I'm a GUI addict.
Sunday, March 2, 2003 by jarget | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I constantly change my desktop using Windowblinds, WindowFX, Objectbar, DesktopX, Iconpackager, Object Dock, Hoverdesk, Nextstart, Rainlendar, YzToolbar and so on. Rarely do I leave a theme on my desktop more than two days. The longest was 7 days. Even then I was itchin' for a fix. A new theme fix! Now I'm thinking about going back to Litestep after 4 years free from the step.rc. I don't know what to do. HELP !!!!
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kthxbye
Reply #2 Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:43 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:43 PM
Litestep! Nooo! Try out Blackbox first! it'll be, er, newer, for you!
Though - with as quickly as you bounce back and forth between stuff - it might be a little too minimalistic, too.
Though - with as quickly as you bounce back and forth between stuff - it might be a little too minimalistic, too.
Jafo
Reply #3 Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:51 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:51 PM
Litestep is more immersive...enough variation to keep you interested for yonks...
kthxbye
Reply #4 Monday, March 3, 2003 12:38 AM
Reply #4 Monday, March 3, 2003 12:38 AM
Immersive? Bah. I like my shell to simply load up, take up next to no ram, and then let me forget that it even exists. ^_~
kthxbye
Reply #7 Monday, March 3, 2003 10:25 PM
Reply #7 Monday, March 3, 2003 10:25 PM
*laughs* JCG - I've run LiteSTEP off and on since its release (more off than on, I admit.) I know it's a great, wonderful shell - but it just doesn't do it for me. So I seem to give Jafo (well, everyone, really.) as much (good natured,) trouble over it as I can.
I'm perfectly happy with blackbox - to me, that's shell perfection.
I'm perfectly happy with blackbox - to me, that's shell perfection.
risblaque
Reply #9 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 3:40 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 3:40 AM
Go ahead and let's see more of your great screenshots. 
Old_Crab
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 3:47 AM
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 3:47 AM
A computer is to be used to process information. It is a tool. Do a ss. Make a dbase. Start a novel. Use it for some useful purpose other than a pretty set of pixels. Forego any shells. Use what came with your computer. >
kona0197
Reply #11 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 5:57 AM
Reply #11 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 5:57 AM
I do not use any of Stardocks products. I really don't like the way they operate on my system so I switched to StyleXP and I loke it. I get most of my skins from www.deskmod.com but most of my advice or if I have a problem comes from www.wincustomize.com.
Jafo
Reply #13 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:14 AM
Reply #13 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:14 AM
kona0197....you don't see anything 'odd' about that arrangement?
You get your skins from Deskmod....your 'proggy' of choice is [for want of better word] a rival's, yet you bother to bend our ears for advice?
I'm starting to feel somewhat 'used'....
You get your skins from Deskmod....your 'proggy' of choice is [for want of better word] a rival's, yet you bother to bend our ears for advice?
I'm starting to feel somewhat 'used'....
kona0197
Reply #15 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:22 AM
Reply #15 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:22 AM
I'm a American (Try an stop us!) so what did you expect? JUST KIDDING! I have all the stardock programs on CD. I uninstalled them because I found them hard to use because I need to learn to use them. I get my skins here for my products that you have sjins for. I chat here so I can learn a thing or two about how I can create my own skins. You shouldn't consider Deskmod a rival but rather a brother. They help get artwork out to the masses also. Right now I am also using cusorXP and logon studio. So I don't hate you guys. I spend 85% of my time here anyways.
Jafo
Reply #16 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:34 AM
Reply #16 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:34 AM
kona0197....let's get one thing clear from the start.
Deskmod is NOT the 'rival' to which I refer.
We have quite good relationships with all the other community skinning sites.
It is 'StyleXP' that is the problem....a hacked system dll to replace the original to enable comparatively simplistic skins to be applied by third parties....without the endorsement of Microsoft.
So what exactly is the problem? Their community [styleXP] not up to speed with 'real' solutions to your questions?
Do you need to ask people with 'actual' skinning experience?...
Deskmod is NOT the 'rival' to which I refer.
We have quite good relationships with all the other community skinning sites.
It is 'StyleXP' that is the problem....a hacked system dll to replace the original to enable comparatively simplistic skins to be applied by third parties....without the endorsement of Microsoft.
So what exactly is the problem? Their community [styleXP] not up to speed with 'real' solutions to your questions?
Do you need to ask people with 'actual' skinning experience?...
kona0197
Reply #17 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:43 AM
Reply #17 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:43 AM
Well here is the problem. Before everyone pulled the Apple OS X skins from the site, I wanted my Windows machine to act, feel, and look like a mac since Apple dosen't make a Windows version of their popular OS. So I got the stardock progams from stardock and then the fun began. I downloaded a OS X theme from this site about a month or so ago. everything was fine until I found out that DX runs differently than objectbar. I wanted the bar on the bottom to emulate the exact look and feel of the dock bar on the mac so i unistalled DX and got mobydock. Now I have nothing. I even got BootXP so it would boot like a mac. And the skin for logonstudio skin MAC OS X. I don't know what went wrong I have no clue how to run this stuff so now I have regular Windows XP taskbar and ydock. Sorry I yelled at you. We americans suck sometimes. We have no manners at times as well. 
Jafo
Reply #19 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:56 AM
Reply #19 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:56 AM
They don't have to....all they need do is release another service pack and break the dll hack yet again....
Chances are they'll just make it hard-coded and impossible to 'patch'...
Also...don't lump all Americans into the 'bad manners' dept. I know very many who would be insulted by generalisations such as that...
Chances are they'll just make it hard-coded and impossible to 'patch'...
Also...don't lump all Americans into the 'bad manners' dept. I know very many who would be insulted by generalisations such as that...
moshi
Reply #20 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:59 AM
Reply #20 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 7:59 AM
why should they? in the end it makes their UI more attractive. if it would not be possible to play with the OS, quite a few people might loose interest in it ...
Jafo: your view on msstyles skinning is arrogant. it is definately not the program, but the skinners skills that make an UI look good. the average quality in msstyle skinning increases daily, and there is definately more "skinning experience" in doing shellstyles than in the WB community.
i just looked at the latest WB skins. plenty of them are ports from msstyles and most of the recent original WB skins are some kind of Photoshop filter fests.
Jafo: your view on msstyles skinning is arrogant. it is definately not the program, but the skinners skills that make an UI look good. the average quality in msstyle skinning increases daily, and there is definately more "skinning experience" in doing shellstyles than in the WB community.
i just looked at the latest WB skins. plenty of them are ports from msstyles and most of the recent original WB skins are some kind of Photoshop filter fests.
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Reply #1 Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:22 PM