Suites - which apps to support
Friday, July 18, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
For a suite to be useful, it needs to support the applications people use.
But this also has to be carefully balanced -- every application that is skinned adds time and effort to the project. So what do you think would be the list of core apps that need to be skinned for something to be complete for the mainstream user?
Here's what I would pick:
IconPackager for the icons
CursorXP for the cursors.
WindowBlinds for the GUI
DesktopX for the desktop
ObjectBar for the bars and menus
Windows Media Player for the MP3 player (or Winamp)
Maybe Trillian but probably not (I use MSN now).
And WinStyles to put it all together.
What apps do you think really need to be skinned for a complete suite?
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Reply #42 Sunday, July 20, 2003 9:54 AM
Reply #43 Sunday, July 20, 2003 9:56 AM
WindowsBlinds has 28, IP has 25, and CXP has 21.
Reply #44 Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:17 AM
CursorXP
Windowblinds
Logon
Wallpaper
Nothing else matters...
Reply #45 Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:29 AM
yeah, I was kind of pointing out that IP and CurXP are something people feel are paramount to a complete skin, kind of 
Reply #47 Monday, July 21, 2003 2:24 AM
WindowBlinds
Logon
CursorXP
IconPackager
Trillian and
ObjectDock, maybe, if you have the time, Sir.
Reply #48 Monday, July 21, 2003 7:58 AM
CXP definatly
IP
Wallpaper to suit
Personally I like to change my Beatnik clock at the same time but it looks like I'm one of very few.
Reply #49 Monday, July 21, 2003 8:51 AM
Cursor XP
Icon Packager
WMP
Sysmetrix
Wallpaper
Rainlendar
Logon Studio - I don't use it but I'm thinking of trying it soon.
Winstyles - would also be nice, but since it's easy enough to put the suite together myself,it's not really necessary.
Reply #50 Monday, July 21, 2003 8:18 PM
Windowblinds
Wallpaper
Winstep
Iconpackage
Sysmetrix
CursorXP
WMP
Trillian is a nice to have also
Reply #51 Monday, July 21, 2003 8:28 PM
1 WB
2 IconPackager
3 Object Dock..( Ilove the solara OD..)
4 Curser XP
5 Windows Media Player
6 Beatnick or Sysmetrix Either or...Oh yeah A matching Wallpaper..1024x768
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Reply #52 Monday, July 21, 2003 9:01 PM
Anyway, everything Frogboy said and:
Sysmetrix
Rainender
NextStart
Wallpaper
Reply #53 Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:00 AM
StyleXP
Winstep (Nextstart+Workshelf)
Icon Packager
AltDesk
Wallpaper
Windows Media Player
Winamp 2 or even better: JRiver Media Center
Cursor XP
Reply #54 Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:55 AM
Windowblinds
ICQ
Winstep
Thats all I ever use.
Reply #55 Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:20 PM
desktopx
iconpackager
cursorxp
xxcalc
of course its getting hard to find a xxcalc skin to match rest
Reply #56 Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:27 AM
SysMetrix
WindowBlinds
Trillian
WinAMP/QCD
Icon Packager
Cursor XP
If a suite doesn't have a WinSTEP skin, I either skip it, or create a WinSTEP skin. Same for SysMetrix. I love Trillian and wish more people would skin it. For QCD, I can always convert a WinAMP 2 skin, but native skins are even better.
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Reply #41 Sunday, July 20, 2003 9:48 AM
Log on studio
WMPlayer