The bottom line here is, that the gallery will be moderated for quality as is the wallpapers gallery.  Anything not approved for public gallery will be moved to personal pages. 

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I've noticed that, too. Sometimes it's listed in the sidebar, and then later it's gone. I've cleared my cookies, and as of this post, the link isn't there.

Also missing for me.  Was there yesterday and I clicked it so it would show.  Using IE8, cleaned browser history and cookies also.

ID, I see nothing written in your original thread that states that this new gallery will be only for a few master gadget makers.  And you did mention the advantage of making gadgets over widgets is so DX is not required to run them.  I would make the assumption that there are many people who do not use DX for one reason or another but would like to use many of the available widgets as gadgets.  Not everyone can afford the financial burden to purchase the entire array of Stardock Products.

Another thing I find disturbing is the fact that I thought WC's mission was to instruct and encourage new people into the different area of skinning.  This thread seems to have become derisive and elitist without offering any real options.  Perhaps a masters only gallery and a beginners gallery, or add non-master gadgets to the widget gallery listing would be options.

At any rate, it seems that such restrictive intentions should be made clear in the initial thread so that so much dissension is not being kindled from the beginning.

I hope this is taken as intended, as a possible way to have these questions answered in a less authoritarian manner.  This is only my opinion and I don't wish a major argument to be caused by it.  Thank you.

Good post angus.

I think the moderators had a definite idea of what we intended and agree that we didn't communicate it as well as we could.

The gallery is intended to be the elite of DX apps, not people.  I personally apologize for any misunderstandings.

As is typical of these forums, open discussion can distill an idea into a fact.  I believe that is the case again in this thread.

OK, lets just clear a few things up, because some are taking this the wrong way and that was never intended.

• Anybody can submit to the Desktop Gadgets gallery.  It is not restricted for submissions in any way, shape, or form.
  
  
• It will be moderated as basically all the galleries are WinCustomize are, and if need be items will be sent to personal pages.
  
  
• I personally encourage everyone to purchase DesktopX Pro, grab some tutorials or help from the community, and create the coolest gadgets around.  I'm serious, I love some of the gadgets that have been created.
  
  
• I'm going to talk to some of the advanced and Master DX skinners to get advice on how we can improve resources such as the WC Wiki.
  
  
• Clocks, calendars, etc. are all permitted.
  

Request : Iron out the bugs and issues, that sometimes make an encouraged widget/gadget maker pull his/her hair out and that have mentioned several times, for example by RomanDA... Two examples are DX not keeping Preferences or disappearing objects out of nowhere... Also some of the Plugins don't work anymore with technology going forward like the memory meter if You have more than 2 GB RAM and the CPU Meter not supporting multi-core CPUs. I know, You can do that with scripting, but is is pretty discouraging fo beginners. Also the idea of a skinnable gadget is still in my head (and others as I see) , but I don't like the idea to use inis and even more I don't want to fiddle with the users registry. Just my 2 cents...

thanks for the Clarification ID! 

Well a good idea would be if DX supported skinned gadgets in some way.

 . The Gadget gallery is for Gadgets, why would I want to upload my Gadget as a Widget.. then again, the Bird Mail that took me 3 hours to make was moved to the personal gallery.. I don't know what you folks want, I'm not a rocket scientist.. but it seems like anything we average folks submit will be knocked back anyway, if it isn't the equivilent to something NASA created.

How is that meant to inspire someone to keep trying, when our first thought now is.. Why bother... they will reject it.. it's like.. you're stuffed before you start , and no.. I am not complaining, I'm stating my thought's.

angus is spot on, people who don't have DX may want the simple thing's they see in the Widgets section, yet they can't get them now, because all of our 'simple Gadgets' will be rejected.

Edit: Why is the Gadgets Gallery link not on the main site anymore? just curious, the only link to it, is in ID's News topic.

I see it listed on the right side of my screen listed under Gallery.