WinCustomize to Expand into Mac & Linux Customization
Don't Fear the Penguin
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
2008 April Fools Joke 
For seven years, WinCustomize has been the home for Windows GUI Customization. Users from around the globe come here every day to download skins, icons, wallpapers and more to change the way the Windows Operating System look, feels and behaves. While Windows remains the dominant operating system in the world, we've been watching the steady growth of both Apple's OS X and Linux as alternative OS choices.
As both have matured and grown in popularity, we've seen new opportunities in skinning, and noted that there is surprisingly little in focused support or communities dedicated to skinning these platforms.
It's always been our attitude that skinning is about giving users choice and artists a place to showcase and share their work. We want that same choice and opportunity to be available to our friends on the other side of the OS aisle too.
The changes won't be immediate as we have work to do on the site to ensure that we work properly with Konqueror, Safari and Galeon. We're even planning a special text-only version for those of you who refuse to use a GUI at all and surf the web using Lynx.
For our initial offerings, we'll be launching theme galleries for KDE and Gnome, and MacOS X Dashboard Widgets. Expect it to be handled via a subsite sort of like http://dream.wincustomize.com/ This will allow us to make a Linux and Mac browser compatible site much quicker than trying to go through and convert all of WinCustomize.
This is actually just our first step in in supporting the skinning world beyond our native platform. Once the site is there to support it, we will begin work on porting some of our more popular apps to these other platforms.
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Reply #2 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:15 AM
Today, April 1st, dawns a new day for WC, Stardock, and skinning!
Finally a reason to boot up the G4!
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:23 AM
The sad thing is most Mac users would be very happy with this announcement as Unsanity have totally dropped the ball, mind you I'm still waiting for the mac compatible version of multiplicity so maybe that was a previous april fool's.
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I always look forward to this day. Not bad. 99% of the time, they acually sound beleivable.
Good one this year.
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Reply #20 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 10:01 AM
the username true bit is a site bug. We're aware of it.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:13 AM