Your idea for the "perfect" WindowBlinds theme


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Ok, let's here your ideas for the "perfect" WindowBlinds theme. Colors, transparency, animations.....whatever! Tell me the elements that you would think a new WindowBlinds theme should be made of. I often hear how people don't like this, or don't like that, so I wanted to give everyone a chance to give their opinions on what they want to see.

Mockups would be even more awesome, and maybe I will even give out a prize if we can get some really usable designs in this thread.

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something as usable as possible ...

must not be a pain to work with it ...

mustn't be too distractive ...

mustn't be too simple & boring ...

some theme have "complex" elements, but that kills usability...

while in the other hands if it is too simple it can be boring.

Also I can't bear bugs: a theme that impress is nice, but when I see

bugs I'm wondering if creators have even used that theme.

Simple, stylish, professional, with black, transparent, dark blue colors.

WB Skinners tends to overuse the capability of WB when come to window borders.

MSStyles are limited in the size, but it's better like this.

Royale Vista is the best Example

http://dobee.deviantart.com/art/Royale-Vista-WB-31720762

I don't really care much for transparency. Its nice, but most of the time I have my windows maximised and can't really see myself changing that. I love a professional/simple theme.

I know WB has the ability to make fancy animations or huge graphics, but they're pretty impractical and just a novelty to me. I prefer a simple theme that isn't in my face but still looks nice.

On XP I used to use LE5 most of the time and never really bothered with WB because the themes didn't have anything special over msstyles. In Vista I'm still using the default theme, but I actually disabled aero because I don't like the animations/transparency. I just wanted something plain and simple.

Also, the theme needs to look good with the taskbar set to different heights. I have mine on 3 rows atm and quite a few themes don't work too well with that.

I have to agree with a lot of the earlier suggestions here. I always wished that Royale Vista II would be finished (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=6286&libid=1).

My perfect theme would be dark, only subtle transparency (if any), subtle animations, but very clean and not gimmicky or annoying in any way. The words "Piano Black" come to mind.

I.R.Brainiac, sure your skins have lot of fans and they are quality though very far from my tastes. But actually... all the suggestions point to a minimal and usable theme...

That fluffy thing don't fit in any suggestion here :/

ROFL, my last PC was named Blackbird (I'm a big fan of Army Aircrafts, my current one is Nighthawk (The F-117)) :p

Tough, I can't see how you could make a skin on that :blink:

Oh well, that don't surprise me coming from you :p

I use my main rig now for vista media center a lot...probably about 70% of the time. For all the skins that are now wb6/vista made it seems that only the stardock made ones have been actually vetted to work properly for vista.

What I mean by that is that the min/max/close glyphs actually work correctly. Let's say I take stardocks metal vista...those work fine. But if I were to use 'iphonix' by othersnow (one of my favorites) the min/max bottons don't work.

If they are made for vista then people need to take the time to properly make them for all parts of vista.

Black by rjsmith2007 is without a doubt still my most used theme. The screenshot really doesn't do it justice.

Even though it's designed for XP, I still find myself using it on Vista..even if theres a few glitches I still love the clean minimalist slickness. Wish someone would design something like this for Vista.. :(

VisionZero by da-flow(code2) also deserves a mention I think.

http://woodbridge.deviantart.com/art/Untit...Mockup-27377398

It obviously never saw the light of day. Not even sure if I've still got the psd.

Dude you so need to finish that... Most VS for Vista Windowblinds Ive not liked but that has some serious potential...

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