Coordinated Skinning Efforts
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
One general concept we've been playing around with is one that Green Reaper came up with awhile back. The idea is that people could submit skins and allow others to submit additional pieces to those skins and themes.
Example:
Someone uploads a WindowBlinds skin but it doesn't support some of the new WB4 features like shellstyles and such.
So another user could submit an addition to it that just has those features.
Then usres could choose to download either the main skin alone or the skin entotal.
Now, implementing something like this wouldn't be trivial but we were interested in hearing ideas on how such a system could be implemented that provided a balance to protect skin authors while not making it so difficult to do that no one would actually make use of such a feature.
Example:
Someone uploads a WindowBlinds skin but it doesn't support some of the new WB4 features like shellstyles and such.
So another user could submit an addition to it that just has those features.
Then usres could choose to download either the main skin alone or the skin entotal.
Now, implementing something like this wouldn't be trivial but we were interested in hearing ideas on how such a system could be implemented that provided a balance to protect skin authors while not making it so difficult to do that no one would actually make use of such a feature.
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joetheblow
Reply #22 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:22 PM
Reply #22 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:22 PM
ok... I like everything and the idea... but what is a shel style?
joetheblow
Reply #23 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:23 PM
Reply #23 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:23 PM
oh and I think I will add a Web Blinds... that would be cool...
Surj
Reply #24 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:28 PM
Reply #24 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:28 PM
I believe the idea has a lot of merit, and sounds like it could be fun, especially for those of us that start large projects and never finish them because of interest changes. That being said…
Skins can be hard to duplicate without presets the original author may have used, especially on detailed ones. While I know it's very possible (I like to port VS for my use) not everyone is on the same level. If an author isn’t given full control over who skins what, we may get tarts in the sweets, and if they are, there may be hurt feelings when one addition is chosen over another or multiples are working on the same project.
People take this stuff seriously, and I’m afraid more problems may ensue that are really worth the trouble. Look at the neowin VS boards, so many of those threads end up with people bickering over rights. While I realize this is different, and the idea is to share, I can help but think problematic situations may occur. Perhaps you have some realyl creative ideas to solve theses issue, or feel they may not even arise, maybe I'm paranoid.
:Tosses out 2 cents:
Skins can be hard to duplicate without presets the original author may have used, especially on detailed ones. While I know it's very possible (I like to port VS for my use) not everyone is on the same level. If an author isn’t given full control over who skins what, we may get tarts in the sweets, and if they are, there may be hurt feelings when one addition is chosen over another or multiples are working on the same project.
People take this stuff seriously, and I’m afraid more problems may ensue that are really worth the trouble. Look at the neowin VS boards, so many of those threads end up with people bickering over rights. While I realize this is different, and the idea is to share, I can help but think problematic situations may occur. Perhaps you have some realyl creative ideas to solve theses issue, or feel they may not even arise, maybe I'm paranoid.
:Tosses out 2 cents:
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Reply #21 Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:47 AM