Skinning Unecessary?
Not bashing anyone, or anything.
Saturday, September 22, 2007 by BuddhaV10 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I have a tremendous amount of respect for the skinning community. I love windowblinds, iconpackager,objectdock,(LOVE THE WEATHER DOCK) and logonstudio. the rest of the apps, especially DX, seem interesting, but not really my thing. no, this is not a "OMG i looove you guys!" post. it's actually a (slightly) negative one.
i recently got rid of my gaming rig,and purchased a solid, business-class notebook. i love it, because all of my computer time is devoted to web-based activity, and i appreciate the fact that it does it's job. needless to say, it's not on par with the gaming rig it's replacing, (mighta dropped a core, half my ram, and 9/10 of my hard drive space, but it's still a very solid machine), but it does what it has to. I moved my skins over, and they ran just fine, no issues.i just did a reinstall, to upgrade to XP MCE, and upon hours of hard thinking, i decided not to skin my new install. I still have everything backed up, but i find that i sort of like the Energy Blue Luna theme that XP came with. i know, Luna can be really boring, and has nothing on some of my fave skins, but it does it's job. Just like the laptop.
Soooo, my question to you is...can you think of a time when you realized that maybe skinning wasnt necessary?
I believe that on some machines, heck, id say most machines, skinning adds a whole dimension to your PC. but im wondering if anyone else has had my situation happen to them.
i recently got rid of my gaming rig,and purchased a solid, business-class notebook. i love it, because all of my computer time is devoted to web-based activity, and i appreciate the fact that it does it's job. needless to say, it's not on par with the gaming rig it's replacing, (mighta dropped a core, half my ram, and 9/10 of my hard drive space, but it's still a very solid machine), but it does what it has to. I moved my skins over, and they ran just fine, no issues.i just did a reinstall, to upgrade to XP MCE, and upon hours of hard thinking, i decided not to skin my new install. I still have everything backed up, but i find that i sort of like the Energy Blue Luna theme that XP came with. i know, Luna can be really boring, and has nothing on some of my fave skins, but it does it's job. Just like the laptop.
Soooo, my question to you is...can you think of a time when you realized that maybe skinning wasnt necessary?
I believe that on some machines, heck, id say most machines, skinning adds a whole dimension to your PC. but im wondering if anyone else has had my situation happen to them.
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BuddhaV10
Reply #22 Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:38 PM
To be honest that's about as civil as i could be & that don't happen very often *mutley laugh* ,my comment on hard on the eyes is more of an over exageration the point i did'nt make clear was xp's themes including the new colour of the zune theme still make it very limited to the amount of matchmaking that can be done with colours of taskbar & the wallpapers,one of the things i like (there are many more) that wb does is not having "START" written on that button..lol.. i especially like animations on it too & i could go on all day but you get the jist of it
i love windowblinds,dont get me wrong, i'm just finding that at the moment, i like Royale. i do love the animations, hint beelzebub...
i like that there's some lively and interesting discussion about XP Luna and royale. BTW, i own a Zune, and i despise the Zune theme. I wonder if i could get a black Royale theme...
Reply #22 Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:38 PM
To be honest that's about as civil as i could be & that don't happen very often *mutley laugh* ,my comment on hard on the eyes is more of an over exageration the point i did'nt make clear was xp's themes including the new colour of the zune theme still make it very limited to the amount of matchmaking that can be done with colours of taskbar & the wallpapers,one of the things i like (there are many more) that wb does is not having "START" written on that button..lol.. i especially like animations on it too & i could go on all day but you get the jist of it
i love windowblinds,dont get me wrong, i'm just finding that at the moment, i like Royale. i do love the animations, hint beelzebub...
i like that there's some lively and interesting discussion about XP Luna and royale. BTW, i own a Zune, and i despise the Zune theme. I wonder if i could get a black Royale theme...Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #21 Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:36 PM
To be honest that's about as civil as i could be & that don't happen very often *mutley laugh* ,my comment on hard on the eyes is more of an over exageration the point i did'nt make clear was xp's themes including the new colour of the zune theme still make it very limited to the amount of matchmaking that can be done with colours of taskbar & the wallpapers,one of the things i like (there are many more) that wb does is not having "START" written on that button..lol.. i especially like animations on it too & i could go on all day but you get the jist of it
i love windowblinds,dont get me wrong, i'm just finding that at the moment, i like Royale. i do love the animations, hint beelzebub...