Actually, Dave, you can be creative with SkinStudio. WindowBlinds only applies the creation. It is created in SKS
You getting technical on me are you? I mentioned WB with SKS so actually your statement is put better than mine but I think anyone would have got the point.
The statement posted was "most creative with have fallen by the wayside" I don't agree as again you mentioned object dock, icons and cursors are still there. Really the only hard one there that requires real skill is cursors. OD and icons are rather easy if one has any graphic skins at all.
You and a few others skin winstep and that is not a piece of cake and surely requires skills. Actually they all require some kind of skills as I think of it.
A few you mentioned again require skills but are not and have never been SD programs as you know. Still plenty to be creative with is the way I see it and that is why I commented. You were the DX man and I thought still enough people still used it to make it valuable but guess I was wrong (again as usual)
Bottom line in my opinion is there is still many programs that require skill and you listed many of them. I understand where you are coming from losing DX as a Skinner needs something to do and would prefer to skin the programs they enjoy the most so with DX gone you have the most pain as being the master of them.
BTW: not to hijack but with your operation coming you have to spend most of your time walking, running and at the gym. I will be waiting for that picture of little Jim. It won't be easy and will take some time but you can do it and in a year after it's done you will feel like a different man. I give you all the credit in the world for taking this step. OK, done hijacking.