Great Windowblinds skins

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Hey guys. I was a long time user of Windowblinds years ago and I recently got back into it as I am sick of the direction MS is going with their UI. I really like skins like Novum OS and Acrylic that have an appearance of a slick new OS. One thing I noticed is that a lot of skins at Wincustomize are several years old and only list Win 7 and XP. Do only certain skins work properly with Windows 8.1 (and eventually 10)?

 

I really love the #1 skin right now, Nebula. However, it like many skins seems to use really tiny window control buttons. Why is that?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Many of the skins being created today are compatible with Windows 8. It is usually listed in the skin description.

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds

 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top


However, it like many skins seems to use really tiny window control buttons. Why is that?
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First glad you are back using Windowblinds. At least there is something great to help with the ugly look of the newer OS.

As far as the Control buttons and any other buttons you are referring to. It's really up to the person making the WB. We could all make the same size larger buttons. It's my opinion that it is done for variety and change of appearance. Different people like different things hence so many different WB styles are available. Good question hope this helps.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The control buttons can be sized no matter how the skin is made...
Click on your desktop, this will open the dropdown menu
the last option should be "Adjust" click on that.
Now on the left side you will find "Display" click on that, now you should see the DPI settings change that to your prefered size and the buttons and everything will scale.

Hope you meant that.
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't think anyone is skinning to XP anymore. For myself, I only skin to Win7 as that is what I use. In order for me to skin for Win8, I'd have to be using Win8 to verify the useability of the skin. I don't see that happening any time soon.

As Dave mentioned the button size is what the creator deems it to be. The frame caption size (height) plays into the consideration for button size as well. I want my buttons to fill the space appropriately. Then take into account that you'll be losing 4pixels with the maximized caption, makes those buttons even smaller. In other words, if my base caption is 31 pixels then the maximized frame will be 27 pixels with 4 transparent pixels at the top.