WB Daydreaming

Maybe so-called "Celtic Knotwork" as a frame instead of rounded, etc?

Maybe mortise-and-tenon? Dovetail? Pegged? Cross-stiched? Basketweave? Branches intertwined?

Or am I off-base here, not understanding the thread? Admittedly, much of the time, neither brain cell finds the other between my ears.

Had a book once, black and white photos, "The Art of Japanese Joinery". Had some astounding ways of joining two or more pieces of wood.

Also, there were some blinds 'back in the day', can't remember by whom, maybe it'll come to me, that were composed of intertwined branches and flowers, no buttons showing 'til you moused over them, then they dispensed a fine dusting of...'pixie-dust'? One was a dungeon or castle kind of theme, a 'keep'-kind-of-door on the start menu, with flaming torches, that had mouseover things going on... I can almost remember the author...dang.
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[Brain storm ... ! Author's name was LeCrayon or really close to that. Maybe had some great animated bug cursors, too!]

  There's tons you can do with a frame, the trick is to pull it off without it looking tiled or stretched and maintain useabilty. You could theoretically do anything with a frame, it may look grand , but if no-one can use it, it won't be much use to anyone.

I'm with you though, I go into the future with many a vision of what is to come, what we will be capable of and how to make the very best use of it.   

Enjoyed the feedback.  Who knows, maybe one day you will be able to do a skin for it like you would if you were going to design one for a WMP, not necessarily done the same way but as far as the skin itself.  Well maybe even having a skin, push a button on the skin and the main frame appears with all the writing, or, or, well, there I go dreaming again.  And, who knows, there may be a another visionary, that can make it possible.  OS's and programs have come a long.

Le Crayon's style is unique and I believe he had a vision and originality that was/is outside the skinning box. Back then he probably was thinking the same as Christine is today...How can I do this? Why does it have to be a square?..or rectangle? Why not a circle, A triangle, or a octagon?
I don't where he is today but he was one of a kind.

I wonder if it is possible to splice together WinFX and WindowBlinds? That might be a start for more possibilities

I remember Le Crayon, liked a lot of his work.  Hasn't been around in a few years.  

That could be interesting from an artistic point of view, but I can say that I wouldn't want to use a circle or triangle window for anything, though we all use rectangles now, I assume. Maybe just rounding the corners more, or taking a piece of the corner off, but still keeping the general square/rectangle thing, otherwise it might take away some usability.

The logical and usable way for a frame on a rectangle 2D monitor screen is still rectangle frames unless we have an oval or odd shape monitor screen than maybe different shape frame will be interesting , I would love to see real halo graphic 3D monitors on my desktop one day...

Look at the start menu on Xoddx, the way it seems disassociated from itself. Panels can be made transparent until mouseover then become visible...I think. Abstract shapes with wavy frames perhaps or one that looks like a lake reflection or rippled. Too many to describe. Let imagination run wild and see where it takes you.

How weird...vStyler sent me a start menu just like that last night...very cool.