Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> It has been possible to make the whole window transparent, since Windows 
> 2000. There's just no UI for it, so you need some 3rd party app like 
> PowerMenu. Also, there's obviously no blurred transparency. I have found 
> this is really useful to avoid getting distracted by whatever is on the 
> background.

Yep, I've played with the transparency in 2000, usually wound up hating 
it enough that I'd turn off whatever add-on allowed me to do it. :)

> 
> http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar/blur.png
> http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar/blur_wp.png

That's the effect. That's what I call translucent, different from 
transparent in my mind. Transparent infers no diffusion of the object 
underlying.

> Also, did you see the eye candy of Compiz? Way more effects than Vista 
> (and in fact a Flip3D-like plugin already exists for it). And written in 
> plain C (not even C++!), instead of needing .NET for writing new effects...
> 
>> I'm also quite happy to see they added the ability to change the color 
>> the windows title bars. Which I sort of missed in XP.
> 
> I never run Windows on its default skin anyway. uxtheme patch ftw. My 
> current look:
> http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar/lunaelement5.png (LE5 also available in 
> black)

Looks very similar to Vista. Still, you have to swap themes in order to 
adjust the colors.

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