Same but Different
Thursday, May 2, 2002 by jcg | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
In and amongst the statements made in Frogboy's thread regarding the Old Guard and New Blood, was some interesting statements that sounded much like stuff our parents used to say like "When I was your age I had to walk 20 miles to school in knee deep snow uphill both ways".
While this is understandable pride in the accomplishments of pioneer skinners that have brought skinning to the popularity it is today it seems also to illustrate a duality in the mindset of many skinners. The first might be sumarized as "Skinning today is too easy, resulting in less quality and more quantity" and the second is "Products like Skinstudio and WindowBlinds have brought skinning to the masses, it is no longer a province of an elite few".
Is it inevitable that, in the effort to make skinning more popular the talent gets diluted?
I'd be interested in your thoughts.
While this is understandable pride in the accomplishments of pioneer skinners that have brought skinning to the popularity it is today it seems also to illustrate a duality in the mindset of many skinners. The first might be sumarized as "Skinning today is too easy, resulting in less quality and more quantity" and the second is "Products like Skinstudio and WindowBlinds have brought skinning to the masses, it is no longer a province of an elite few".
Is it inevitable that, in the effort to make skinning more popular the talent gets diluted?
I'd be interested in your thoughts.
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paxx
Reply #22 Friday, May 3, 2002 11:57 AM
Reply #22 Friday, May 3, 2002 11:57 AM
yeah, mephisto go to CommunitySkin's profile on DeviantART: http://communityskin.deviantart.com/
There were two projects, one called Heavy Equipment and one called Formula One.
I worked on the first one and it was quite fun. A great experience.
There were two projects, one called Heavy Equipment and one called Formula One.
I worked on the first one and it was quite fun. A great experience.
mephisto corugant
Reply #23 Friday, May 3, 2002 12:03 PM
Reply #23 Friday, May 3, 2002 12:03 PM
nonono, i don't mean get a bunch of skinners together and have them all contribute something along a theme, i mean have the actual people that will be using the skin get involved in the process...1 skinner, many people giving input along the way...
http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20884&perpage=40&pagenumber=3
that should hopefully show you what i'm talking about, involving the community along the way, not just having a 'superstar skinners extravaganza' or something...
http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20884&perpage=40&pagenumber=3
that should hopefully show you what i'm talking about, involving the community along the way, not just having a 'superstar skinners extravaganza' or something...
WOM
Reply #24 Friday, May 3, 2002 6:18 PM
Reply #24 Friday, May 3, 2002 6:18 PM
jcg- The way I see it is that you have 4 classes. The top class is the ones who started first and have maintained a high standard of quality. They will get the downloads on name recognition. Then you have the journeymen who are striving for the top. Then comes the ones who have tried some skins and are just learning. Then you have the newbees. Still one has to do what one likes and let the downloaders decide if they like it. Remember, you have to please yourself.
Jafo
Reply #25 Friday, May 3, 2002 7:36 PM
Reply #25 Friday, May 3, 2002 7:36 PM
mephisto..again, that is/was common practise on LiteSTEP sites...putting up screenshots before release to get feedback for improvement/alterations...then releasing it...then even later adding revisions due to outside input.
Shell themeing has always been somewhat 'co-operative' due to its complexity...the potential 'user' even helping with the 'coding'...
Shell themeing has always been somewhat 'co-operative' due to its complexity...the potential 'user' even helping with the 'coding'...
jcg
Reply #26 Saturday, May 4, 2002 12:28 PM
Reply #26 Saturday, May 4, 2002 12:28 PM
I left this thread to go off and learn how to skin Winamp when the thought occured to me, I skin Winamp everytime I do a Litestep theme, at least the player. The dialog boxes get skinned by WindowBlinds (which I also skin). How many steppers out there actually care what skin they are running on winamp? Personnaly I never open the thing. I've been running Makinarama since it came out and haven't changed it since.
So here's my question, what else besides Windowblinds would steppers find useful to skin?
So here's my question, what else besides Windowblinds would steppers find useful to skin?
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Reply #21 Friday, May 3, 2002 11:26 AM
It's been done, and done quite well...
Altogether, I've done 4 LiteSTEP themes for these type of projects...