WindowBlinds 6 specific skins
How to tell what's been optimized
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Skins (aka visual styles) designed specifically for WindowBlinds 6 are displayed with a special WindowBlinds 6 icon in the gallery. When a skinner submits a skni, they can now choose 2 new options: Optimized for WindowBlinds 6 and Supports Windows Vista.
As an example, the first WindowBlinds 6 skin from Stardock Design has been uploaded into the gallery and can be found here.
Enjoy!
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Reply #42 Saturday, October 6, 2007 12:24 AM
Clearly Stardock is just trying to promote the use of WB6 features and Vista support. I don't see how thats so hard to figure out, lol?
Reply #43 Saturday, October 6, 2007 12:34 AM
Reply #44 Saturday, October 6, 2007 12:38 AM
Well its pretty clear what the badge means, take full advantage of WB6
Reply #45 Saturday, October 6, 2007 12:42 AM
Not to be rude but you dont know what you are talking about and have no place in the conversation.
I fail to see what differenciates a skin from WB 5.5 and 6.0 unless your talking Vista. I have an XP skin ready for primetime but I can't seem to understand the differences either. I believe it to be WB 6 ready.
Reply #46 Saturday, October 6, 2007 12:53 AM
Let's keep it freindly guys.
The question *is* important to some people and not to others. If it's not important to someone, they don't need to dismiss it's importance to others. There's no point.
As an aside to this thread; WC is a pretty cool place to hang out. Personal attacks make it less so. What kind of place do you really want to hang out in?
Reply #47 Saturday, October 6, 2007 1:03 AM
Reply #48 Saturday, October 6, 2007 9:23 AM
Thats what NT is referring too...its not at all clear...you didnt know what you were talking about...then you insulted my friend.
The Vista badge is pretty clear...and a good idea if you could see it from the thumbnail page.(or search for them)Personally I dont give a rats ass if a skin is veeesta ready,but I understand the need for the label.
The reason its important to know what constitutes a WB6 ready skin is a lot of users aint too bright...and easily distracted by shiny things.
I can already hear the questions...
will older skins work with WB?
your skin dosnt have that badge...is it gonna work okay?etc...
tell me you havnt seen these kind of questions before and I'll quit asking for clarification.
Reply #49 Saturday, October 6, 2007 10:23 AM
Reply #51 Saturday, October 6, 2007 11:32 AM
Was the original post worth all of this?
Reply #52 Saturday, October 6, 2007 1:09 PM
Reply #53 Saturday, October 6, 2007 2:04 PM
This thread is not for arguments between users.
If this continues I will be forced to hand out site holidays, so I would suggest everyone takes some time away from their computers.
I have cleaned up the thread.
Reply #54 Saturday, October 6, 2007 3:32 PM
We'll be putting up specifics shortly but:
Windows Vista supported skins mean ones that have been tested on Windows Vista and work fine (i.e. the Start menu on Vista works without problems and so forth).
WindowBlinds 6 skins would be ones that skin the IE7 controls and the Vista explorer controls (at a minimum) and ideally support explorer backgrounds and advanced animations.
Reply #55 Saturday, October 6, 2007 3:36 PM
I don't want to be a smart alek here but this didn't strike us at being very complicated. First, Stardock doesn't award the badgets. As the original post indicates, when a skinner submits a skin, THEY choose the checkboxes. One presumes that a skinner knows whether the skin uses WindowBlinds 6 features or not or whether it works on Windows Vista or not. But we will provide more details for users who are unsure.
Reply #56 Saturday, October 6, 2007 3:42 PM
and thanks in advance for any clarification. As I understand it now, Skinners will be updating their skins just to include the badge.
Reply #57 Saturday, October 6, 2007 4:08 PM
I take, lets say.. ViennaXP..Stargate SG1(XP) I need to know exactly what needs updated.. in XP.. to warrant a WB6 badge?
I undertand there is a wealth of upadating and extra skinning in Vista, my question pertains strictly to XP.
Also as far as IE7 goes can any of it be skinned in XP? and taking into account you can't run both browsers how is one to skin them both? If IE7 on XP isn't skinned, is it a WB6 skin?
Lastly, certifying your own skin seems like it may have it's pitfalls. There are already skins with badges for vista that aren't fully skinned, Perhaps a minimum requirement could be initiated to earn a badge. It wouldn't take long to run through a skin to check it for completeness during moderation and would give some credibility to badging a skin.
Reply #58 Saturday, October 6, 2007 4:46 PM
Reply #60 Monday, October 8, 2007 4:01 PM
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Reply #41 Friday, October 5, 2007 11:56 PM
C'mon,thats the TITLE of the post...what makes them 'specific'...whats been optimized?
Code for blurring?WB6 will do that without the skin being 'optimized'.
Cant be that nice new start menu animations like in Molten cuz there are 'optimized' skins without that...
Skin features that wont work in WB5?...maybe,but other than that animation I cant think of any.(blurring and trans are WB features,not skin features)
I'm fused.