First WindowBlinds 3 screenshots released!

First screenshots of WindowBlinds 3 released:

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-1.jpg

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-2.jpg

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-3.jpg

After months of development, Stardock is preparing to announce WindowBlinds version 3. WindowBlinds is a program that turns Windows into having a skinnable user interface. Version 3 is going to be based off of the beta of WindowBlinds XP.

The new version will be much smaller in size and require far less memory. On Windows XP, it integrates directly into Microsoft's visual style framework. On Windows 98/ME/2000, WindowBlinds will talk to a Stardock developed XP-like skinning engine. The goal is for it to be seamlessly part of the OS.

The other major feature of WindowBlinds 3 comes in the form of Smart Bars which allow users to add items themselves right into the title bar or borders of a window (such a MP3 player or stock ticker, or quick launch or whatever) rather than using a skin where the skin author happened to do that.

Stardock will be releasing WindowBlinds 3 in October. The betas will begin appearing on their Object Desktop network in about 2 weeks.

A white paper outlining the details of WindowBlinds 3 is available at:
https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/whitepaper_wb3.html
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Reply #2 Top
smart bars sounds rather nifty. neat work brad!
Reply #3 Top
ok. are we going to see the skin in the first two screenshots? That is fantastic!
Reply #5 Top
That must be an old screenshot. An early version of Convergence had that bug, where it created two SkinPack tabs.
Reply #6 Top
I was kinda suspecting it was a bug...but since I haven't tried it (I've let my ODNT subscription lapse..*shame on me*) I thought I'd ask
Reply #8 Top
Highdon Yang: All that is explained in the White Paper (link at the top of this page).
Reply #10 Top
Do you have any skins for Go!Zilla 4.0 If so, could you please e-mail me any updates?