Oxidized Desktop released!
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The most fully featured Stardock premium suite yet - Oxidized Desktop. Created by long time skinner, Paul Boyer (Mormegil) who has created countless WindowBlinds, icon packages, and DesktopX objects over the years, Oxidized Desktop includes:
- A WindowBlinds visual style
- Oxidized icon package
- Oxidized ObjectDock Plus backgrounds - with tabs
- Oxidized ObjectDock background
- Oxidized Boot Skin
- Oxidized calendar widget
- Oxidized system meter widget
- Oxidized clock with integrated weather
- Oxidized wallpaper
- Oxidized program launcher widget
- Oxidized Media Player (see screenshot)
Another nice thing about the widgets is that you can have a hot key (default to F9 and F10 but you can make it whatever) to hide the widgets entirely or have them activate on top of your window so that they're easily accessible.
This suite has been designed specifically to be both cool looking and useful. If the screenshot looks "cluttered" bear in mind that's because we're trying to show it all off. All the widgets can be hidden with a hot key and the docks/icon size controlled by you.
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Reply #2 Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:21 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:37 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:04 PM
I don't see the logic there, Kith.
Where does it matter where Paul works? Whether we contract a third party or have someone who's employed full time, how does that matter? It seems to me that the ideal scenario would be for people to be able to be employed full time making skins and themes. The end result is that people want to have high quality skins and themes put together in a suite. And doing that takes a LOT of time. It took a LOT of time to put this together.
Universe Metal 2004 was done mostly internally, btw. So was the Aquarium Desktop. I think the ideal situation is if skinners could make a living creating this sort of content. And it's not as if Paul hasn't continued to create freely available content.
Our goal is to provide premium level content for skinning fans. And at $7 to $9 that's pretty cheap my lunch at Panera Bread today costs more than this suite. And there's a LOT of stuff in it.
Incidentally, we have a lot of projects in the pipeline with third parties as well.
Reply #7 Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:27 PM
Even though I'll have to commit some heresy and say I still like K-TEK better
, this is still a great addition to my skin collection! 
Great job!
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:09 PM
Reply #12 Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:11 PM
Great work guys,
Keep On Rockin'!
Reply #13 Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:15 AM
Jeff
Reply #15 Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:06 AM
Reply #16 Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:10 AM
Reply #18 Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:15 AM
Reply #19 Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:59 AM
Kudos to Paul.
Reply #20 Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:38 AM
I want to buy.. now now now!!
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Reply #1 Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:01 PM