you mean xp times ?=

Question is, can it still be done? I miss them too, and sounds. I like sounds on buttons in WB skins.

I'm glad the Titlebar double-click and right-click options are still in WB Config.  I'm completely hooked on the window roll-up and would be (even more) lost without it.  Here's hoping that never goes away

They were a great addition/feature - back in the 'old days'.
I personally do not find/have a need for them any longer. With multi configurable mousebuttons I have all the various 'controls' in my hand, and doesn't have to move the mouse. I hardly ever use the caption buttons.

Others might have this kind of help too, which is why the extra buttons went out of fashion.

But they do add a certain 'extra' thing about a skin. Makes you feel that the skinner took that extra time just to make his/her skin stand out.
Heck, I once made a WB with a shitload of extra buttons - just because I could.  

Wassup....you didn't know I was/am a skinner?  [that was in the days of text-editing the UIS file...and dates to 2000]....

I agree completely with Frogboy on this. I'd also like to see more variety in the button graphics than most skins are using today. Underscore, square, X gets old. I think anyone who is using WB should know at this point the order of the titlebar buttons and their functions; making the need for the graphics unnecessary. I always enjoyed those WB skins that had no marking on the buttons, but gave a text description of its function on the titlebar when you hovered over them. Like Polymer for instance *Cough* Yeah, I'm biased *Cough* 

Also in this age of everything being widescreen, it would be nice to have the titlebar running vertically down one side of the window frame or the other. We now have far more screen space available horizontally than in the old days. It just makes sense that controls should be on the side and maximize the vertical space available for the window. Not sure if this is still possible, but I know it was back in the day. I remember the old Titanium skin that had a whole column of configurable buttons on the side of it.  

I so remember that WB skin, and even moreso: JafoStep. I always like those lil grey "JafoButtons" that were on your skins. 

One Titanium preview coming up.
Sure has got a lot of buttons..... plus a clock displaying, in the caption area, too, just not in Windows Exploder.

Yes, Snow....it's a point worth STRESSING.

Skinning is about altering your GUI.  Sure, changing the wallpaper and the tint of a window is 'altering your GUI' but proggies such as Windowblinds can do so much more.   You are now freed from the prerequisites of the MS Explorer GUI and can do 'stuff'.

Being adventurous is fun.  Creativity is fun.  Adding bits that are MORE functional than the default MS is what Frogboy's on about.

Perhaps a configurable button on each Window that accesses 'something' that would otherwise be 2 or 3 clicks away .... useful.

Individually configurable to personal taste.... useful.

In the past [origins of WB] virtually all of the skinners' works were recognisable [eg mine were all equally 'odd'/'crap'] as each tried to do new things to/with it.... but not too long after XP came along people seemed to think all you ever needed to do was be as uncreative as those msstyles people [yet they actually had no scope for real deviation from the norm so could be excused]...

Hmmm . . . Either there were 2 versions of Titanium, or I'm thinking of a different skin; but it had the extra buttons running down the side. I know it was a grey/metal looking one. 

k10w3, you are one of those skinners I always wait for new WBs from. Your new rapture skin is a perfect example of what I am talking about on the titlebar buttons. They are there and fully functional (with the function text on mouseover), yet they are actually integrated into the titlebar design graphically rather than just 3 square buttons sitting on top of the titlebar with the standard graphic on them. Beautifully done. 

Hmmmm I've done all those things with WB skins in the past..... Animation, buttons on the side, Hover text, my BlackBoXX Ultra skin even has the titlebar on the bottom of the window!! But you know what? people don't really want them!! They might say "oh, that is different" but ultimately not many download them..... I don't mind that, I make 'em cos I like them, and because I like my stuff to be different, but I guess if you use download numbers as a guide then people do want familiarity with just a little bit of pizazz. It's a fine line.........

Also, years ago, I was constantly berated for what people called "huge" titlebars, but these days people can upload a skin with a massive titlebar, and downloaders don't even mention it, rather, they call the author a genius!!

So, I reckon that, unless you walk that fine line that I mentioned, you won't please most people. Personally, I will just carry on doing what I've always done. Sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't........

That proves just one thing, Bryan. You were way ahead of your time, and the rest are just trailing biatches!

Oh the humanity! Won't somebody think of the pixels!