Some WB suggestions

Hi, but correct me if I'm wrong, someone will, but .wba is a zipped file, also, I have a folder on my hard drive Stardock Stuff/WindowblindsVer5 that I download in to, this keeps things tidy, I know where to find them and load into WB Config. I then back up to disc every so often, saves downloading again. I do this with all my Wincustomize downloads. Jim

Works for me Jimkraz. .wba is a zipped file. And to my way of thinking: clicking the old 'download' button accesses a big old shared file repository where I and other clients can get skins from.

What is it your are looking for o 'requested user does not exist'?

Putting skins on a network would not be a good thing.  There would be a huge performance hit.

That was just an example of what would be possible.
I have a humble 10/100Mbit network of 3 pc's, one of them has a directory with about 40 .wsz's in them.
Browsing through these skins in Winamp on the other machines is just as fast as if I would store them locally.

WindowBlinds has the .wba file, but these need to be extracted (in the installation dir) before they can be used.

And it shouldn't take the developers more than a few minutes to implement this

So is your 3 PC network 3 different people using them at the same time or just 3 PC hooked into network so you don't have to walk back to the other room to get back on the computer?  Does the network consist of 3 geographically separate locations?

And it shouldn't take the developers more than a few minutes to implement this

Just based on what it took to set up one shared folder on my work computer that only the members of my team can access:  just how long do you think it would take?  From what I know of shared folders, individual / group permissions have to be set - in WC's case, copyrights and skinner's rights also have to be considered.

I agree with Neil and I'm not even considering the performance issue.

If browing skins is your main concern, subscribe to WC & get the WC Browser, it works good.

 

 

Again, the network thing is just an example of what would be possible, which isn't at the moment.
Yes, setting access rights and such would be necessary, but that's not Stardock's problem - it's the person's who would like to use it this way.

And what has copyrights and skinner's rights have to do with Windowblinds having a feature that would allow to specify a custom skin dir?

Browsing skins is not my interest - it's being able to choose myself where I would like to store them.

And what has copyrights and skinner's rights have to do with Windowblinds having a feature that would allow to specify a custom skin dir?

that is different than a shared folder as you suggested:

it would be great to have a shared skin folder on a network where all Windowblinds clients could get their skins from.

maybe i'm just misunderstanding.

when you say Windowblinds clients, are you referring to eveyone worldwide or just those on the network?  It's the Windowblinds clients that makes me think you're talking about everybody that purchased WB.

if it just you network, can't you set one up, then move all downloaded skins there, then use the install from disk option in WB configure?

 

maybe i'm just misunderstanding.

Yes, you are.

Somewhat ironic that although customization is Stardock's business, their apps aren't very customizable themselves.

features it lacks, such as being able to choose where to store the skins,

If you mean being able to store skins somewhere other than the drive containing the OS, yet still be able to access them via WB config, that is a feature I'd also like to see. If, say, the skins were stored on E:/, and WB config had an option to enter the path, it would save alot of file transfers during reinstallations and rewrites of the OS. Also, with the files/folders stored elsewhere, they would, in effect, become your backup in the event of an OS crash, drive failure, etc.

Just a thought