There's a lot going on in skinning this summer. And with with the Longhorn beta about to start, get ready for a ton of Longhorn-style themes to be made. If you're in the beta, you'll be happy to know that the current version of WindowBlinds that's available to Object Desktop users should work fine on Beta 1 of Longhorn. Only gotchas are that the Start menu has an entry field that obviously existing skins will have some cosmetic issues with and the same for the new toolbars. We'll have to come up with some way for existing skins to be able to cover these new controls and look nice and then extend the format to support these new controls.
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But for XP users, the next few weeks should bring some Longhorn-style stuff. One thing that pains me as I look over other websites are all these..ahem.."make over" utilities that will completely change your system to look like something that do so by patching your resources. Yuck. I mean, hat's off to the guys who do all that work but the idea of patching my resources on disk sends a chill up my spine. People will be trying to get rid of that stuff for months. So we did release a new Theme Manager that we hope will encourage people to make .suite files. I'm going to make a Theme Manager .suite of a Longhorn theme soon so that people who want a full make-over can have it without messing with their system files. I'll talk more about that next week.
The Dangeruss project continues with some new skins updated by MikeB:
Read the link below for a full recap of last week!