I hope I'm not going to give you nightmares, but I just noticed this. When a caption is long, the titlebar buttons sit on top of text in the caption. This looks pretty bad. Since your program is aware of Visual styles, could you possibly clean up the caption below the buttons? Perhaps you could just make a button "palette" that could fill the caption bar from the right-most button so that it obscures the caption. Perhaps you could make the buttons bigger (like MS does) and snug them up to the existing buttons; that way, it would handle the problem while the obvious difference in the button (esp. if the user picks a different color) would alay confusion.

Thisis a hard one, and with other peculiarities of the titlebar buttons, I don't know if there is a good solution....

Can't make the buttons larger and closer together, and closer to the real Windows buttons?

I've got a machine at work that has NVIDIA titlebar buttons. I'll look into how they handle the same situation. I'm guessing there's nothing that can be (realistically) done outside of drawing a frame around the DF buttons (and with all the different styles, that would probably look like hell - especially when you get to Windows 7).

IMHO titlebar buttons should be put on the backburner or scrapped altogether. You'll never get it working perfectly and detracts from the great job you've done with DP.
Look at how it looks when windows is skinned and that's something completely beyond your control:

respectfully disagree. WindowBlinds is a relatively small percentage of windows users, and will be even more (less) so when Windows 7 hits in October. The most I'd do is throw up a warning that DF buttons may not appear correctly if third party Windows themes are used. The overall advantages seen by the vast majority makes this a very useful addition and something most people have been asking for. (IMHO)

I rather like the concept and they can be convenient(*), but they do behave funky. That's no reason to dump them, esp. since they are entirely optional.

I'll suggest it again: On the Titlebar tab of settings, put a note that describes the behavior like "Titlebar buttons are not part of the Windows GUI, but independent windows floating above the caption. The title of the window may extend underneath them and they may appear to snap to the caption when you move a Window. This is normalbehavior."

(*) I like the change wallpaper button and the move to next window and maximize button.

Just a note here. That titlebar buttons work generally well is pretty amazing. This is something only the process owning the window is supposed to be able to do (on the WM_NCPAINT message) and that's why Adobe and WinAmp are pretty seamless. That an external process can do this and usu. look like a GUI enhancement instead of an overlay is a testament to Jon's coding savvy.

NVIDIA buttons even run over the titlebar text, though they do have a nice border around them (though that trick won't work with W7). Google Chrome also messes with the NVIDIA buttons.

You're welcome.

Your call, there. I won't mention it again. I'll keep looking forward to the new stuff.