"To customize my Windows GUI I use.. " poll comments
Monday, July 22, 2002 by Snowman | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I just "voted" on the current poll ("To customize my Windows GUI I use...") and thought that it would be nice now what all the other voters are using.
So if you voted "Something else" (like me, again), what are you using then?!
Snowman is using HvD, if anyone was interested.. no?! Didn't think so!
So if you voted "Something else" (like me, again), what are you using then?!
Snowman is using HvD, if anyone was interested.. no?! Didn't think so!
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GreenReaper
Reply #2 Monday, July 22, 2002 9:16 PM
Reply #2 Monday, July 22, 2002 9:16 PM
Ahh, but there's a difference between windows and Windows (I think the poll meant the former, but it says the latter).
Frogboy
Reply #3 Monday, July 22, 2002 9:44 PM
Reply #3 Monday, July 22, 2002 9:44 PM
Hoverdesk doesn't change the Windows GUI. It's a shell / shell enhancer. It doesn't make Notepad or MS Word look any different.
jarget
Reply #4 Monday, July 22, 2002 11:36 PM
Reply #4 Monday, July 22, 2002 11:36 PM
Windowblinds of course. Then for my shell I use Hoverdesk, DesktopX, ObjectBar and Nextstart.
craeonics
Reply #8 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:05 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:05 AM
"Classic", plus some enhanced colour tweaks, making my screen pure white (which enables me to see what's on my screen when the sun is shining on it).
craeonics
Reply #9 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:11 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:11 AM
Oh and by the way, Hoverdesk or any other shell replacement or enhancer does change the Windows GUI. Exit ugly start menu and taskbar, enter sweetness.
Frogboy
Reply #10 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:26 AM
Reply #10 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:26 AM
That's semantics. Hoverdesk, Litestep, DesktopX, ObjectBar, etc. do not customize the Windows GUI. They can customize themselves and replace the shell but not the UI.
Which is why I didn't include ObjectBar, HOverdesk, NextStart, etc.
Which is why I didn't include ObjectBar, HOverdesk, NextStart, etc.
Jafo
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:39 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:39 PM
Well...when the "Windows GUI' is Explorer.exe, then I just chuck out the old GUI and use one that 'works'....and LiteSTEP works soooo well with Windowblinds...
Technically speaking though, the question 'should' be "What do you use to change the 'G' in your 'UI'?"...
Technically speaking though, the question 'should' be "What do you use to change the 'G' in your 'UI'?"...
MarkMcQ
Reply #12 Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:04 AM
Reply #12 Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:04 AM
Surely if you replace the GUI with LS, HvD , DX, etc, then they become the GUI? (After all, the user is using that program to interface with Windows)
craeonics
Reply #13 Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:12 AM
Reply #13 Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:12 AM
Hmm, so this here start button and this here taskbar are not part of the gui eh? Well well... Let's see here, they're graphical, they're aimed to wards the user and they let the user interface with the machine.
craeonics thinks he just saw froggy trip over his tongue there
craeonics thinks he just saw froggy trip over his tongue there
Jafo
Reply #14 Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:25 AM
Reply #14 Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:25 AM
Crae...your 'monitor' is 'graphical' and it's a 'user interface'....
Jafo gets out the spray-can to do some skinning...
Jafo gets out the spray-can to do some skinning...
Kinrik
Reply #16 Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:17 PM
Reply #16 Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:17 PM
I use duct tape and a 3 pound sledge hammer...
I seem to go through a lot of monitors that way, though...
I seem to go through a lot of monitors that way, though...
UBoB
Reply #17 Friday, July 26, 2002 8:25 AM
Reply #17 Friday, July 26, 2002 8:25 AM
Jafo, I just realized that until this thing we call skinning came along the word skinning referred to the removing of a skin or pelt.
Leave it to this lot to use the same word for the opposite meaning.
Leave it to this lot to use the same word for the opposite meaning.
treetog
Reply #18 Friday, July 26, 2002 10:18 AM
Reply #18 Friday, July 26, 2002 10:18 AM
when I am on a good mood I use Windowblinds, on sad days I use windowblinds, but when I am not sure, then I use Windowblinds. 
btw: this Ligh Blue skin by Alexandrie seems to be my most used skin lately, so I am figuring why....maybe because it is gorgeous!
btw: this Ligh Blue skin by Alexandrie seems to be my most used skin lately, so I am figuring why....maybe because it is gorgeous!
UBoB
Reply #20 Friday, July 26, 2002 12:53 PM
Calling myself a 'Cladder' doesn't have the same ring to it.
treetog;
I was just thinking how I too have been using Light Blue more often. It is a lovely skin, and I find it works with almost any Wallpaper and Icons. This was such a fine example of skinning (there's that word again ) at it's most impressive.
Reply #20 Friday, July 26, 2002 12:53 PM
Calling myself a 'Cladder' doesn't have the same ring to it. treetog;
I was just thinking how I too have been using Light Blue more often. It is a lovely skin, and I find it works with almost any Wallpaper and Icons. This was such a fine example of skinning (there's that word again
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Reply #1 Monday, July 22, 2002 5:24 PM