MikeB314: I laughed to myself while reading your comment. I thought that it *did* sound like an NPR pledge drive, then I read your NPR comment. big time.

This is a great SkinBrowser update, a great ObjectBar theme and a great WindowBlinds skin. Feline was right, it does sort of look like XPCobalt, but he's also right that it is a fantastic skin. The update to the Wincusto site is also a fine timesaver. Thanks.

Best investment I've ever made. Way to go folks at Stardock and Wincustomize, and congratulations to Brian Harper.

Much nicer!

Must be getting close to Halloween.

I find the comments comparing XP Coruna with the wb in the premium suite interesting. For my taste, I prefer the XPaugusta to the XPCoruna.

I had thought the dl of the ob file had failed until I read this comment "the one you get if you hold down Ctrl-A ". I tried it and it works, but being a novice, I'm still not sure if I'm missing more.

Keep up your efforts. I'm not impresswed with everything I dl, but I get more than my monies worth and find it entertaining!

Wild Bill, if you alternate click on your desktop you will see a new menu. Select the one that says configure, and you can exlplore all the bars, learn how they work, and then adapt them to your needs. These bars are the ultimate in privacy as they are all together invisible until you call them. However, you can also add a bar if you want. I added a docked bar on top for icons like games and music that are easy for someone else to find (i figured that would keep them from poking around in my stuff). I am still in love with my new object bars!

Roland, give it time. Considering that it was those wonderful folks over at Pixtudio that made the Windowblinds skin. Not to mention it is the first suite and that I'm sure there are many more to come.

Chris

Me thinks some of you expect an awful lot for a subscription that amounts to $10 per year.

Pixtudio sells their suites for $10 per suite.

This first suite has a GOOD skin, 120+ icons, and an ObjectBar theme that was pretty uniquely done. Is it the greatest suite ever? No. But it doesn't "sux".

Let me be candid, having a bunch of people rip on what was a lot of work like this does not encourage us to make more of them. We only have to create one more during the next year and a half to meet what we promised.

The number of skin suites is largely going to depend on volunteer efforts by WC supporters. And I can tell you that seeing these kinds of flames is not going to encourage any skin author to come forward to want to work on it. If anything, it will increase the cost of doing them since what skin author wants to be subjected to this kind of treatment?

There will be premium skin packs, premium suites, and premium icon packages but they don't be part of the WinCustomize subscription. Hopefully you'll like them better. At least in their cases you'll be able to pick and choose which premium skin packs you pay for.

By contrast, The WinCustomize subscriber suites were meant as an added bonus, an extra way of thanking people who are supporting the site by subscribing. There's only so much we can realistically do on $10 per year before the point of the subscriptions (paying for new hardware, more bandwidth, coding, etc.) is lost.

I can tell you already though that it's going to be impossible to do as many suite as we had hoped. Skin authors and theme makers have been reading this stuff and we've lost a lot of interest from them in wanting to subject themselves to abuse.

The definition of a troll is someone who posts for the sole reason of inflaming people to solicit as many responses as possible.

I'm not sure I've seen that here. I think people are giving honest opinions. Their tact may not be what it should be, but I don't think they're trolling.

Some people think a troll is anyone who gives a dissenting opinion. That is not the case at all. Even if you only post once and go away, that doesn't make you a troll.

honesly, the only bad part about this skin suite is the gay wallpaper. doesn't even fit the theme. and why does wincustomize show the theme in preview with a totally different wallpaper that actually looks good, then u apply it only to be disappointed.

personally i don't care for the suites. i re-skin my PC first thing when i get to work, then first thing when i get home, and i do it piece by piece from all the wonderful skins contributed daily. i guess i was just expecting a whole lot more from my wincustomize subscription, and i'm getting a whole lot less. why don't u charge more then, that way when i rip on u guys for bad work you won't go off talking about the money issues. WTF does that got to do with your work anyways, if u don't take pride in your work, don't do it.

Frogboy you know we will like the "premium skin packs etc" better because {I am assuming) they will be of a high standard. People will not buy an inferior product. Will part the revenue from these "Packs" be of assistance in a higher standard of product for the Skin browser.
Oh and Frogboy I think your post has a very threating overtone and is a bit of a cop out. As soon as somebody says they do not like somthing you come the big heavy. The negative posts here are not flaming, some citizens are just a little disappointed.
I have the utmost respect for the skinners and contributors who give of their time and labour at no cost to anyone but themselves. However I do perfer some skins to others. Not many though judging by the amount I download. I don't skin but but I contribute by paying my way WB, IconPkg, OBJ DKP, Skin Brsr and the three Pixtudio Suites. I am a little disappointed with this suite but as your post says I will soon have the option to pay for premium suites.

buy the way, I cant spell worth a dam, I should never re-read anything I post, how embarrassing. (And the is with IE Spell)

That is my point, your comments were reasoned and well stated, That is my point.

I would like to thank mormegil and alexandrie for the wonderful icon package and windowblind. I only use those two products currently and can't comment on the object bar. I am impressed by the work. BTW - I change the shade of the windowblind skin ever so slightly to suit my taste - a wonderful feature of wb 3.4. Thanks for that stardock!

Actually, I was coming back to say I am liking this skin more the more I use it. I also noted that the icons are more complete than I had been used to. Always there was one place here or there that would not accept an icon. But now, they are all skinned! I think the colors on the skin are rich (I always like it when some color that I would not have chosen myself seem so right!).

Oh... and mormegil? That is not bad spelling. It is "spelling outside of the box" or creative spelling. A lot of great thinkers have that problem. Don't let it bug you. You are eloquent.