WindowBlinds & Longhorn Beta 1
Skinning Longhorn..
Sunday, July 10, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
When the Longhorn beta arrives, we expect to release an update to WindowBlinds to support beta 1. The only issues we know of is that the new Start menu has an edit field in it and the toolbar icons are handled a bit differently. We're working on that.
..As for people who have been applying unauthorized MSStyles, they're out of luck. Those msstyles will not run on Longhorn beta 1 unless they use them via WindowBlinds.
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Reply #22 Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:18 PM
Unfortunately...too many people have forgotten, or are unaware of what skinning was like before Win XP came along and created this hacked-skin option.
It's probably a safe bet to assume that skinning as a whole would not really have suffered if XP had had no in-built feature.
The world would have been spared x-million Luna recolours, though....hardly a 'bad thing'....
Reply #26 Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:20 AM
| In my opinion, they prey on people's ignorance. |
That is afterall an accepted business practice.
Reply #27 Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:07 PM
| The world would have been spared x-million Luna recolours, though....hardly a 'bad thing'... |
Yup, only we'd have only the various Mac themes to play around with.
Reply #28 Friday, July 15, 2005 4:43 PM
| Let me throw in my 2 cents then on why a user (one with no stake in WB) might be excited: |
Interesting that neither of the people who I asked why msstyles was a problem, had an answer for me. But the one the guy who has the most to gain by its absence (and who I didn't ask) was able to come up with an answer.
I'm just sayin'.
Reply #29 Friday, July 15, 2005 4:59 PM
| In my opinion, they prey on people's ignorance. |
| That is afterall an accepted business practice. |
Which seems to be why this topic was created.
Reply #30 Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:06 AM
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Reply #21 Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:56 PM
Let me throw in my 2 cents then on why a user (one with no stake in WB) might be excited:
Uxtheme patching basically wiped out the skinning development community.
In skinning there are two periods: Before October 2001 and After. Before 2001 there were programs like Illumination, eFX, Chroma. There were also regular new skinnable programs coming out all the time.
But uxtheme patching took those out because msstyles are "good enough" for a lot of people and so only programs (like WindowBlinds) that offered VASTLY more than msstyles could compete.
Therefore, developers who might want to create something from scratch had no incentive because it would take them years just to get something on par with what msstyles provided.
In addition, uxtheme patching created an environment where opportunistic third parties could sell the technically poor users of the world a way to skin windows without having to put in any real effort. Style XP, IMO, could have been written by an intern in a couple of weeks and yet has probably made hundreds of thousands of dollars thanks to non-techie users not realizing that they're paying for something that is freely available elsewhere.