Seeking a Skin with Truly Transparent Windowframes

Waterglass Transparency

Published on February 15, 2008 By MistressDaiyu In Skinning

Hi, I hope someone cal help me find a skin I'd like to have...

Here's a shot showing the skin AeroGlass V5's taskbar with about 20% transparency setting in WB Config:

Without having to create it myself, I'd really like to have a skin that's otherwise like AeroGlass but which provides windowframes with this kind of transparency, which I guess for lack of a better term at the moment, I'd call "waterglass" transparency instead of what generally is called glass (most schemes have "high lime content" seems to me).

Does anyone know of a skin with transparent windowframes such as I've tried to describe?

tia,

-doug "BeanyBoy" quebbeman

Comments

MistressDaiyu

on Feb 15, 2008

BTW,

I think I said that backwards, I have the slider set two notches to the right of the leftmost edge, so I guess I've got 20% opacity, not 20% transparency, set on the taskbar.

-dq

rickalot

on Feb 15, 2008

WWW Link

Have you tried WTM

fontinalis

on Feb 15, 2008

You can use WB6/Transparency & Blur Tab to make the window frames, taskbar, menus, and start menu of any skin completely transparent if you want to.

WebGizmos

on Feb 15, 2008

This is my favorite transparent skin! Ecliz Deluxe 2

voidcore

on Feb 15, 2008

Yeah WTM is a great skin.

messiah1

on Feb 15, 2008

WTM has "high lime content". Here's what you are looking for below:

Do you see it?

eieio

on Feb 15, 2008

WTM has "high lime content". Here's what you are looking for below:

Do you see it?

Yeah, skins with truly transparent windowframes are a pain to use ... hard to tell which window you are looking at when there is no blur and/or little or no opaqueness

MistressDaiyu

on Feb 16, 2008

Dang! I missed that. Wow, that works pretty good.

Well, I could dump a whole bunch of adjectives into this message. I hope it's enough to say, this is why I've been on Object Desktop subscriber since before WB 1.0 was released. This is truly fine software supported by an awesome user community.

I haven't yet read all the other responses. But thanks to everyone!

-Legume Lad

MistressDaiyu

on Feb 16, 2008

WWW Link

Have you tried WTM

OK, that's interesting looking. But a tad too OS-Xish for me.

On the rare occasion that I want a Mac look, I dive back to the banned Copland schemes.

Thanks tho!

MistressDaiyu

on Feb 16, 2008

WTM has "high lime content". Here's what you are looking for below:

Do you see it?

Yeah, that looks pretty great!

MistressDaiyu

on Feb 16, 2008

WTM has "high lime content". Here's what you are looking for below:

Do you see it?

Yeah, skins with truly transparent windowframes are a pain to use ... hard to tell which window you are looking at when there is no blur and/or little or no opaqueness

30% opacity is working for me fairly well, now that I grokked I could set the frame's transparency, thanks to fontinalis.

elvee

on Feb 16, 2008

A little older but I like using Arzo for the transparency bits

Bjornsson

on Feb 16, 2008

amaeli on DA has some very transparent skins made for WB. cant remember what its called but you can look up his account.

EDIT: Intraface by E-Sushi is very kool too.

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