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<blockquote data-quote="dir" data-source="post: 324148" data-attributes="member: 24485">Ok, more learning (and thus more imparting of your synaptic patterns so I might form similiar ones)I don't quite get the menu concept in MP.&nbsp; The skin author decides which menu items he wants, and anyone that wants to use the skin has to live with those choices.&nbsp; A fixed menu.&nbsp; Ok, I get that.&nbsp; And I get the wonderful fact that there's a menu generator app that lets Aeon users make their own menus.&nbsp; I really get that.What I don't get then, is why are there skins (screen designs) for applications that aren't in the menu, like moving pictures, and For the Record, and other stuff?&nbsp; If the skin author didn't put them in the menu in the first place, why expend effort in making their skin compatible?Surely this isn't very useful for 99% of the users if the author expected everyone to just use the skin &quot;as is&quot;.&nbsp; And for those skins that don't have menu generators (either applications or the old fashioned hacking-the-xml-via-editor type), which appears to be pretty much every other skin, why are these extras skins created?Is it because they're necessary for the default skin, and I'm simply failing to understand how to access ForTheRecord and MovingPictures from the default skin, or is it because they're created solely for those people that want to modify their Aeon menus and skins themselves?Just curious, that's all!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dir, post: 324148, member: 24485"] Ok, more learning (and thus more imparting of your synaptic patterns so I might form similiar ones) I don't quite get the menu concept in MP. The skin author decides which menu items he wants, and anyone that wants to use the skin has to live with those choices. A fixed menu. Ok, I get that. And I get the wonderful fact that there's a menu generator app that lets Aeon users make their own menus. I really get that. What I don't get then, is why are there skins (screen designs) for applications that aren't in the menu, like moving pictures, and For the Record, and other stuff? If the skin author didn't put them in the menu in the first place, why expend effort in making their skin compatible? Surely this isn't very useful for 99% of the users if the author expected everyone to just use the skin "as is". And for those skins that don't have menu generators (either applications or the old fashioned hacking-the-xml-via-editor type), which appears to be pretty much every other skin, why are these extras skins created? Is it because they're necessary for the default skin, and I'm simply failing to understand how to access ForTheRecord and MovingPictures from the default skin, or is it because they're created solely for those people that want to modify their Aeon menus and skins themselves? Just curious, that's all! [/QUOTE]

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