And I have just finished setting up XP with WB3 and one of Alex's skins.....just so I can get back to a roll-up function again....
Now, there is no more daggy green start button....what more do you need?.....

I've been finding a lot of dead links for the themes...and a lot of very amateurish ones...where'd you get the good ones dj?

I tried it out too. Well boys, even though it is really well designed, it is kind of a glorified version of what was in Windows 98 except now we have bitmaps. It's as if it were designed mainly to create different colors of what comes with XP.

Emily...yes, I think that's the case.....just like changing the colours of your desktop.....really limited to the point of being a waste of time...

craeonics hasn't got XP, so takes no side.

Last Winter when Whistler was still in beta I looked at .msstyles mucho. It can change all the controls in XP. But in a very very very limited way. In WB, the skin author decides how big the titlebar is and the borders and the title bar buttons. In .msstyles the "skin" can't do much. The author has no say over the title bar height or borders or button sizes. And they can't decide where the buttons really go.

Don't take my word for it, you can tell this without looking into it much. In XP, the border size and title bar heights are still set by users. Try it for yourself. If you do the same thing with WB, it'll override it and keep it at whatever size the skin author decided.

It's a UIS1+ type solution at best. And we all know how many skin authors use that.....

Oh you gotta laugh. You say that so far they are basically only colour changes to the original XP themes..... If you click on that category, top left here, the one for XP Skins, what do you get ?

Oh look 10 themes with different colours but all looking like the original XP skins..... Oh please...
The thing with StyleXP is you can change EVERY single piece of graphic in XP...... Like to see it done with WB.....

Sickpuppy....you are quite wrong.
Currently, the majority of 'XP'-specific WB skins are intended to emulate and improve on the style of the default XP skin, however, I for one am running my own skin in XP...[BlindJAFO-X] which has absolutely no similarity with the default XP what-so-ever, in fact, all the controls are at top-left....something I don't believe this new 'proggy' can achieve.
If you were to skin for WindowBlinds, you would soon see its potential for diverse style and layout. Essentially, the sky is the limit, and definitely far more adaptable than a boring old colour change or bitmap swap....

I don't have XP, so I don't have an opinion either way.

*reads interview*

*cough*bullshit*cough*

yes...thanks for your insight firestorm

Especially check the comments!