Burgundy - Free MyColors Theme for Object Desktop Subscribers!

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

We are happy to announce the first free MyColors subscriber theme for Object Desktop subscribers.  This is the first of four and this first one is the MyColors Gloss Burgundy theme.   

To install your free theme, download and install Impulse. The free theme will appear on the MyDesktop tab automatically (it has already been added to your account). Download Impulse here.  If you are not an Object Desktop subscriber, you can find more information at www.objectdesktop.com.

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FlutePlayer
Reply #21 Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:22 PM
Hello, I downloaded the new Gloss Burgundy theme. Awesome!! I am somewhat hesitant about downloading Impluse so I downloaded My Colors to get this theme. I am NOT HAPPY that My Colors downloaded all my personal photos from my pictures and put them into the My Colors wallpaper. How can I delete all of my personal photos from the My Colors wallpaper? Is there any way to use the Gloss Burgundy theme WITHOUT My Colors or Impulse? I have theme manager but can't figure out how to add it. Thank you.

neophil78
Reply #22 Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:46 PM
The encryption is also a useful and effetive way to keep Stardock designs from being pirated

... and in same time, it's also a perfect way to keep Stardock's old skinners (i mean those who do ports) far away to do what they used to ...   

If pirates want the designs, they'll get them a way or another, they know how to do, or if they don't know yet, there will be not much time for them to know   

ZubaZ
Reply #23 Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:56 PM
... and in same time, it's also a perfect way to keep Stardock's old skinners (i mean those who do ports) far away to do what they used to .

Elsius Saint
Reply #24 Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:31 PM
Four years from now when a new windows operating system comes out, these new skins may not look right when applied and I won't be able to update them as I'm doing now with the old XP skins. Having to think about it now, the investment leaves the future dark to me. Those comments make me think about it much deeper. Unless I really and extremely LOVE a suite, I won't buy anymore encrypted suite. But if a nice skin comes from a special skinner I admire, I'd just buy it. I have duplicated Star Wars windowblinds made by the skin factory in the past from scratch, but I won't be doing that anymore.

ALMonty
Reply #25 Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:13 PM
Very nice. Good work guys. And the icons are for Vista too.

ElijahBaley
Reply #26 Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:27 PM
Hi, My main problem with this theme is the buttons. I haven't had any problem with MyColors or the themes themselves. I don't mind the MyColors application. The WB files even show up in WindowBlinds UI so I guess you can apply them separately. (I haven't tried yet). Have a look at this image: . I can't see half the text. Other themes are fine. What's up? - Fred

ElijahBaley
Reply #27 Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:03 PM
Never mind on my last post. It is the Google.com/ig theme that I am using, which looks almost exactly like the default Google.com theme. The buttons are resized. Other pages are fine. I look forward to more great themes. Thanks.

dan.wright
Reply #28 Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:22 PM
Can someone explain the supposed encrypted skins to me? Maybe I'm dense, but I realize the file has an extension of .MyColors, but I'm able to extract everything from it without even launching the MyColors app. I installed MyColors, installed the themes, but I've yet to actually run the MyColors app, I just extract stuff from the file. Am I just special?

skybright
Reply #29 Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:47 PM
I applied the theme last night from My Colors via Impulse and everything worked just fine. A very nice theme as well!!!

ShelbyGT_The_Car
Reply #30 Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:57 PM
Actually it is not that at all there Elijah Baley. It is you have another set of fonts loaded from another wb. You need to logoff and log back in. It should display correctly then. As seen here



lynnyf
Reply #31 Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:34 PM
How can I download the burgandy theme without buying objectdock or impulse. I did buy Mycolors - and checked the themes and it doesn't show that theme available yet. I would even pay for it. Any suggestions??

lynnyf
Reply #32 Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:56 PM
Is this avaiable for purchase for those of us who do not have Object dock?????? I really want to purchase this one,

neophil78
Reply #33 Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:14 PM
Can someone explain the supposed encrypted skins to me? Maybe I'm dense, but I realize the file has an extension of .MyColors, but I'm able to extract everything from it without even launching the MyColors app

Yep, but did you look into the camouflage WindowBlinds folder how Images are ?   

MadDeez
Reply #34 Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:22 PM
lynnyf, impulse if free. it's part of object desktop. this suite is a freebie for object desktop subscribers, not objectdock owners. you didn't buy mycolors since it is also a free app. you may have purchased another mycolors suite which installed the mycolors app, tho.

northeast
Reply #35 Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:49 PM
Excellent theme, problem loading the weather widget though. Weather widget for think green works fine, burgundy states unable to determine version of stardock weather ocx.

CarGuy1
Reply #36 Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:01 PM
Question about encripted skins, this one in mind...is it possible to hide the user pic with SS6 or will corrupt the images when I save it?

TeamTJ
Reply #37 Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:12 PM
Why don't I see this in Impulse? I'm an OD subscriber....

Frogboy
Reply #38 Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:25 PM

personally just hate the MyColors system, and above all if all MyColors theme (even free) have WindowBlinds encrypted images, whatever quality are the skins, I just don't care because i can't do ports for my own use (and/or for others ...) and Stardock can keep them ...

This is a policy that is in the process of changing.

A little background first:

When we launched MyColors, the initial content came via licensed properties (NBA, NHL, NCAA, etc.) so we had to encrypt them to satisfy the IP holders.  At the time, it was quicker to simply have MyColors only support this one format.

We've been working on making it so that MyColors themes can support unencrypted content as well but that's taking longer.  So the plan going forward is to simply provide a ZIP file as part of your email (i.e. enter your email into the support.stardock.com website and it'll email you links to ZIP files as well as the MyColors themes).

Anyway, the intent with the encryption wasn't to prevent people from making ports but to protect licensed IP.  But a lot of our best stuff is stuff we came up with and hence we can distribute however we choose.


Erk.
Reply #39 Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:36 PM
Anyway, the intent with the encryption wasn't to prevent people from making ports but to protect licensed IP.


...and that's fair enough. Don't want lawyers crawling all over you.

We've been working on making it so that MyColors themes can support unencrypted content as well


That should please quite a few folks

werewolf
Reply #40 Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:44 PM
When I first applied this theme, my live folder icons were a mixture of aquamarine and gloss burgundy. The fronts were aquamarine and the back and middle parts were burgundy. I could not get that configuration to change. Using IP, I changed to the default Vista icons, but the fronts were still aquamarine. I clicked repair icons, rebuild cache...all that stuff, with reboots thrown in for good measure. This was only for sizes larger than "details" in explorer. Finally I re-applied the burgundy theme in mycolors and now all icons appear to be displaying correctly. Could you please, PLEASE, stop MyColors from unsetting the WB setting "show icon in system tray". That's frustrating. Thanks and really sweet theme!!! werewolf

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