Useless skin statistics
Monday, January 7, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
In our rather insane collection of statistics, here is an uninteresting one in particular:
The rate of new WindowBlinds skins creation.
Between April 4 2001 and November 4, 2001 the average # of *accepted* skin submission to WinCustomize averaged around .9 skins per day.
Since November 4, the average has been at 1.3 skins per day. So it would seem that Windows XP has reignited skin authors to a degree since that's a pretty significant increase. The overall *average* since WindowBlinds became available in any form is about 1.3 skins per day.
So a graph would show a huge spike when WB first showed up (probably like 3-5 skins per day for the first few months) and then a gradual decline to .8 or .9 and then a bump with XP's arrival.
Some others:
DesktopX from July to now: 3.4 accepted submissions per day average.
Litestep: .4 per day (not bad!)
The lost art form: Icons! Complete icon sets are very few and only a handful are made each month even though they are extremely popular.
The rate of new WindowBlinds skins creation.
Between April 4 2001 and November 4, 2001 the average # of *accepted* skin submission to WinCustomize averaged around .9 skins per day.
Since November 4, the average has been at 1.3 skins per day. So it would seem that Windows XP has reignited skin authors to a degree since that's a pretty significant increase. The overall *average* since WindowBlinds became available in any form is about 1.3 skins per day.
So a graph would show a huge spike when WB first showed up (probably like 3-5 skins per day for the first few months) and then a gradual decline to .8 or .9 and then a bump with XP's arrival.
Some others:
DesktopX from July to now: 3.4 accepted submissions per day average.
Litestep: .4 per day (not bad!)
The lost art form: Icons! Complete icon sets are very few and only a handful are made each month even though they are extremely popular.
mormegil
Reply #2 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:13 PM
Reply #2 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:13 PM
I have 6 FauxS-XP Icon sets in the works, I am mostly wating for a XP version of Icon Packanger..... 
Hint Hint
Hint Hint
treetog
Reply #3 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:29 PM
Reply #3 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:29 PM
Brad, I think the decrease of WB skins is understandable. During the last year, windowblinds encreased too much it's features, so the graphic images now are almost 3 times it was before, tons of adjustments and settings. So the time for making them now is much bigger.
Frogboy
Reply #4 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:35 PM
Reply #4 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:35 PM
IconPackager works fine with XP. What XP specific features does it need?
Frogboy
Reply #5 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:35 PM
Reply #5 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:35 PM
Treetog - I know what you mean. Yet we get people complaining that we don't support things like mouse overs on radio buttons! 
Phar0e
Reply #6 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:44 PM
Reply #6 Monday, January 7, 2002 4:44 PM
Hmm,... must increase LiteStep themeing output. My wife's gonna kill me though
Thanks Frogboy, I love statistics
Thanks Frogboy, I love statistics
mormegil
Reply #7 Monday, January 7, 2002 5:57 PM
Reply #7 Monday, January 7, 2002 5:57 PM
I there are still a bunch of Icons that Iconpackager dose not change, and I still get wierd cashe problems whene changeing users. all of the sudden my Icons will all have changed back to the defalts?
jtfolden
Reply #8 Tuesday, January 8, 2002 4:17 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, January 8, 2002 4:17 AM
There's two features I'd still like to see in WB, actually...
1)The ability to relocate the scrollbars and scrollbar buttons.
2) The ability to specify scrollbar size in the UIS. I was fiddling with my NeXT/OPENSTEP skins on XP the other day and for some reason I had to jump through some real hoops to get the scrollbar size to stick while running WB 3.1.
1)The ability to relocate the scrollbars and scrollbar buttons.
2) The ability to specify scrollbar size in the UIS. I was fiddling with my NeXT/OPENSTEP skins on XP the other day and for some reason I had to jump through some real hoops to get the scrollbar size to stick while running WB 3.1.
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Reply #1 Monday, January 7, 2002 3:51 PM