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T-Man thinks Kenray has been peaking at Stardock's business plans.

I've already aproached (and been approached by) companies to do just that. We were going to do an intranet browser and skin design for a company with a medium sized network.

I thought it was such a good idea I got a guy interested in backing a venture to 'brand' networks with WB, and a custom browser.

That was a year ago and we're talking about it

kmulder - I've got two skins here with the clock and winamp controls, Document and Chrometube. Maybe Document would work for you, it's pretty subdued...

thank you all for the replies.

To recap;
First, the note on a skin based on our website was more or less a impulsive addition to the message. I understand that payment might be in order, but it not just getting a skin in, it will also implies several changes in the infrastructure of my company.

Second:
The Quality and Unsefullness.
Difficult to answer some of the remarks.
Maybe I can expand the discussion.
Take DesktopX and ObjectBar. By them selves beautiful solutions, but, getting them to work the way I (and I think many others) want them to is to hard. I have my own programs, settings etc. and the themes usually don't include those programs I use. Adding them to a theme is not easy unless you really know how to work the DesktopX and such.
Same, but easier, for WB and NS. My desktop has reservered areas at the top and bottom. The top hold the NS taskbar and the bottom contains the WS tabs and WS clock. I always change every skin with the maxbordercut settings. And sometimes the bmp for the ws clock.

So what do I realy want to say. I enjoy these products, I love the way I can change my look and feel. But as with every program/tool etc., I don't use them for fun, I need them to support my work (both professionaly and private). Therefor I prefer a bit more usefullness into these skins, such that, besides looking nice, they add that extra.

Last, but maybe for a different tread, using skins does noticably slower my computer. I sometimes disable all skinning programs because I need to have more speed.
Therefor, additional functionality may compensate the decrease in speed (I know, more functionality will also have inpact on speed).

Regards to you all, and no hard feelings. I kind of like these discussions.

Kees Mulder

I would just add an important point which is the border size, I don't think a skin is really functional with 100 pixels borders because of too much features used (some of mine are a bit too big without lol), moreover when creating a skin you have to take care that windows will be resized, so you have some litmits in the available space for buttons too ! Just my opinion ...