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Today, in response to popular demand from the skinning community here at WinCustomize, we have launched a gallery dedicated to skinning the media player application, Xion!

Xion is a growing favorite in the customization world because of its incredibly simple skinning system.  Here's a bit from the Xion homepage about how skinning works:

Xion features a new standard in skin support. Baffled by script syntax? Pulling your hair out over slicing up skin elements? Crying over spilt milk?

Xion's approach to skinning will remove all scripting and slicing requirements that other skin systems have placed on users. Xion will directly read a .PSD file and using layer names, instantly create your skin.

Xion also supports direct loading from Zip files which allow you to package several .PSD files in the one package. This has the added benefit of being compressed and therefore consumes less disk space.

If you want to see samples of some of the work that is going to soon be added to this new gallery, check out this thread on our forums:
https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=154135

Special thanks to vStyler for the gallery icon set used on WinCustomize and applications like Stardock Central and the WinCustomize Browser.  And, while Xion accepts .PSD files straight as skins, here at WinCustomize you'll need to zip them up first before submitting them.

I'm looking forward to seeing what cool looking skins the community puts together for this!


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on Jun 06, 2007
  
on Jun 06, 2007

So the gallery accepts xsf and zip files.

Just in case anyone missed that...

on Jun 06, 2007
actually added xsf to the file format list yesterday shortly after making the post
So the gallery accepts xsf and zip files


I Didn't miss it. That rocks.
on Jun 08, 2007
buzzh58:I have tried using Xion but just seems to be using too much CPU,


I tried Xion when Boxxi first introduced it months ago when it was fairly new. While I liked it, I too could not use it unless it was minimized to my task bar. The CPU's shot up when I had the player on desktop. It would freeze my cursor and I couldnt run anything else. Buzzh58 and I both have older pcs with older graphics cards. So were not sure what causes this issue. So I'm going to re-down load Xion and try it again on my old PC and then on my new laptop that is faster and has more ram, and of course a more up to date graphics card...
on Jun 08, 2007
As before, Xion will not function on my desktop pc - I can't even open the SysTray when Xion is running on desktop-everything freezes up and cursor barely moves...

but
works fine on laptop that is 6 months old running XP.
on Jun 11, 2007
Finally I can upload freeform Media Player skins, and not have them have the dreaded Magic Pink around them.

I love it!
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