Here's the permission emails from Gabe and Tiggz. Muchas Gracias for the permission, and the advice.
-DoctorNick

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From: DaN [dteti@kent.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:03 PM
To: DrNick40@adelphia.net
Subject: Permission

Permission granted to upload the G-pod OB theme.

Hope to see it up soon.

^^Gabriel

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From: Matt Crockett [matt.crockett@btinternet.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:50 AM
To: Nick Quaranto
Subject: Re: G-Pod OB Permission

Nick Quaranto wrote:

> Hey Tiggz, Its DoctorNick from WinCustomize. Ive created a G-Pod 
> ObjectBar theme which has a setup inspired by your Killer and GT2 OB 
> themes. I used none of the code from your skins, but I deciphered the 
> format and layout of the Killer bar and used it for mine. Once again, 
> I didnt copy or replace your stuff at all, its all originally 
> written. Since its based off of your themes, Im asking permission so 
> I can honor the inspiration you gave me to create this, and so I dont 
> have a Mr. Wardell yelling at me. Thanks muchly!
>
> Feel free to try it out. It has a few screenshot kinks to bug out, but 
> other than that its done.
>
> - Nick Quaranto
>
Hi Nick,

lol at Mr Wardell yelling at you ;)

I'm flattered you want to emulate the layout, although obviously I think it's fair enough because it's a patently good system ;) Feel free to do so.

The skin looks great, although I did discover a couple of glitches you might want to investigate before you upload it. When I first installed the theme, there was nothing visible - I moused all around the place, especially the bottom edge where I expected the launchbar to be, but nothing. In the end I had to open the theme editor via the system tray icon and select "recover lost bars" from the menu. When I checked out the properties for the launchbar I found that it was set to reset it's position relative to the top and left of the screen. As you have it docked to the bottom, you need to make it reset its position for different resolutions relative to the bottom of the screen ;) I am presuming you use a bigger resolution to me (1280x960), and so when I loaded it the pesky thing was just out of reach :D

Another thing I noticed was that there is a bar in there called G-click or something, maybe its a right click context menu, which I can't see because I have a desktopX context menu that hijacks that functionality. 
Anyway, when I set it to "not hidden" so I could see what it was like it appeared on my desktop but it wasn't skinned at all, it was that default black text on a plain white background that you get when a bar has no skin or can't find it's skin directory.

Anyway, just thought you'd like to know what I found, hope you don't think I'm moaning, otherwise I thought it was a great skin, nice animations and pretty tight overall. Something I always try to remember to do before I upload an ob theme is to test it at different resolutions just to see if I've missed something that isn't obvious at my usual res.

So, I look forward to seeing it on WC at some point, keep up the good work, between us we shall convince the world of the usefullness of objectbar, especially when it's laid out in such a handy manner ;)

Matt
