Do you want Aero?

[tseven]

They can never turn the iconography completely flat and remove all the aero iconography. It just wouldn't mesh with the other icons from other programs anyway because other companies will not be making their icon for their own software flat. Or if you have an old program even if they did it would stand out. Not to mention the extreme flat look of the metro while can be nice is hard to see on a desktop. With all the multitasking and such going on the flatness would make it severely awkward and limited in displaying information or helping the user distinguish something. Their execution is not well done. They've turned the simplicity idea and overdone it for most parts. The buttons look horrible to close, minimize, maximize etc. It does not stand out. They need to take what they did with the zune desktop program(not the current iteration but the one that still has the trackbar having a circle(that made it easier to view where the track was at) and buttons that are 2.5D. Google is actually doing a much more decent job of having it be in-between. It's not overtly flat and not overdone with effects, a happy medium. I love the typography on the zune HD and they used it very well there with different weights here it's one weight, different sizes and it's the weight that is hard to read against possibly busy backgrounds. They extreme flattening makes the typography only really legible when the background is a solid color. This takes out the possibilities with interesting or more intricate backgrounds. Also there was uppercase use of the typography here it's always in capitalized form. It makes the typography lack excitement and hierarchy. I getting it as simple as possible to put the content forth but you need to be able to see the controls as well and the flatness makes it visually difficult to see. In the case of the normal window in windows 8 it doesn't even complement the desktop or the metro. It just looks like they removed all the effects and I rather they designed it like the zune software or did the middle road like google. There is nothing wrong with the effects anyway. It has always been how you well you execute it. If they had done a great job they wouldn't feel it was cheesy now. I don't get how what they've done is anymore authentic then people who use effects. I'm happy they fixed things performance wise but visually they didn't execute that well here. The system is not bad but looking at it is a different story.

 

[Mystere]

Wow. Dude. There's this thing called an enter key. You should press it every once in a while, and create these things called Paragraphs. You might want look them up, they're quite useful in getting people to read what you write.

I looked at that massive block of text, and just didn't bother. If you want people to read what you write, you should make it easier for them to do so.

 

[djsigma]

I liked the look of Aero, but I'm not that bothered about it not being in Windows 8.

There is a problem in Windows 8 regarding this though - If you like to use a dark colour for your taskbar, it will also change the titlebars of windows to the same colour except the font colour for text in titlebars remains black, making it hard/impossible to read.

 

[area 66]

I liked the look of Aero, but I'm not that bothered about it not being in Windows 8.

Same here different OS , different time. my only big complain about Windows 8 is the lack of possibility to resize the titles and the hot corner. The rest I don't care that much

 

[TheGrantFitz]

I liked the look of Aero, but I'm not that bothered about it not being in Windows 8.

Same here different OS , different time. my only big complain about Windows 8 is the lack of possibility to resize the titles and the hot corner. The rest I don't care that much

Just about 2 months ago, the forums was willing to kill for aero.

 

[Kat]

I still want it...

 

[Lazure]

I still want it too. I still am being driven nuts by the opaque, flat look of the desktop side. Metro side I'm fine with since it was designed around it to start with, but not my desktop ._. I'm still waiting for a hack or third party program that will restore transparency and alpha blur. AT LEAST make it like it was in the release/consumer preview.

 

[area 66]

Third software are not a solution, they bloat the system.

 

[Lazure]

I'm guessing you can't bring in the dwm files from release preview can you? =p

 

[johnling]

i WANT it....

 

[TheGrantFitz]

i WANT it....

how will a regular windows user react?

 

[area 66]

my 6 years old daughter do the same when she see an ad on tv ..... " I want this...."

 

[Hopachi]

Third software are not a solution, they bloat the system.

I agree.

That's why I always use built in themes.

I'm guessing you can't bring in the dwm files from release preview can you? =p

Sounds risky. Not recommended.

The msstyles from RP works if you can bring to the themes folder.
But I can live without transparent windows, since that's not provided.

 

[timumarius]

Aero was good eye candy for it's time,now is just useless eye candy these days,that chrome transparency would interfere badly with some menu bar programs making them hard to read,the fact that Microsoft realized that it was useless and made this Windows 8 blunt and flat theme was a really smart move,I want to work with my computer not decorate it!Of course there will always be third party programs that will create some Aero effects,like there are programs that make the Modern UI just disappear and bring back the Start Menu,Windows is really well supported,that's what I like about it!

 

[Ztruker]

I liked Aero Glass. Why not make it a user option so people can have what they want, not what someone else thinks they should have. Ditto with the Start menu and Gadgets.

 

[Max Peck]

I liked Aero Glass. Why not make it a user option so people can have what they want, not what someone else thinks they should have. Ditto with the Start menu and Gadgets.

I'm having less trouble with the removal of Aero than I thought I would but I agree ... what would it have hurt to leave it as an option?

-Max

 

[TheGrantFitz]

:[ hmmm

 

[shadowvlican]

i liked the look of aero, but if taking away transparency and blur lessens the processing load, i'm all for it

 

[phailyoor]

i liked the look of aero, but if taking away transparency and blur lessens the processing load, i'm all for it

But it doesn't.

 

[Max Peck]

i liked the look of aero, but if taking away transparency and blur lessens the processing load, i'm all for it

If Aero imposed any kind of processing load, you sure couldn't tell. As for the blur ... that I'll concur with. Sometimes caption bar text could get lost.

-Max