Where are all the round WindowBlinds?

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So is any body planning to make a round windowblind?? Or a frameless windowblind?? That would be cool. How about a windowblind with different shapes on the sides?

Speaking of design, does anybody use the always on top button feature when they use a skin with that element?? I find myself using it ll the time. Sometims I have multipul windows open and I want to do something with one and still see the other fully. I use it especailly when I am skinning something or writeing code for Oracle or HTML?XML stuff. I can copy and paste without going through extra steps or refresh my page while looking at the code for that page.

So, any round windowblinds??? Triangles??
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There are some older skins out there that attempted the not so square approach. It is kinda cool, but I have a square monitor, so I am going to stick to square windows!

Leave it to Apple though. If there is a way to make a round monitor, they will probably be the first to do it...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Right on Bill.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I kind of like the idea of "portholes" instead of square windows. Will look forward to trying out any skins with a round theme.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
come to think of it, wouldn't it be neat to run two different wb skins at the same time? or have a certain look to resized windows as opposed to maximized windows. ok so I am a dreamer
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What about a frameless windowblind??
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That is the great thing about WindowBlinds, it can do almost anything you like...
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You can run different skins on different apps already. Just use a per app rule from the WB configuration.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Frameless wouldn't be good.

You wouldn't be able to resize it. and yes, I use the always on top button, usually along with the rollup/unroll button. Microsoft should include these two buttons in the next version of Windows. I don't know why they haven't already. Oh well, I'm sure they have their reasons.

By the way, I like the idea of a round skin, but it wouldn't change the shape of the actual contents, only the shape of the frame it's in.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
and make the content-area of the window much smaller... I cannot imagine a round explorer window. How should the files be shown ? In a spiral perhaps ?

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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A round Windowblinds skin would only have the window frames round. The actual content of the windows will remain rectangular, there's no way around that.
So, in fact, a round skin will make yo loose space since you'll end up with a large round bordre around a tiny rectangular window.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I would imagine a round skin would also give you a huge performance hit, with all that transparency.

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Some of mine are 'frameless'...