I would like to beable to see Office and MSIE 8 as skinable much like firefox has it themes.

I am sorry to say that will never happen.

If an app has hardcoded a background colour into itself then chances are it has also hardcoded other things assuming that background colour.

I would like to see the ability to move the Vista/7 details pane to the top so I don't have to hack my files for that ability.

The current beta build of WB7 is Fantastic! I see loads of improved features and I love the new interface. So Thanks for the updates!

As far as feedback, I have been a long time Object Desktop Ultimate subscriber and I will always be. With WB7 feedback, two of my programs have the same bug that has not been fixed with whatever WB version I use. Internet Download Manager and Teamviewer never get properly skinned. The popup window border (IDM) changes to clear after i apply any skin. I know these are 3rd party apps and the devs might not have much control over these, but the standard interface with the Aero skin applied looks as if all the windows are skinnable and look normal. Meaning, no extra buttons or things like this. The windows that are not being skinned are the download progress popup Interent Download Manager window (seems to be an error with the minimize button that screws up the whole skin on that window) and the main Teamviewer window. Both programs have the same skinning error as the outer window  borders come up transparent and do not skin. Both programs I use and have been using for a long time and would love to see them somehow get skinned.If anyone can look into this and test these programs I would appreciate it.

Dunno, one of my scripts is breaking the pics I posted, here is the direct link.

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Thanks and keep up the Great Work!

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It would be nice to see Internet Explorer gets skinned. At this time only the title-bar gets skinned, the bars bellow the title-bar are still the default vista.

 

Another vote for IE8 skinning.

Would very much like to see full proper glass skinning (skinning the aero glass stream) instead of only the borders. msstyle hackers do this with their skins, one would hope that Stardock could use their expertise to go one better...

How about this?

When you tell WB to apply a different skin to an app, that app also gets the skin's colors. Or, if you make an exception for an app, that app gets the default colors instead of the skin colors.

ditto on ie8. i would like to see the all programs button (in the startmenu) to possbily have animation available for vista.

i would like to see the folders bar in vista to lose the blue font. (make it changeable)

i would like to skin and or remove the graphics with the flash animation in the explorer_info_vst bar. and in the control panel.

i would like to see a higher frame rate for userpane and startmenu button animations (i know i have brought this up before, but there IS a frame limit, as vista has a pixel height limit, and once you go over a certain amount of frames you get white pixelations around the animation) I still want to see a max frame limit for these, so we know how far we can go. this would save hours of work.

i would like the task arrow background to be skinned.

currently in vista, the minimized window buttons stretch, making it hard to do normal buttons.  I would like them to maintain the size they are made to and not stretch.  They stretch because the min_window_caption follows the height guide of the titlebar, so the min_window_caption need to have their own height, and this would stop the minimized window buttons from stretching out of shape and proportion.

i find the blur round edge values in perpixel frames very annoying and not even sure what purpose it serves.

thanks for this post, i hope my list is useful to you.

 

some of this has already been said....

IE8 Tabs are not skinnable.

The background area on the favorites menu in explorer is not skinnable (see #1), so when you try to skin the favorites menu, it looks like crap. I've noticed that many skinners just leave this section white because of this issue.

The text on the buttons for the Command Bar is not changable (see #2). I'd love to at least be able to lose the shadow on the text.

The text color on the folders menu button needs to be changable (see #3).

I would like to have ALL the states for the start button capable of being animated, not just the mouseover.

A seperate image for the start button for the vertical taskbar (see #4), so we can center it or not, depending on the blind.

The user picture background isnt skinnable (see #5), I usually just get rid of it because it will not match.

The flashing button for the vertical taskbar needs a seperate image.

The text color settings for the pressed, disabled and mouseover states on the Toolbar Style Menubar Button are mixed up in SKS6 and SKS7.

Color Burn and Color Dodge would be nice to have in the blending options for layers.

It would be nice to be able to move the Start Menu Log Off Buttons independantly from the Search Bar on the Start Menu.

The Search Icon in the Start Menu Search Bar will not stay centered in the search bar if the bottom section of the Start Menu is too tall (see #6).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently, the text for headerbars and buttons can be recolored, but they use the window text color for certain apps like Firefox (buttons) and Thunderbird (headerbar). It would be nice if the text color settings for these things would stay consistent with the skinners settings.

BTW- thanks for this thread. It's a great idea!

When making skins I have many different disires. Now, i forgot about what I want. But if you ask about present times, i have only one request. Skinstudio have many options for making skins, but, practically we can't use even 50% of this options. coz from some options windows slow down, or do not show elements that we're include in skin, and usually i must use only setting and images formats that use default windows skin. so, i always stay between two choices - making creative skin, or quality and non bug skin. Both, quality and creative it's very hard for realization. In concept, skinstudio and windowblinds, it's very powerfull tools for windows skining, but it's needed in little improvements of options that it's already have. But I understand, many bugs, it's not WB problems, but problems of windows that have many weak places in interface, and problems of 3d party applications. And, if talk about future... I think, after analizing what people likes and wants, in future skins must became less detailed and more minimalistic, but, we're all understand, that, if all skins became minimalistic, it's all will be similar, and boring. And it's can be solved only if minimalistic images will be compared with wide quantity of different visual effect, fadeinfadeout, layer mixing options, like multiply or screen effects, swirl etc and it's only basical type of effects, if think about it more, may be 100ds of different effects can be created. But I think it will require to change whole platform of WB.

I would like to see transparancy on the task bvar and start menu in Win 7 on pcs that dont have Aero running.