/comp/ - Shell Replacement

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-16 17:56

Anyone have any opinions on the Shell replacements out and about?

I tried Aston but it was too limiting. Then I tried Litestep but it seems alot of sites are down. It's been hard to get started in it so I can make my own themes.

Are there any others?

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-16 18:03

If you aren't afraid of editing configuration files manually, bblean.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-16 18:10

I'm not afraid. I love to actually. If I could figure out what all the shit in litestep meant id configure that. But since I cannot.. litestep causes me nothing but grief.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-16 18:13

Would bblean allow you to do something like have transparent buttons that expand to the left or right to show more buttons that open up things?

So it would end up being

Programs - Box 1 - box 2 - box 3
|
Shortcuts - Box 4 - Box 5 - Box 6

and so on..

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-16 18:25

the Z-SHELL!

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-16 22:34

I've used geoShell for years, it's awesome. Although I still need to try bblean sometime.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-16 23:03

Quicksilver.app

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-17 16:36

Any of these support png images with transparency? Say I want a transparent taskbar or menus. Or no taskbar at all and just a start menu.

Can any shell do this?

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-17 19:27

>>8
Samurize then

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-17 20:43

>>8
GeoShell had transparency settings and bmp support with single bit transparency last I checked. And you can have as many bars as you want, placed anywhere, with pretty much anything on them.

Name: Brak 2006-05-18 2:51

Lighttek's TALISMAN is the best.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-18 3:07

zsh

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-18 4:14

black box lite. minimalist, very quick, has a few quirks, but altogether good, if you are into retro/minimalist-style.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-18 4:40

The transparency guy: stop wanking to transparent bullshit, it'll waste your CPU while not adding any functionality. Concentrate on what you need to do.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-18 12:36

I'm looking for a shell repleacement too, but i'm looking for something that won't eat as much CPU as the default win shell, and the games won't crash either. Tried using: Talisman (killed too many memory), bbLean, BlackBox (both crashed when i started a game).
i don't mind writing codes, as long as there's a sample for it :D

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-18 20:52

>>15
have you tried litestep then?

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-18 21:02

Aston.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-19 0:48

>>17

aston's no good for a widescreen laptop, sadly :(
btw, 15 was me

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-19 2:31

>>14
you know, it's OK to be a geek and appreciate good aesthetics in your interface.

Maybe he just wanted it to look nice. Just because I'm into computers doesn't mean I want my gui to look as spartan as possible.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-19 5:23

>>15

Well, that's a new for me.. bblean never crashed a game on me... well, who knows, it did kill some shit apps...

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-19 16:04

>>20

I had it my pc (before my lapy) and sadly 90% of the games crashed, and on top of that some of my settings weren't saved (edited the config files myself, and they weren't even read-only). Although i personaly liked it :D

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-20 18:21

>>9
Samurize isn't a shell replacement, you idiot. Samurize is just a system monitoring tool with a little scripting ability.

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