WindowBlinds 11 planning
Friday, December 25, 2020 by Frogboy | Discussion: WindowBlinds
We are putting together the schedule to make WindowBlinds 11.
Customization is a lot harder now than it used to be. Microsoft, for reasons unknown, has actively encouraged developers to take care of their own client and even non client (border, frame) painting rather than using standard Windows controls.
Microsoft's baffling decision to throw away trying to provide a standard set of in-app controls for developers and instead provide vague, often conflicting standards (cough, Fluent) has resulted in having less and less of the OS we can even touch.
Which is unfortunate because WindowBlinds, in theory, could actually give Windows users a consistent, OS-wide Fluent if apps weren't handling the drawing of their own UIs these days.
Still, with that in mind, there are things we can do such as skin the standard OS controls and then handle apps on a case-by-case basis. Keep in mind though, the more non-standard apps we have to handle, the harder it is for us to keep compatibility.
Earlier this year we released Curtains which doesn't even hook into the OS. This means it is 100% compatible. Skins, even the weirdest ones, won't break a given app. Of course, the price is that it doesn't skin nearly as much (no client area GUI controls like scrollbars, push buttons, radio buttons, etc.). It's done quite well. However, we know there are still plenty of people out there who would like to have more full control over how their Windows desktop looks.
That's where this thread comes in: What would you like to see in WindowBlinds 11?
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Reply #342 Thursday, November 25, 2021 3:59 PM
omg .. win11 is so trash.. how are my eyes going to cope/ ... those blithering retards at MS can't even make a dark theme without failing to actually fix the legacy ui controls are still blinding white.. in dark mode....
At least in Win10 you could still fix certain old legacy ui controls.. or better use curtains.. now can't do anything except use dark mode, just about everything you use literally all WHITE from the titlebar to most the ui controls.. just look at notepad.exe
If someone ever dropped a nuke on MS Redmond, nothing would be lost I'm just saying. Probably move over to a Linux desktop distro within year and never look back at what they've turned Windows into.
Reply #344 Thursday, November 25, 2021 7:32 PM
Because a Windows 10 update bricked the pc, which happened a week ago so I just went full wipe and put Win11 on... I mean its not like MS is going to make there useless updates less shit for either OS at this point... though the lack of decent theming is giving me reason to go back.
Reply #345 Thursday, November 25, 2021 10:18 PM
Bradsams, thanks for the info. You can add me to the user list that would enjoy working with Stardock with either nightly build /alpha or beta of windowsblinds 11. I can't speak for every one obviously but I would have preferred Stardock to have concentrated on window blinds 11 first then release start 11 and fences and others. Just my thoughts. But that's in the past so I am just looking forward to seeing windowblinds 11.
Reply #346 Friday, November 26, 2021 12:25 AM
SkinStudio for Windows 11
Reply #347 Friday, November 26, 2021 12:26 AM
Reply #348 Friday, November 26, 2021 12:31 AM
So why did you "downgrade" to Windows 11?
Reply #349 Friday, November 26, 2021 12:36 AM
This may not interest most, but via a friend I recently found an easy way to make Windows 11 look like Mac OS. Kinda cool. The author modified some Curtains files to make it happen, but it works rather well.
Nevertheless, I like Windows 11 as is. I will miss Windowblinds but it is inevitable.
Reply #351 Friday, November 26, 2021 9:29 AM
The problem I have with Windows 11 is it doesn't look like progress. There's nothing in it that could not have been implemented in Windows 10 via the usual feature updates. It was not necessary to mess with the UI. It doesn't only break Stardock apps. It makes a lot of perfectly good hardware obsolete.
Reply #352 Friday, November 26, 2021 9:32 AM
tell us more.. Win11 looks like shit especially when you go Dark Mode and find literally every application window built using winforms from the top to bottom is literally White.. those fking retards at MS.
Especially when they go ahead and break the work of developers behind Curtains etc and any other ux theme patching efforts
Reply #353 Friday, November 26, 2021 12:21 PM
The creators of UX Theme Patcher have released a couple of updates enabling the use of many Windows 10 themes alongside another popular start replacement program, allowing them to work fine with Windows 11. Just added another " Kinetik Tech Edition" and "Kinetik Aqua Edition" as my love of Dark skins and Electric Green Text is well known. Working Flawlessly on a windows 11 Enterprise Latest Build, fully updated.
It was Stardock that got me into Skinning my system, and as there is still no release for a WB 11 Beta, i had to go elsewhere, experimenting, changing, until i had something that is 95% as good as WB 10.
Reply #354 Friday, November 26, 2021 5:38 PM
tell us more.. Win11 looks like shit especially when you go Dark Mode and find literally every application window built using winforms from the top to bottom is literally White.. those fking retards at MS.
Especially when they go ahead and break the work of developers behind Curtains etc and any other ux theme patching efforts
My friend it the UI so it's personable I actually prefer Windows 11 stock UI to windows 8 or 10. Did not like tiles or the ribbon. But to each his own. Hopefully Stardock will bring windowblinds 11 out soon that way we all can make windows more to our liking.
Reply #355 Friday, November 26, 2021 6:13 PM
dont think it will come out anytime soon.. think i saw someone say on here that it wasnt gonna be until 2023 or something like that lol
Reply #356 Friday, November 26, 2021 7:43 PM
dont think it will come out anytime soon.. think i saw someone say on here that it wasnt gonna be until 2023 or something like that lol
The "someone" was the CEO of Stardock and it was a typo.
Just refer back to comment #340, and anything subsequent from BradSams and you will be up to speed with reality...
Reply #357 Friday, November 26, 2021 7:47 PM
dont think it will come out anytime soon.. think i saw someone say on here that it wasnt gonna be until 2023 or something like that lol
The "someone" was the CEO of Stardock and it was a typo.
Just refer back to comment #340, and anything subsequent from Bradsams and you will be up to speed with reality...
That may be true. But it would be nice for his paying customers to actually hear that from the CEO himself. Don't you think?
Reply #360 Friday, November 26, 2021 10:30 PM
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Reply #341 Wednesday, November 24, 2021 4:53 PM
I am really hoping and praying that the new version of SkinStudio for Windows 11 will not have all the bugs that SkinStudio 10 has. Thanks for the info on Windowblinds 11 BradSams. If you need a tester for anything, I will gladly help out.