FAO: People making bootskins
Saturday, December 20, 2003 by Sven Lowry | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Can people making bootskins PLEASE make sure there is no directory info in the zip when it's made, as its annoying having to keep renaming the skins to .zip and manually extracting the files to make it work because you included programs files\stardock\bootskin\name of skin etc. in the zip!!
Thankyou
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Thankyou
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kongit
Reply #2 Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:57 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:57 PM
stumpy needs to take a chill pill
He was only suggesting, not commanding. And it isn't that bad of an idea.
He was only suggesting, not commanding. And it isn't that bad of an idea.
c242
Reply #3 Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:48 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:48 PM
Stumpy : There are quite a 'few' people that don't have the english windows version, therefore their default path is NOT C:\program files. And I think You are behaving quite rude in this and some other threads. I think You have to calm down a bit...
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Stumpy
Reply #4 Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:58 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:58 PM
Seeing as how Mr Lowry lives in UK I'm sure He has an English version, and I see no reason what so ever to place the BootSkin program in any other directory than the default.
But I will appologise if my comment was a bit rough.
But I will appologise if my comment was a bit rough.
Sven Lowry
Reply #5 Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:06 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:06 PM
Well I downloaded a skin earlier, that extracted to Program Files\Stardock\Wincustomize\Bootskin\Skins which is just annoying 
The way I see it is if you don't put any path name in, running the .bootskin extracts the contents to skins\skin name folder wherever you installed bootskin, and also lets you do 'install from file'
Adding a full system path creates sub directories when using install from file, which is why alot of people can't get alot of skins to work. Having no path makes it work perfectly (I repacked the above skin and tested it by installing it both ways)
So its not just for those of us who install stuff in strange places (I have ALL my programs on a separate drive to windows, that way I can do a system restore from a disk image on the windows drive and not have to reinstall everything else
) but it will help everyone
The way I see it is if you don't put any path name in, running the .bootskin extracts the contents to skins\skin name folder wherever you installed bootskin, and also lets you do 'install from file'
Adding a full system path creates sub directories when using install from file, which is why alot of people can't get alot of skins to work. Having no path makes it work perfectly (I repacked the above skin and tested it by installing it both ways)
So its not just for those of us who install stuff in strange places (I have ALL my programs on a separate drive to windows, that way I can do a system restore from a disk image on the windows drive and not have to reinstall everything else
) but it will help everyone
Stumpy
Reply #6 Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:12 PM
Reply #6 Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:12 PM
The problem is with the BootSkin Program itself.
When a skin is made and tested it is where it should be, the when it is Exported it zip with that path, and renamed to .booskin.
So almost any bootskin skin will have the path in the file as default.
When a skin is made and tested it is where it should be, the when it is Exported it zip with that path, and renamed to .booskin.
So almost any bootskin skin will have the path in the file as default.
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Reply #1 Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:10 PM
Of course if you have installed to anywhere other than the default BootSkin directory then that is your problem not that of others, We should not HAVE to follow your instructions >