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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Reply #62 Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:54 AM
NEWS:
- Good news 1 and last: Link to get all Gloss Burgundy stuff as un-encrypted files (it's a .zip download) had been added to my Stardock account
- Bad news 1: the trouble with the Gloss Burgundy weather gadget not founding the stardockweather.ocx had not been fixed
- Bad news 2: all the others MyColors free or bought themes had not neen added (speaking of Quest, Diamond, ThinkGreen and for me only Pirate & Camouflage, because all the ones i bought before the new MyColors system - a lot - won't never be avaible) to subscribers accounts
- Bad news 3: about MyColors program itself: The wallpapers default folder seems to be X:\My Documents\My Images (though it's displaying everything's you may have in that folder including all the subfolders you may have created) without any possibility to set a specific path to be applied
- Bad news 4,5,6: still relative to MyColors features,
. i can't find where themes are stored. Well more exactly, as MyColors is installed for me in C:\Program Files\Stardock\MyColors i expected themes will be stored as subfolders of C:\Program Files\Stardock\MyColors\Themes and it's not, i just have a silly C:\Program Files\Stardock\MyColors\Themes\donotdelete.txt file
. It seems they are in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Stardock\ThemeManager (???) but everything's a weired melting spot with (i think) only the Winstyles.ini relative to the latest MyColors theme applyed (and though with wallpapers and preview for this suite for it) . i can't find exactly where are localized gadgets but surely not in the default Stardock gadgets folder which is C:\Program Files\Stardock\DesktopGadgets.
. Same for the IconPackagers ...
Conclusion 1: It's confirming that MyColors is a very silly program, badly unfinished and un-efficient, melting things very confusingly with ThemeManager .suite, and as Impulse is doing, creating silly new folders all over the hard disk, and also creating troubles with the installed WB program itself (at least as soon as Impulse or Mycolors is launched, some default settings of WB are overwritten: example is the setting of displaying the WB icon in systray which is unchecked)
Perhaps it's a good and easy program to use for new users and newbees, but a dramatic think for past Stardock Central ones
Conclusion 2: We'll still have to wait to get links for all the MyColors themes as un-encrypted .zip versions
Conclusion 3: Stardock's responsibles of delivering Themes for ODNT or Wincustomize subscribers through the MyColors way, would have better broke their legs the day they choose to do this way
Reply #63 Saturday, August 23, 2008 1:01 AM
Clock gadget second hand doesn't move unless you mouse-over, then it may jump ahead 2-5 sec ... mouse-off, stops again.
No problems with the OSU (yes, I'm a proud Buckeye fan) or the free theme gadgets that I have .... just Burgundy.
Is a fix in the works?
I'm runnung Vista 64
Reply #64 Saturday, August 23, 2008 1:26 AM
Reply #65 Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:25 AM
Only the new subscriber skin is all that will be released at this time unencrypted. You should submit your email at the support link here WWW Link
Then look for an additional link for My Colors Gloss Burgundy. Which is a extra download for the zip file.
Anyone having problems... please submit your problems via the same link to create a support ticket. Most problems are system related and it is not the program at all. I have had My Colors now on my machines here and do not have any problems what so ever.
If you are concerned where themes are stored. Look in your shared folder at stardock/theme manager in xp ; vista is puiblic/public documents/stardock/theme manger. All your My Colors gadgets and everything should be in that folder.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Reply #66 Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:22 AM
As mentionned in #62, Bad news 4,5 (
), they are not.I get in that folder all old .suite files, all XXXXX.MyColors, all .ico's, some .bin relative to the bought MyColors themes i think, WinStyles.ini, preview, and wallpapers of the latest .suite or .MyColors theme applyed and nothing else ...
Reply #67 Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:09 AM
Reply #68 Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:25 AM
Reply #69 Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:09 PM
Reply #70 Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:52 PM
\Program Files\Stardock\DesktopGadgets
there you should find all of your gadgets!
Reply #71 Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:13 PM
Reply #72 Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:27 PM
Are you running Vista 64 and Burgundy
Reply #73 Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:40 PM
No I do not have a use for 64bit here at this time. So have yet to test it...
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Reply #76 Saturday, August 23, 2008 3:41 PM
"But . .you could join the club and get this plus that and also this"
I really dig being special sometimes.
Reply #77 Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:13 PM
Let me repeat myself a bit...
At this time only the subscriber theme "Gloss Burgundy" is being released unencrypted to members only. No other My Colors themes are planned to be released as unencrypted softwares.
Thus all you will see in your registration email is an additional link for a download of "Gloss Burgundy". There are two links - 1. is a My Colors download, 2. is a extras zip file download.
If for some reason you did not receive your link for the "Gloss Burgundy" zip file. Please contact [email protected] and they will get you fixed up Monday morning when they return to work.
And as Zubaz has pointed out this is a members only theme for people who have purchased Object Desktop. Which can be purchased at this link
WWW Link
Reply #78 Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:44 PM
Reply #79 Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:27 PM
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.
Ok with this quote here from Brads initial statement to the fact. It would seem that a lot of the My Colors themes are to be unencrypted soon. Which ones and when I'm not sure of except for this subscriber theme at this time. You may have gotten another which is planned to be released unencrypted. But I figure there is a lot of work to have all the themes released via email registrations done in one day. Given time there is going to be more I'm sure of it. We just need to be patient and see which one will be released as soon as possible.
kwyjibo just turn the blurring off in wb config for the task bar and all will be fine.
Reply #80 Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:20 PM
Me too!
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Reply #61 Friday, August 22, 2008 11:51 PM