Re: what is it that LiteStep does for the non-programmer?

Maybe you shouldn't!

I have seen reference to "skinnability" of some applications, though.

For example, WinAmp and other music players, file managers (desktop 
Explorer alternatives), calculators, etc. I also believe I recall that 
in Windowblinds, for example, one featured benefit is the ability to 
change all your applications to a common color scheme/graphic look.

It seems to me this would make sense--most people don't usually have 
Windows Explorer up as the main visual element on their computer screens 
so the overhead of custom visual styles would not be worth the time and 
effort for the small amount of screen time.

All that was answer to your question at face value.

If you are posing your question as rhetorical, I would have to say that 
most people don't skin any application.

Yet I have been thinking of LiteStep as a program that does a couple of 
things. It can change the look and feel of your windows (assuming you 
don't care for any of the pre-packaged looks that comes with Windows). I 
have understood this to be the less-compelling reason, due to the call 
for some LiteStep themes to use Windowblinds to manage the look-and-feel 
aspects of screen customization.

The features of LiteStep that seem to be less-likely-outsourced to 
another desktop customization program involve different ways to display 
menus, etc. I'm not sure whether this would be enough of a benefit to 
justify the cost of learning the program(s), especially in the absence 
of a good and comprehensive tutorial.

Did I miss something?

Alexander Vermaat wrote:
> Why would you skin any application?
> 
> Roy Gathercoal wrote:
>> All right. Given that the vast majority of computer users out there 
>> don't use, or even have never heard of LiteStep--many of whom are 
>> quite skilled and regularly using various programs to accomplish the 
>> bulk of the responsibilities that constitute their job descriptions,
>>
>> why should they care about "trying other people's themes?"
>>
>> Please realize I'm trying to be argumentative at all. I am instead 
>> trying to ensure that my understanding of who uses LiteStep, in what 
>> ways and why, is a little more robust.
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve wrote:
>>> To try other people's themes.
>>>
>>>
>>
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