I posted this in the "New Era" thread. Didn't see this one, until now, so I'll post it here also.

I like it so far.

Only one (1) issue so far.
In 5, when I want to edit an image, my paint program opens up "full screen".
In 6, it doesn't. It opens in a small window every time.
I hope there's a fix to this. It could get annoying after awhile.

bilbo1930: What section are you trying to alter transparency in?

When using PSP8 as my default editor, clicking the Edit button when previewing an image fails to launch the app, when either Open or Edit is the selected action. Haven't gotten very far with shaking it down as a result.

Daiwa: It sounds like the explorer associations with .bmp and .png are corrupted on your PC.

From the SKS preferences page (2nd tab) point sks to your editor and make sure custom app is picked rather than open or edit.

Thanks, Neil. I initially pointed SKS to PSP8 as my default editor (same as in SKS5) and left it on the default "Custom App" setting, but the Edit button wouldn't launch the app, which is why I tried the Open & Edit settings, which also didn't work. In SKS5, the default editor launches regardless of file association settings - .bmp has always been associated with MSPaint here but .bmp's still open in PSP8 via SKS5. Do we have to change the default associations for all file types we want to open with the default editor now?

I'll see if I can get it working.

The font import when you browse for it does not work, when you select the font in explorer, it does not accept the selection, you cannot bring the font in. Also, I can find no place to change the mouseover highlight color on the start menu, nor the mousoever text color on the start menu. I thought I had found it, but it does not work.

LightStar: There has been a request for an apply button on the editing window which we are looking into.

Regarding the mouseover colours on the startmenu, if you use a mouseover bitmap (vs a plain colour), WB on XP will not show the mouseover text colour.  On Vista it will.

Thank you Z71! That solved some of my problems, I really appreciate it.

The mouseover colour not being used when you use a startmenu item mouseover bitmap is an unfortunate limitation of that feature.  It is unlikely this will change on XP in the future.

First, kudos on the new version. I was one of those had many negative experiences with the previous version (corruption, crashes, black-box descriptions, cluttered interface, etc.) so I never put the work in to get over the hump. BUT, this version is phenomenal. So much easier.

Only the Xion player skin system (layers in a single PSD become the skin elements, with the names of the layers connecting X element with Y feature) rivals the new v6 of SkinStudio. BRAVO!!!

I got so into it that the first thing I tried to experiment with stopped me cold. There seems to be no way to make the explorer backgrounds (active/inactive) transparent (semi/full). Am I missing something? Is this coming?

It's really essential to one of the ideas I have. Thanks.

...yet. Any explorer replacement could, of course, etc. etc.

Why didn't they make this possible with DWM? It's the whole point of the thing to bring everything into the hardware accelerated GPU space...doh.

I can already hack an inelegant solution by just clipping my desktop wallpaper and making it the bitmap of the explorer background. That's useful for my day to day proof of concept, but it doesn't work for everyone else...sigh.

Kind of peeved by this app. I spent ages making a skin - having clicked the 'new skin' button... only to have it rejected because 'it contains elements of other peoples skins'. OK I know I did not skin every single last bit- it was a first effort for gods sake- but surely the default skin should not be made up of 'elements of other peoples work'... I mean if I click on new skin I expect it to be a blank slate- not to be accused of stealing for using some of the default settings!!!