retiredmaster

retiredmaster

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Reply to Do I keep skinning XP when Windows 7 arrives? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Vista / Win7 dual boot. Virtualbox is installed on both of those, and either of those can load the same virtual machine running XP. I only use XP to check XP skins now. Please will everyone stop using XP now? Then I can stop making pesky toolbar icons and progress animations...

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Reply to New WinCustomize Subscriber Skin: Elan in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Re. "Windows 7 Support" - I think it is worth mentioning again, WB skins with all the Vista elements covered work fine on Windows 7. There are only about half a dozen additional areas to Windows 7 skins (including jumplists, previews, extended start panel and different taskbar button bits) and even these are managed by reusing existing skin elements if they haven't been specifically created. True, there are some other tweaks and adjustments can be made, but the compatibility is very good: skins

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Reply to Music MyColors Theme Available for Object Desktop Subscribers! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

"no windows 7 support" makes it sound like skins don't work on Win7. They do work on Win7, and I think the only thing you don't get is the 'colour glow' on taskbar buttons and the expanding start panel for searches. Additional parts like jump list and previews are catered for using Vista elements and tooltip colours. I'd call that 'backward compatibility'. About 98% of the total content of a skin is XP and Vista stuff. And Win7 isn't quite out yet. It has to be remembered that skins take some co

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Reply to Amazing quality of recent skins in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for your kind comments. It's good to be appreciated. Too often it's easy to see things which we don't like about these designs, we often forget to appreciate the good bits! Thanks, Tim

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Reply to Next Master Skin in Sneak Previews WinCustomize Forums

Shelby: The media player is the Firefox plugin 'FoxyTunes' in mini mode - basically just a remote for other players, it's controlling Foobar. And you are right - that bluetooth is just for cell phone syncing my desktop pc. Icons are off because I'm running the excellent and totally essential 'NextStart' (part of the Winstep Suite) which lets me bump the top right screen corner to toggle them on and off. Lantec: When this Master skin is up there is a possibility that I might be updatin

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Reply to Next Master Skin in Sneak Previews WinCustomize Forums

Oh - yes CarGuy - thank you. Darn - I've been neglecting my replies, sorry. Things are quite hectic right now. I haven't had time to do much graphics at all really.

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Next Master Skin in Sneak Previews WinCustomize Forums

Long way to go yet, but most Window and Start Panel stuff done. Next, it's the XP bits, then Vista bits, then the extras (clock, dock, wallpaper etc.) Might be a while before this is ready... :) (also set as 'My Desktop' in my profile) Tim

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Reply to Masters....... have your say. in Community WinCustomize Forums

Essorant's top Master Skinning tips: - usable first, decorative second (no point having a beautiful but useless skin is there?) - don't move the min/max/close buttons to somewhere strange - 'highlight text' colour should be black! - make your skin xp AND vista ready - don't go half way! - we don't need another xp/vista/mac/your_OS_here clone - think of something original - take your time - respect people's opinions of your stuff - unless they are just being silly

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