An incredible honour has been bestowed on the OTS team. The Open Theme Standard for LiteStep has been awarded desktopian.org's 2001 Golden Shell Award in the 'Best Innovation' category.
It is extremely gratifying to have our efforts recognised in this fashion. One always appreciates praise from one's peers, so this award means a great deal to all of us. In all fairness, everyone who has contributed to structured themeing over the years has a share in this award. : )
We offer heartfelt thanks to the desktopian.org team for recognising and appreciating our efforts. The reception from the LiteStep community as a whole has also been very warm and we are grateful to everyone for that. : )
Well after all that back patting and group hugging, it's back to more mundane matters relating to OTS and this site. ; )
added 'plaque' awarded by desktopian.org to the main page
The installer's download counter reset - the code looks fine and passes testing so I have no idea why this happened. It's not a problem though, I'll just set it to the last count I remember. : )
The OTS site may also be reached at lsots.ls2k.org - thanks to Jalist for hosting us at ls2k.org, and to Holden Thomas for hosting us at beyondconvention.net. : )
Don Thornton wrote in with two good observations, the results of which may be seen below:
- made msvcrt.dll and msvcp60.dll available for download from the installer page for those that need them
- There was a bug in the installer which caused Windows 95 to produce the melodramatic "re-install Windows" message - this has been fixed. The installer remains at v1.0 because the bug was not very significant in my opinion, and there was only one report of it. I don't want to bump the version number up to 1.1 because many might then feel compelled to re-download the installer when only win 95 users are affected - and win95 users appear to be a rare breed. : )
- Added a direct link to the LiteStep installer page to the top of all pages.
- Released the LSDistro compatibility patch, and added a patch section to the LiteStep installer page.
- Added sample LSTS .thm file to requirement 8 in the theme creation section for theme authors who don't have LSTS.
- There was a small bug in the installer which caused X:\LiteStep\personal\evars.rc to be formatted incorrectly - this has been fixed. : ) It's a very minor change, so the installer remains at v1.0.
- Open Theme Standard for LiteStep released
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