this is something that really irritates me.

at work most of the programmers run winamp all of the time. winamp is skinnable, and they all have different skins for it. this is considered quite normal and acceptable.

i dont really like winamp (i use coolplayer instead), but i do use windowblinds.

my basic problem is that nearly everyone complains about the fact that i use WB, and say that it is the reason my machine runs slowly. no account of the fact that it is running word * 6, excel, access, IE, outlook and 6 terminal emumators all at once.

remove word, excel and access and the problem goes away.

so how come skinning is so wonderful and acceptable when it is used on winamp (often with some visualisation running) but WB is considered so unacceptable???