Published on April 17, 2006 By J. Aroche In WinCustomize Talk
Okay, I've seen, and enjoyed PHOENIXHEART's rare icon request post so we can all enjoy amazing icons from experts like PHOENIXHEART, Po'Smedley, Bandit4edu, etc... but I've seen many who request object dock backgrounds, and I would like that everyone can have a cool one to match their desktops.
I'm not that good at making them, but I know how to make them, but maybe cool designers like WebGizmos, Gooberbean28, and many other great skinners can help us out here, so if you would like one just tell us!

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on Mar 12, 2008
And ditto for you bud!
on Mar 12, 2008
They should separate the galleries into OD backgrounds and OD icons



I agree 100%!....and I've been asking for that for some time now...but the powers that be have made it clear thats not gonna happen.



Agreed ... now if the watch list can be fixed so we can easily find the docks without wading through someone's 10 or 15 variations of the same dock icon...   

For now, bookmarking the skin pages of certain dock making individuals ... you know who you are
on Mar 12, 2008
Yeah it sucks that I have to do this but I'm just fed up with my stuff being ignored. Hopefully they will get the watchlist function fixed soon.

And thanks for your support Pictoratus!
on Mar 12, 2008
And thanks for your support Pictoratus!


  
on Mar 12, 2008
Hey Pictoratus! I just found a nice clock background on your site! Kronos!
on Mar 12, 2008
nyone interested in dock backgrounds created by me should bookmark My Gallery page or add me to they're watch list


already there.

i for one would love to see a section for backgrounds, it would help highlight other background creators like cavan1, zakai, scottish etc.


my first personal mention

Hopefully they will get the watchlist function fixed soon.


Just started using that a couple days ago myself and wondered if it wasn't working right. Didn't seem like it should completely remove a person from your list when you remove their work you've seen. That and it showing alot of older stuff rather than recent.
on Mar 13, 2008
Get used to it Zakai....someones always breaking the furniture around here.
on Mar 13, 2008
Hey Pictoratus! I just found a nice clock background on your site! Kronos!


Thanks!   
on Mar 13, 2008
on Mar 13, 2008
Yeah it sucks that I have to do this but I'm just fed up with my stuff being ignored. Hopefully they will get the watchlist function fixed soon.


I dont' see how anything is being "ignored".  Nothing is going to stay on the first page of downloads for any period of time, especially in a popular gallery.  If someone wants to find the dock backgrounds only, it's as simple as clicking a drop-down menu and selecting them, or clicking a few pages beyond the first.




on Mar 13, 2008
If someone wants to find the dock backgrounds only, it's as simple as clicking a drop-down menu and selecting them, or clicking a few pages beyond the first.

How many people know about that? I had to explain it to Chet today, and he's been a member since 2001.  He didn't even know it existed.    (Submitted that as a request for a future screencast btw)
on Mar 13, 2008
Submitted that as a request for a future screencast btw


Great idea Bebi.
on Mar 13, 2008
lol yeah great idea Bebi
on Mar 13, 2008
If someone wants to find the dock backgrounds only, it's as simple as clicking a drop-down menu and selecting them, or clicking a few pages beyond the first.


No offense ID or anyone else for that matter....but I'm really tired of hearing that. Nothing is that simple since very few people...ones who have been here for years... even know of that option...and you expect the casual user to know that?



But its not a problem for me anymore...I've dealt with it...like I've said...I've surrendered the Object"Dock" library to the icon/pngs...you can have it...its yours...and my docks will be on my personal pages for anyone thats wants them...unless of course I'm banned or something for doing this now. No arguing...no whining...its done...I'm moving them now. But someone should probably take my docks down off the ObjectDock site and put up some pngs since it might start to confuse people when all they see in the Object"Dock" library are mostly if not all icons/pngs...since I don't think I'm the only one fed up with it...I guess we'll see.



And again...no offense...but for people that "seem" to have the patented answers for everything I find it hard to understand that for whatever reason no one understands where I'm coming from in regards to that library being messed up. Yes....I understand that icons have to be converted to png format to be used "with" Object"Dock"...which is no different than saying you have to convert pngs to icons to be used "with" Windowblinds or any of the other applications that utilize these formats...but you don't see them flooding the Windowblinds library or the others do you? Why? Because "most people" understand that icons and pngs are a "separate" thing from the actual applications of WindowBlinds and Objectdock and others...and icons already have the IconPackager & Misc Icons libraries for that.



Maybe I should start uploading docks there since after all they are used with Object"Dock"...ya think? I mean really...it should work both ways if thats the case. No...don't worry...I don't plan on doing that. But according to this current line of thinking I should be able to.



Since it takes a whole 2 seconds...no exaggeration...for anyone...its not rocket science (anyone that can turn on a pc can do it)...to convert an icon to a png...icon creators should be...like most everywhere else I find icons on the net...just be adding the pngs to their icon folders...upload them together and be done with it. But no....they have to convert them and upload them in droves...themes being uploaded one at a time..but all at the same time... rather than packaged even...to the Object"Dock" library...since one library for them is obviously not enough. And I'm not blaming the icon creators for this since no ones told them not to do it.



So...in all the years now of creating these "docks" for Object"dock" there has really only ever been one gripe and request I've had...for docks to have they're own library...just one...not three...not two...just one...but that obviously is not going to happen. And I've created over 290 sets of these things...not "just" for fun...but to support and promote ObjectDock because I like it so much...but when I go to the library what do I see the most of? And its depressing watching your hard work disappear under tons of stuff thats really unrelated to ObjectDock directly.



Sorry....but I really don't get it. So I just decided it was time to just move them out of there and be done with it. And yeah I know...nothing stays on the first page for very long...I get that to...again...not rocket science here...and I've been here long enough to see that. But when over half of the stuff I've created isn't even seen much less downloaded...whats difference does it make if they are there or on my personal page/gallery. And its not like they become obsolete or unusable like older WindowBlind skins...they're as fresh as the day they were made. So...why not just leave them there? If you have to ask you won't understand the answer. So just make something up that works for you.



So...if or when anyone ever gets really serious about promoting Object"Dock"...I'll be more than happy to move them to a library that is doing that...but for now there isn't one.



But in the end...I also get that its not my website...its some sort of community...haven't quite figured that one out yet though...but most of the people I've encountered here are great...made some new friends...created some great docks.



Maybe I should just fade away now like some old Dockstar! (Cue AC/DC's Highway to hell!)



Oh! And I really apologize to anyone that has me on the watch list for all the update notifications you've been flooded with...Sorry! Didn't think you'd get those just for them being moved. I have about 5 pages left to move...doing one page a day...so I'll apologize again in advance. Sorry!
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