Your idea for the "perfect" WindowBlinds theme

[Island Dog]

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.

:)

[Unto Darkness]

Something dark, minimal and shiny.

I really like the Vista Royale theme [non - WindowBlinds] :p

[Rudy]

simple, professional

watercolor is a good example

[.tony]

Well something completely minimal with no focus on transparency would be one.

Another would be something clean yet professional, similar to Longhorn's Aero.

[morkuma]

simple and mimimal.

clean, dark, but not so dark it is overpowering once you hit a very white webpage.

[bigmehdi]

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.

[theyarecomingforyou]

Minimal, dark - basically like LunaElement2.

[c3i89g]

Black, with a shiny black font.

[NienorGT]

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

[Twisted Chaz]

I would like it to be dark, small, simple and pretty slick. I use Pristine at the moment.

Tener VS is also pretty cool

[troist]

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.

[jtherrien]

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]

OK,after reading all those suggestions,I have a mockup for you.

:ninja: It keeps your monitor dust free too. :p

[NienorGT]

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 :/

[I.R.Brainiac]

I know...I was just being silly...I have some sleek ideas coming in the future...one will be based on the sr71 Blackbird. ;)

The mockup was just to show just how far from the Neowin paradigm one could stray. :p

[NienorGT]

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

[Island Dog]

Wow...I completely forgot about Royal Vista II, what a sleek skin. I also wish it would be updated for Vista/WB6.

Very good ideas and suggestions so far, keep them coming, and I hope to see more images. :)

[night_stalker_z]

Something I can use for more than 1 day.

Most of the theme I used always have some sort of annoynace which stops me using it.

[bigmehdi]

IllumeCG 2008V1 by spaceqcg is currently my favourite visual style:

http://spaceqcg.deviantart.com/art/IllumeCG-2008V1-75534315

[#Michael]

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.

[+Woodbridge Subscriber²]

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.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

I would love to see this as a Windowblinds theme: Watercolor Emico. I will probably port it to Windowblinds once I finish Emico and got my new PC :)

[pixelfuze]

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.

[hjf288]

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...

[Berserk87]

there are a lot of themes i love, but dont use because the min/resize/close buttons are too small...

as long as those are a good size, and everything else looks good.