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Today, I’m running both MetroTwit and Bend which show up on my desktop as;

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and neither have the traditional Windows decoration around them and I’m wondering whether having the non-client area of a Window drawn with transparent glass as in;

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led to a bunch of apps simply taking away the window decoration altogether.

That said, I still find it a little “odd” when one of these windows misbehaves and I find myself pressing ALT-SPACE to bring up the standard menu on it;

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Posted Wed, Aug 18 2010 3:46 PM by mtaulty
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michaud wrote re: Window Dressing
on Wed, Aug 18 2010 8:15 PM

Do you like metrotwit? The only thing I want to change is the the width of the app window. I use one column and they presume two

ashga wrote re: Window Dressing
on Thu, Aug 19 2010 11:21 AM

whats Bend? ui looks nice!

mtaulty wrote re: Window Dressing
on Thu, Aug 19 2010 11:52 PM

It's a text editor - from bend.codeplex.com

Mike.

Anonymous wrote re: Window Dressing
on Fri, Aug 20 2010 2:41 PM

When I visit the link for Bend there's a message that says the product hasn't been published yet.  Do you know when it will be published?

Paul wrote re: Window Dressing
on Sun, Aug 22 2010 1:02 PM

I prefer applications to have the regular Windows furniture, displayed according to the current theme.  It can be frustrating having to learn new ways of performing 'conventional' actions.

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