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

Reply #1 January 27, 2009 11:14 AM from

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

Reply #2 January 27, 2009 11:38 AM from

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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.

Reply #3 January 27, 2009 11:59 AM from

Elemental Forums Top

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)

Reply #4 January 27, 2009 12:31 PM from

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

Also . . skinning the command prompt.

Reply #5 January 27, 2009 12:34 PM from

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

Reply #6 January 27, 2009 12:48 PM from

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What I would really like to not see, is that dorky user pic do-dad that MS insists on keeping. It is totally unsophisticated.

Reply #7 January 27, 2009 12:48 PM from

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

End of quote

Thirded.

Reply #8 January 27, 2009 1:02 PM from

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Ability to re-color the color of the open applications buttons on the taskbar (the color that appears when you mouse over them).

Reply #9 January 27, 2009 1:20 PM from

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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.

Reply #10 January 27, 2009 1:30 PM from

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Also . . skinning the command prompt.

End of quote

Now I never expected that!

Reply #11 January 27, 2009 10:05 PM from

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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

Reply #12 January 27, 2009 11:24 PM from

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Quoting Zubaz, reply 4

Also . . skinning the command prompt.

End of Zubaz's quote

Done.

+1

Reply #13 January 28, 2009 12:57 AM from

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

Reply #14 January 28, 2009 12:59 AM from

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

End of quote

And Zubish on tap.

Reply #15 January 28, 2009 1:00 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

Oppss!! I meant Tailsgirl....not Zubaz.

+1

Reply #16 January 28, 2009 1:21 AM from

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But.. HOW would you download me?

Reply #17 January 28, 2009 1:39 AM from

Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Tailsgirl, reply 16

But.. HOW would you download me?

End of Tailsgirl's quote

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

+1

Reply #18 January 28, 2009 10:00 AM from

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MAYBE something like this Diafragma's SS "Crystal Clean..WWW Link

Reply #19 January 28, 2009 11:39 AM from

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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.

Reply #20 January 28, 2009 12:24 PM from

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Quoting flya150, reply 19

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.

End of flya150's quote

Some apps are non-standard and need to be excluded.

Reply #21 January 28, 2009 1:36 PM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

Better support for using large (120 dpi) fonts and custom size fonts.

Reply #22 January 28, 2009 7:59 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

Some apps are non-standard and need to be excluded.

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Just because this software is not installed on every PC should not be an excuse to exlude it from working with Windowblinds. This software is being used on many HP's, Gateways, Dells, etc. I wouldn't exactly call in "non-standard". Are you involved in the development of Windowblind? If so, Have you seen my submitted ticket regarding this issue? And why hasn't any one been in-touch with me on this? The Tech's that I've talked to can only forward the info to the the developers for further support. So, If you are the almighty challange yourself and see if you can make Eztune compatible with Windowblinds again as it was in ver. 6.03 and prior.

Reply #23 January 28, 2009 8:06 PM from

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Quoting flya150, reply 22

Some apps are non-standard and need to be excluded.
Just because this software is not installed on every PC should not be an excuse to exlude it from working with Windowblinds. This software is being used on many HP's, Gateways, Dells, etc. I wouldn't exactly call in "non-standard". Are you involved in the development of Windowblind? If so, Have you seen my submitted ticket regarding this issue? And why hasn't any one been in-touch with me on this? The Tech's that I've talked to can only forward the info to the the developers for further support. So, If you are the almighty challange yourself and see if you can make Eztune compatible with Windowblinds again as it was in ver. 6.03 and prior.

End of flya150's quote

When I say non-standard I mean that the app doesn't apply skins as defined by Microsoft; it does something different. So WB tries to skin it . . and can't. WB can't be coded to handle every crazy thing some developer tries to do. Sorry. I'll look into your case though, OK?

Reply #24 January 28, 2009 8:13 PM from

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I wish there were some way of changing the fonts and skinning the tabs in FF3

Reply #25 January 28, 2009 8:27 PM from

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I agree with the first part of #9. I understand that the window itself needs to be square/rectangular, but why can't the frame around the window be something like this: