..calling on all XP authors .... please read and reply ;) thanks
Tuesday, June 26, 2001 by thecat2000 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I have decided to post this thread due to the recent problems that windows XP skins and Wallpapers etc. are having on the community.
To XP authors, :- please for the sake of God please dont do any more updates. There is nothing new coming out of Xp skins and it does not benefit the community to keep re hashing old skins. I ask you and urge you to prove your skills as real skinners and show a real show of originality in your skins now. Also consider producing new a fresh idea's to share within the community.
thank you.
Many of you have thought me to be taking this issue to personally, but in a great way I have done due to the fact that I was in the center of the storm which XP created. XP has ok been re hashed and updated by that many skinners now the idea of Luna has become boring. [Poor old Microsoft] I do feel sorry for that. After all the development that went into it.
I have submitted my last work on XP so I make a simple request for others to do that. wether you considered your work to be un finished or wether it was to keep you in the top ten (If it is this reason I think thats shallow) and plays on the gullibility of the public)but please stop doing work that just looks the same as the last ! as it not helping anyne.
thanks.
To XP authors, :- please for the sake of God please dont do any more updates. There is nothing new coming out of Xp skins and it does not benefit the community to keep re hashing old skins. I ask you and urge you to prove your skills as real skinners and show a real show of originality in your skins now. Also consider producing new a fresh idea's to share within the community.
thank you.
Many of you have thought me to be taking this issue to personally, but in a great way I have done due to the fact that I was in the center of the storm which XP created. XP has ok been re hashed and updated by that many skinners now the idea of Luna has become boring. [Poor old Microsoft] I do feel sorry for that. After all the development that went into it.
I have submitted my last work on XP so I make a simple request for others to do that. wether you considered your work to be un finished or wether it was to keep you in the top ten (If it is this reason I think thats shallow) and plays on the gullibility of the public)but please stop doing work that just looks the same as the last ! as it not helping anyne.
thanks.
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TasT
Reply #22 Saturday, June 30, 2001 8:10 PM
Reply #22 Saturday, June 30, 2001 8:10 PM
If I had found a bug I would have updated also..
wouldn't you Tog??
wouldn't you Tog??
Emily
Reply #23 Saturday, June 30, 2001 8:21 PM
Reply #23 Saturday, June 30, 2001 8:21 PM
Have any of you thought that maybe xp themes and skins are of significant practical value? I'm friends with the college's lab admin and he's thought about using XP skins to make all the machines in the lab look consistant once Winxp comes out. ObjectBar for the start bar and Windowblinds for the skin.
treetog
Reply #24 Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:13 PM
Reply #24 Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:13 PM
for sure I would Tast, 
but I never spent 15 days to find one, extremely after the second or third update.
but I never spent 15 days to find one, extremely after the second or third update.
TasT
Reply #27 Sunday, July 1, 2001 5:17 AM
Reply #27 Sunday, July 1, 2001 5:17 AM
I agree Tog, but maybe ( benifit of doubt given ) Cat is just a little slower to find them than we are. She just updated like any of us would if we found a probelm.
Why don't we cut her some slack for a few days.
) Cat is just a little slower to find them than we are. She just updated like any of us would if we found a probelm.Why don't we cut her some slack for a few days.
thecat2000
Reply #28 Sunday, July 1, 2001 8:38 AM
Reply #28 Sunday, July 1, 2001 8:38 AM
Well what actually happened was a few days ago some guy E mailed me and was good enough to tell me that he had found some bugs in the Luna skin I created.
So i opened up skin Studio and found to my suprise that I had also found another error because the Graphics for the tab buttons was not in the skin at all. So i fixed this, and did a few more tweaks while I had the chance to. So there was this and the problems this guy had mentioned. I REALLY dont like leaving skins uploaded that are not working right.
If some one is good enough to download a skin of mine then I can at least provide them with a good quality skin. I rather do that than answer a hundred e mails from people saying the skin wont work.
So yes I was slow at finding the bugs, but that is because I did not know about them until a few days ago.
Anyway thanks TAST,
BTW: - Yes I know I have asked other 'XP Authors' to think about doing the same. And give XP some slack..
But I notice MCS2k1 is now on his 7th update of luna and it seems like there will be more. Maybe some of you guy's should start asking him why HE needs SO MANY updates ?
Just a thought..
So i opened up skin Studio and found to my suprise that I had also found another error because the Graphics for the tab buttons was not in the skin at all. So i fixed this, and did a few more tweaks while I had the chance to. So there was this and the problems this guy had mentioned. I REALLY dont like leaving skins uploaded that are not working right.
If some one is good enough to download a skin of mine then I can at least provide them with a good quality skin. I rather do that than answer a hundred e mails from people saying the skin wont work.
So yes I was slow at finding the bugs, but that is because I did not know about them until a few days ago.
Anyway thanks TAST,
BTW: - Yes I know I have asked other 'XP Authors' to think about doing the same. And give XP some slack..
But I notice MCS2k1 is now on his 7th update of luna and it seems like there will be more. Maybe some of you guy's should start asking him why HE needs SO MANY updates ?
Just a thought..
Alexandrie
Reply #29 Sunday, July 1, 2001 9:05 AM
Reply #29 Sunday, July 1, 2001 9:05 AM
people are teasing you because you said you want to stop. Others never told this.
thecat2000
Reply #30 Sunday, July 1, 2001 3:17 PM
Reply #30 Sunday, July 1, 2001 3:17 PM
Ok,[grins] I think what I have been trying to say Alexandrie is that I DO want to go on to more of my own creations, but I really hate leaving bugs in skins.
I guess I want people to realise one day soon that I am not Just an XP Author, but can create my own things. But i will have to show people this in the future.
As for XP all I can say is ..
it actually amazes me how after the amount of updates which have been done in Sections such as Desktop X and Object Bar, that I seem to get the MOSt flack for doing XP. Some of the Authors in this sections have done between them easily 20- 30 odd updates ? I could not count for sure as there is so many. How ever, I have not seen one word posted on the themes complaining about it.
Many of the authors of course have never drawn a single pixel of the theme and have used what others uploaded before them. It still happens now too. They call themselve skinners and artists, but nothing they uploaded is even a pixel of there own creation,.
This is where my work on XP differs. Even though it is still classified as being un original, and not new, I made many of these files specifically for use in the themes I did. I did use a paint brush, as well as many other tools within a Paint program, but at the end of the day I cannot claim any kind of copyright to them. This is fine for me, but at the end of the day I am still the author of that particualar theme. so if some one comes along and uses the graphics I made, and say's 'Oh I downloaded them from a certain place'
Well you can see by this they are just lying, but when you see in there theme the very graphics you uploaded, and know that they are the same ones you made. In this case it really is hard to complain about it because it comes from an OS/ is based on an OS's graphics.
So this is part of the reason I want to some of my own work.. At least balance my submissions out now, so it is all not one thing.
I guess I want people to realise one day soon that I am not Just an XP Author, but can create my own things. But i will have to show people this in the future.
As for XP all I can say is ..
it actually amazes me how after the amount of updates which have been done in Sections such as Desktop X and Object Bar, that I seem to get the MOSt flack for doing XP. Some of the Authors in this sections have done between them easily 20- 30 odd updates ? I could not count for sure as there is so many. How ever, I have not seen one word posted on the themes complaining about it.
Many of the authors of course have never drawn a single pixel of the theme and have used what others uploaded before them. It still happens now too. They call themselve skinners and artists, but nothing they uploaded is even a pixel of there own creation,.
This is where my work on XP differs. Even though it is still classified as being un original, and not new, I made many of these files specifically for use in the themes I did. I did use a paint brush, as well as many other tools within a Paint program, but at the end of the day I cannot claim any kind of copyright to them. This is fine for me, but at the end of the day I am still the author of that particualar theme. so if some one comes along and uses the graphics I made, and say's 'Oh I downloaded them from a certain place'
Well you can see by this they are just lying, but when you see in there theme the very graphics you uploaded, and know that they are the same ones you made. In this case it really is hard to complain about it because it comes from an OS/ is based on an OS's graphics.
So this is part of the reason I want to some of my own work.. At least balance my submissions out now, so it is all not one thing.
Sylva
Reply #31 Sunday, July 1, 2001 6:36 PM
Reply #31 Sunday, July 1, 2001 6:36 PM
Well, then cat, perhaps you're just too good of a skinner for all of us to compete with. Maybe that's the problem... ya think?
thecat2000
Reply #32 Monday, July 2, 2001 3:12 PM
Reply #32 Monday, July 2, 2001 3:12 PM
I LOVE your sarcasim Sylva but your words hold no truth and you know that as well as I do.
I respect other skinners and have NEVER said that I am better than anyone elese. Not only have I never said this but dont even think it either,.
There was a thread once that said congratulations to me for getting to number one once, but i played that down too. Some suggestion was that has a rival arrived for Treetog. But I replied that Pigs Would Fly if I was ever as good as him.
So you willfind there is nothing to what you have just said, no truth what so ever.
Well maybe you can give me some tips on how to be the most Sarcastic Gal on wincustomize..Sorry ONLY Teasing..
I respect other skinners and have NEVER said that I am better than anyone elese. Not only have I never said this but dont even think it either,.
There was a thread once that said congratulations to me for getting to number one once, but i played that down too. Some suggestion was that has a rival arrived for Treetog. But I replied that Pigs Would Fly if I was ever as good as him.
So you willfind there is nothing to what you have just said, no truth what so ever.
Well maybe you can give me some tips on how to be the most Sarcastic Gal on wincustomize
..Sorry ONLY Teasing..
hahhaa
Sylva
Reply #36 Monday, July 2, 2001 8:10 PM
Reply #36 Monday, July 2, 2001 8:10 PM
and, dear, wonderful spell correcting jafo. sorry about that little "being" mistake...*s*
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Reply #21 Saturday, June 30, 2001 8:06 PM