biobak schrijft: "In navolging van de verschillende soorten Linux desktop-omgevingen (Enlightement, KDE, Gnome), wil Microsoft in Windows Whistler ook skins gaan toepassen. Je kan dan een aangepaste versie van Windows draaien. Windows zal er echter nog steeds als Windows uitzien . Lijkt erop dat Microsoft programmas als LiteStep en WindowsBlinds de loef af wil steken":
BetaNews has reported fresh rumours that Microsoft will build skinning into future versions of Windows, in an attempt to give the OS the theme capabilities of Linux. Right now these are only available from third parties.
We've heard these rumours too and can shed a little more light on the project. We hear that Microsoft does indeed have such a development project on the go, although it's only got semi-official status, and is comprised of developers who worked on the Real Media Player 7 and MSN Mars projects. The goal is to introduce basic themes into Whistler, the consumer version of Windows 2000.
The team has already put together a couple of themes which alter the title bar bitmap and window button bitmaps, but so far, not much else. So in other words, the Whistler version of Windows can be altered to look like... er... Windows.
Redmond's Whistling Skinners (and we'll be disappointed if they don't have their own Morris Dancing troupe) haven't got as far as letting the position of these buttons be altered - a la Macintosh - or introducing effects much beloved of eye candy connoisseurs (and Steve Jobs) like alpha blending.
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