A Guide to Customisation and Shell Replacements

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apurva

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I have seen many newbies feeling a little embarassed to ask about basics in the forums here, so i decided to write up something that educates the newbies and also apeals to the pros here. I have been writing this for over 2 weeks now, and its finally ready. I would really like it if people reading it leave comments for improvements, additions or deletions. I could not post it hre cuz its way too long and formatted. Click below to read it on my site.

A guide to Desktop Customization, Skinning and Shell Replacements

hope this is helpful

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that link "A more radical interface with ObjectBar " interface goes to the second of the very first screenshots and not what is showing with the link.

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-Fixed. Thanks for the inputs... i will re check all of the links to images.... damn the content management systems!!

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good job! there are some apps missing like rklauncher and rocketdock in the app launcher section, dotwidget and @zpod under desktop widgets, emerge desktop and bluebox in shell replacements, shellwm in skinning, foobar2000, miranda im, trillian and qmp (to name a few) in other skinnable/themeable apps, and virtualplastic.net under skinning links, but it more complete than any other skinning guide currently availible.

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Thanks for all your responses people.

Well, i know i have missed out a lot of applications here, for example if i actually had gotten into skinnable Media players, the article would have been twice the size.

What do you guys think of making this article the base content to start off a Wiki site for skinning and customisation? As far as i know, there is really NO content source on the internet that educates people on skinning and customisation. Yes the forums help a lot, but they still are not structured content. There are a lot of experts here who could help out on various parts of the content. I for one would love to do it, and since i have a few servers of my own, hosting space and bandwidth wont be an issue. However, it would be a lot of effort to set it up and would be a shame to have no or few contributers and readers.

What do you guys think about it? If there is enough entusiasm here, and a few volunteers atleast, then i could get started with it.

I am doing something similar (not a wiki though) for the BlackBox shell @ uZable.com

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What do you guys think of making this article the base content to start off a Wiki site for skinning and customisation? As far as i know, there is really NO content source on the internet that educates people on skinning and customisation. Yes the forums help a lot, but they still are not structured content. There are a lot of experts here who could help out on various parts of the content. I for one would love to do it, and since i have a few servers of my own, hosting space and bandwidth wont be an issue. However, it would be a lot of effort to set it up and would be a shame to have no or few contributers and readers.

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I think setting up a Wiki to help out people with their skinning / customizations is a great idea! Especially, if we could somehow show people how to do the neat tricks or troubleshoot common problems, solve a few gotchas, it will be a great lifesaver!

I went through your article looks great, it is a bit longish though, come to think of it. If we could use it as a base to split it into a wiki and then elaborate on the parts it would be both comprehensive and easier to read, too.

And then you could go ahead and cover the media player skins / themes, too. ;)

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I have seen many newbies feeling a little embarassed to ask about basics in the forums here, so i decided to write up something that educates the newbies and also apeals to the pros here. I have been writing this for over 2 weeks now, and its finally ready. I would really like it if people reading it leave comments for improvements, additions or deletions. I could not post it hre cuz its way too long and formatted. Click below to read it on my site.

A guide to Desktop Customization, Skinning and Shell Replacements

hope this is helpful

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(Y) really nice guide.thanx

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