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An anonymous reader writes "A few screenshots of Windows Longhorn Beta 1 have surfaced on the net showing off many of the new transparency features, Internet Explorer 7 and Avalon or WinFX."
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Using some window managers on Linux as soon as you move the window it goes transparent. The result is that you only have to move the window a tiny bit to see what is under it. That saves you time, therefore increasing your productivity.
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The screenshots are als on http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/07/09/long horn-5203-screenshots/
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if the ' X ' button has moved for maximised windows as well then it will be the worst GUI decision EVER! Gone will be the quick hand flick up and to the right to close a window.
I doubt it... with winXP, the 'X' button on a maximized window isn't completely flush with the corner of the screen, but this is just graphically. In functionality, the button IS in the corner, thus utilising the infinite area.
Microsoft continually abuse the said space and assign these areas as no-action spaces.
Actually, this is one area that Microsoft actually do pretty good on. All corners use the infinite space (apart from the clock).
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No it hasn't. Since Windows 2000 (and even more so in Windows XP), things in the Start Menu would periodically be re-arranged to help you find the one you wanted (or something). This completely destroys muscle memory, making the Start Menu significantly less usable.
The modern Start Menu has a much bigger set of usability issues than it did a decade ago...
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the WinHEC build + my 9800pro with "glass" enabled runs slow as hell.
I know it was a pre-beta build but all the LH builds so far are pretty laggy once you enable the 3D effects.
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You gotta remember, you can change a whole lot that won't come out in screenshots. A good example is the difference between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels in linux. Vastly different, but all a screenshot will tell you is they have a different version number.
However, 'just' a new UI and Transparancy actually required a rewrite of the presentation layer, that means most graphical programs (once they take advantage of it) will run much much faster, instead of the old fashioned GDI they used that had been around for years.
Still IMing in the stone age?
Actually the close window button is still in focus and pressable when the mouse is on the top right most pixel, regardless of the small border between it and the button.