Stardock Roadmap??

Sunday, April 21, 2002 by mephisto corugant | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

all this talk about WB3.3 and DX1.1 coming out has made me kinda curious. Can we perhaps get some sort of product roadmap with an idea of when a few key builds of products are gonna be out?

like for instance windowfx 2.x?
windowblinds 3.x with uis3?
windowblinds 3.x+1 with native vector format for uis3?
windowblinds 3.x+2 with smart bars and examples?
skincast 0.x?

was just wondering and seeing if any of these have fallen by the way-side or something...hope not, can't wait till windowfx comes out myself
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victor alvarado
Reply #1 Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:50 PM
that makes two of us...I can't wait myself.....":]

Frogboy
Reply #2 Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:33 PM
Hi Mephisto!

I'll see what I can put together. But all road maps are usually announced in Stardock Magazine first. Not sure if you subscribed to that or not.

Frogboy
Reply #3 Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:33 PM
BTW, don't underestimate your influence on the scheduling. What things would you like to see and in what order?

mephisto corugant
Reply #4 Sunday, April 21, 2002 6:32 PM
frankly, i'd like to see a new windowfx out before a new .x build of windowblinds...

Frogboy
Reply #5 Sunday, April 21, 2002 9:08 PM
That's how I feel too.

Griffinme
Reply #6 Monday, April 22, 2002 12:30 AM
Windowfx that is faster then the old version.

That skin/component browser sounds interesting.


JayG
Reply #7 Monday, April 22, 2002 11:18 PM
gimme shadows!!!!!!!!!!!

feline
Reply #8 Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:13 PM
actually we already have smart bars in the current window blinds. its just that finding someone who has worked out how to use them is a little tricky

feline
Reply #9 Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:17 PM
as for the schedule, there are two things i would love to see:

plug in support for OB

hot key support for DX

and then of course, hot key support for plugins, so that i can use hot keys on my complex OB theme at work, and (even more) hot keys on my fun DX objects at home. the SD player looked outstanding, but i loath mouse only interfaces to programs *shrug*

i dont mind if hotkey support is via a plugin its self, so long as i can wire it up.

grayhaze
Reply #10 Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:52 PM
While we're on the subject of plugins, I'd like to see updates to those tired old WindowBlinds plugins. I know the plugins themselves aren't created by Stardock, but it would be nice to see Stardock put together some nice new plugins to fill the gap that currently exists.

feline
Reply #11 Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:38 AM
the idea is that this is going to happen, with new types of smart bar (buttons) being released.

of course you need a skin that supports them before you can use them

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