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Which is the most usable skin of all times in your opinion?

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Which is the most usable skin of all times in your opinion?

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I think the title just about covers it all. So which is the most usable windowblinds skin of all times? The skin that you use the most cause it's easy or it suits you best. I know there are many impressive and good looking skins out there, but which in your opinion is the most usable,not for looks,but as for everyday practice.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey SD, glad to hear from you.


Been too tired to type. Nice thread, Cyberworld.
WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Been too tired to type.


Tiring job i guess?
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No particular order.

Gloss
elsdee
neOS
Synthek
Airlock
Alienmorph
Alphamoon
Cromatic
Resolute
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This a list of those skins which I keep coming back to. Each has its own special appeal. They are listed in no particular order. Yeh, it's quite a list.

- "Alloy Bezel" by Ian Black
- "Anomaly" by Mike Bryant
- "Antares" by treetog
- "BLUSHADE" by CHUBBS Design Team
- "carbonix" by treetog
- "Carillon" by essorant
- "Colony" by Mike Bryant
- "Dissident" by Mike Bryant
- "Half life 2" by velvet_skin
- "Nascent" by essorant (probably my all-time favorite)
- "neOSB" by danilloOc
- "Plethora" by GUIMagic
- "Repetoire" by vStyler
- "Sputnik_wb" by treetog
- "Synthek" by danilloOc
- "TopaX" by brewman
- "ThunderStorm" by Pixtudio
- "Universe Metal" by Pixtudio
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Musical Vision https://www.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx?LibID=1&view=1&sortby=4&sortdir=DESC&p=1&advanced=0&searchtxt=musical by bones2112 of Skin Artistry. Nothing before it nor nothing after it compares! Period!
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
All of them after 30 to 45 mins. editing with SkinStudio.
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ardent
LunaVX
PixOS
Pix Office
Cartoon
Dinks (any of them)
Beacon
Everaldo v2
TriAX
PinStriped
SkinPlant
Retro
StealthOS
Soft Crystal Blue
DogmaX
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
DogmaX
Goof by essorant
gfxOasis by KoL
OpusOS by b0se
SouLuna by Morphium
Vector Cell by b0se
Pix Office by Pixtudio
Tab_wba by Koasati
WindowsMAX by Steve Grenier
Phase Change by essorant

Guess I'll stop at 10
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Visibility equals Usability; no mater how good a skin looks if its hard on the eyes it winds up changed to another skin after a short time therefore for when Tronix 1024 suite was uploaded it clearly became the most useful to date. It has yet to be changed.
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Visibility equals Usability; no mater how good a skin looks if its hard on the eyes it winds up changed to another skin after a short time


I agree with that. Some of my favorite skins visually never lasted long on my system because of poor color contrasts and/or too small of fonts. No matter how good a skin looks, if it's difficult to use, it will quickly be cast aside. Same with cursors.

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Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Eye Candy-Spiderman

Usability- Royale Inspirat..as if it massages your eyes with its simplicity and color

All time FAV- Inspirat
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Elsdee - Light, I downloaded it the day it came out and haven't changed it yet, unless I go to the original elsdee, either way that seems to be my top skin to use, it fits so well and usability is just up there.

Second runner up is GT3, Tiggz did an absolutely awesome job with the skin, one of my faves obviously

Third place goes to, any MikeyB skin. Mike Bryant has some major skills on the end of his arms. Every skin he puts out is top notch, even on a bad day he could me a great skin.
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Skinplant
Extensis
Synchronus
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I find myself using "miniOS" by Pixtudio just because it works and mixes well with Mormegil's Utopia 'canvas' IconPackage.

Not flashy, or animated - just a nice basic skin that takes up little real estate on the screen, and is a nice vacation from default "Luna" blue.

I have not been around long enough to claim knowledge of the "most usable of all time" skin - just the one I use more.
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well I'm still fairly new themes and windoblinds and only checked out a small portion, but uh, so far I really like:

Antares
Digital2
G-Pod
LegendsII
Trek
Tronnix
X-Cella

These I found are quite usable. There are probly many more out there and I'm sure I forgot some.
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Windows XP default. because it has the least glitches.
I like lots of quality WB skins too, but with WB installed some programs don't act the way they should, no matter which skin I apply...
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
As far as skins... I could list a bunch.
with the comment on visibilty and usability with skins. I will load a skin test it for a couple days and see how well it functions with my day to day lifestyle. Of course I do the same with my own skins. You dont know what you have until you play with it!
what do they call that? play testing?
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
it would have to be Mac OS X Panther for me by Xero. I just love the look of the mac os and zero has included sounds that make it sound like youre using a mac mouse. But Window Blinds will be un-installed when I get me iBook!