Author Topic: From Dusk Till Dawn  (Read 115744 times)

ma_t14

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Why skinning window borders is not possible with the new version? (dusk)

mikebo

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Because I haven't done the borders yet, so I decided to turn them off for now. I'll re-enable  them in the next update.

Alexis

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Thanks for your great work.  Looking forward to the updates!
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silasje1

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Thanks, could you maybe make the colors between tracks a bit more harsher? So it is easier to see ?
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Zak

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I'll add my name to the list of people who really like this skin.

Nice work. :)
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spacepanda

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Really love the dusk skin - but I feel like there needs to be a little more variation in the different elements!

Kaelri

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This is really beautiful. I'm using "Dawn" now, and I agree with the earlier poster who said it would make a pretty great default skin for MusicBee.

I do think the alternating row colors in the song list are a little too subtle right now. I have a glossy LCD laptop screen, and I can't even see them unless I look at my screen from an angle. The "Search" and "Panel Layout" toolbar buttons are also invisible for me, but I gather that's outside your control? I think the other buttons (e.g. New Tab, Back/Forward) are great, though. I like that the overall color scheme is simple and gets rid of unnecessary elements.

A few other (extremely) small quibbles:

- When the left sidebar is collapsed, the playlist-select button is a white triangle. It should probably be either black, or gray like the other toolbar buttons.



- The "up" arrow button on the main scrollbar seems to be a few pixels below the top edge of the column headers. The horizontal gradient also looks a little weird when the right toolbar is open. I'd probably make it a shade or two darker, rather than solid white.



- The corners of the tabs look a little thinner than the sides. They could use a little smoothing out.



Yes, I'm being a total nitpick here, but only because there's nothing else to criticize. It's a gorgeous skin through-and-through. :)
Last Edit: March 18, 2012, 08:29:07 PM by Kaelri

beehive

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Nice Skin!! For Dusk I like the green dots in the preferences, but I think the check marks should also be green for consistency. Is it possible to implement?

mikebo

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Little update (download link in first post). I've added window borders and some other fixes.

Nice Skin!! For Dusk I like the green dots in the preferences, but I think the check marks should also be green for consistency. Is it possible to implement?
Done

I do think the alternating row colors in the song list are a little too subtle right now.
Thanks, could you maybe make the colors between tracks a bit more harsher? So it is easier to see ?
Done, however it will depend on your display settings so results may vary

A few other (extremely) small quibbles:
Sorry, but I can't fix those.

Again, thanks for reporting the issues.

Steven

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anyone using this skin will need to get the latest patched version 2 beta for it to work correctly as i makes use of a new vertical centering setting

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

mikebo

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anyone using this skin will need to get the latest patched version 2 beta for it to work correctly as i makes use of a new vertical centering setting

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip
It doesn't :)
I'll update the skin for 2.0, maybe even today.

Kaelri

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I do think the alternating row colors in the song list are a little too subtle right now.
Thanks, could you maybe make the colors between tracks a bit more harsher? So it is easier to see ?
Done, however it will depend on your display settings so results may vary

Looks perfect for me, at least. Thanks for the update!

beehive

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Thanks for the update. Another consideration for dusk will be the highlighted track color? Maybe the same color green as the dots and checkmarks? Only because it can be a little difficult to see. Thanks

Blinghound

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I noticed that the album rating is a strong blue colour when unrated, and white when rated. Can it be changed to the background colour as is in the album & track view? Thanks a lot, I really enjoy this skin. :)


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Using this skin now and find it a joy to use. Great job!