Bar is ugly in Vista

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install and activate the bar. 
2. The bar forces the classic menus to appear.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The classic menus are ugly and take up a lot of space in Vista. I would 
suggest implementing the bar in Vista as a dropdown button/several buttons 
on the green stripe of the window instead. Alternatively, as a right-click 
submenu.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.6.0
Vista Professional 32bit

Please provide any additional information below.
The bar is incredibly useful, but it breaks flow and makes me 
uncomfortable, which is a deal breaker.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sunstorm...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2008 at 1:39

Attachments:

• stexugly.png

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Sorry, but unfortunately that's not possible.
Vista does not provide any APIs to add anything to the green stripe of the 
window.

Original comment by tortoisesvn on 24 Dec 2008 at 1:48

• Changed state: Invalid

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Yes there is, here is an example: 
http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shellblog/archive/2007/09/05/Shell-Namespace-
Extension_3A00_-Adding-Custom-Command-Module-Items.aspx

Original comment by sunstorm...@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2008 at 5:44

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That's for a namespace extension.
A namespace extension provides a custom view for the explorer, like for example 
the
"my documents" virtual folder on XP (on Vista, the folder isn't called "my 
documents"
anymore but has the name of your user logon). Another example is the 'ftp' 
folder you
can add or the 'webfolders'.
So, those are *additional* folders (or views of existing folders).

Such a namespace extension wouldn't make any sense, since the StExBar commands 
should
be available on all folders in explorer.

And for non-namespace extensions, it's (as I mentioned) not possible to add 
anything
to the green command bar.

Original comment by tortoisesvn on 25 Dec 2008 at 7:59