2008 April Fools Joke 

For seven years, WinCustomize has been the home for Windows GUI Customization.  Users from around the globe come here every day to download skins, icons, wallpapers and more to change the way the Windows Operating System look, feels and behaves.  While Windows remains the dominant operating system in the world, we've been watching the steady growth of both Apple's OS X and Linux as alternative OS choices.

As both have matured and grown in popularity, we've seen new opportunities in skinning, and noted that there is surprisingly little in focused support or communities dedicated to skinning these platforms.

It's always been our attitude that skinning is about giving users choice and artists a place to showcase and share their work.  We want that same choice and opportunity to be available to our friends on the other side of the OS aisle too.

The changes won't be immediate as we have work to do on the site to ensure that we work properly with Konqueror, Safari and Galeon.  We're even planning a special text-only version for those of you who refuse to use a GUI at all and surf the web using Lynx.

For our initial offerings, we'll be launching theme galleries for KDE and Gnome, and MacOS X Dashboard Widgets.  Expect it to be handled via a subsite sort of like http://dream.wincustomize.com/  This will allow us to make a Linux and Mac browser compatible site much quicker than trying to go through and convert all of WinCustomize. 

This is actually just our first step in in supporting the skinning world beyond our native platform.  Once the site is there to support it, we will begin work on porting some of our more popular apps to these other platforms.