I would actually re-purchase Natural Desktop if I could have a Windows 7 version.

Thanks to you and Jim for your efforts.

I use the weather widgets all the time. I like having calendars, clocks, meters and gauges. I use Vad_M's media player, which I guess is not the DX media player. Animations are a neat trick, but I'm not nuts about them--I can easily live without them if they don't have a specific purpose except to make you say wow.  Some people like having RSS feeds, so I suppose that there are a few other things that could be included in a theme.

Well for me at the moment it comes to a very sad conclusion : It helps nothing how much we discuss, do a gazillion themes or objects (even ones that push the limits) if we don't have any support from the development for ages. So this thread will be wasted energy also I fear...

I never found a legitimate use for DX on my machine.  As such, I don't use it.  Maybe something better will come along...

Murex : I am not interested in themes, as they start to all look the same besides some color or form aspects. I think the real strength of DX is objects and gadgets, not full blown themes.

As a side note, I have also registered WinStep but only using NextStep (yet) as a substitute for my beloved RightClick on Win7 64bit.

Very surprised what only one single developer can achieve.

See, that's what I love about this community.

I don't like too much stuff on my desktop. I like it clean and minimalist, so I can think and get stuff done. Therefore, I don't use most of what you've listed, Murex.

For months, I've been using a zero-graphics, text-only theme comprised of menus and a calendar. I also have a weather widget running.

I love controlling the functionality, more than the look, of my desktop, and I love creating gadgets which I can use to perform various tasks. DesktopX accomplishes this, so I will keep using it until it's no longer supported and it kills my computer.

How does this differ from WindowBlinds, or Object Dock? Those are all the same, just different graphics.

Someone once said to me that a lot of my themes are the same theme with graphics swapped out, well, isn't that exactly what WindowBlinds is? Yes.

I'm thinking that DX is coming to be mainly just used by the people who skin it. Fans are dying out due to the lack of "newness" that requires new scripts and plugins to bring DX back to it's full power. There is a multitude of windows gadgets and sidebar gadgets, why can't DX do the same? It could, if Stardock would only back it's development, and that requires interest, which doesn't seem to exist anymore.

Call me a fanboy, or whatever. Yes, there are other apps to do what DX does. But most aren't Stardock products, and I, for one, have a home here, therefore, I am loyal to Stardock products when possible and most definitely loyal to DesktopX and to the WC Community.

I feel the WC/Stardock community is best served if we use Stardock products whenever possible. I realize this isn't how most of you feel.

I thin a lot of the objects are kinda dead. I used to love making DXThemes.

I can't find scripts to do what I want to do which is make more interesting desktop interfaces. I have a few that have been sitting around for a while because I can't find the scripts or understand how to write them.

I personally think the way to go with DX is to make more interactive themes (and you don't need a lot of animations, etc)

Here are three that have been dead in the water due to scripting problems.

OCCAM (I had made an entire new set of weather icons for this as well)

DOOM

TYCUS

Only that You are not bound to certain shapes and order of controls in DX. Can You have a round window for example in WB ? No. In the beginning of DX we had really innovative ideas and themes that got dated and left alone by the makers as DX got less and less development and support.

Look what people did with Sountox or Universe Metal or others over 5 years ago. Look at Gef's things. I would really like to update all these and bring them to modern standards. But not with DX all wrecked and dated.

RedneckDude, don't get me wrong, I don't want to talk down Your efforts, but I am under the impression that You think it will have any effect how much people do DX things, It does NOT. We've been there and done things for years.  Think Vad, Roman, Gef and others who are nearly forgotten already. You just have to look through the galleries from the beginning.

I think at some point Stardock has to decide if they want to do games or Desktop Customizing besides some 3 or 4 mainplayers (WB, DeskScapes (as useless as it is...), Fences and perhaps IP) instead of wrecking apps and then put everything on hold and in wrecks because the next game or little favorite minor project (speak Fences) has to be realeased... See the ObjectDock desaster also.

Roman had helped me with some, but he is very busy, which I understand. What help he did give me showed me that what I want IS possible.

Okay, who wants to take a look at OCCAM for me?

Sent you a PM PO,  I'll try to help you out.

Even though i have only made 1 dx widget, it gave me hours of fun designing it and making sure all the graphics worked right, that the scripts for visibility etc worked. I wanted to do something different, think out of the box and thats what i did. Its so much easier then doing a blind, and is versatile in its features other then a wb which is just basically a background. I used to use the weather widget a lot before the problems, now i tend not to as its less accurate. It can still be used as a good programing tool.