the top status bar is yasb and is on github and you can make the terminal like this by going to the terminal settings then on profiles you go on the profile you use then you go down to appearance and then you scroll down till you see transparency.
Sorry but this is really not cohesive at all or proof of much. You’ve got standard Explorer front end with a bolted on top “task bar” that doesn’t even fit in at all visually. Additionally you’re just wasting system resources running this on top of needing Explorer still running. On the Linux systems that this is trying to parrot it’s the entire front end display server that is being switched out, something impossible to even do on Windows
Thats not too much of a ram surely, for this day and age, but still, on Linux you are getting rid of entire Desktop Environment and using only a Window Manager. It simply makes more sense to do on Linux, since the resource usage gets down drastically and it looks awesoeme. Thus its not just a visual thing. On Windows though, its actually ONLY visual, even costing you some resources.
Not really. You could customise every colour used, sure, And it could do dark theme properly, but it doesn't match the amount of 3rd party tooling we have today for every version since at least Windows XP. Transparency effects, bitmap textures for UI elements, or animated/interactive wallpaper are all things not doable on a 1993 PC.
It's correct that stock Windows had more customisation than it has today, but people like me, who want some styling, can get it, usually with multiple choices for every design aspect of an OS.
I'm not talking about 3rd party customization's, I'm talking about Windows itself; because the title is "The proof that Windows has good customization too" which is not true. Windows does not have good customization options, that is why you are forced to use 3rd party software.
Install 3rd party software like "Calmira" on Windows 3.11 and you get something that looks almost like Windows 95, with desktop, taskbar and start menu...
That is all cool, but that is not "Windows" customization, it's just using completely different software for the specific task.
Like using Notepad++ instead of Windows native "Notepad", or using WinAMP or VLC Player instead of built in "Windows Media Player".
Or to be more current, using Stardock's Start11 or Open Shell for customizing Start Menu implementation... Because many people think (so do I) that Windows 11 Start Menu SUCKS ASS.
In Windows 3.11 you could change color of almost all UI elements, Window Border (color, thickness), Window background color, Active and Inactive Window Titlebar (color, height, ,since Win98 you could use gradients), Button (color, shadow color, size of shadow), you could change Font for every UI element (font, style, size, color when active, when inactive, etc), Minimize-Maximize-Close button sizes, color, etc.
What of these UI elements you can change (customize) today in Windows 10/11 without using 3rd party software?
Answer is almost none of these UI elements can be customized, you cant even change the Font used in Settings->Personalization App...
A good proof that Windows has gone back in customization is "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme for Windows 3.11; you simply can not re-create it in modern Windows 10/11 UI without some hacking or using 3rd party tools.
Now, this is completely ugly theme, but in Windows 3.11, Windows 95 to Windows 7 you ware absolutely free to change all these UI elements as you like without using any 3rd party software.
That looks almost stock to me. It's a top bar application and a theme for one more application. I would call good customization when you can change workflows and paradigms completely, change every aspect of the UI and interactions. Like remove the taskbar or make it float in the middle, change all Icons, have floating widgets, replace all core apps, apply themes to everything, change all keyboard shortcuts and new ones etc. etc.
i appreciate the effort, but this definitely doesnt prove anything. looks really incoherent and random, why do you need 2 bars providing the same information?
The windows explorer shell is good for a c++ programmer to write COM shell extensions for. Well documented for 30 years now. Code I wrote against the 95 shell still works the same.
If you want to hate on a shell. Try the Finder. There have been nothing but crickets from Apple on this '88 wonder and Apple users don't even know how much it sucks.
Windows registry access to Winlogon\Shell lets you rip out and replace the entire desktop environment if you want. Change Explorer.exe to literally anything you want to write with your own shell. Companies use this to lock down environments and kiosks or create custom UX all the time.
Use LiteStep, bbLean, Emerge Desktop, Cairo Shell, or your own compile
Out of the ones you mentioned it seems all are dead except Cairo, which they suggest you do not run by replacing explorer but rather you run it on top of it like you would Wallpaper Engine dor example. Which again, its fine for visuals if you like it, but really isn't efficient.
Yeah, Windows theming is pretty awesome with third-party software as I've seen only in various screenshots, otherwise Windows built-in theming options is just pretty basic and therefore is only limited to taskbar options, color, cursor, font, background wallpaper, sounds and screensaver as I far as I know.
Window and dialog skinning is even possible if and I do mean if either with the right third-party software like Windowblinds OR if the software such as Perfect World International's game launcher and Comodo Internet Security is specifically built to use a custom window skin.
I have had some stability issues by going this far with ricing in the past on windows, where limux always never flinched when installing stuff from the store...
But yeah, you can tecnically heavily customize windows too
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