Border Skin - Aero Glass on XP

By komalo
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Border Skin

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Border Skin is a free portable software to skins the windows borders by skins composed of png images with the support of several aero features like Blur, Reflection and Breadcrumbs .

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Mohamed Kamal

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0.2.9

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Older Versions

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Looks nice but can't use it for the following reasons :-(

- Maximizing a window on my secondary monitor (have two) makes the title bar appear on the primary monitor and the rest of the window stays on the secondary (Secondary is located on the left of the primary)

- Manually resizing the window doesn't seem to work here in the corners (can only resize vertically or horizontally)

Would be a nice application though! Nice work!

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Hooray, yet another program to try and make WinXP into something that it isn't.

Just a warning: don't direct-link to files on DeviantArt, they aren't a file host, and will remove your deviation when they find out.

thanks for the note , i removed the direct link

Looks nice but can't use it for the following reasons :-(

- Maximizing a window on my secondary monitor (have two) makes the title bar appear on the primary monitor and the rest of the window stays on the secondary (Secondary is located on the left of the primary)

- Manually resizing the window doesn't seem to work here in the corners (can only resize vertically or horizontally)

Would be a nice application though! Nice work!

i didn't add a support for more multiply monitors , i will work on this for 0.3

and for the corner resizing , it is also going to be on 0.3

thanks man :)

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Using it now. Maximized windows are cut off in the title bar, and of course a bit slow with .NET 2.0 but thanks!

Serious problem: The Start menu is skinned like a window and draws very slowly!

for the maximized problem , i will fix it 0.3

what i fixed startmenu problem before , how many times do i have to fix it :blink: ?

okay can you tell me if you running xp or classic theme or another one ?

and if you are using Startmenu replacer (like ViStart) ?

thanks for the reporting :)

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I'm using the Windows Classic visual style in XP Pro, with the standard Windows XP start menu.

I noticed a bit later that the taskbar has a "titlebar" too, its unusable!

oh crap , the same issue again , just one more question

does the taskbar or the startmenu is skinned after a while from the program

startup or after you run the program immediately and open startmenu ?

because it doesn't skin the taskbar neither the startmenu in xp or classic theme

anyway , i will fix this problem once and forever because it annoys me

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Exclusion List upgraded in 0.3, you can now exclude programs by process name

and class name, and specify a skin for a certain window

screenshots :

Example : AeroBlue is Applied only on Explorer http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6075/exclutionwindow.png

Aero Explorer : AeroExplorer is Applied only on Explorer

aeroexplorer.png

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hi all

Developing is now active again (i finally took my vacation yesterday, working on it from since)

okay folks , i need your help

since i am going to change the name of the program I have been thinking about some names

but i can't get some thing catchy , current my option is WindowSkin (i wish that i could use WinSkin

instead but there's winskin.com) ,ExplorerSkin is suggested before but it is taken

SO PLEASE ANYONE THAT HAVE ANY NAME PLEASE POST IT :) BECAUSE I AM REALLY OUT OF IDEAS :cry:

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komalo

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Since i don't want to spend a week trying to find a name for the application rather than release it, here's what has been suggested :

Metallica Skin (MS) , Fraero (free aero) , Quiro (quick aero) , Aevo , GlassXP , Metallica Skin (MS) , Glass XP

Aero XP , XP-skin , Apptastic , PeanutSkin , TPWD (The Perfect Window Manger) , TUWD (The Ultimate Window Manger) , Diamond-XP , Glowy , GLOW (Glass Light On Windows) , WinBlur , WinDecorations , WinDecor , WinDecorSkin , SkinDecorations , SkinDecor , SkinFrame , WindowSkin , WinGBK (Windows Glass Blur) , WinBlurSkin , BlurSkin , WinBlurXP , BlurXP , Kskinner(Komalo skinner) , SkinWinnerK (komalo winner skin)

i came up with WinComposite and WinCrystal

And to tell you the truth, i am a little on "WinCrystal" side , so i am thinking about it as the name, if any one saw one of the other names will be more suitable

please suggest it now

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Since i don't want to spend a week trying to find a name for the application rather than release it, here's what has been suggested :

Metallica Skin (MS)

And to tell you the truth, i am a little on "WinCrystal" side , so i am thinking about it as the name, if any one saw one of the other names will be more suitable

please suggest it now

I haven't searched very much so I don't know what is taken. The key with yours is that you're making XP glass/crystal/aero/blur so I'd suggest having XP in the name would be a good start as it will get the people you want to reach when it's in a list etc.

That will also help avoid Vista and 7 users who you don't want to waste the time of. Just a thought, like your work.

Is your skin compatible with Seven Remixed?

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Hi Komalo!

WinCrystal sounds awesome!

What about AeroCrystal???

or even AeroDaimond :drool:

Or even Longhero (Longhorn + Aero) or Vistiro (sounds gr8 tho)

lol , just thought of this ,

Glassero

Windero

Crystero

V-Aero

Komaero!!!!

TrueAero (True Transparency's rival)

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The key with yours is that you're making XP glass/crystal/aero/blur so I'd suggest having XP in the name would be a good start as it will get the people you want to reach when it's in a list etc.

That will also help avoid Vista and 7 users who you don't want to waste the time of. Just a thought, like your work.

I thought Vista and 7 already have glass/crystal/aero/blur , and their code is most superior , so i dont think users will search for such things

:)

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Sorry everybody for the delay in replaying

I haven't searched very much so I don't know what is taken. The key with yours is that you're making XP glass/crystal/aero/blur so I'd suggest having XP in the name would be a good start as it will get the people you want to reach when it's in a list etc.

That will also help avoid Vista and 7 users who you don't want to waste the time of. Just a thought, like your work.

Is your skin compatible with Seven Remixed?

i don't want to involve any kind of glass names in the name

because i don't want it to be only about blur

and i think border skin will work fine with SevenRemix

Hi Komalo!

WinCrystal sounds awesome!

What about AeroCrystal???

or even AeroDaimond :drool:

Or even Longhero (Longhorn + Aero) or Vistiro (sounds gr8 tho)

lol , just thought of this ,

Glassero

Windero

Crystero

V-Aero

Komaero!!!!

TrueAero (True Transparency's rival)

BorderBlend?

WindowBlend or WindBlend?

Nice App!!!

GlassXP

Thanks for suggesting the names they are very good :)

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