What Would You Like to See in WindowBlinds for Windows 7?

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing

Now let me make it clear from the start that I’m just looking for feedback on features you would like to see for WindowBlinds in Windows 7.  Many people are trying the Windows 7 beta, and through your experiences so far, is there anything different you would like to see WB try to accomplish? 

Please be specific and screenshots and mockups would definitely be welcome.

1-27-2009 10-32-32 AM

First Previous Page 1 of 3 Next Last
MadDeez
Reply #1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:14 AM

well, one thing i'd like to see implemeted will probably seem as odd to most people but i'd like to be able to use WB's recoloring feature to change the taskbar and start menu color individually. yeah, i know it's trivial but i'd like it. it can be done in other fashions, i know. i've done it

kryo
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:38 AM

I'd actually go for some fine-grained advanced recolor options. Not so much element based, but perhaps some options that could limit the HSL shift to any parts of the skin which are within a given HSL range already. For example. right now if I want to recolor a skin to red, but the menus, toolbars, etc., are slightly tinted rather than being straight gray, I have to have all that stuff a funky pale pinkish-gray in order to get the titlebar/start menu red. What I'd like to be able to do is recolor only the strongly saturated parts to red, and completely desaturate the low saturated parts.

Probably wishful thinking though. Just gotta fire up PSP and do it manually most likely.

landisaurus
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:59 AM

can you create gradient and other bizzar stuff with the opacity on Windows Blinds?   (haven't played with it in ages, since one of my friends had it, I never did)

ZubaZ
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:31 PM

I second Kyro's suggestion.  Having just two seperate hue shifts would rock.

Also . . skinning the command prompt. 

Philly0381
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:34 PM

This may be out of place or all ready considered but backward compatibility with Vista and XP if possibile.

Tecumseh
Reply #6 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:48 PM
What I would really like to not see, is that dorky user pic do-dad that MS insists on keeping. It is totally unsophisticated.
vStyler
Reply #7 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:48 PM

I second Kyro's suggestion. Having just two seperate hue shifts would rock.

Thirded.

sb_41
Reply #8 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:02 PM
Ability to re-color the color of the open applications buttons on the taskbar (the color that appears when you mouse over them).
VistArtXPosed
Reply #9 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:20 PM
I'd like to see Windowframes have custom shapes, animated Explorer Backgrounds, (not to mention including .jpg & .png formats for explorer backgrounds), and "Superbar" exclusive features, just to name a few.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #10 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:30 PM

Also . . skinning the command prompt.

Now I never expected that!

starkers
Reply #11 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:05 PM

Not a UI feature as such, but the ability to select skin library path like in ThemeManager/IconPackager... then persons dual booting can access their skins from the one location, rather than having to load them in each OS and duplicating thousands of files

Tailsgirl
Reply #12 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:24 PM

Zubaz


Also . . skinning the command prompt. 

Done.

lcassity
Reply #13 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:57 AM
Now all we need to do is install Zubaz into our machines and we can ALL have skinned command prompts!!   
starkers
Reply #14 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:59 AM

Now all we need to do is install Zubaz into our machines and we can ALL have skinned command prompts!!

And Zubish on tap.

lcassity
Reply #15 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:00 AM
Oppss!! I meant Tailsgirl....not Zubaz.   
Tailsgirl
Reply #16 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:21 AM

But.. HOW would you download me?

Spartan
Reply #17 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:39 AM

Tailsgirl
But.. HOW would you download me?

Umm... I'll byte.....  Bit by bit of course.

koolet22
Reply #18 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:00 AM
MAYBE something like this Diafragma's SS "Crystal Clean..WWW Link     
flya150
Reply #19 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:39 AM

I would like them to fix an ongoing issue with Eztune. A program that changes my monitor’s settings and allows auto rotate. It's made my portrait display. I submitted a ticket on this back in June. It worked on WB ver. 6.03 all versions after that cause Eztune not to work. I don't know who is involved with fixing incompatibility issues. But they don't seem to care about this as they keep rolling out more updates that haven't fixed this. If some one with authority at stardock reads this please look at the ticket I have submitted and put some priority on this.

ZubaZ
Reply #20 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:24 PM

flya150
I would like them to fix an ongoing issue with Eztune. A program that changes my monitor’s settings and allows auto rotate. It's made my portrait display. I submitted a ticket on this back in June. It worked on WB ver. 6.03 all versions after that cause Eztune not to work. I don't know who is involved with fixing incompatibility issues. But they don't seem to care about this as they keep rolling out more updates that haven't fixed this. If some one with authority at stardock reads this please look at the ticket I have submitted and put some priority on this.
Some apps are non-standard and need to be excluded.

Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.

Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:

  • Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
  • Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
  • Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
  • It's simple, and FREE!



web-wc01