XP Rant...
Tuesday, June 19, 2001 by Buzz_Hog | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Why on earth do we need 50 gazillion XP themes at once?
I really like Object Bar and would love to use it, but apparently the only flavor out is of the XP kind... Ok, I can understand having a few of them around amidst a plethera of unique skins, but almost 20 of them, with the only noticable differnece being a color or background... Jeez... Someone please do something cool with Object Bar...
I really like Object Bar and would love to use it, but apparently the only flavor out is of the XP kind... Ok, I can understand having a few of them around amidst a plethera of unique skins, but almost 20 of them, with the only noticable differnece being a color or background... Jeez... Someone please do something cool with Object Bar...
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Frank Leon
Reply #22 Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:46 PM
Reply #22 Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:46 PM
I think its because they know that xp stuff gets downloaded and they want to be in those top lists.
Buzz_Hog
Reply #23 Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:30 PM
Reply #23 Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:30 PM
blah..... I'd rather have one download from someone that thought "my" stuff was good over 5,000 downloads from people thinking "hey, more winXP crap.... let's collect it..."
and for all those who haven't figured it out yet... Microsoft hasn't complained about rips because it's free publicity and adds to the hysteria... Those Mac marketing fools... when will they ever learn...
and for all those who haven't figured it out yet... Microsoft hasn't complained about rips because it's free publicity and adds to the hysteria... Those Mac marketing fools... when will they ever learn...
Dokt
Reply #24 Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:58 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:58 PM
Didn't we do this a couple of weeks ago? And didn't everyone go - 'oh no, not this again'. I'm sick to the back teeth of XP, I'm so incredibly bored of seeing 8/10 items in the top downloads list on Wincustomise being XP related. But there's the rub - the punters (sorry, I'm a Brit, translation: customers) are downloading these sorry XP skins. The public has spoken, and apparently XP is in.
*cue soft focus beach scene as Dokt goes running off into the surf screaming before expiring and uttering only the single word 'Rosebud'*
*cue soft focus beach scene as Dokt goes running off into the surf screaming before expiring and uttering only the single word 'Rosebud'*
Jafo
Reply #25 Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:44 AM
Reply #25 Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:44 AM
Dokt...the trick is that some of us are getting back at all this XP hysteria....Check out Nuvem's one in particular...hehe...
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Reply #21 Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:17 PM
Then I downloaded a theme for win blinds and I admit that I do change from the 2k look to the xp look to the mac look every so often. Now that I am using just nextstart though I have yet to really change much of anything.
However, this site is definitely plagued with XP wallpapers. I don't believe that it is overwhelmed with win blinds skins because not everyone can make a win blinds skin. MANY people can indeed make a wallpaper. (or open up any beta version of XP and upload the bmp here)
I spoke with one of the most well known skinners that does focus on porting windows os about the wallpaper issue and after some careful consideration I decided not to begin a thread ranting about the idea of xp or any os wallpapers. Bottom line is that the idea came when an admin here responded to my post about the newest additions and he (I assume it is a he) said that they would be considering a way to filter out some of the os wallpapers here simply because they've noticed some aren't really doing work they are opening up the program and just whipping them out of that.
Now I am not pointing fingers as a matter of fact for anyone who has submitted a wallpaper here with the OS in mind I can say that each one of them has offered up at least one original wallpaper from the os.
I guess what I am saying is that while I really appreciate the efforts it seems like there has been a slueh of (notably xp) wallpapers being uploaded here daily.
Some authors will zip them in their packages of icons and such and I really like that idea. But the same authors haven't shown any signs that they have not done the work themselves and created a somewhat original wallpaper.
I don't say get rid of them, but there has got to be another way.