a^j Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 * Sorry if this news is already been posted before. Developers of WindowBlinds reported that they have succesfully add Aero-Glass style titlebars support for Windows XP. This feature will available soon in WindowBlinds 5. Source Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Not really natively by XP tho :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mootymoots Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Not really natively by XP tho :( 586246504[/snapback] gotta leave a reason to buy longhorn i guess :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Unfortunately it doesn't appear to blur what's underneath like LH does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiREFLi Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Unfortunately it doesn't appear to blur what's underneath like LH does. 586246703[/snapback] That would be hard to do, but yes, is the one very appealing thing about longhorns version :yes: (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkpaul Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 that looks so awesome, it might temt me over to windows blinds again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futb0l Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 :D That is cool! I hope they do release it in version 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt T Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I've never been a fan of glass for a VS, but this looks good (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue` Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 WindowBlinds :x :x :x :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ev0| Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I'm sorry, but there is a difference between transparent titlebars and a fully 3D accelerated GUI with Pixel Shader effects. I really think people are going overboard with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 i'll wait for longhorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShell Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 That looks pretty nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Whoa that looks awsome :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 i believe frogboy, the maker of that skin is a member here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcv Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 gotta leave a reason to buy longhorn i guess :p 586246660[/snapback] Why? It will work in XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten T Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 (edited) Edit: Neverming, This is hot. Does anyone know how much resources it eats? Edited July 21, 2005 by Tungsten T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted July 21, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 21, 2005 i believe frogboy, the maker of that skin is a member here. 586247890[/snapback] He's on the news staff and the creator of Windowblinds. Neowin has a healthy relationship with Stardock :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 i believe frogboy, the maker of that skin is a member here. 586247890[/snapback] actually he's a news poster nice previews btw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMac Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 This will get me to use WB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbet Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 very pretty, no doubt. How much extra CPU/Memory does such stuff take (I have never tried WB)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyClaw Veteran Posted July 21, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 21, 2005 yea ill def put it on my pc, looks spiffy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User6060 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 WindowBlinds :x :x :x :x 586246936[/snapback] Don't be so 1999 its gotten much better. very pretty, no doubt. How much extra CPU/Memory does such stuff take (I have never tried WB)? 586247965[/snapback] WindowsBlinds (wbload.exe) is using 0% CPU and 1280K of RAM. windowsblinds isn't as bad as people think, its just not free. Though I only use it because I screwed up my UxTheme.dll and I was too lazy to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue` Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Well, svchost.exe on my comp (which holds the theme engine) was over 44mb when i used WindowBlinds (4.5.1) and is currently 23mb when using a modified uxtheme.dll. As i said in the DesktopX 3.1 comments (which was deleted) after trying all of StarDocks Suite, I find IconPackager the only usefull program. But its my personal opinion :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neostyle Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 gimmegimmegimme :D looks great ... :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Suraci Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Great news. :D And for the people going "Windowblinds :x :x :x :x :x", blame the skins, not the program. Stardock can't be blamed for all of those crappy Windowblinds skins, eh? Some Windowblinds skins can be real gems, this one appears so too. :) P.S. Windowblinds has never slowed my machine. And I just found this: If you look back at that Longhorn screenshot, doesn't it look to you that those titlebars aren't simply transparent? They seems to be almost translucent - the text behind is really blurred as if it were actually being viewed through a pane of thick glass or something.Will WB do that? The yranslucent start panel in WB does that so why shouldnt the titlebars? :o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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