Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Nov 2003 02:50 UTC
I am waiting for Longhorn. Thus, I was very interested in the new 4051 build. Here are my findings.
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I've had a quick look at longhorn 4051, and compared to the Luna theme, Slate looks really nice. The one big problem I had with Luna was the huge size of the window furniture. Those title bars took up far too much screen real estate. Slate addresses this by reducing the size of the furniture down to the aprox. the same amount of space used by the classic 'skin'. I much prefer the dark grey/black colour to the blue/olive/silver colours of XP.
Speaking of the classic skin, I am dissapointed to say that it looks really ugly. It just doesn't look right because of the new layout of explorer windows. - I hope they make the classic 'skin' more classic than it is at the moment before the final release.
They still haven't made all the windows themes consistant - run XP with the luna theme and open a command prompt to see what I mean - The same is true of 4051 longhorn - Minor issue? maybe, but I like all my windows to have a consistant theme.
I installed it into a Vmware machine, and when it started up for the first time in 640x480, the taskbar, sidebar and the start menu totally filled the screen.
As usual most of the 'view' options need reversing to make the system anything like usable.
Will I upgrade my primary OS from XP to longhorn when it is released? - In 4051's current state - no, I'll stick with XP or move to Gentoo. - I think it's far too early to decide.