Those widgets are for WindowBlinds......

hmm.....ohh fine just shoot my theory ta heck


[Message Edited]

The only "object" I generally use is DX Weather. The rest is just eye candy, though I have to admit, they're fun to look at. What I DO love about DX are the desktop themes. Most notably, and usable for me are gef's themes and Phoon's themes. Gef's are generally more usable for me, because the menu stays put in the sidebar, whereas Phoon's pop up elsewhere on the window.

With those themes configured for the programs I use most frequently, I almost never have to go searching through the windoze program menu, which is, in my opinion a pain in the a**. However, just to keep things easily accessible, I configure the theme to show the object bar, then configure the bar to "hide" when not in use.

One thing for sure, DX was really confusing and troublesome at first. I can't tell you how many times I've had to reboot my computer, until I figured out that I didn't need to do that. Essentially, learning all the Wincustomize stuff has also taught me so much about configuring computers, in general. And that, in and of itself, is excellent. How many times have you had to show someone at work or in your family how to access stuff, because in general, MS Windows has so many hidden and imbedded stuff, that most users just never, ever know about it? Every day, I learn something new, and I ain't no geek. But, I suppose geekiness is a relative thing.

Koasati is wondering where to find these Widgets, or any info about this new feature.

If you downloaded the latest build of DesktopX it's there.

Right click on an object and select "export" and you'll see the new feature.

Thanx stockholm syndrome! I couldn't find any info in the readme's, history (there are references to it, but no "how-to"), or newgroups. I doubt I would have ever found it alone. I had no reason to 'export' anything. /me is going to enjoy this new feature.

DesktopX 2.1 hasn't been officially announced yet.

The reason I'm not bullish on themes is that so many of them are so poorly done. It's frustrating to see people uploading themes with tons of things hard-coded to their computers.

I was doing a demo today and loaded a theme where the author hard coded something to the D drive and I got an endless error message. That sort of thing is a real turn off to new users. Object and Widgets are much more system independent in general.

I agree that themes have more potential but they are also much harder to make system independent.

DesktopX 2.1 hasn't been officially announced yet.

oh! er...

Should I take down my screenshot?

I agree that themes have more potential but they are also much harder to make system independent.

Same goes for the good ol' LiteSTEP....universally functional themes is the trick...

Should I take down my screenshot?

I wouldn't worry about it...... if Brad didn't want it there it would be gone by now....

I wouldn't worry about it...... if Brad didn't want it there it would be gone by now....

Good point