Author Topic: MetroTouch (Read 37426 times)

Bee-liever · **on:** December 02, 2012, 03:19:48 AM

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Maintenance of this skin has ended.

The replacement skin for MB3.0 is available here.

Go To Finalised Version in Reply #13 >>

With apologies to lnminente

~~Rough trial of a touch screen version of MetroColours as requested by joebanana~~

~~MetroTouch~~

~~Made on MusicBee 2.1.4716~~

~~Download~~ see Reply #13 in this topic

Installation guide (if needed) is available here

~~I don't have a touch screen, so if joebanana, or anybody else, would test this and leave some feedback, before I clean the images up and do the rest of the Metro colours~~

joebanana · **Reply #1 on:** December 02, 2012, 07:32:53 PM

Works very well.
I won't comment on the look as of yet since you mentioned you would work on them.
I would LOVE if you coul give the buttons a more modern look. Actually, a Metro look would be awesome.

And finally, I like a light theme (i use Metro Light Cyan) so if you could keep the same colors, that would be definetly wicked.

Do all that, and I'll have a x-mas present sent your way

Bee-liever · **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:39:02 AM

Quote from: joebanana on December 02, 2012, 07:32:53 PM

I would LOVE if you could give the buttons a more modern look. Actually, a Metro look would be awesome.

When you say Metro, are you talking Win8 Metro (now Modern), similar to my Wing-ated skin, or are you talking Metro/MetroColours?

A pic, similar to what you would like to see would be great, if you can find one.

joebanana · **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:32:58 PM

No I was more thinking something like this:

Bee-liever · **Reply #4 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:55:04 PM

Gotcha!
I can do a bit more work on this now

mtone · **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2012, 04:16:27 AM

Perhaps an interesting design for buttons would be Metro apps' toolbar style (when you right-click the app to access the menus). They're touch friendly, clean, and could be transparent over a dark color unless set to "on" (eg. Play when playing).

I also like that the color of active buttons is only inside the circle - much cleaner than a huge bright blue square in my opinion.

Here's a screenshot of the Metro Reader app:

Bee-liever · **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2012, 05:13:05 AM

Thanks for the info mtone
I'm still working through ideas fro this, and as the only touch screen device I have is my phone, it's great to get some other input.

joebanana · **Reply #7 on:** December 06, 2012, 07:03:34 PM

Quote from: mtone on December 06, 2012, 04:16:27 AM

Perhaps an interesting design for buttons would be Metro apps' toolbar style (when you right-click the app to access the menus). They're touch friendly, clean, and could be transparent over a dark color unless set to "on" (eg. Play when playing).

I also like that the color of active buttons is only inside the circle - much cleaner than a huge bright blue square in my opinion.

Here's a screenshot of the Metro Reader app:

Exactly, I like that very much!

Grim944 · **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2012, 10:16:10 PM

I got this skin for my the PC in my car. It looks great. Please keep a dark color choice. Bright colors are hard on the eyes at night.

Is it possible to make a playlist selection button or area that can be touched easily?

Bee-liever · **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2012, 11:19:10 PM

Quote from: Grim944 on December 07, 2012, 10:16:10 PM

Is it possible to make a playlist selection button or area that can be touched easily?

It's not a current option available in the bitmap skins.
You make the request in the Wishlist, and if Steven makes good with it, I'll add it in.

And I'll be doing a light and dark version

BinghiFire · **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2012, 09:53:30 AM

Windows 8 use the Segoe UI Symbol font for the icons in the metro ( modern ui ) App's ,
nice and clean ,as i know there are saved in the SVG format.
Here is a nice visualization of the icons :

Segoe UI Symbol image

lnminente · **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2012, 05:04:56 PM

No apologies Bee-liever, i declare all my skins open source since now. If need any source image not released just tell me.

Bee-liever · **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2012, 10:14:14 PM

Thanks lnminente. (although still don't feel 100% right, messing with anothers hard work and creativity $:-\$ )

Quote from: BinghiFire on December 09, 2012, 09:53:30 AM

Windows 8 use the Segoe UI Symbol font for the icons in the metro ( modern ui ) App's

Unfortunately, it's not open source and you have to buy a licence to use it any redistributed software. Freeware or other.

Bee-liever · **Reply #13 on:** December 10, 2012, 11:20:20 AM

ATTENTION!

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The replacement skin for MB3.0 is available here.

MetroTouch

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