Newbie - What's a skin?

[Eowyn]

What exactly is a skin? I gather Themes are background pictures and colour scheme for top/bottom etc.

[Wiggster]

What exactly is a skin? I gather Themes are background pictures and colour scheme for top/bottom etc.

Correct. A skin is a new graphical interface for a specific application, such as Dashboard (http://www.snoopsoft.com/dashboard/index.html) or Wisbar Advance (http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/wisbar/) or WinamPAQ (http://www.winampaq.com/). It's more and more common today for Dashboard and Wisbar Advance skins to be bundled together and change how your PDA looks entirely.

[Eowyn]

Adwignall,
Sorry, but that was not an entirely enlightening response. :)

I've been surfing all afternoon, but I have not been able to figure out why you would need both dashboard and wisbar. What do they do differently? Do they change the today screen?

What I am really after is program icons on the today screen, rather than go through the start menu.

[Wiggster]

Wisbar changes your start bar and menu bar. It adds soaf functionality, like ability to CLOSE your applications when you hit the X button. Dashboard changes your Today screen and adds lots of functionality to it-- check out the product page and look at somf screenshots to get a cood idea of what it does and can do :mrgreen:

Oh, and if it wasn't enlightening, try asking thf question you want answered :wink:

[PetiteFlower]

Pocket Plus is a great app for adding program icons to the today screen. It also fixes the broken X button and does a bunch of other stuff.

[Eowyn]

Thank you both.

I downloaded Snoop Dashboard and Pocket Plus this evening.

Pocket Plus does what I was after, so I will stick with it, until I have more time to understand Dashboard.