My Skins: Updates & Discussion

[MarcFou]

I thought I would start and maintain a thread related to my skins. Since the site doesn't maintain a "Last Updated" I'll post news and changes here.

This is the place if you want to submit feedback, ideas and of course problems.

Current Skins
SmoothVista, SmoothLime, LongHorn, Slate & Poisoned

News
(i) Currently I am working on two new skins and also performing numerous fixes and enhancements to existing skins.

One issue in particular I am taking care of is the drop down arrow button located net to the Open button. I've managed to make it pretty slim in size allowing more space on the toolbar. So all skins will be updated by the end of the month.

(ii) Aside from one skin author who loves rating 1's on all my skins, I have gotten some great feedback from other users! So regardless, I will continue creating skins and I am looking forward to any and all feedback.

(iii) Suggestions for icons and toolbar images. Icons are the hardest thing to do IMHO. Mostly because creating an icon that represents "compression" while looking different from other apps is a challenge. So what do you think?

Toolbar images. What do people prefer? OS related images? 2D or 3D? Colorful or ?

[spwolf]

We all appreciate your work Mark :-).
Every new skin you do is better than ever.

[MarcFou]

Thank you! I also see that myself and other skin authors had their ratings adjusted. I'm sure they appreciate it as well.

This weekend hopefully I can release my latest work. "FrostBite". Its a blue theme with bright colors and gradients.

Its optimized to allow PA to load faster on launch. So far it out performs any skin I have made thus far. But we will see how it performs for other users

[spwolf]

cant wait :-)

[n8chavez]

I really do enjoy all you skins. Some more than others, of course. I think Poison is really great. That is the first skin that I haven't had to change the toolbar icons for. I do however have that skin greyscaled, which looks really good. I like the green look (a la SmoothLime) but there's just something about grey...I do appreciate you fixed the previous archive button; that was driving me nuts. It was just wasted space.

Also, don't worry about abviously overcritical rankings. Anyone that has used one of your skins knows they are among the best.

I never thought I'd say this but...I hope I get frostbite.

[andyr2005]

MarcFOU,

imao, your Posined skin for PA is a duplicate/rip off of the NVIDIA WindoBlinds theme which is available at nZone, but do correct me if I'm wrong.

[MarcFou]

Originally Posted by n8chavez

I never thought I'd say this but...I hope I get frostbite.

Always nice to get positive feedback. Thanks!

I submitted the new skin and it should be available soon from the skins page.