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Skinners, Artists, Coders, and Testers Needed: Community Suite

Happy Birthday!!

https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=174881
from WinCustomize Forums

After the success on the Troll Thumping Day Suite some members of the Mother Thumpers are coming together to create the "Happy Birthday Suit(e)".

I envision this suite centered around a DX gadget that counts down to your birthday. On your birthday the gadget will prompt you to download the most recent incarnation of the suite components so for your special day, your desktop will celebrate with you.

At this point we have some components assigned to artists but this is a collaborative project and welcome input and assistance from everyone. Please jump in and help out if you'd like.

WB - theAVMAN - complete, uploaded
Vista Logon - RickJF - complete, uploaded
Dream - Carguy - complete, uploaded
Tabbed Docks - mommaTee - complete, uploaded
Zoomer Docks - mommaTee - complete, uploaded
XP Logon - RickJF, sAARge - complete, uploaded
Winamp - TheD2JBug - complete, uploaded
Avatar - Hog56 - complete, uploaded
SoundPackage - Robjk - complete, uploaded
DX Birthday game  - Haptork - complete, uploaded
DX Clock - theAVMAN - complete, uploaded
Dock icons - RickJF - complete, uploaded
RightClick - Lantec - complete, uploaded
Rainlendar - 2of3 - complete, uploaded
Bootskin - RickJP - complete, uploaded
IconPackage - MommaTee - complete, testing
Sidebar - Mike - complete, uploaded
Xion - alibear123 - complete, uploaded
Cursor - sAARge - complete, uploaded
Sysmetrix - Lantec - pending - drafts posted in thread
DX Countdown Widget - theAVMAN, milksama
DX Weather - puterdudejim - complete, uploaded
DX Calendar - puterdudejim - complete, uploaded


Launch date: Unknown at this point
(Happy Birthday Karma and Snowy! - Original date May 6th, 2008)

Please see the link below for the original suggestion.

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Reply #726 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sorry I've been away, everyone. I'll upload the second (and improved version, IMHO) of the docks tomorrow.

Great job with everything!! It's all coming together real nicely!
Offworld Trading Company
Reply #728 from WinCustomize Forums Top
They are up I will have to update the descriptions I was having an internet problem this morning and had tried 3x then it went with the short description! :p


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Clocks


Anyway I hope you like them! :)
Reply #729 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good job well done.

Small point on clocks work fine on first load second go colour change would not work but found if unloaded desktopX then reloaded clock worked fine. Not sure if this is just the way it is or something not quite right.
Reply #730 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, I've uploaded the Xion skin, it's 'Birthday Suit(e): Xion V1'.
It currently looks like this:

And here's my page WWW Link
Reply #731 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks AV!

Sucks about the upload problems; glad you go t it done.  Will test soon/later.  :)

Any chance of updating the names?
Which reminds me . . . At some point I'd like to use teh same naming convention and maybe part of teh same description.  Is everyone cool with that?  Something like "Birthday Suit(e) : Xion" or something.
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Reply #732 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Birthday Suit(e)
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Done mine
Reply #734 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Updated skin list.

Thanks Rick!
Reply #735 from Stardock Forums Top
What about my Xion skin...
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What about it?  It's in the list, purple, "pending" (It may still be in moderation . . what we need is a moderator).   ;)  :CONGRAT:
Reply #737 from WinCustomize Forums Top
alibear123, can you post a screenshot of the Xion skin here so the team can take a  look while we wait?
Reply #739 from WinCustomize Forums Top


was working on shot but having trouble with imageshack

Don't think we need the "a" top right

Looks a bit busy I thought.
Reply #740 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It looks better in-use. And less crammed in. The 'a' is my logo to just show that I helped make it. As I said, I'm not very experienced, but there will be more features in V2.
Reply #741 from WinCustomize Forums Top
alibear:  everything looks slapped onto the cake graphic; not integrated into it.  The balloons look out of place too.  maybe removing some of the candles and putting some controls there.  Maybe have them look like the candies that are sometimes on cakes like these: http://bp3.blogger.com/_dAxSyA64M_M/Rx46FgfpjKI/AAAAAAAAA_4/87ADqjuYUZQ/s400/100_3584.JPG)

You might be able to find some graphics here: http://audiomasters.net/forWC.htm

It's a good platform for us to build on.   :CONGRAT:
Reply #742 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It looks better in-use. And less crammed in. The 'a' is my logo to just show that I helped make it. As I said, I'm not very experienced, but there will be more features in V2.
Reply #743 from WinCustomize Forums Top
maybe removing some of the candles and putting some controls there
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Agreed ..... try to use some AV's grafix, that will also match with wb ....
Reply #744 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Excuse the double-posting it's not me trying to repeat myself. Ok, I'll edit it with your suggestions in mind, and then the V2 will come out. Thx.
Reply #745 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was going to wait until downloaded it but you were in a rush for feed back.

Re Logo it's a Community Suite it does not need personal Logos.

Good go for first try at it, and sure will improve with updates :CONGRAT:
Reply #746 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Excuse the double-posting it's not me trying to repeat myself. Ok, I'll edit it with your suggestions in mind, and then the V2 will come out. Thx.
Reply #747 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, I'll edit it with your suggestions in mind, and then the V2 will come out. Thx.
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If you want to jsut post yoru progress here as you go we'll be happy to help.  My original goal was to get a bunch of us working together to build something for the community.
Reply #750 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok I'll get rid of the logo. Anything else?
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You don't think that's enough for a first pass?   :LOL:
I appreciate your effort and the fact that you are learnign as you go.  Good luck, have fun, and if you need assistance, we have soem really experienced people here that can help.

For waht it's worth . . you can see my first attempt at a Xion skin here: http://zubaz.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=40&libid=67


(Yes, it was supposed to look like that)