A common complaint heard from people who tested Vista, is that maximised windows turn black. At the Shell Blog, a fix has been presented: "In the end, we decided that we like the black and think it is the right thing to do, but we want to respect the user's color choice for users who bother to make a change. So - starting in today's build, we have significantly backed off the amount of black that is mixed in with the user's color for maximized windows. This is not particularly noticeable with the default color, but with the more intense colors like Red and Orange, you will appreciate the difference."
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It's not that people haven't liked it, it's only because people thought it was a bug. And because of this they was forced to change it.
Bad thing since I think that it was a really nice idea to turn it black on maximising, this way user would focus only on a content of the window.
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My sentiments exactly. So I looked up what the hell this is about. Apparently when maximised all "glass"-portions of the window turn dark (almost black) :
http://blogs.msdn.com/cjacks/archive/2006/06/21/641735.aspx
http://www.mstechtoday.com/screenshots/vista/5342/maximized.PNG
Very difficult to find screenshots of maximised Vista apps, probably because it is indeed quite ugly :-)
Also according to one blogger : "it is worth pointing out that when a window is maximized, any glass area appears black, which is the reason that most windows rendered fully in glass, do not offer a maximize button (to the dismay of Goths I guess :-p)" ( http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006_07_01_mothblog_archive.html )
Leave it to MS to turn eye-candy into eye-poison :-)
Edited 2006-10-04 00:44
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Wow, I am SO glad to hear they listened to our complaints. It will honestly be so much easier on my eyes..and nerves :-P
edit: OK I think I need to see a screenshot. They say they significantly backed off the black and yet it's not really noticeable with the default color...
Edited 2006-10-04 00:53
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It's the transparency they need to remove! Look at the screenshots of WMP for example. It looks pretty confusing to have controls on top of a transparent surface.
I think it looks confusing to have the title bar transparent too.
I'd say that I hope they have an option to turn it off but I'll (hopefully) never have to use it.
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"It's not that people haven't liked it, it's only because people thought it was a bug. And because of this they were forced to change it."
It's too bad Microsoft didn't solve real bugs with the same voracity. I'm sure the marketing boys simply jumped down somebody's throat in an effort to avoid bad press before the launch. This is what got the job done.
