Skin- and visual errors related to, and skinning requests for MusicBee v3

[endeavour1934]

For the vertical spacing in the Playing Tracks layout, please keep in mind it needs to work alongside the main panel when the main panel is not in artwork layout. In my opinion having 2-3px doesnt work well when the main panel is in Track Details or Album and Tracks layout.
As a compromise i am happy to increase the spacing by 1px and that also makes it consistent with the navigator on the opposite side of the window.
Of course in the Now Playing window which is intended more for display than for functionality, the vertical spacing is already padded more.

Playing Tracks Panel/Element: I was talking about horizontal left margin, not the vertical spacing. The album cover in the Album & Tracks view is just 2px from the left border, compared to 4px on other panels like the thumbnail browser. Also, the current track icon (the one on the left of the track) is 3px from the border, compared to 4px on the Main Panel (Files module with Tracks view), whether the element is in a side panel or in the main panel.

Thumbnail/Filter Panel/Element: Here I was pointing to the vertical margin (not spacing) for the first thumbnail, which now is only 1px.

[Steven]

Playing Tracks Panel/Element: I was talking about horizontal left margin, not the vertical spacing. The album cover in the Album & Tracks view is just 2px from the left border, compared to 4px on other panels like the thumbnail browser. Also, the current track icon (the one on the left of the track) is 3px from the border, compared to 4px on the Main Panel (Files module with Tracks view), whether the element is in a side panel or in the main panel.

Thumbnail/Filter Panel/Element: Here I was pointing to the vertical margin (not spacing) for the first thumbnail, which now is only 1px.

ok, i will make the change for the playing tracks element
for the thumbnail panel, thats what i understood you meant and my response is unchanged

edit:
same link is updated with the adjustments

[Bee-liever]

with the narrower caption bar, the bottom border doesn't show from
<element id="InlineMenu.ParentItem.Highlight"



should the border attribute be made non-functional in MB3?

It does echo the look of the tabs - sort of.

[Steven]

with the narrower caption bar, the bottom border doesn't show from
<element id="InlineMenu.ParentItem.Highlight"

i fixed that last night so the next update should include the fix

[endeavour1934]

I'm going to ask for a few things more (sorry Steven )... the last ones before moving on to the spanish translation and doing some concepts for Music Explorer, Now Playing & Recomendations

Overrides for things marked in green (high priority) and yellow (low priority): http://i.imgur.com/I03IVKt.png

[endeavour1934]

Also I just noticed this:

[Steven]

And finally, headerbar/panel overrides for each section/column

do you still think this is needed - its non-trivial so i only will do this if yourself or others feel there is a strong need for it

[Alumni]

Just an idea - how about an inverted version of the 'native button theme' for use with dark skins?

[Steven]

native buttons are created by windows and MB doesnt control the colouring

[Bee-liever]

And finally, headerbar/panel overrides for each section/column

do you still think this is needed - its non-trivial so i only will do this if yourself or others feel there is a strong need for it

I've been going through my skins to make a plan for upgrading them for 3.0, and while this would be useful for my Wing-ated skin, it certainly doesn't need to be done right now.
I've already had to adapt skins to the loss of a couple of overrides, so I think we should adopt a wait'n'see attitude on adding a host of new ones.

When MB3 is in the beta cycle and the active skinners have adjusted their skins for the new look,  the need to do these elements, and others, could be re-visited then.

[Steven]

Overrides for things marked in green (high priority) and yellow (low priority): http://i.imgur.com/I03IVKt.png

for the play/pause icons is it just the colours (prefered) or the entire image?

[endeavour1934]

Overrides for things marked in green (high priority) and yellow (low priority): http://i.imgur.com/I03IVKt.png

for the play/pause icons is it just the colours (prefered) or the entire image?

Entire image, but it's probably the less important one, so it can wait for a future release.

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About the headers/columns colors... well, it's not really needed right now, but I think it makes a lot of sense:
- Unifies each column/panel color (looks better)
- You could assign, for example, alternating rows only to the main panel (it's the only place where they're functionally needed), so the playing tracks element could be in a narrow side panel without alt. rows but have them when you move it to the main panel. Right now you have to choose a specific look for it, whatever the panel it's going to be in.
- If a skin has 4 different colored side columns/panels and the user is only going to use 1 or 2 of them, they can choose between different colored panels to put their elements.
- Simplifies the skin making process (right now all the different settings mixed between elements and panels it's a bit of a mess - but they could work as overrides, if anyone wants to use them)

The cons are obvious, it's a lot of work for you to change all that right now. Maybe you should leave it for a future version.

[Alumni]

The last couple items on my wishlist;

16x16 icon override for the 'add new tab' button
Fill/empty bitmap support for the volume slider

[Steven]

16x16 icon override for the 'add new tab' button
Fill/empty bitmap support for the volume slider

i will probably do the Add New tab button override.
You should be able to do a custom volume slider via a bitmap skin

[Alumni]

i will probably do the Add New tab button override.

That would be great.

You should be able to do a custom volume slider via a bitmap skin

Yeah but I meant having a fill color for the volume slider, like the progress bar.