Josephs's Live Suite was one of the highlights of last year. The WindowBlinds version adds toolbar icons, and a progress animation. Thallos is unique in that Kol created both WindowBlinds and msstyles versions of it and hence won in both categories. Clean, smooth, and useful, its subtle shadows and polish made it a favorite for users. Kol's Thallos was one of the best skins of last year without a doubt. The subtle shadow effect is part of the skin (WindowBlinds 5's engine supports alpha blending effects like shadows and glass). Both a practical skin and very polished at the same time. Not counting the great skins that came out of the GUI Championships, here are ten of the best (there were so many great ones to choose from so apologies to all the other great skinners we didn't include).ĭanill0c's 5imple skin was one of the first WindowBlinds skins to really show off what WindowBlinds 5 could do. To use WindowBlinds skins you will need to download WindowBlinds. WindowBlinds is a 3rd party program developed by Stardock (whom I work for) that lets users apply GUI skins (often called visual styles) that change the overall look and feel of the Windows interface (title bars, push buttons, Start bar, etc.). This article is, by no means, the end all be all list, we do try to include a good selection of the best creations from the past year. In this article, we look at some of the best skins of last year. While programs such as WindowBlinds and Winamp allow for pretty free-form skin designs, the trend has been to make them conservative and "clean" to appeal to the widest audience. The popularity of skins has altered the way skins are made.
Now, downloads of 50,000 are common and most of the top skins can expect to be reaching towards 100,000 downloads. I remember when the first "Aqua" skins came out and the infamous "WinAqua" from Dangeruss managed to get 5 THOUSAND downloads total which was, back 2000 or so, a real milestone.
Back then, a popular skin might get a 1000 downloads. Users from around the world created some incredibly fantastic skins.Ĭulturally, skinning is a great deal different today than it was back in the late 90s. Last year was another great year for skinning.
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