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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: sraymond on February 18, 2003, 10:04:52 pm

Title: Skin Etiquette
Post by: sraymond on February 18, 2003, 10:04:52 pm

I'm wondiering something about skin etiquette...  Is it like Open Source Initiative?  Am I free to modify a skin (I'd think this is an obvious yes)?  If I distribute the modified skin, how do I credit the original author?

I'm bringing this up because I made some alterations to the Watercolor - Blue skin.  I changed the top frame and icons to look like the default Windows XP.  Pretty basic, really, but it got me to thinking.

Scott-

Title: Re: Skin Etiquette
Post by: JimH on February 19, 2003, 10:55:41 am

You need to ask for the permission of the author.  Or prepare to be flamed.

Title: Re: Skin Etiquette
Post by: dragyn on February 19, 2003, 11:38:29 am

I don't care...go ahead.

The title bar is really buggy in MC. That's why it looks so weird when using a smaller sized bitmap. I could have went the same size as "Z" but that was too big. MC is first, cutting off the titlebar, secondly not realigning the icons.

The font also isn't doing something right. I can't get it to look like the winxp style. And also, there is no icons in the skinned mode for any window. It's there when not using skins.

I will be updating all the skins and releasing 3-4 more versions of watercolor once the bugs are squished.

Title: Re: Skin Etiquette
Post by: sraymond on February 19, 2003, 07:46:35 pm

Dragyn:  Great skin, by the way.  Thanks for all your work!

JimH:  Permission to modify or permission to distrubute?

Scott-

Title: Re: Skin Etiquette
Post by: JimH on February 20, 2003, 04:30:31 am

Scott,
I don't think you need permission to modifiy if it's for your personal use, but you do need it when you want to distribute.

Thanks for asking, by the way.

Jim