Monday, February 26, 2007

Screenshots of my Windows XP desktop

Earlier I talked about how I customized my Linux desktop to look like Vista. Recently, I found a theme that brings me closer to what I want: A LunaQQ theme with Vista buttons. Currently my screen looks like this using the "Vista Inspirat" theme. Here is how my desktop generally used to look with the Luna QQ theme. Overall I like the modifications done by the "Vista Inspirat" over the other Vista based themes I have seen that copy almost every single widget of Vista thickness and all. Vista Inspirat uses a noticeably thinner task bar compared to Vista. It is similar to that of LunaQQ actually. Along with that it uses the Vista style minimize, maximize and open buttons. Now here are a list of improvements I wish someone can make to the "Vista Inspirat" theme.

  • Darker borders for the active window. Currently its hard to distinguish between active and incative windows in this theme, they are both bright.
  • Either get rid of the photo on the Start menu, or change the fonts and move things around so my name would actually fit.
  • I think it could stand to lose a couple more pixels on the top of the window. The top border looks a bit on the thick side.
  • Remove the rounded corners at the bottom part of the window, that would probably getr rid of a few more pixels at the bottom part of the window.
  • Make the start button a tad bit smaller, I don't mean make it like KDE which is the size of one icon, but no more than 3 icon sizes. It looks like its about 3 1/2 to 4 icons in size.
  • Make it available in blue, I like blue :)

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