WindowBlinds 7 Beta 2 with Windows 7 Theme Support!

Beta for Object Desktop subscribers

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Stardock is excited to announce the release of Beta 2 for WindowBlinds 7.  WindowBlinds is an application that lets users change the look and feel of Windows XP, Vista, and now Windows 7 by applying themes (also known as skins).  This latest beta release introduces a wide range of improvements and features over earlier betas. 

This beta 2 update includes:

  • Live previews.  See the changes you make in settings in real-time
  • Completely new user interface which includes grab and throw scrolling, reflections, and a simpler layout.
  • Improved Windows 7 support
  • Improved skin coloring (see video)
  • Improved sub-style selections, and skin search
WB_Visual_Styles_Corporate 8-5-2009 1-53-43 PM
 New UI Skin coloring 

WindowBlinds 7 – Beta 2 is available for download via Stardock’s Impulse for Object Desktop subscribers.  Purchase WindowBlinds 6 now, and you will get the upgrade to WindowBlinds 7 for free when released! 

For more information, please visit www.windowblinds.net.

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kwyjibo
Reply #41 Thursday, August 6, 2009 12:05 AM
I am going to try this out right now, because of the dark UI alone.

az0th
Reply #42 Thursday, August 6, 2009 12:10 AM
I use XP and wonder if this release will improve on WB6 when used on XP?

kwyjibo
Reply #43 Thursday, August 6, 2009 12:49 AM
I just tried out the dark UI. I like it, but can you change the white tab bar at the bottom to black with bright text? The white background is difficult to read. Question about the new UI: Will I be able to edit specific colours of a skin, still? In the old UI I could fine tune colours of a WB skin, such as the application background and foreground, or the menubar background/foreground (and dozens of others) to create my own substyle.

sixshot
Reply #44 Thursday, August 6, 2009 1:41 AM
I couldn't get Impulse to update to beta2. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled WB7. And up comes the new interface along with the Corporate skin. Looks good so far. Is it me or is the user icon for the start panel misaligned? The panel skin appears it should be positioned in the center of the 2nd column but the user icon is located to the far right instead. Well, other than that, the new interface and Corporate skin looks amazing. I finally have something to change up the appearance of Windows 7 and this'll tie me over until more of the skins get updated for WB7 and Win7 styles.

s0mb3r
Reply #45 Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:53 AM
Great work on this update I love the Corporate skin by danilloOC, I was just wishing for an updated version of iFlex and now we have this. Even better. Nice to see some changes to the wallpaper section, the colour filtering function is really nifty. It would be nice to see that expanded to include wallpaper packs and some sort of wallpaper changer too as with the Windows 7 themes.

danioc
Reply #46 Thursday, August 6, 2009 6:31 AM
Yay! It's finally out

The new UI looks smooth!

Thanks guy for the comments on Corporate (more stuff coming)

captainmoonlight
Reply #47 Thursday, August 6, 2009 7:34 AM
I'm using it now,its is ace       

o0SHUUMI0o
Reply #48 Thursday, August 6, 2009 9:46 AM
ok new update is working for me today....yay!!!

Mirsguy
Reply #49 Thursday, August 6, 2009 9:46 AM

Thanks guy for the comments on Corporate (more stuff coming)

Corporate is very clean and useable. Looking forward to more!


RedBuzzard
Reply #50 Thursday, August 6, 2009 10:01 AM
Before I install this I was wondering if it now supports (or will it ever support) compact start panels??

bk13GarbageMan
Reply #51 Thursday, August 6, 2009 10:08 AM
Looks cool in the preview!

messiah1
Reply #52 Thursday, August 6, 2009 10:19 AM
Do you see the new interface button on the old interface?
"Do you have any papers to show you have no papers?"

Victek
Reply #53 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:13 AM
The new UI is a real improvement. Now I'm really looking forward to skins optimized for Windows 7. In particular the Windows 7 Aero skin has a very cool feature where open windows are outlined when placing the mouse pointer over the Show Desktop bar. That feature is not supported by the WB skins I've tried so far.

RedBuzzard
Reply #54 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:18 AM

I'll ask again. Does this now or will it ever support compact start panels??


o0SHUUMI0o
Reply #55 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:23 AM
so when do we get logon 7? boot 7 (should be animated), and working deskscapes for win 7? id post this in the forums, but they dont seem to be working today

danioc
Reply #56 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:26 AM
@ RedBuzzard"compact start panel is not a WB feature or even a OS feature, its a skin based trick, so compact menus depend on the skinner to make it.

One observation is that compact start menus may work only for XP as Vista and Windows 7 no longer have icon on the right side of the start menu, the user picture fades in to the icon for the item you mouse over.

Neil Banfield
Reply #57 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:41 AM

o0SHUUMI0o
reply 55
so when do we get logon 7? boot 7 (should be animated), and working deskscapes for win 7? id post this in the forums, but they dont seem to be working today

Deskscapes 3 should be coming soon.

Logon 7 is already out in beta form I think and I doubt you will see a Boot 7.


Neil Banfield
Reply #58 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:44 AM

Vicsan
reply 53
The new UI is a real improvement. Now I'm really looking forward to skins optimized for Windows 7. In particular the Windows 7 Aero skin has a very cool feature where open windows are outlined when placing the mouse pointer over the Show Desktop bar. That feature is not supported by the WB skins I've tried so far.

The outlines should continue to appear with WB running.


RedBuzzard
Reply #59 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:47 AM

Thanks DanilloOc


I.R. Brainiac
Reply #60 Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:52 AM

The UI is not fully complete yet.
No problem...I figured that to be the case...just dont want to lose any features.

Really like most of it so far...Corporate looks great.

I have a suggestion...when looking at the substyles you see an icon denoting which subs are default for each OS...it would be nice if we could set a flag in SKS that also labels which OS the other subs are for...so people could see at a glance which ones were for which OS.

This isnt a problem if a skin only has one sub per OS but I have 6 per OS on ecoLogical. (plus saved recolors)


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