Absolutely nothing wrong with giving information. But do you remember what theming was like before ShapeShifter was released? Theme creators spent an insane amount of their time coaching people through reinstalling their operating systems instead of creating themes. They got sick of it, and it's no surprise.

Now, I know that you're going to say that you've been swapping resources manually forever and have never had a problem. That's wonderful, but before ShapeShifter, a ton of people did have problems. If you don't believe me, search these forums. But I'm sure you remember it - I know you were around back then.



This is no longer true. Many many modern themes rely on things such as patterns that are larger than 8x8 pixels, custom text colors, enhanced menus, etc. At the current time, none of those are possible without ShapeShifter. Hell, you can't use colored metal windows without ShapeShifter from Panther on. That's a pretty basic requirement of a theme, wouldn't you say?

You shouldn't conflate the theme that you personally use with "a lot of themes".

Anyway, as I said, I'm all for sharing information. But I'm not at all down with having to provide support for users who have hosed their operating system because they tried swapping resources manually using your methods, or who are complaining to Unsanity because their theme doesn't look right after swapping resources manually.