Im was going to be using BB4win on my desktop, and i want to use it on my tablet, but my question was What happens to TIP and other shell intigrated features?
Well, I suppose this is some what off topic, but
Well, I suppose this is some what off topic, but I am running it on my TC1000 so I thought I would tell you about. I just came across an alternative Window Manager for MS Windows. Its a port of the X Window BlackBox Window Manager to MS Windows. You can read about it here:
www.bb4win.org
I have it running on my TC1000 and it is working perfectly! It runs in place of explorer.exe. Aside from the obvious changes of running a new shell instead of the default Explorer Windows Shell, the tablet is much more responsive. BB4win requires less system resources. It is highly customizeable, supports plugins, and there are hundreds of Themes available at:
http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/920/
You can install it for all users or just one user. So if you want to try it out, you could create a new user then download the blackbox for windows install from the website listed above. I suggest unzipping the archive to the root of the C:\ drive (i.e. C:\blackbox). Then switch to the new user you created and just go to the Black box directory and click on install batch file. Just make sure you only install it for the current user. All it does is register itself as the current shell. If you like it you could do the install for all or your regular login on your Tablet. If you hate it you could just run the uninstall batch file or simply delete the test user account in windows and the C:\blackbox directory. Its a pretty easy cleanup.
The desktop is pretty minimalist. To access various menus, right click on the desktop. The taskbar and icons can be docked to any side of the screen, auto hidden, transparent, etc... Just about everything is configurable.
Regards,
Michael
Im was going to be using BB4win on my desktop, and i want to use it on my tablet, but my question was What happens to TIP and other shell intigrated features?
The TIP and so far the other shell features still work for me. I am missing the TIP button on the taskbar, but I never used that anyway. If I hit the physical TIP button on the front TC1000, the panel opens just fine. The floating input panel pops open normally in Outlook (just tried it), but curiously, it doesn't in Firefox. I am not sure if that is because of Blackbox or Firefox. I will have to play with it more. But so far I really like it!quote:Originally posted by Rombus
Im was going to be using BB4win on my desktop, and i want to use it on my tablet, but my question was What happens to TIP and other shell intigrated features?
Regards,
Michael
any screenshots?
Alot of people been having problems getting TIP working in Firefox (I'm one of them)... Its a hit or miss thing... not a clue what is causing it.
A comment in the SP2 beta newsgroup mentioned using the 'standard windows control' 'skin'?? of Firefox (mozilla has the same problem), it normally seems to have its own controls that do not react well on the TIP.quote:Originally posted by timville
Alot of people been having problems getting TIP working in Firefox (I'm one of them)... Its a hit or miss thing... not a clue what is causing it.
I do not actually run Firefox myself, so can't check it out.
Alfred
Sure!quote:Originally posted by Raven
any screenshots?
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Darn you mrose im really intrested now!! that looks GOOD, After i get back from NYC next week ill reformat my tpc and try BB4win along with object dock and see what kind of results i get
i tried installing, but couldn't quite get the hang of it. where do i go to change my desktop settings (wallpaper, fontsize, the size of the taskbar etc...)?
and i also followed the link to the desktop themes, but couldn't use them after downloading and unzipping them with picozip.
any advice on how to use this? i like the clean look, but just can't quite get it...
Cool, I've been messing around with it for the past few hours, lot of diggin in documentation figuring out how to do stuff and editing config files, but thats my type of thing. Thanks for the links. :D
-arebelspy
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