[Preview] Vista Rainbar 5.0 Rainmeter Sidebar

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Windows Sidebar for Rainmeter by fediaFedia on DeviantArt

So I figured it's time to update Vista Rainbar

Which was updated by me in 2008, and then later by poiru:

What will be new?

Well I'm mostly excited about the Gadget Gallery that I made in C#. It will have 3 styles:

and also

Looks gorgeous with the Mica effect! I use DWMBlurGlass to activate it (on explorer and other windows also)

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Basically a modern take on the Vista Beta 1 5112, and Vista Beta 2 ~5365 (In this screenshot) and Vista RTM Sidebars.

I've been also fixing the Weather Gadget (pretty important!) and doing some other optimizations.

I haven't yet re-done the Beta 1 and Beta 2 gadgets in Rainmeter, because I don't have the original PNGs, if someone can help me with that it would be great! At the end I'd like this Sidebar to be as good as the Longhorn Sidebar, but cover the afformentioned Vista Betas

You might be wondering - why the Vista RTM sidebar, even though it's possible to run it on win11, well, it's mostly that Rainmeter is much more resource efficient and doesn't have the huge security flaws of the OG Sidebar.

Stay tuned, I might post more updates on the progress.

If anyone wants to help me test it, send me a note!

Comments are welcome!