Vertical Taskbar

I've never used one, Dave...and never will!

I'm with you Davad. I'd like to know too.

I do

Take a look my desktop http://www.clan1234.com/bedlam/desktop-april-small.png and http://www.clan1234.com/bedlam/desktop-april.png for a full size shot

The task bar that I use the most is the blackcomb because I think it looks best as a vertical task bar

ah opps...they're not there any more

Ah found one - using blackcomb in this one too

http://www.clan1234.com/bedlam/desktopsmall.png (small)
http://www.clan1234.com/bedlam/desktop.png (full size)

Mine is always vertcal, but it's the NS taskbar. I rarely ever see the windows taskbar.

I'm with Valhalla, never have, probably never will.
but then... looking at Rob's screenshot I can see what the appeal is.

Windowblinds is crapy in vertical mode

I am with Valhalla too!

And I also agree with Alexandrie.

nifty desktop, Rob.
But as for myself, I don't and probably never will, unless I get monitors that can do 2048x1536. I'm all for a setup that has much free space on desktop. I'd like to keep my desktop clean as you can see from this http://www.nitesade.net/nite/ss.jpg (beware, its 2304x768, about 230k jpg).

If anyone is interested, how about a Blackcomp NS suite to include WS?

I'm not a skinner, but is a vertical taskbar really that hard to make? Surely it uses the same pic files as the horizontal bar?

It would be a shame if you stop making vertical task bars in your skins as I often use your Alias skin.

Rob> it actually uses seperate images for most of the elements of the vertical taskbar (background, tray, tray arrow, sizing bar, buttons). It's not that it's difficult to do, but it never seems to look "right". Conseqently, I end up spending a lot of time to get it to look "right" and always end up frustrated. I'm sure I'll continue to include them....I was just curious how many people use them.

Thank you for taking the time to make them right

I have a suggestion that might (IMHO) make the vertical taskbar look better? I have made a small modification to your Boron skin. The taskbar buttons are transparent - the buttons only show when the window is active or rolled over.

Pic http://www.clan1234.com/bedlam/david70modified.png (8bit png 119k)

Then there's LiteSTEP...

Rob, how did you get the statistics and the calendar on the screen? some DesktopX object or what? pleeease tell em, wanna have 'em too!

-Nite

The stats are CoolMon, I think
from http://daisyman.arsware.org/coolinfo/index.html
The Calendar I don't know, I'm afraid!

The calendar is Rainlendar: http://sivut.koti.soon.fi/rainy/Rainlendar.html

thanks guys!

-Nite