Thanks, Jim!  It wasn't available last time I looked.

Some of those new settings in SKS7 look a bit daunting. Time to tear into Corporate and do some studying.

My pleasure, sir. Now get to work, I need some tinted graphics...lol!!

I, fortunately, am in a situation where I have all 3. To be honest, I'd probably move over to 7 across the board, but since I like to skin 'em, I won't.

1. Do you plan on updating previous WB skins to work with Windows 7?
   
2. Are you creating new WB skins just for Win7?
   
3. Do you plan on making skins compatible with XP, Vista, and Windows 7, or just one of them?

No, for the following reasons:

1.    I'm sticking with XP as long as possible, or until someone gives me some money for a new pc

2.    I'll start skinning again when SKS is as usable as version 6

Nope I make what i like

Fuzzy : The good thing about 7 is : It runs much better on old hardware than Vista.

1. I think many of the old ones are too old to update. Some of the new ones perhaps.

2. I just finished one. Although it's for XP and Vista as well.

3. As John mentions about supporting 3 OS's, this is one of my griefs as well. I can manage 2, 3 is a bit much. Yeah, I'm lazy, but I also support progress and would love to see people move away from XP to something new and modern. There's a ton of time consuming bits to XP skins that are annoying to do.

AMEN!

I would like to is see more for W-7 but have found that most of the newere skins for Vista work just fine in W7 RC 1 64 bit, It is some of the older ones that do not work correctly

I would update my skins but i can't run the beta of sks 7 (says that it can't write the code of activation )

And i've plan to make skin for vista and 7

I've totally finished my moving to Win-7 today. Good bye XP (because too old) and Vista (because it requires too much resources). I've removed these both OS forever (together with all old stuff). The future is much better than past...

1. No.

2. I've done new WB skin which support all of Win-7 visual effects. Besides I made a new skin for IE8 (without using WB).

3. For Win-7 only because I'm always going forward and have no desire to return back. XP and Vista are in the past...

To the Skinning Community, I'm not a skinner, so feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt, but I do have a viewpoint that represents at least one enthusiastic user of Wincustomize's library of skins. Among the skins I have in my possession are DogmaX and SouLuna, two skins that are virtually legendary in the skinning community. I always seem to turn back to these two skins when I get tired of the glitz and glamour of today's skins. I will sorely miss them when I upgrade to Windows 7 at the end of October. I think there are a number of issues and questions involved with upgrading the old skins to new ones: 1. If a skin was within the top five to ten percent of the download list during it's era and scored high in the ratings, then I think it is not only worthwhile for the original creator to upgrade them, but I think there is at least a smidgion of obligation to each and every one of their skins users. After all, they posted them for all to freely use and many did just that. Now that they are "hooked", these users would feel somthing akin to grief if parted from them. The larger the user (download) base that uses the skin, the higher the obligation. However, if I created a skin that didn't make a splash, it seems to me that I'd make better use of my time making a new skin instead. 2. If you're going to upgrade/update a past skin, one should do his/her best to maintain the overall look and feel of the original skin, and hopefully put most of their creative efforts into adding in the new features found in WB5-WB7. Otherwise, why make an update at all? Changing the whole skin from it's original appearance would negate the whole point in updating it in the first place. 3. Both the skins that I mentioned in the first paragraph above, appear to be unlucky to have absent or missing creators. Attempts on my part to contact them have failed. What will happen to these venerable pieces of skinning work? 4. And then there are those, who for whatever reason, don't want to skin anymore, or just don't want to bother to update their old skins? With the proper permisssions and atributions, would it be possible for some volunteer skinners to adopt an absent creator's top rated/downloaded skin and do as suggested in "2" above? 5. I actually plugged the following idea to Stardock support: Have an update/upgrade contest of some sort, so we can encourage the creators of some of these older skins to get up off the laurels of their past successes and make their old skins into new (comment about laurels present company excepted, or you wouldn't even be reading this). Comments welcome of course, even it's to tell me hogwash, ignoramous, or heaven help me... idiot! Clair

 

my sentiments exactly!

Adding yet another OS does create a dilemma for skinners. I don't think anyone should be expected to make skins for 3 different OS' so the original questions are valid.

What you don't want is large sections of users feeling left out because there are no new skins for them. The reality is the majority are still going to be using XP. It's going to take a long time for people to adopt W7. It will happen eventually, but not the way the move from 98 to XP happened. Vista has left many with a nasty taste in their mouth, not something easily overcome.