Via the configuration program you can also manipulate the themes themselves, by playing with colours, fonts, transparency, and blur settings. Some themes also show off the freeform skinning of the task-bar. The ‘Leo’ theme for instance does some weirdness where the window’s toolbars appear to be a few pixels wider than the actual content of the window – those are little mistakes I do not wish to see in themes shipped by default. These are obviously themes designed for use with the new version, but some of them still contain some errors. Nice touch.īy default, WindowBlinds 6.0 ships a few themes. When you switch a skin, or change some specific elements of a skin, the apply button will now blur and decolourise your desktop during the time it needs to adjust the desktop to apply your changes. Additionally, you can change the colour of the interface of the program (surprising, is it not?). It is a definite step up from previous versions, where logic was sometimes a bit hard to find in the user interface of the configuration program. The new configuration program has a ribbon-like tabbed interface thing, and I must say, it is very easy to use, and looks rather dashing too. Adds ‘blurred glass’ capabilities to Windows XP, as well as some hardware acceleration.Full support for Windows Vista, including IE7 and the sidebar.WindowBlinds 6.0 adds, among other things, the following features: WindowBlinds 5, released November 2005, added per-pixel alpha blending for the entire window border. The fourth version provided numerous bug and performance fixes coincidentally, WindowBlinds 4.6 is the last version that supports pre-XP versions of Windows (now named WindowBlinds Classic). Version 3 included support for Windows XP and was released alongside Windows XP itself. The second release added various new features like sub-skins, scripting, user-controlled colours, and so on. The first version was released in 1998 for Windows 95, and was developed by Stardock and Neil Banfield. WindowBlinds itself is also quite an old application. Stardock continued to sell the version of Object Desktop for os/2 until February 2001, when they discontinued OD for os/2. However, as we all know, os/2 sizzled out, and Stardock was forced to port its Object Desktop suite to Windows in 1997/1998. The company made name for itself as a major os/2 ISV with their Object Desktop suite, a set of applications that extended os/2’s graphical user interface. Stardock, the company behind Windowblinds, actually has a fairly long history. Stardock was kind enough to provide OSNews with a copy of WindowBlinds 6.0. Last week, Stardock released version 6 of WindowBlinds, their Windows skinning suite, which is the first version to include full support for Windows Vista.
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