I have started this thread to get feedback from skin authors who would like to see a specific thing skinnable that is not currently skinnable, or not skinnable in the way they would like it to be.

Please post specifics, so "Allow all colours to be changed" is not good feedback.  "Allow me to change the text colour on control X" is.

So please be very specific in your requests stating what part, what you would like to be able to do and most importantly why.

Pictures would be especially helpful.


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on Nov 23, 2009

Not really a code-related thing, but still a missing feature I posted in another thread:

 

Change the opacity/transparency of textures. You can now apply a texture, WB7 uses a default opacity or blending mode for that, and THEN you can adjust the total transparency. But instead of remaking the texture all over again in Photoshop or anything alike, changing the transparency there, that option should be available in WB7 itself.

 

Edit: As quoted above, maybe it indeed is useful to have a separate start button for the vertical taskbar, which allows you to also place it wherever you want? I'd love to have the button at the bottom, then the time, and using a down-up allignement (spelling?), the actual dynamic taskbar buttons of applications and such. 

on Nov 23, 2009

karmat
My wishlist..... I would like to be able to change the color of the font within Windowblinds instead of doing it in SkinStudio.

This is also something I think is an important addition. So many times there are darker skins that are spectacular, till you try to view internet documents or title bars that have such dark text it's impossible to read them unless you highlight the text .

I would use quite a few more blinds than I currently do if I could create some kind of contrast between the text and the background .

 

on Nov 27, 2009

a section needs to be added for the xp throbber. its not there, and i personally dont like adding to the codes to make it happen (i still require harley to do it for me, because i personally cannot do it for the life of me) PLEASE fix this for us .

on Nov 27, 2009

1) Vista/7 get a nice glass border around these popups on the taskbar.. could these be skinned?

2) 7 has an outline similar to pinned taskbar items on tray items (on the taskbar and the systray popup) when hovered; it would be nice if these could be skinned too.

In addition, the Show Desktop button doesn't work with the mouse in the bottom right corner as it does with Aero (the cursor must be moved up a bit for it to activate). Could this please be fixed? The purpose of the button being moved in 7 is defeated with it like this.

Another thing that would be nice are the separators in the menu that appears when clicking the arrow next to the shutdown button in the Vista/7 start menu.

And slightly OT, it would be awesome if we could get the Skin Options popup back on right-clicking skins in WB7. Having to select a skin and move the cursor to the top of the window to delete it adds a lot of extra cursor motion compared to previous versions of WB.

on Dec 08, 2009

I would also like more control over the search box on the Vista/7 start menu, like how LONG or TALL it is. And how far the "all programs list" is from each edge of the start menu (atm it is linked to how far the the mouseover item is)

I'd like to specify my own image for the shadows on pop up menus and the start menu and I'd like to be able to have huge shadows like on Mac OS X.

An OPTION to have a Fading start button and titlebar buttons (on perpixel frames)

Start menu launch animation (I always thought the start menu just appearing was a bit boring, although I'm a little unsure how much control I'd like to have)

Be able to customize the user icon frame in Vista and 7 (I'm probably not the only one who would like this feature), the default one just doesn't go with a lot of skins. I don't like the way on XP WindowBlinds always cuts the edges off the user icon that aren't on the "Top Part" image of the start menu.

I like the new UIS0 skins but I always liked putting my OWN images in, and UIS1 and 2 don't skin aero very well, I thought maybe you could have seperate images for stretched borders and just use the "Glass" borders for fully glass windows (like the gadget gallery) and aero peek windows.

When I apply the skin the colour the DWM adds to tramslucent windows is always set to the dialog background colour (which is grey for a lot of skins I use), I'd like to be able to set my own colour, maybe even a feature to pick the colour currently being used. For some reason if I change the colour AFTER I apply a skin it always resets to the grey when Explorer restarts, I lock my computer, resize or move my taskbar.

Perfect Mac OS X scrollbars - I did notice the "Sabretooth skin" I love the scrollbars, but I'd like to also be able to have the extended arrow buttons.

on Dec 08, 2009

The ability to delete wallpapers from the WB wallpaper folder using WB configuration would be great.It's a pain to have to navigate to the folder for this task.I add walls through config (thanks for putting drag-and-drop for this back in)and usually use WB to manage and apply most of my WP's.

on Dec 09, 2009

a section needs to be added for the xp throbber. its not there, and i personally dont like adding to the codes to make it happen
(i still require harley to do it for me, because i personally cannot do it for the life of me)
PLEASE fix this for us .

Kitty after you made this I had 3 other requests so here we go!

 

SKINNING THE XP THROBBER

on Dec 10, 2009

I would truly love to be able to make the icons in the folder pane in explorer bigger

on Jan 08, 2010

I don't know if they already are or if it's possible (planning on getting OD in the next couple weeks once I have this semester's textbooks) but I'd like to see jump lists get skinned. (those things if you've pinned programs to the taskbar and right-click).

on Jan 08, 2010

That is skinnable, Greg

on Jan 08, 2010

GregW17
I don't know if they already are or if it's possible (planning on getting OD in the next couple weeks once I have this semester's textbooks) but I'd like to see jump lists get skinned. (those things if you've pinned programs to the taskbar and right-click).


Those are skinnable in SKS7 for Windows 7. 

on Mar 01, 2010

Menu background in xp you have to manually add "backgroundeffect=10" to the codex, otherwise the menubackground remains black. This needs to be fixed.

also the buttons for shell style bars automatically have perpixel=1 in the codex, you have to remove this for them to work.

i have to manually add perpixel=1 to alot of png items...

on Mar 01, 2010

Are we ever going to be able to skin the toolbars and tabs for IE8?? Having that default light blue is really ruining my skins!

on Mar 02, 2010

 

on Mar 02, 2010

IE8, yes, that would be good.

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