Obvious painting of skins
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As a dab hand with the mouse I've always been very sensitive to the slightest delay in UI response, and thus have been a Windows Classic person, plus there wasn't any themes out there that really caught my eye. However, I wanted a more exciting desktop and WindowsBlinds not only promised that, but no loss of performance (or even a gain!) along with it. Because of that I purchased the product. However, I've found that the painting of windows is far more obvious when a skin is enbabled. This might be due to my choice of apps, I only work with a small number of windowed apps, but they are marked as theme aware which should make them fair game. For the follow examples I will use Mozilla Firefox and foobar2000.
With the Windows Classic skin (incidently, WindowsBlinds doesn't properly revert the title bar font) I can barely see the painting of the Firefox window as I restore and maximise it. The same is true when I load up foobar2000 behind it.
With the Simple Alpha skin I begin to see painting during restore and maximise which is further exaggerated once foobar2000 is behind Firefox (sticking out when the Firefox window is restored).
With a skin I found called Artwork the painting becomes even more obvious, but once foobar2000 is loaded behind Firefox we start to pass the point of tolerance where you're waiting a good half-second before the app has resized.
In the case of both Simple Alpha and Artwork, the border of an application draws over the top of the start menu?!
I tried enabling Hyperpaint and used both the minimum and maximum settings, but it doesn't seem to have helped.
My desktop is 1600x1200x32. My machine is as follows:
PIV 3Ghz
1GB RAM
System set pagefile
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
128MB AGP Aperature
With the Windows Classic skin (incidently, WindowsBlinds doesn't properly revert the title bar font) I can barely see the painting of the Firefox window as I restore and maximise it. The same is true when I load up foobar2000 behind it.
With the Simple Alpha skin I begin to see painting during restore and maximise which is further exaggerated once foobar2000 is behind Firefox (sticking out when the Firefox window is restored).
With a skin I found called Artwork the painting becomes even more obvious, but once foobar2000 is loaded behind Firefox we start to pass the point of tolerance where you're waiting a good half-second before the app has resized.
In the case of both Simple Alpha and Artwork, the border of an application draws over the top of the start menu?!
I tried enabling Hyperpaint and used both the minimum and maximum settings, but it doesn't seem to have helped.
My desktop is 1600x1200x32. My machine is as follows:
PIV 3Ghz
1GB RAM
System set pagefile
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
128MB AGP Aperature
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, my hand is also pretty dab, so with this sort of performance I dispaired, it only got better when I reinstalled windows.
