Windows XP or Vista? | The Coffeehouse

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

Well as we have been discussing UIs here on Channel9 it's pretty much came out that WindowsBlinds 5 is going to support Glass Effects....so without further waiting...

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DevilsRejection
addicted to rss

I hope Windows Vista RTM makes me go whoa when I first boot into it.

Unlike XP which made me go "wtf?!"

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

yeah the more and more I use this the more and more I say "Why should I go back to XP". It's nice because there really isn't any code bloat (no wbload.exe going to 100MB's) and no processes really...even to be exposed with process explorer...I'm very happy.

Tyler Brown
Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

That Windows Blinds screenshot looks pretty nice, although I find it kind of disappointing that only the Start menu has the glass effect, but not the window border.

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

Tyler Brown wrote:
That Windows Blinds screenshot looks pretty nice, although I find it kind of disappointing that only the Start menu has the glass effect, but not the window border.

The windows borders do but since this is the 60 day eval they have disabled it "i believe"

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

Tyler Brown wrote:
That Windows Blinds screenshot looks pretty nice, although I find it kind of disappointing that only the Start menu has the glass effect, but not the window border.

Well, that's not exactly the effect provided by Aero Glass, that's more like translucency.

Besides, the window borders are not antialiased, etc etc Smiley

matt0210

I think Vista will treat transparency in a simmilar way mac os 10.2 did. Apple put it in, people were exited as it looked different. As the year to 10.3 went on it became obvious that it's nice eye candy but rather distracting to most normal users. Therefore it was dropped in 10.3 and 10.4. Transparency now finds more useful applications such as in dashboard, toolbars (iphoto touch up and most pro tools).