Well well.  Seems it stays the way things are..... Can´t help noticing most users that posted a comment (or 2) are Anti off-site threads. The general oppinion from above seems to be it´s not "that bad" that you can´t handle it...... Hmmm, makes you wonder why they turned up in the first place

 Edit: -The threads that is.

Edit II: ....We´ll survive, life goes on

Exactly.

Jafo bestows some Karma....

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The studious ignoring of #54 gets on my tit.  You DO realise that Wincustomize-originating threads also show up on the Gaming Forums?  Are they running around like headless chooks exclaiming 'the sky is falling'?

Can't say I've noticed....

- Skinning is Art.

- Gaming is.........not  

The sky is absolutely not falling

refer post 56.

Im so glad I have two tits... My condolences Paul.

I'm a gamer as well as a skinner and I avoid the gamer threads as much as possible. There are to many elitists and to many opinions. Not like here where everyone is sane, rational, and always willing to keep an open mind to someone elses ideas.

too, too       

and correct spelling...         

well....I'm guilty of supporting 3 of the games threads quite constantly.... I think there is room for a little bit of socialising as well.... and it used to be that newcomers would feel more comfortable dipping their toes in one of those threads to get to know people than a technical thread....

Keep A Word...Drop A Word... always makes me smile to see Ed's name bobbing up in the forums...damn sentamentality...

but...there are times we have gluts....and its gets frustrating...when good posts get buried too frequently.... guess we just have to ride out those glut times.....they always manage to subside...for a time..

Oh, crap...what a narrow-minded attitude.

If it 'must' be known skinning originated back in the days of Dos games.... patches [maps] for things like Doom ...Heretic and even older - Wolfenstein.   That's the first I ever noticed an ability to alter graphics within a program/game [outside of hex-editing direct code].

These days it can take considerably MORE time to skin an aircraft in FSX than it ever could in building a Windowblind.

ALL 'skinning' is an artform.  It is not limited to GUI skinning exclusively.  Anyone who thinks that is a fool.

Well said. I mean, there are no elitists here, or opinions, and people are keeping an open mind to new ideas...

the sky deffinatley isnt falling from this end either.....it was JUST a suggestion to have them removed due to obvious reasons.

Very true. Possible solutions?

1. More Galleries for other skinning apps. Xwidget comes to mind. I'd like to hear other 'safe' apps suggested. Folks suspect 'new' things, and that's not unreasonable in this day and age. How about some testing results? Not everything is msstyles or an equivalent. More niches encourage organisms to branch out, and serve as an attraction for potential customers to be exposed to SD software and just why it rocks. When someone runs into something new, please tell me.

2. Skinning 'classes'. How's that for a "Community Project"?  Yes, there is the WinWiki, but a Master showing step by step (omitting nothing) going from image creation to completed skin would really do wonders. I might actually try to make one, and Po' might actually finish one. Vampothika actually did something akin to this, just not in video. Hell, a Journeyman, or Master Apprentice could do this. It doesn't require a Master (though it would be nice, Harley). Just shoot the vid when you start and resume. Mistake? Show it! Nothing teaches like mistakes. Put them up as installments. No timetable. No cussing.

3. Instructional vid on Forum anatomy (and Gallery anatomy) and how to look for what really interests you. You can go beyond the Homepage, though granted, it takes a little more effort. That won't just help n00bs, but but many folks who've been here for a while.

this is not the first time that this was been instigated. the last time resulted in disaster from the "off-topic" threads.

which makes me again wonder just how off topic one can get without getting in trouble or even banned???

has this been said yet? how about being able to select only those headings that one wants to review on a regular basis. Then if one doesn't want to see headings that they have no interest in, they wouldn't have to. sort of like selecting galleries on the WC site.

oh, and, off with their heads.

I´m not only skinning so You should know that I know. (Did you miss all pickies of other stuff ??) 

-Obviously that is not what I meant.

And here I thought it started with Wooly Mammoth's and Sabre Tooth Tigers

Well, yes....as dinosaurs like me started with cave painting....

I look really good in that last Image!