OK - i didn’t want to piss off someone neither I wanted to make your hard work bad.
Everyone has an own taste regarding skins. Someone likes the avast! 4 Standard-Skin others (like me) want a smooth (optical) integration in the OS.
Why should I be frustrated with other peoples work - I’m happy that a company offers such a great product for free - and I’m happy that there are some tough guys who support it with skins - for free too (thx RejZor - Finally I realized that there are some skins to download ).
So guys cool down - like I said I didn’t want to offend someone who does all the work for us free
No hard feelings at all, but I feel so sad when somebody says that skull in Pirate skin looks childish. I put 180% of myself into all those skins made by me… I work hard on few other jobs as well… All those graphics that you can see inside my skins are 100% mine… I draw them, I don’t copy other people’s artwork… so, childish is not quite proper word…
EDIT: By the way, “avast” is PIRATE word, so they asked me to make Pirate skin… which I did…
I my opinon the standard XP look looks like a day-care-center style too (waste of scrren space and CPU time). Only thing to do is to stop the “Themes” service, and get the 98/NT/2000 look back
I really don’t know if you guys are kidding me or what… just go to avast! skins download section and check all those skins in there… Don’t tell me you are too lazy to do that… ;D
Lars-Erik -
Why don’t you take a look at avast! skins download section ? There is Flat’n’Simple skin made by me… It’s 100% Windows 95/98 look like…
EDIT: Do you guys really think that I can please you all in the same time ? It’s NOT possible… simply, it’s not possible… So many of you are complaining that other antivirus programs are good, but their GUIs are awful, ugly, too simple looking, whatever… now, no one is happy when you can choose between all those skins in download section…
Vlk told me once that we are going to spoil you with all those skins, and he was right… 100% right ! Vlk, my apologies to you my friend !!! I used to believe that these guys are nothing like that…
I think… no, I’m 100% sure, I’m not gonna make any more skins… that’s enough. I tried to help people to be able to choose between all those “serious” or “gamey” look like skins, but it seems like no effect… only side effects.
I appreciated all of your hard work. My problem is that there are too many good ones to choose from, although my favorites in order are - Lite-On, Flat’n’Simple, Corporate, O-Sti-X, and G5 from your creations and Glass Plate and Blue Panel 4.0. ;D
I understand all of your hard work. I have not tried designing skins for Avast, but I do skins for True Launch Bar. And these are not 1/10th as hard to do as yours. There are always going to be complaints no matter what. It goes with the turf. :
I hope that you’ll continue to stay at the forum, even if you do not make any more skins.
The pirate skin is my favorite one. This is definately a case of, to each his own!
By the way, if you are truely not trying to piss anyone off, next time re-think your choice of words. You could have easily asked about skins without bashing the ones you don’t like! Not very “proffessional” Woops! I used the word! ;D
Sasha,
Let me join with the others in saying that you have done great work. You are a talented man…
Now, you must be develop another skin–a “tough” skin for yourself that protects your heart against the thoughtless and crude comments of others. No artist is going to please everyone…it is part of the creative life.
If there are 100 people and two of them don’t like your work…don’t let those two mean more to you than the other 98 who love your style and designs.
How much someone likes one skin depends on personal taste and cannot be judged as those skins sucks or something like that.
Sasha (and Martin) was working hard on all those skins (i tried it by myself too and i can tell its not easy to make a skin for avast!) so there is at least one skin that you’ll like. I don’t know whats wrong whit Flat’n’simple and default Blue skin? F’n’S is very “classic” designed and looks very professional. Default blue is in my opinion very simple and nice,or Lite-On which mimic other “professional” antivirus programs. Just try to change the skin on Norton or on any other AV
If you don’t like any of it,than buy a Pro version of avast! which has both,skinned interface (Simple) and classic professional interface (Enhanced).
Please please don’t over-react. I did not say your skins was bad. I only said that maybe someone sjould make a “standard” skin.
Even though Flat’n’simple and the newest one (am at wokr now, don’t remember the name) are quite plain, they still are not “no skin” (if you get my idea). I think all programs should have an option to turn skins off - if someone want the standard plain Win98 look (might be lots of reasons, lack of CPU and graphics power…)
BTW: None of the skin really are plain Windows. Not if I compare them to a standard program (Notepad, Write etc) next to them.
Would the application be faster and smaller if they used the standard Windows graphics look (the one you choose in Display properties). Most serious program (Office, Outlook) do. Even other system (Agent mail, Browsers, buisiness system, OCR systems) do.
All I want is a “no skin” option - using the standard Windows look
I think (though I’m not 100% sure) that this option will be implemented. It will take some time, however - because the skins cannot be simply turned off by commenting a few lines of the code. Adding this option will require quite a lot of effort and big changes to the code.
I like skins.
I like ppl that doing them for free.
I like ppl that share things.
I dont like ppl telling what others should do.
I dont like this kind of fight.