For me, I just check out the themes section once in a while. If I see something cool, I download the theme and figure out how they did it. Once you get used to how litestep works, just looking around at cool things is usually enough for you to figure out how to create it yourself or base something off of it. Once in a while, though, you get really crazy things (@!%$* Lock.Solid) where you look at the code and realize you're going to have to teach yourself another programming language to duplicate the functionality or figure out a way on your own. Those are the times you really have to think. Here's a hint, though - you can do nearly anything with just xlabel, xpopup, xtray, xtaskbar, xtextedit and mzscript.

I like xmodules - can you tell?



p.s. When was OTS2 released?