New WindowBlinds User

Saturday, December 12, 2009 by chillychan | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Ok, so I bought WB7 yesterday and things are going pretty well. The only complaint I have is concerning the Show Desktop button. In default aero theme, I only need to move the mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen and the show desktop button gets focused and aero peek kicks in. When using a WB skin (e.g. Diamond), the bottom right corner doesn't work. I need to move up the cursor a little bit up from the right bottommost corner so that the show desktop button gets focused. This is annoying 'cause whenever I want to peek at my desktop, I had to carefully point the cursor to the Show Desktop button so I can't do it without looking. This may not be a problem with WB7 but with skins. Apart from that, the program is really working great. Oh and can someone pls point me out where I can get true WB 7 skins? The ones I find so far are for WB6 or Vista (I know they work with WB 7). Thanks!
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2of3
Reply #1 Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:33 PM

My gallery has 4 WB7 skins with substyles for Windows 7:

(click on the skin names)

Fools Gold

Solid State

Magnetek

Softer


chillychan
Reply #2 Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:40 PM

Wow, thanks man!!


2of3
Reply #3 Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:45 PM

No problem

 

About the show desktop button: It seems that the target area doesn't extend all the way to fit the entire height of the taskbar which I could see would annoy you. Hopefully the developer of windowblinds will see this and give us some insight


chillychan
Reply #4 Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:45 PM

Yeah, it's like what you said. I hope Stardock fixes this little problem in the future. Judging from the posts, there are people with more serious problems than this so I'll happily wait.


2of3
Reply #5 Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:52 PM

It annoys me as well skinning wise. I would like the button to take up the entire height of the taskbar. For some designs, it really looks bad as it is.

Take the "Softer" blind that I pointed you to: there was no way that I could make the button look good with the taskbar, so I had to make the button entirely transparent. If the button extended all the way to the top of the taskbar, I would have been free to do more with it.....a compromise I wasn't happy with in the least.


2of3
Reply #6 Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:00 PM

I shouldn't be selfish and only point out my own skins. Here is a thread listing some others: Link


chillychan
Reply #7 Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:00 PM

Yeah I took a look at the skins and see what you mean. I feel your pain as a skinner

 

And thanks for the new link! Don't worry cause your skins are great!

 

Oh and like some said in the comments, I like the dots from Softer. Pretty neat!


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