Windows Vista Skin ??

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 by reinohvp | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Hi, i only want to know if exist a Windows Vista skin with transparent borders like this images and where can i download it ?





Thank you very much !!!
18 Reply 9 Referrals
gfcentral002
Reply #1 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:29 AM
yes - it exsists in the vista beta/pdc builds no, they are not out yet as xp-skins - maybe when the next major build of windowblinds comes out we will be closer to getting that kind of look. sorry

thomassen
Reply #2 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:37 PM
I think the rumors are that WB5 will be out late this year. And the screenshots we've seen features transparent borders, but no blurring of the content underneat.

mormegil
Reply #3 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:41 PM
Windowblinds 5 beta should be roleing out next month I think. Keep an eye out.

reinohvp
Reply #4 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:16 PM
ok, i'll be waiting, thank's

yusuf
Reply #5 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:41 PM
Yes there is if you get your ass out of windowblinds. Here ou go....

http://www.deviantart.com/view/22614060/

dj_cityboy
Reply #6 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:56 PM
well speaking of VisualStyles can you give me a bit of an explianation on how to use those??
i have been over @ deviantart plenty of times and seem many of em and lotsa people are using them
but cant seem to figure out how to use em?

um usually good at figuring things out but thats got me stumped!!

if anyone can help that would be great!!!

cityboy

yusuf
Reply #7 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:43 PM


U did no research. Well head over to your favorite forum from today at neowin and it will explain everything thoroughly.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=312381

Oh and dont forget to register first.

yusuf
Reply #8 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:45 PM
well speaking of VisualStyles can you give me a bit of an explianation on how to use those??
i have been over @ deviantart plenty of times and seem many of em and lotsa people are using them
but cant seem to figure out how to use em?

um usually good at figuring things out but thats got me stumped!!

if anyone can help that would be great!!!

cityboy


U did no research. Well head over to your favorite forum from today at neowin and it will explain everything thoroughly.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=312381

Oh and dont forget to register first.

mormegil
Reply #9 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:26 PM

I have to say that that style XP skin looks pritty crappy, It cant handle real transparancy so they do the old one pixel on one off trick. It was very clever when windows 95 came out. You could use the same technique with WB if you wanted. As a mater of fact you could run that very skin with Windowblinds, so you dont have to switch to Style XP to use it. However I would recoment you look around for a bit, i sure you can find somehting better looking, and better crafted.
Sorry, Im in a bad mode tonight.


mormegil
Reply #10 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:31 PM

PS, here is a WB 5 screen shot, using real transparancy, this is just a test skin. Wait untill some real skinners get there hands on it. You wont be able to do that with styleXP or any other Hacked UXTheme skin.

http://frogboy.wincustomize.com/Preview.aspx?Source=Frogboy/screenshots/11044.jpg

 


artweasloh
Reply #11 Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:02 AM
Thread here: https://www.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?AID=86645
WindowBlinds 5 beta (public beta in a week or two):

Article is dated September 14. Finally in just a matter of days, WB5 will be out.

reinohvp
Reply #12 Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:56 AM
i have instaled the XPGlass Version 2.0 from devian art but i don't like and don't work well in windows 2003 server, so i can't wait for WB5

GhoS
Reply #13 Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:15 PM
Yusuf is just trolling a little it seems. No reason to stop using Windowblinds. If you want to use one of those Visual Styles then you can convert it in SkinStudio to WB format. I wouldn't ever use StyleXP since it goes against MS in its implementation and doesn't do as much as WB.
I look forward to the proper implementation of transparency with WB5.

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yusuf
Reply #14 Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:38 PM
I dont even use WB. Well the point is not really to use WB or StyleXP. Its simply about skinning it up. WB is totally different and very advanced to what StyleXP can do. Heck most of us dont even use StyleXP (And i wasnt even talking about it). Most of us just do with UXTHEME patcher and then just download the VS and good to go. WB gives you more control and more options meaning use of more resources on standard PC.

Bolthus
Reply #15 Friday, September 16, 2005 11:45 AM
Any chance the devs can give us an idea of what WB5 features (like this transparency) will and won't work in Win2k? If it's at release time, that's ok, but I don't want to go and buy WB5 for my Win2k box and find out that the new cool features are XP-only...

WebGizmos
Reply #16 Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:59 AM
I gotta go with Mormegil on this one...that skin looks really crappy! Not anything close to being transparent.

Draginol
Reply #17 Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:15 AM

Yes there is if you get your ass out of windowblinds. Here ou go....

That's not semi-transparent. That's just alternating rows of magic pink in a skin. Blech.

THIS is what he's looking for:

WindowBlinds 5 alpha 1 should be out this month for Object Desktop users.


Fuzzy Logic
Reply #18 Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:58 AM

WindowBlinds 5 alpha 1 should be out this month for Object Desktop users. 

      Can't wait...


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