Aero Titlebar will be available on XP!

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* Sorry if this news is already been posted before.

Developers of WindowBlinds reported that they have succesfully add Aero-Glass style titlebars support for Windows XP. This feature will available soon in WindowBlinds 5.

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[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Not really natively by XP tho :(

[mootymoots]

Not really natively by XP tho :(

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gotta leave a reason to buy longhorn i guess :p

[hornett]

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to blur what's underneath like LH does.

[FiREFLi]

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to blur what's underneath like LH does.

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That would be hard to do, but yes, is the one very appealing thing about longhorns version :yes: (Y)

[punkpaul]

that looks so awesome, it might temt me over to windows blinds again

[futb0l]

:D That is cool! I hope they do release it in version 5.

[Matt T]

I've never been a fan of glass for a VS, but this looks good (Y)

[Rogue`]

WindowBlinds :x :x :x :x

[ev0|]

I'm sorry, but there is a difference between transparent titlebars and a fully 3D accelerated GUI with Pixel Shader effects.

I really think people are going overboard with this.

[Slimy]

i'll wait for longhorn.

[GhostShell]

That looks pretty nice.

[Jase]

Whoa that looks awsome :D

[Cody]

i believe frogboy, the maker of that skin is a member here.

[vcv]

gotta leave a reason to buy longhorn i guess :p

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Why? It will work in XP.

[Tungsten T]

Edit: Neverming, This is hot.

Does anyone know how much resources it eats?

Edited July 21, 2005 by Tungsten T

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

i believe frogboy, the maker of that skin is a member here.

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He's on the news staff and the creator of Windowblinds. Neowin has a healthy relationship with Stardock :)

[Apollo]

i believe frogboy, the maker of that skin is a member here.

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actually he's a news poster

nice previews btw!

[BMac]

This will get me to use WB.

[rbet]

very pretty, no doubt. How much extra CPU/Memory does such stuff take (I have never tried WB)?

[MonkeyClaw Veteran]

yea ill def put it on my pc, looks spiffy...

[User6060]

WindowBlinds  :x  :x  :x  :x

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Don't be so 1999 its gotten much better.

very pretty, no doubt. How much extra CPU/Memory does such stuff take (I have never tried WB)?

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WindowsBlinds (wbload.exe) is using 0% CPU and 1280K of RAM.

windowsblinds isn't as bad as people think, its just not free.

Though I only use it because I screwed up my UxTheme.dll and I was too lazy to fix it.

[Rogue`]

Well, svchost.exe on my comp (which holds the theme engine) was over 44mb when i used WindowBlinds (4.5.1) and is currently 23mb when using a modified uxtheme.dll. As i said in the DesktopX 3.1 comments (which was deleted) after trying all of StarDocks Suite, I find IconPackager the only usefull program.

But its my personal opinion :)

[neostyle]

gimmegimmegimme :D

looks great ... :yes:

[Alex Suraci]

Great news. :D And for the people going "Windowblinds :x :x :x :x :x", blame the skins, not the program. Stardock can't be blamed for all of those crappy Windowblinds skins, eh? Some Windowblinds skins can be real gems, this one appears so too. :)

P.S. Windowblinds has never slowed my machine.

And I just found this:

If you look back at that Longhorn screenshot, doesn't it look to you that those titlebars aren't simply transparent? They seems to be almost translucent - the text behind is really blurred as if it were actually being viewed through a pane of thick glass or something.

Will WB do that?

The yranslucent start panel in WB does that so why shouldnt the titlebars? :o)