essorant, happy birthday, d00d! oct 4 is a great day in history. when i said 'windows 7 support', i didn't mean a subskin for windows 7. i was referring to mycolors not installing on windows 7. sorry if it seemed i was crapping on the skin. i wasn't.

It's pretty sad that we have to install 'MyColors' to use this theme.

It's even more sad when, trying to install 'MyColors' on Windows 7, we get the message, 'this program is not compatible with your operating system'.

Wanna make up your mind one way or the other?

Either give us a .theme file that we can use directly, or fix 'MyColors' so that it works on Win 7.

Is that so hard?

BTW, Tim, Happy Birthday, you whippersnapper!
The skin looks cool, too bad I can't actually use it right now.

Ah. Sorry, I didn't realise that MyColors for Win7 wasn't out yet. I still think of skins from a WB perspective.

Hi Tim,

No disrespect intended for your efforts, I've always been a huge fan of your work (as a matter of fact, my current theme is 'Slow Burn', recolored in blue ).

My argument is for Stardock.

I generally really like their products (or I wouldn't be here at all), but they can be amazingly inconsistent at times, especially when it comes to their non-game efforts.

At this time, they're trumpeting a new subscriber suite, but they don't release that suite in a manner that works for all of their subscribers (in this case, they completely ignore anyone who is using Windows 7, I guess we're second class citizens).

Maybe it's too difficult to get 'MyColors' to work with Windows 7. If that's the case, it seems to me that Stardock should offer a option to download the theme, even if 'MyColors' doesn't work.

Basically, we're being told that we get these wonderful subscriber benefits, but it seems that we only get these benefits if we're using the *right* OS.

That's one of my biggest issues with the whole 'MyColors' idea.

We're in the position of having to download (and install) an entirely new program, just to do what could be more easily done with a .theme file.

'MyColors' might be a good solution for those users who don't already have the other, requisite, Stardock programs. I really don't see the benefit to me, an 'Object Desktop Ultimate' customer, to have to install another program, when the programs I have already purchased can do the same job, if Stardock would provide them in the theme format they designed for this very purpose.

I'm a subscriber. One of the purported benefits of being a subscriber are these various perks, such as this theme. *However*, because I have the temerity to be running Windows 7, I'm deliberately excluded from being able to partake in the subscriber benefits.

Nice to know.

Stardock often goes into 'fund raiser' mode, where they're trying to cajole us into buying a subscription. Maybe they only care about our subscription until we've bought it, after which we can be safely ignored.

We're told that we get these 'benefits' by being a subscriber. If we're using Win 7, well, then we don't actually get that benefit.

There is nothing about this suite that *requires* 'MyColors'. All of the individual skins work just fine with the other Stardock programs that they apply to.

If these kind of things *really* are subscriber perks, they should be available for, and work for, *every* subscriber.

I have this theme but where are the gadgets the folder where they should be is empty no clock or weather gadget dose anyone else have them.

Yes..I do,but but you have to use winrar, to obtain them.Go to your theme manager folder that has all your themes,shared folders or users, and right click on the music file and add to music rar.then you drag it out to your desktop,click on it, and you should be able to see all the parts of the theme.

 

I can't get the clock or weather either...

Got the same result ..... No clock or weather..Only empty folders!

Well lets be honest here, Windows 7 is not generally released.  We have plenty of plans for Windows 7, and much of our sofware (and games) works fine on Win7.  Patience is key here. 

 

But that's my exact point. All (or at least most) of the skins in the subscriber theme would work, if it wasn't wrapped in MyColors.

I really don't see why it can't also be provided as a theme.

I don't have any problem waiting for this stuff to come out in it's own time, that's the nature of the product. It just seems lame to me that something that would work fine is wrapped in something that doesn't work.

I do realize that it's released as a MyColors theme, but a subscriber perk shouldn't exclude some subscribers, just because it isn't *ready*.

For those who think Object Desktop is a ripoff, know this, Its worth every penny, and if you add the amount of themes you get on a yearly basis it seems like those themes pay for the subscription themselves. Stardock continues to give us quality themes that make our computing lives much funner to live.

Nobody said it's a rip-off. They just want to be able to use the themes without having to install MyColors.

Oh my, Jason. Did a bit of criticism of Stardock make your brain hurt?

I've been a member of this site at least twice as long as you have, and additionally, have been an Object Desktop subscriber since 2001, and have no immediate intention of not subscribing for the forseeable future.

As long as I'm a member of this community, I'm going to feel perfectly free to provide what I believe to be legitimate criticism of the practices that I disagree with.

Stardock is equally free to consider or disregard my criticism, as they see fit. I'm not going to throw them under the bus if they disagree with me, but I have also found that Stardock is generally pretty good at adapting to valid critiques of their practices. I don't always agree with the decisions that they make, but I can generally go along with their reasons (for the most part).

In this particular case, I believe that wrapping an OD subscriber theme in MyColors is unnecessary, since an OD subscriber would already have all of the software required to use the theme, by default, making MyColors redundant, and in this particular instance, part of the problem.

Object Desktop subscribers will be getting access to a .suite file shortly, so they won't have to worry about MyColors.

 

As long as the theme is not licensed we have been providing a .suite file as well for OD subscribers, just as we intend to do here.