This is amazing

from Stardock Forums

When 8 first came out, this was one of the things I said they did wrong: Metro should be on the desktop but subservient to the desktop, not trying to take everything over. And now, here it is :).

Stardock must just be delighted with Windows 8. MS did a great job of making UI mistakes that they now get to sell software to fix.

At any rate I'm really pleased with this, it makes Metro not completely worthless now :).

modernmix
3,122 views 5 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

That was my reaction: Holy-moly, this is exactly what I needed in order to want to use any of those desktop-hogging metro apps. And I concur with your statement there, that given practically everything useful launches on the desktop anyway, it should be capable of being 'in charge'. Stardock's Start8 button went a long way to helping this -- and I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of WindowBlinds 8 -- but ModernMix fixes a problem I never thought would be addressed.

Well done, Stardock!

BTW, since I know you folks prefer to get some technical feedback: One thing I noticed is that the automatic registration through my Stardock login doesn't seem to want to take. I had to enter the serial number via my ObjectDesktop subscription page, then it reported the application as registered properly. Don't know if this is intended behavior or not, but I've encountered this issue with some other Stardock apps associated with my account as well. Wish I could say exactly which ones, but I just recently had to rebuild my OS from scratch due to a bad crash & burn, and there were several as I recall. Could it be due to timeouts on your side? Dunno.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Mod. You can delete this post if you like.

I've decided to put my question in a new thread. <_<

 

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Why are there 2 Xs?

 

We have the Windows one and the Stardock one.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting dypsis, reply 3

Why are there 2 Xs?

 

We have the Windows one and the Stardock one.

The second X is for when it is in full screen mode.  It was easier to keep the overlay the same for the beta than switch it around depending on fullscreen vs non full screen.

The buttons both do the same thing.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

OK. Thanks Neil.