The amazing bblean

Desktop shell replacement which replaces the Windows shell. Why? I don't know. How about just for fun?

I groundlessly think that it improves efficiency. (Well, not totally groundless. You can put whatever you use most frequently at wherever you want. That should improve efficiency.)

I wish I could offer more "culture" but wikipedia only have a few lines of it.

Features:

• It is said to save resources but it really isn't a big concern nowadays.


• transparency


• full customization. Seriously, I mean FULL. You can edit everything with your notepad. It's like programming your desktop with c. But that also means a lot of work too. You can build a lot of sub-structures etc. to make your desktop perform whatever way you want, sick simple or sick
  


• There's this amazing little button on the upper left corner that hides your active window but leaves the banner. I think it's really useful.


• Fully customizable hotkeys. FULLY. Use notepad to program it. (Win + End executes the above feature for a starter.)
  

Here are a few screenshots I stole from what seems to be the major forum for bblean. Just find a pack and play with it. You won't probably like it the first day but after a while, you'll see how great it is. (I figured out a trick to make effectively drop-down menus on the desktop and is quite excited about that. I'll post a little howto shortly. The little trick will do make you think though: what if the things we click and appear are already there? It's just "invisible" to us. I think maybe Windows shell works the exact same way.)

With 3D desktop being in the trend, I still think there's much one can do with planar design. Besides, I think with a mouse which is 2-D control, 2D desktop is the most intuitive and efficient.

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