There was a time when people made their window blinds something like this:
Now however people are trying 2 make it look something like this:
NOT saying either is better, wrong or whatever, but...Just wondering. What happened ?
A discussion around this would be refreshing I think
Ain't goin' there. Nope.
Guess I'll have to dust off SKS (after 4 years in hibernation), and give it another go....
Nice!
dust? don't you mean snow? i'm thinking there's certainly more snow than dust around your place. correct me if i'm wrong but ....
although, saying "I'll have to snow off SKS" just doesn't seem right.
I am not a skinner, however I do use SKS 7 to change items on skins around, I usually change the look of the menu bar in IE by framing it and also changing the font colors if they are to light, I also some times change the look of progress bar. If I like a certain please wait from one skin I might import into the current skin I am using. To simplify it I mix and match items from other skins into a current skin to get a skin of my preference. I also put colour in the folders panel in explorer which most skinners neglect or the make it gray or blue which are two colors that suck as primary colors in a skin IMHO. Blue and gray are fine as accent colors in a skin the electric Blur or plastic blue can be tolerable as a primary skin colour. To bad there is not a metal flake like in car colors in skins. I usually end up modifying scroll bars and tool tip also sometimes the buttons
While we are at it, Skins I would dream of to see for 7:
Copperdeck II, Sputnik, Universe Metal, Synchronus, Marinara, Synapse, Thredz, Atomic, Dynamo (anyone remember Aleksyandr ?), Audiophile, Micron2, Envision, Systronic 14, Colony, Logika, Spectre, Skinplant, Vienna, Naked, Azenis 2, Multipas Carbon, Tronnix, Avenger, Last Cobalt, Toon XP, Transilvania, Vox, Opus OS, Thunderstorm, Codename Opus, Cabal, Aura, Antares, Beacon..........................................................
Heck...I remember all of those.....
Ya forgot Heavy Equipment, though ...[still a significant skin suite]...
That's what the dots stand for But You are right of course. I have all these still on my Archive-Harddisk, never could trash any of these. All my favorite Skins since 2000... And the there is the 'Wincustomize CD Summer 2001' still in my shelf, even after a move last year.
To be honest, one of the reasons that new stuff doesn't look like the "good old stuff" is that it's all be done before - there not much 'new' to do! And I use my own WindowBlinds, so I want them to be usable - every day usable - so if I do something fancy and exciting (I did the Savannah skin which had some great animal print textures) I usually end up using it for a day (or an hour, or minute...) then just switching to something that looks cool but lets me work!
I'd hate to think that the second skin in the screenshot (Primavera) was an example of the decline of WB skins - just getting the hatching line textures on all the elements of the Primavera skin took literally hours of work. And I also hope that the clean lines and colours apeal to those with a more minimal aesthetic, as that was the intention. Spikes and glassy blobs are great! - but for me, only for a short while, and to be honest they've been done so many times before (...and yes, so have minimal stuff, I agree).
I say, each to his or her own.
Skin on!
(Treetog, MikeB, Hippy - I taught them everything I knew.... )
Tim : As for the initial shots, I like both. You are nearly the only skinner that can do minimal and usable skins with unique style. One can tell an Essorant skin out of hundreds.
Both yours and Vampothicas was merely examples of "out of the box" - "inside the box"... as i said quote:
NOT saying either is better, wrong or whatever, but...Just wondering. What happened ? you do Great stuff Essorant !
No I understood (and thanks )
I think the question should be: good or poor quality (you should have one and not the other), then the design istelf is down to the individual - and all tastes are catered for!
The hardest things is that there are some great older skins which people want on Win7, but aren't likely to get updated. The people that made them aren't around to do the upgrade - maybe some of the more active new skinners should seek approval from the original artist and upgrade them?
Go where man? To Honestville? Population - 1 (hint...it's me.)
There's only a couple people on here that I have a problem with, and you aren't one of them.
I have updated several of the "classics" for my own personal use and actually did seek permission to upload one of them years ago. The original artist was kind enough in his refusal, but it has deterred me from repeating the process only to be shot down.
Honesty is a good thing. I won't go there simply because there is no need, that's all. I have nothing against you dude. Everyone is entitled to an opinion.
[quote who="Snowman" reply="52" id="2962825"]Quoting c242, reply 45Snowy, I really doubt I would have the skills and/or the patience nowadays to bring that one to Vista/7. Converting WBs to XP has been difficult for me already.Id deffinatley want to help you too Carl, me and snowy working together again..*sigh*
Essorant, ive always loved your stuff, I still remember seeing your work advertised and thinking 'oh man to be like this guy...."
your one of my many idols....Renato is another,
I agree with Carl, id love to see the old stuff updated, it would be so awsome
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I remember when I first got my WindowBlinds. Essorant's skin pack came with it and boy did I have fun. That was back when it was version 3 I think. I spent a whole day just changing from one to another. That was the first I crashed my machine. Man...would I love to see some of the Oldie but Goodies make a comeback. Awesome!
Personally I like the more minimalist, clean, ultra-usable skins. They don't have to be boring to be usable. vstyler's stuff is very usable and certainly anything but boring. Same with essorant. I'll pass on the big and gaudy "look at me!" showstoppers. Like ID said, they're more novelty than anything.
Yeah but they're also fun to play with. I like the detail in some of them. The more there is of it the better I like it.
Isn't more than a handful a waste?
I would really go for more permissions. Minority of the original skinners will refuse, I bet. Don't let 1 refuse get You down.
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