Praying for a new Theme Manager release soon!
Please don't reduce me to groveling while I wait!
Sunday, April 20, 2008 by gardenerstouch | Discussion: Stardock Support General
I've spent countless hours over the last couple months downloading and assembling various skins into combinations I like. Now that I am finally ready to start turning them into suite files, I find that all the latest releases of Object Desktop are no longer recognized by Theme Manager. Is Theme Manager going to be the next great release for Object Desktop 2008? Ideally, it would be nice if it were updated and as each new version of an Object Dock program is released. At the moment, I feel crippled by the loss of functionality in this program.
Assuming that Stardock is actually in the process of issuing a new version of Theme Manager, I would like to make at least one feature request... make it possible for the program to silently run and install a suite from a command line or batch file. This would do wonders to help me automate changing suites. I hope to have twelve suites that will automatically change at the start of each month without my having to click a single button. It would save me from alot of pains from my repetitive strain injuries.
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Reply #22 Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:11 PM
I actually did a follow up after posting that with the
developers today.
In the advanced settings of MyColors you can install individual components of
skins. If you want to mix and match portions of MyColors suites you can (Icons,
WindowBlinds... etc).
So should you be an Object Desktop subscriber you can load just the Icons of
your MyColors suite and then use Icon packager and developer* to tweak them
further.
However due to encryption you will never be able to save out a MyColors suite,
or permanently change the look of the graphics. As much as the school rivalry
in me wanted to do certain things to certain teams that is the exact reason why
it isn't allowed. Millions (and I mean millions) in licensing fees go into
these packages and those licenses are protected carefully.
Sorry if there was any confusion in my 'half right' post above. Please let me
know if you have any questions.
Reply #23 Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:05 AM
You could always make yourself a few DTX layers to, uh, "enhance" some of them if it'd make you feel better
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Reply #27 Monday, June 9, 2008 5:15 AM
How soon can we expect that public article to come out, or did come out and I missed it somehow?
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Reply #21 Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:57 AM
For example, when I installed the UofM theme, it showed up in Windowblinds config and I was able to recolor.
I was not able to make a ThemeManager 2007 suite of mixed elements though.