WindowBlinds 5 Beta: Next Tuesday
It's coming..
Monday, September 26, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The first public beta of WindowBlinds 5 is almost here. Stardock released the alpha this week to its internal QA team to put the program through its compatibility testing before sending it out. WindowBlinds 5's most notable new feature is the ability to support "glass" and full alpha blending of the title bar and border (no more jaggy borders). The critical step has been to deliver this functionality without affecting performance for reasonably modern video cards.
In addiion, WindowBlinds 5 no longer has a "wbload.exe" and instead extends the painting of the Windows GUI in a more "native" way. Or put another way, it has "zero foot print" in the same manner that the default bundled Windows themes (msstyles) use.
Users who have Object Desktop will be able to try out the beta next Tuesday (Oct 4). Users of WindowBlinds 4 will be able to upgrade to Object Desktop at a reduced price. Moreover, users who purchased WindowBlinds 4 after September 1 will receive WindowBlinds 5 for free.
WindowBlinds 5 will also be designed to run on Windows Vista natively by the time Windows Vista ships (the beta of WindowBlinds 5 should run on the beta of Windows Vista though the Windows Vista GUI is still in a state of flux obviously).
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Reply #102 Monday, October 3, 2005 11:17 PM
Reply #104 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 2:18 AM
It's official tuesday since it's past midnight
Now I guess I'm obsessed
Reply #105 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 2:48 AM
Does anybody have and ETA?
Reply #106 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 3:41 AM
| #101 by Citizen jimenomar The glass effect will work with any skin? Lets say with KoL (Great Job man)vista XP skin. Also change glass the taskbar? |
AFAIK he plans to release an update as soon as WB5 is out.
Reply #107 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:02 AM
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Reply #113 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 7:11 AM
Oh well, at least you can get some work done now and stop refreshing your stardock central:)
Reply #114 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 8:04 AM
| Oh well, at least you can get some work done now and stop refreshing your stardock central:) |
Whew, thank goodness!
Reply #115 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 8:44 AM
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Reply #119 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 9:55 AM
Afternoon EST will probably be after midnight European time......so that will be 5 october here.
Stardock should consider that next time they make promises being an international community.
It's allways better to make an estimate that's on the good side of the promise than the whole community wil not be waiting and whining but BANG! ......its there allready.....
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Reply #101 Monday, October 3, 2005 11:14 PM
Thanks