just because they look similar does not in ANY way mean that stardock "ripped" any graphic from your docks.

You need to be very careful about making accusations like this without concrete evidence especially if you haven't contacted stardock about your concerns. Your comments could be taken as slander and/or libel.

Personally i think you have seen a slim similarity and decided to give your ego a stroking to make yourself look good and basically because you have nothing else of any value to moan about. Peace out

Huh? Is it still April Fools day? The Dell Dock is a generic looking dark rectangle.How do you rip that?

I have Eminence,(it comes with ObjectDock). Dated 8/21/2006

I also have Alienware Xenomorph dated 5/9/2006

I see a stronger resemblence between those two docks.

At any rate, rips should be reported privately by PM to a mod and NOT in the forums.

..yeah the the same could be said about your own dock, the same style had been done before you did it I reckon. Too generic a design to claim anything. Actually the Emminence pushbuttons look rather similar to some of Kols previous buttons....Imo. Almost every aspect of the Emminence WB could have been taken from a 100 previous themes. I'd say.. get over it.

Not actually same, but "similar".

Actually if you go that site and then to Youtube - via their own link.

People call it ObjectDock/RocketDock/Mac ripoff in ....and so on (YouTube comments).

So people don't celebrate there and send roses to Dell.

So, just edit your artist-post, and state that yours is better than Dell Dock

...Actually i currently use your dock, lol.

But after all, if example Apple or Microsoft really want that their name, brands or similar looking docks or objects can not use anywhere... then thousands artist can forgot thir work and wait their lawsuit.

So calm down, and enjoy your over 130K downloads + ObjectDock downloads (~6.7 million from Download.com) + via Impulse, etc, etc

(Island Dog... are we ok?! ...ooops, did i say it here  lol)

I understand that a black glossy dock isn't a totally new idea.

Please don't be so quick to criticize me. I took some time and looked at the two background images side by side before making the post.  If I didn't feel like there was a strong resemblence between them, I wouldn't have posted.  It's not a huge issue, and trust me I don't need to "stroke" my ego lol.

My only interest was in finding out if it was an edit of my bg image, and if it was, was Stardock in the right to edit it and release it without notifying me.  I just like to know where my stuff ends up.  I'm not a manhunt for Stardock.

I'm not accustomed to things like this, so if a moderator feels that this topic is here in error, please close and delete it.

Again, Thanks for your thoughts and time.

Zero

IF Stardock/anyone did that, then off course it wouldn't be ok.
And everyone is off course allowed to protect their interest/sources - but doing it in a public forum might not be the smartest way around it

Site rule is that any 'violations' must be reported directly to an admin (to avoid "trouble" for any of the parties)

It's "troubles" just like this we wanna avoid...... and do hope that our users one day will stop.

You can't stop a fire with gasolin....

I just wanted to clarify a few things here.

First, I have a list of my favorite skins of all time that I require all Stardock Design artists to look at so that they can get an idea of what good skinning looks like.

Eminence is on that list.  So I would not be surprised that some UI creation used Eminence as a source of inspiration. Having taken a look at the images closely, I think I can safely say that they aren't the same but I also think that Eminence was an influence on the skin.

Eminence is, in my opinion, one of the best skins of all time.  That's why it's on my short list of skins that people should look at when making a proper UI.  I hope no one takes offense that their works influence and inspire others.