Removing Default Shell stuff from WindowBlinds skins
Sunday, June 20, 2004 by Cafeend | Discussion: Stardock Software
) and I want to clean up the number of "Default Shell Toolbar/Animation" entries in the WBConfig dialog. I'm also planning on fixing the description for those who forgot to enter them...As an OD subscriber I have the latest WindowBlinds and SkinStudioPro installed. I've tried deleting the relevant Shell Animations and Toolbar Icons sections in a couple of skins using SS, but they seem to be a little more persistent than that
an keep coming back.Can anybody help me with this? Do I need to manually clean up UIS files etc to be rid of this small annoyance?
Reply #2 Sunday, June 20, 2004 11:10 PM
Some skins that do not have their own toolbars/animations just have the contents of those sections in SkinStudio greyed out. They have not had to import the "default" ones just because they didn't design their own. That's what I'm hoping to clean up
Maybe these skins were made in a earlier version of SkinStudio, in which case I may be a bit stuffed. But I'll wait patiently to see if anybody else has some ideas...
Reply #3 Monday, June 21, 2004 1:13 AM
For what it's worth, I've cleaned my Toolbar/Animation dialog entries.
**DISCLAIMER**
If you wish to try this, you do so at your own risk.
It worked for me, but I'll not be responsible for any mishaps on your part.
I went through all my WB skins folder, and found files that didn't need to be there. Skins that had no toolbar icons, would have files named something like subskin.ToolbarIcons, or Luna.ToolbarIcons, and even nameofskin.Subskin.ToolbarIcons. (some folders had more than one) You get the idea. The point is, there shouldn't be any .ToolbarIcons files in these folders. 
The same thing goes for animations.
I simply send them to the recycle bin. My Toolbar Icons/Animations list in WB config is correct, and free of clutter. 
**DISCLAIMER**
If you wish to try this, you do so at your own risk.
It worked for me, but I'll not be responsible for any mishaps on your part.
Reply #4 Monday, June 21, 2004 1:16 AM
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Reply #6 Monday, June 21, 2004 1:32 AM
| But, if you open skin studio and click on those areas, the default images will be created. |
Not unless you add the attribute.
| What happens if the images are referenced in the uis files and they are there. It might effect the skins performance and probably definitely add a error message to the Skin Studio analysis. |
Thus far I've notice no problems with performance, and in the skins I've tested since doing this, none have produced any errors in SKS analysis. 
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Reply #9 Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:03 PM
Same thing as if someone made a goof in building a skin.Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #1 Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:56 PM
Maybe someone can come along and tell you how to hack it out, but you know what happens when you start hacking your system...System instability... crashes....dumb system won't start....