Quote Originally Posted by unclewebb View Post
Oh my gawd! I'm going to have to admit to RejZoR that my famous button is indeed a little obscure! Where's the sense of adventure guys? Click away on stuff! It's just a temp monitoring program after all.

Now do we need a background picture like Everest uses? RejZoR, sharpen your pencil. Any ideas for a background image?
As i said before, that button has to tell the user what it does...
Here, i made a reconstruction how it should really look.



It just looks better because of the slightly different CPU name and info alignment, plus the button tells users exactly what it does. It shows more info. Oh and don't forget to make it the same lenght as those 4 buttons below, i've made a reconstruction and noticed that i made it slightly longer than those below...

Regarding background, i don't think it's worth investing time into it and in the end it'll just make reading values in window harder to read.
Everest is already using it's custom skining for entire window which i think looks ugly (some crippled hybrid between custom skin and XP theme). Yuck.
Though the internals of the window look pleasing because of the calm blue gradients used.

Anyway, stick to the plain interface. Trust me when i tell you this, many programs tried the skinning and failed miserably. So just don't go that way.
All RealTemp really needed was ability to use Windows visual styles (themes).
This way it always blends perfectly into the environment regardless of what Windows theme users are using.