http://www.mediafire.com/download/w37hzh4o95mlptj/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip- for skins not supporting the new "UseModernLayout" skin settings, tabs are now displayed in the main panel in place of the location bar. This differs from the new tabs in that they dont extend across the left panel. It also looks much better for the dark skins where tab features dont show. Again for the skins without this skin setting, when the tabs are docked in the caption bar then the location bar displays in much the same way as the current musicbee version but only because there would be a large gap if the location bar didnt display
- for the status bar, by default it still spans the entire application window but with improved centering and also tweaks to how the info is displayed when the player is docked down the bottom
- however there is a new skin setting "AllowStatusBarInPanel" that allows you can override the status bar to only show in the main panel when the player is docked down the bottom (when docked elsewhere the status bar spans the entire window). Its not enabled by default as many of the older skins dont look good with the status bar only in the main panel. A new element override controls the colours of the status bar when displayed in the main panel only "Panel.StatusBarInPanel.Default"
- an updated MusicBee default skin is included with this setting enabled so you can see what it looks like
- I ask people creating skins to consider how it looks when the library explorer or Now Playing list is docked in the left panel and the main panel is displaying a full panel of tracks in Track Details layout. Personally i dont like that the panels dont align on the bottom so i might still consider showing the status bar across the entire panel in that case (or at least spanning the left and main panels)
- I havent looked at the tabs in caption bar as yet and still plan to add elements for the tabs bar separators
<element id="UseModernLayout">true</element>
<element id="CaptionBar.HeaderControl.Default" fg="190,190,190" />
<element id="CaptionBar.HeaderControl.Disabled" fg="120,120,120" />
<element id="Panel.StatusBarInPanel.Default" bg="245,245,245" fg="95,95,95" bdr="230,230,230" />
<element id="AllowStatusBarInPanel">true</element>