It's almost impossible to make a non recoverable skin because there is a method that will add a plain colour on top of the original graphics, though the default method will try to change the hue.

Anyways, if you create a monochromatic skin, it's harder to recolour, grayscale even harder.

All skins go through moderation Frieder until you reach the Master Skinner level. Then your free skins would bypass moderation but any Master Skins you submit would still go through moderation.

If you upload a skin and it does not work right, you just go to your profile and edit it to upload the files again, you don't upload the skin a second time.

"A Journeyman's skin is automatically made available upon uploading, not having to go through moderation"

Hi,

thx for your quick replys. I won't upload different files. And don`t also  post the same theme with different names.

Think this misunderstanding is fixed now. I’m used to other sites that have another "moderating" technique so i’ m sometimes a bit confused.Wb is not gtk, even if there are huge similarities.

I think  i' ll upload two real themes at a time, since i can then review my uploads after having uploaded at least two times ( the first won't show at first ( so editing trick from lightstar1 wont work in direct way )= ) but after second upload first would be shown too ).

Did misunderstand the moderator sry for that Island Dog / Hope that wont happen in future.

regards bluedxca93

hi, 

Yeah and then i don`t see this upload and can' t edit it if something went wrong )=. Not good. Someone at visitor/citizien level  can't do much btw.

Posting two different skins  both intended for the sites at a time would be easier.

But if it has to be only one theme its okay too. ! . 

regards bluedxca93

I guess I'm just missing the point of why in the first place. It's one of the perks of WB to change whatever to suit the end user's desires.

Why?

Because always using colors is boring and using half monochrome is also so common. 

See it as an retro theme for remembering old DOS times, where color screens have been not so sharp than colorless ones. 

I’m sure ill get at least one positive comment for it soon.

regards bluedxca93

Any and ALL GUI versions have been made into Windowblinds skins... some of the earliest were Win 3 ...BeOS, Amiga...Mac... various Linux...even CBM64.

NOTHING there is new. Pretty-well ALL of my WB skins [for example] were simply grey...and they date back to the beginning of this century.

GUI skinning has been around since Adam was a pup.....if it can be done then it already has been.  Even 'per pixel' isn't new.....and I'm still doing it that way.

Greyscale...and/or plain monochrome becomes simply old...simply quickly.  Certainly WB's modern capacity to colourize or colour-shift skins means more people are likely to find a skin appealing because they CAN alter the hue to their personal taste...

You are saying if I upload a WB and wait 2 months or 3 months or more I won't get good downloads?

If that is what you are saying are you so wrong. At least here on WC. I can't speak for other sites but WC has very loyal people that like new WindowBlinds no matter when they come out. Not every style is for everyone but that is the same for anywhere. However it's not depended on how long a person takes to upload their next windowblind.

I think what people are trying to say Frieder is design for yourself, what you think looks good. There are lots of gray scale skins out there, but it does not matter if they are old or new as long as they work on the operating system you are using, and you like them of course. I sometimes put out a new or updated skin every 2 weeks or so, but that's only because I have been doing this for around 18 years or so, and have tons of older skins I can update. If I start a new skin from scratch, it usually takes me a full two weeks or more to finish it, and as I am changing my design looks now probably longer. Maybe a new skin once a month or so. But it would not matter even if it was 6 months, if someone likes a design they will use it no matter how long it took the designer to create it.

P.S. A word of recommendation, you might want to work on the start button, it's a bit rough looking. Unless of course you want it that way. 

The issue with an attempt to make a skin 'non-colourable' is that even 1-bit graphics [that's 2 colours....black and white with no greyscaling] are being painted by the OS in whatever colour depth you ascribe to the desktop...typically true-colour or full-colour 16.7 million of them.

A program with the capacity to colour-shift will still be able to alter simple black and white.

If you can dumb-down the desktop colour res then you might prevent it happening...but you'll find many programs will spit a dummy because your colour depth isn't supported....