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WindowBlinds 11.0.2 Release Candidate 1

March 17, 2023 4:27:00 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

With WindowBlinds 11.0.2 Release Candidate 1 today, we are creating this thread so that users can report any observed issues.  

Obtaining:

This will not show up as 'Beta' for Object Desktop clients nor under client download pages, it is only available via this link:

https://cdn.stardock.us/downloads/public/software/windowblinds/WindowBlinds_11.0.2.0-j106-Setup.exe

Reporting an issue:

Please include the following for anything found:

  • Exact Windows version \ build (winver.exe)

  • Detailed steps to recreate the issue seen

  • Screenshots and videos are very helpful.  Videos can be uploaded to a cloud drive service (GoogleDrive, DropBox, OneDrive, YouTube), with a shared link included in your post.  Images can be copied and pasted directly into a post.

  • If there are specific apps that the app does not work (well) with, please note what apps and their exact versions.  If any app is not common, a link to a trial version would be appreciated.

Thank you for your interest and any time you put into making WindowBlinds 11 a better product.

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Reply #1 March 17, 2023 4:35:30 PM
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WindowBlinds 11.02 (Released 04/05/2023)

04/17/2023

  • Released on Steam

04/05/2023

  • Stardock release: 04/05/2023

  • Steam release: TBD

  • UI version: 11.02

  • File version 11.0.2.1

03/20/2023

  • Has some fixes for issues with the taskbar painting when on a tablet with Windows KB5022913

03/14/2023

  • Tweaks how the address bar transparency is handled on Win11 in explorer and has a small fix for taskbar support for Windows update KB5022913

03/13/2023

  • This has support for 22H2 Moment 2

  • Fixes some issues with taskbar progress bars

  • Fixes a repaint issue with VLC and XnViewMP

  • Support for tabbed notepad

  • Fix for painting issue with light glass area and tabbed frame section working right now when you do not define the maximized version (though you should)

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Reply #2 March 17, 2023 4:35:51 PM
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Known issues

While we appreciate all feedback, please remember that we offer no official support for beta \ preview \ developer channel versions of Windows. If you report issues while in any of those early release channels, you should not expect them to be addressed unless it still exists in a retail version of Windows.

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Reply #3 March 17, 2023 4:36:03 PM
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Reply #4 March 17, 2023 8:57:44 PM
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Might I at least ask is it good with 3 monitors and Moment?

 

EDIT   Wrong app thread, sorry.

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Reply #5 March 18, 2023 8:10:59 AM
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Perfect. Fix the topglass/taskbar progressbar issues as of now. However I noticed the taskbar clock on secondary displays does not paint properly on small icons still and at time the main taskbar start button area has glitches that goes away if I change the taskbar size.

Also using beta start11.

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Reply #6 March 18, 2023 12:20:45 PM
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my bad

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Reply #7 March 18, 2023 12:25:21 PM
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Quoting gbm97,
reply 6

Attached screenshots show specs and start button misalignment.

Windowblinds worked fine until I did the Moments 2 update.

After that update the taskbar transparency and start button never worked proper.

To correct the problem I installed Start 11 which fixed everything, start button was aligned properly. I was happy and hoping for an update to fix Windowblinds in the meantime. I chose the Start 11 trial as I wish not to buy.

Today I noticed a new beta Windowblinds update which I installed . I uninstalled Start 11 and Windowblinds beforehand.

Now back to misaligned start button and transparency missing since this beta update. (Corporate style applied)


It does not look like you have the new WB build installed.

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Reply #8 March 18, 2023 12:28:08 PM
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more my bad

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Reply #9 March 20, 2023 2:39:53 AM
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Thanks for the Show Desktop button.    

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Reply #10 March 20, 2023 7:31:59 PM
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Start button still seems to be cut on even with enhanced taskbar enabled in start11.

 

Also, the caption buttons in file explorer dont display the glow images properly. They flicker for a second but then vanish. Works fine in other windows.

 

One last thing I noticed is that when using win10/11/modern options in start 11, it does not use textures when you have them set in windowblinds.

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Reply #11 March 21, 2023 5:13:28 AM
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The "explorer tab bottom half background" option should be applied to tabbed Explorer windows only.

Instead as you can see from the image below the option is applied to Control panel non tabbed window:

in wb 11.01 this not happens.

(build OS 22621.1413)

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Reply #12 March 21, 2023 10:33:52 AM
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why doesnt the option - apply accent color to backrounds (recommended) why doesnt it stay checked? this has been a problem since way back with windowblinds if i remember correctly.. you check the option and reapply the theme.. soon as you close the windowblinds window and re-open it.. the option is unchecked again..

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Reply #13 March 22, 2023 11:44:38 AM
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Taskbar is still not getting themed even on this version:

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Reply #14 March 22, 2023 11:47:32 AM
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Quoting wajahatid,
reply 13

Taskbar is still not getting themed even on this version:

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. But, do you have Start11 installed? Taskbar and Startmenu area need Start11 to be skin. If you do what version of Start11 you have installed.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

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Reply #15 March 22, 2023 1:02:22 PM
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The only way I (myself) see to be clear of the misaligned start button and lack of taskbar transparency in Windowblinds since Microsoft's previous Moment2 update was to purchase and install Start11. Now with both the current Windowblinds and current Start11 everything is working as should be. (for me) There is a trial version of Start11. Try installing it. It may fix the broken Windowblinds.

 

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Reply #16 March 23, 2023 3:31:26 AM
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**EDIT**

Going through and renaming the files.. This is gonna take a while.... lol

********

 

Any chance we could get a file name size increase? I have my images named based on the substyle/color and that adding to the theme name causes some elements to not load unless the name gets short...

 

Or possibly add in a tool in skin studio to mass rename the images/when saving a theme, rename them possibly.

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Reply #17 March 23, 2023 2:21:40 PM
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Quoting Psych0sis,
reply 12

why doesnt the option - apply accent color to backrounds (recommended) why doesnt it stay checked? this has been a problem since way back with windowblinds if i remember correctly.. you check the option and reapply the theme.. soon as you close the windowblinds window and re-open it.. the option is unchecked again..

I put a bug report in for it (internal ref: ODNT-5427). I thing that I noticed while testing it out, it seems like it is a visual bug, meaning if you applied the setting, it is actually still on until you apply it off again

 

Paul Scroggins
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Reply #18 April 1, 2023 4:05:24 PM
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Quoting Psych0sis,
reply 12

why doesnt the option - apply accent color to backrounds (recommended) why doesnt it stay checked? this has been a problem since way back with windowblinds if i remember correctly.. you check the option and reapply the theme.. soon as you close the windowblinds window and re-open it.. the option is unchecked again..
This has indeed been a thing for a long time. IMHO (i.e. I have no technical knowledge!) it's a holdover from the past needed to keep things working. In practice it's actually pretty useless, again IMHO. It's not even necessary to hit the Apply button to see the changes the option makes. If you have Start11 installed you can see these changes being made to the icons in the main app list while in XP mode (which I stick to because I generally prefer older WB skins and thus can't comment on other modes). Having the option turned on makes the icons look worse because they no longer have their alpha-layer (their backgrounds are not transparent) but the WB skin's background is used instead. Presumably this was sometimes necessary in older versions of Windows but I've never seen it be useful now which might be why the option keeps turning itself off. Which I'm perfectly happy with!

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Reply #19 April 5, 2023 8:47:30 AM
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Higher DPI above 100% causes some wonkyness with all theme elements. When using higher DPI, any images that have sizing margins should stretch like how they do with the default windows ones. various controls, frames etc... all look super blurry. I should not need to provide Higher DPI images for them. Can you guys look into this issue.

Thank!

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Reply #20 April 5, 2023 10:36:43 AM
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Quoting SimplexDesigns,
reply 19

Higher DPI above 100% causes some wonkyness with all theme elements. When using higher DPI, any images that have sizing margins should stretch like how they do with the default windows ones. various controls, frames etc... all look super blurry. I should not need to provide Higher DPI images for them. Can you guys look into this issue.

Thank!

WindowBlinds is working as designed.

If it worked as suggested you would end up with 1 pixel lines basically turning into nothing on high dpi displays.

Images are first upscaled to the current dpi along with the margins and then painted using those.

You should be providing high dpi versions of images if you want control over them, otherwise WB's job is to make the skin look like it would if the screen were running at a lower resolution at normal dpi.  To not do this would render most themes unusable especially any glyphs which would be tiny, titlebars would be physically tiny (1/4 size at 200%) etc.

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Reply #21 April 5, 2023 5:00:19 PM
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All, 

WindowBlinds 11.02 was released today.

https://forums.stardock.com/518023/windowblinds-1102-release-feedback-thread

As always, thank you for your feedback and support.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

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