WindowBlinds, DesktopX for MacOS X announced

Thursday, April 1, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Stardock has been quietly working on MacOS X versions of WindowBlinds and DesktopX.  Next week, Stardock plans to open a public beta for MacOS X users of these new versions of Stardock's software.

The MacOS X version of WindowBlinds will integrate seamlessly in to Apple's Quartz engine. Existing WindowBlinds visual styles will be able to work on any 10.3 or later version of MacOS X.

With regards to DesktopX, all .dxpacks will be able to run as widgets on MacOS X 10.3 or later. Utilizing Quartz, DesktopX users on MacOS X can expect outstanding performance.  Stardock has developed a VBScript interpreter for MacOS X to handle DesktopX objects that use VBScript. Javascript will be handled natively by MacOS X.

Stardock doesn't plan to have all of Object Desktop for MacOS X. A bundle of DesktopX + WindowBlinds will be available for MacOS X for $34.95 in June.

Stay tuned for more details.

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mrbiotech
Reply #21 Sunday, April 4, 2004 10:51 AM
Even funnier, you never see Mac users using it, unlike Aqua on Windows...
da_zman20
Reply #22 Sunday, April 4, 2004 2:08 PM
Had me going I was thinking, where can I get a mac???
DesignCaddy
Reply #23 Sunday, April 4, 2004 5:44 PM
i'd enjoy seeing this being real. the guy who introduced me to stardock is now in a mac world, and i bet a lot of people would love ahving what we have, and hte ability to redesign an interface.

i had a professor look at my working from the laptop the other day and he said "wow, that's beautiful.. we all got jipped on our flash interface".. i said no no no, this is called 'blackcomb' and i can make my machine look like whatever i want

Johnny Hotsauce
Reply #24 Tuesday, April 6, 2004 1:55 PM
As someone else mentioned, Usanity Shapeshifter is to Mac as Stardock Object Desktop is to Windows. What would Stardock offer that would be different than Usanity? Not that I don't love Stardock, I run it my work and home machines and I use Usanity on my Mac, I'm just curious what the differences could be.

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