Photoshop Windows Rome!

[Guyro]

its a beautiful media player except for the volume controls and the backgroun is too vista ish

[George P Global Moderator]

I think that was the idea, personally I'd like a nice Vista'ish skin for winamp.

[cohan]

Heres an update:

[Computer Guru]

I really like your idea Josh - you just need to put that in illustrator or PS and make it shine.

[JoshHood]

I really like your idea Josh - you just need to put that in illustrator or PS and make it shine.

Thanks a lot Computer Guru! Much appreciated,

I don't have Photoshop (well I had the beta but I got completely lost trying to lose it :s But my friend knows how to use it so he's gonna help.

Im gonna try and play around a little bit in PowerPoint, will post some more *ahem* screenshots soon.

Josh

[WelshBluebird]

Your attempt is pretty neat josh, I'd love to see windows like that lol. As you said though, its not going to happen because its too different, But still, very nice.

[chroniX]

i made a wallpaper for Rome

[azz0r_wugg]

You made a ...gradient...

[well...]

dont forget the text! :rofl:

[cohan]

Well, half of that text will be hidden behind the taskbar ... so ... then its a gradient?

[theresiststance2003]

a few days of haveing Nero installed

Hahah, funny if people know who Nero was. Well done :yes:

[Sniper101]

ehh its crappy but its a start

[George P Global Moderator]

I like how MS lets you change the glass color in Vista, but that should also fully change the taskbar color for those who don't like the dark tone to it.

[+Peewee210 Subscriber¹]

Now i really like this, much like a office 2007 look

[Phixion]

I don't understand this thread... are people considering making a new UI for Windows Vista or just messing around?

[Mad_Griffith]

lol I live in Rome

[Guyro]

they're messing around

josh mayb u should try making that a visual style

[Glassed Silver]

they're messing around

josh mayb u should try making that a visual style

+1

Glassed Silver:mac

[DigitalE]

Josh, your idea is almost exactly like one I devised like 2 years ago :p

I never got any farther than drawing a rough sketch on a 3x5 notecard, however :lol:

Nice job :)

[Nashy]

Installation of Rome.

[George P Global Moderator]

^^^ Wow, that's pretty good, but I think it's just too much info and complicated stuff that MS won't show to users. Going with the Vista installer as a base, they give you very little if any info like that about hd partitions and so forth, aside from letting you pick where to install it. But then after that it's just a bar at the bottom.

I like the idea of the fingerprint though, maybe that'd work best in the future insted of just a key and pesky WGA/Activation. Though people won't like to give that to MS, but maybe they wouldn't. I beleave that your fingerprint could generate a unique ID# like the Hardware ID#'s we get today, and that could be tied to your product key. That's one hell of a way to stop pirating, and would kill the need for WGA, for the most part anyways.

[WelshBluebird]

^^^ Wow, that's pretty good, but I think it's just too much info and complicated stuff that MS won't show to users. Going with the Vista installer as a base, they give you very little if any info like that about hd partitions and so forth, aside from letting you pick where to install it. But then after that it's just a bar at the bottom.

I like the idea of the fingerprint though, maybe that'd work best in the future insted of just a key and pesky WGA/Activation. Though people won't like to give that to MS, but maybe they wouldn't. I beleave that your fingerprint could generate a unique ID# like the Hardware ID#'s we get today, and that could be tied to your product key. That's one hell of a way to stop pirating, and would kill the need for WGA, for the most part anyways.

its not going to happen though. People harp on about the police storing your fingerprints all the time, so I doubt their going to willingly give MS their fingerprint

[Nashy]

My idea was more of a USB key with a fingerprint reader.

USB key contains the registration info and when you scan your print, its is attached to the cd-key within the USB device. MS wouldn't physically see it, or have access to it, the only thing they see is a registered CD key.

If you want to reinstall, you need to scan your finger with the USB key again, so it knows its you, it then allows the CD Key to be used, then registeres the key to MS.

Dunno if it'd work, or be practical, I was just thinking outside the square. :-)

[Nashy]

Sorry about the quality. You know how hard it is to use Fireworks on a laptop touchpad? Wow... it sucks.

This screen shows the screen after you would have scanned your fingerprint, or entered your password to login. Sorry, I didn't put a picture or anything, I will tomorrow, or something. Can't make it look anygood on laptop.

The following screen is what will come up after login. the orb fade's in, and remembers it's position. The user could move it around, change its colour setting etc. The only colour change that can't be made is the white glow around the windows logo.

When you click or hover over (that would be a setting) it gives you your options on where you want to go. It also will change the glow to advise of any problems. eg. new security updates not installed, no virus check etc. would glow red until rectified. Most can be turned off, however, critical updates would remain red until updated.

From here, voice control is also activated. no need to train, it will just work.

What ya's think so far, what should I play with or add. What should I mockup to give an example of what we would like to nee in Nashy's WindowsRome? open windows? internet? settings? what?

[Nashy]

As you can see, I'm very bored in my day off from work :-p