Something funny happened today....
Posted: September 19th, 2009, 3:06 am
Hi. I'm back, well, just for a few days.
I got really into Rainmeter a few weeks in the summer, but then that college thing started and I've been absolutely pummeled with work. Like, I'm pretty much sinning right now by not doing homework, but I need a short break!
So, when I used Rainmeter in the summer, it was pretty straight-forward. A "skins" folder and you just copy & paste *.ini files in there. I got a new laptop and wanted to put Rainmeter on there. I thought that maybe I would just copy and paste the old Rainmeter folder onto the laptop and just run it from there. But, of course, I learned of the "new version" of Rainmeter. So I went ahead and downloaded that instead of copying/pasting the whole Rainmeter folder, ya know, the latest and greatest.
I didn't want to have to remake all my skins, though, so I copy & pasted my old Rainmeter folder to an arbitrary location on my hard drive, like My Documents for example. If you know anything about the "new" Rainmeter, you'll see my problem. I thought I would just copy the skins I wanted from that folder (located at Documents/Rainmeter) into the folder where Rainmeter was getting installed (Program Files/Rainmeter).
So, when I opened up Rainmeter, I was very surprised to find out that the Rainmeter Dev. Team decided to include the Chuck Norris Fact skin/applet! I used that on my last install! That's totally awesome! Oh, snap, they used the gMail skin/applet that I used, too! Oh, I can't believe it: they are using the Picture Feed I was using, too!!! Man, I thought, I must be absolutely famous on the forums.
Then, when I tried to insert a new skin, I read the little ReadMe: please insert your skins to the Rainmeter folder created in your Documents folder.
Good times. Uber-happy to see the place thriving!
~Ibrahim~
I got really into Rainmeter a few weeks in the summer, but then that college thing started and I've been absolutely pummeled with work. Like, I'm pretty much sinning right now by not doing homework, but I need a short break!
So, when I used Rainmeter in the summer, it was pretty straight-forward. A "skins" folder and you just copy & paste *.ini files in there. I got a new laptop and wanted to put Rainmeter on there. I thought that maybe I would just copy and paste the old Rainmeter folder onto the laptop and just run it from there. But, of course, I learned of the "new version" of Rainmeter. So I went ahead and downloaded that instead of copying/pasting the whole Rainmeter folder, ya know, the latest and greatest.
I didn't want to have to remake all my skins, though, so I copy & pasted my old Rainmeter folder to an arbitrary location on my hard drive, like My Documents for example. If you know anything about the "new" Rainmeter, you'll see my problem. I thought I would just copy the skins I wanted from that folder (located at Documents/Rainmeter) into the folder where Rainmeter was getting installed (Program Files/Rainmeter).
So, when I opened up Rainmeter, I was very surprised to find out that the Rainmeter Dev. Team decided to include the Chuck Norris Fact skin/applet! I used that on my last install! That's totally awesome! Oh, snap, they used the gMail skin/applet that I used, too! Oh, I can't believe it: they are using the Picture Feed I was using, too!!! Man, I thought, I must be absolutely famous on the forums.
Then, when I tried to insert a new skin, I read the little ReadMe: please insert your skins to the Rainmeter folder created in your Documents folder.
Good times. Uber-happy to see the place thriving!
~Ibrahim~