Hi,
I was registered to windowblinds 5 only, but then I was so impatient to test the latest windoblinds 6 that I've finally upgraded to the whole object desktop suite (too bad, a few day before I got a coupon, which expired).
Here's my impressions:
1) I was so happy to be able to make some part transparent on my favorite theme.
2) The new GUI of Windoblinds 6 is awesome ... I love it.
3) Just switched from Vista to XP, and I'm missing an effect of Aero.
I'm disappointed to see that Windowblinds 6 doesn't seem to support it.
Let's try to describe the effect: when you move the window, there's a kind of shiny background in the title bar, that stay static. When you move the window, you see "more parts" of this background. If you ever played with CSS stylesheet (when customizing webpages) , there's a property called "static", the background stay fixed, when you scroll the web page. Same thing here for the theme but in the title bar. I miss that.
4) I don't find the blur effect quite customizable: it's blur or not blur. What about "blur less/more" ? What about a blur radius ? Making a "frosty" effect ?
5) As soon as you want to apply customization to a particular skin , you need to create a preset. What about applying customizations per skin , and that's all ? Why the trouble of making a preset ?
6) Changing color is nice, but it would have been nicer to decide which element to change i.e just like for the blur effect.
7) In order to switch to WB6, I tried to uninstall windowblinds 5 with stardock central and got an error (probably because it was standalone version) So I used the "add/remove programs" from control panel. Unfortunately this removed all my installed skins....
8) I was not that surpised to see sometimes some glitches ...but that was an acceptable level for a "beta".
