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
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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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Reply #82 Monday, August 10, 2009 5:14 AM
The UI currently has a limit of 499 skins, this will be expanded in later updates.
Reply #83 Monday, August 10, 2009 8:09 AM
There's a hidden scroll bar near the bottom of the interface. It's rather minimalist. It's right above the tabs at the bottom for color, style, wallpapers, etc. If you mouse over it, you'll see a narrow, about 2-pixel gray line, and the larger about 10-pixel bar to move back and forth -- that should take you to the end of your library of skins if you move it left or right. At first, I thought I had lost the last half of my library, too, but then I noticed the line.
Reply #84 Tuesday, August 11, 2009 1:31 PM
Reply #85 Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:24 AM
Reply #86 Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:36 AM
In the upper right of Impulse click teh "Install all Updates" button.
Reply #87 Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:48 PM
The only problem I've noticed with that is if I only have one update, it doesn't show the "Install all Updates" button.
Reply #88 Monday, August 17, 2009 10:21 AM
Dunno if it's only a problem here, but WB seem to ignore the 'Play sounds' setting in the config.
I haven't got it checked off (I hate skins with sounds), but still sounds are played, when using the captionbuttons.
Only way to eliminate the sounds is to delete the .wav files from the skin folder.
If anyone wanna test it, here's the skin it happend with: [link]
Could offcourse also be because it's a rather "old" skin, (WB5) but still....
Reply #89 Monday, August 17, 2009 10:40 AM
I miss the drag and drop wallpaper ability. I now have to put them in the WB wallpaper folder manually,which is a pain. Is this feature/function going to be to be available in WB7 at a later time, or am I missing something?
Reply #91 Monday, August 17, 2009 12:53 PM
On the old interface wallpaper section I could drag any wallpaper to the bottom and it was added to the WB wall folder and could be selected from the WB config. Now it just shows current wall where the drop area was. It shows a crossed out circle when I try it.
Reply #92 Monday, August 17, 2009 1:21 PM
He's right Neil. It was there, gone now, but this is a beta we're talking about. Surely, being who you are, you must have known the drag and drop ability was there? 
Reply #93 Monday, August 17, 2009 2:51 PM
Also, I miss the sort by installed date, or by author, or by name. The star rating is nice, but the others are needed too. It will take some of us a long time to rate them, we have so many. 
Reply #94 Monday, August 17, 2009 3:45 PM
Reply #95 Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:14 AM
Actually, sort by installed date was the one I used most. But I gotta say, this interface rocks!! I love it! Especially the "spotlight" effect. And sadly, the thumbnails actually look to be of a higher quality than the actual skins. Not that the skins are of poor quality, just that the thumbnails look somewhat High Def!
Reply #96 Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:23 AM
Well?
Reply #98 Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:20 PM
Is this the latest beta build WindowBlinds 7.0 (build 191 - Windows 7 Edition) 08/05/2009??? Thanks
Reply #99 Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:05 AM
Reply #100 Saturday, August 22, 2009 6:29 AM
You don't have to drag between the skin names, anywhere will do. If you do a flick like motion (mouse down, rapid move, mouse up) the list will scroll quickly.
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Reply #81 Monday, August 10, 2009 1:03 AM
I finally updated to the beta just now and I have the same issue. My list stopped at Psycho at first and i tried rebuilding the list 3 times before I decided to see if it was a number of skins issue. I deleted one skin and then it did show one more skin after Psycho. If I use the old interface it still shows my entire list of skins so I assume it's something in the coding of the new interface that is only allowing it to show a certain number of skins. Not sure though. Hopefully it won't be an issue for long because I really enjoy the look of the new interface and look forward to being able to use it full time with all the options.
and great work on the Corporate skin danillo
There's a hidden scroll bar near the bottom of the interface. It's rather minimalist. It's right above the tabs at the bottom for color, style, wallpapers, etc. If you mouse over it, you'll see a narrow, about 2-pixel gray line, and the larger about 10-pixel bar to move back and forth -- that should take you to the end of your library of skins if you move it left or right. At first, I thought I had lost the last half of my library, too, but then I noticed the line.