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I get the feeling most software developers will have the sense to make their software seamlessly integrate into Win8. Most Windows Phone app developers do it, and it really highlights how ugly the ones that don’t are.
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The login/lock screen is where your wallpaper will go. This works extremely well for Windows Phone, and I believe it will work for Win8 as well.
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I don't want a wallpaper on a login screen, I see it just for a seconds (or never if I use autolog), and I never use lock screen, it's not a phone and I've got screensavers
If I was you I wouldn't compare desktop to mobile solutions, you use PC in many more ways than you'll ever with your mobile phone. And MS had some ideas which turned out to be failures...
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On top of that, you can change the Start screen’s background as well.
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I guess you're right, that surely makes it up for me
No, I don't want to edit wallpapers just to match new UI
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Keeping the tiles in the center is a good UI decision in my opinion; it keeps the user focused on them, and makes it easier to find tiles than in an unorganised mess all over the screen. Besides, I get the feeling that with the way tiles will work (fill with content, not just static graphics), a wallpaper would be superfluous.
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Yet the wallpaper solution works in previous Windows and countless Linux dists (i'd much rather go with app filter solution in Ubuntu's Unity/Gnome3)
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Users get “enslaved” to a UI design no matter the OS they choose; the only way to get around it is to hack in a new UI. This is the same for every single OS UI I can think of.
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It's true, but other UIs do leave some freedom for user without hacks
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The only programs I have which do that are games which are meant for fullscreen but are being run in windowed mode. For everything else, the taskbar automatically pushes titlebars out from under it if I try and move them there.
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It didn't for my messenger (pidgin) :/ And it's one of mostly used apps on my pc