomize.

Just check the "options" tab when creating a new article.

 

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