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[ein]

Spoiler: Hahaha, you're all gonna die. (click to show/hide)

[Aklyon]

eep.

[dragonshardz]

Is there anyone who's good at making Rainmeter skins? I want to combine the functionality of Enigma's iTunes player with the design aesthetic and tab functionality of Stikma, but have NO IDEA where to begin doing so.

Help?

the rainmeter site has a pretty good reference/tutorial iirc.
skins are just fairly simple text files, you should be able to hack the two into something without too much trouble

I'm aware of this - I've hacked about with skins myself. It's just a bit imposing to repurpose two different sets of code for it to function, then actually look nice and do stuff I want it to. The code for the iTunes stuff is actually pretty simple, but the code for Skitma's open/close animation is far from simple. I've also no idea how that code will affect the iTunes code, etc., etc.

I'll take a whack at it over the next week or so, see what I can do.

[ECrownofFire]

Is there anyone who's good at making Rainmeter skins? I want to combine the functionality of Enigma's iTunes player with the design aesthetic and tab functionality of Stikma, but have NO IDEA where to begin doing so.

Help?

the rainmeter site has a pretty good reference/tutorial iirc.
skins are just fairly simple text files, you should be able to hack the two into something without too much trouble

I'm aware of this - I've hacked about with skins myself. It's just a bit imposing to repurpose two different sets of code for it to function, then actually look nice and do stuff I want it to. The code for the iTunes stuff is actually pretty simple, but the code for Skitma's open/close animation is far from simple. I've also no idea how that code will affect the iTunes code, etc., etc.

I'll take a whack at it over the next week or so, see what I can do.

The obvious solution is to haphazardly copy-paste everything together.

[Keita]

Spoiler: Hahaha, you're all gonna die. (click to show/hide)

Picture plz, wish to use =3

[dragonshardz]

The obvious solution is to haphazardly copy-paste everything together.

Well, yeah. And then shudder at the ugliness or bugginess and fix it.

[ein]

Spoiler: Hahaha, you're all gonna die. (click to show/hide)

Picture plz, wish to use =3

Spoiler: Modified version for red and 1366x768. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Massive original version. (Note: only has two colours so you'll have to play around with that to get the red, you can't just paint some red over the top. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: New picture, because I'm crazy and sometimes go through three desktops in a day. (click to show/hide)

[dragonshardz]

New one:



Slight editing done to get the RocketDock and context menu to show at the same time.

Stuff I used to acheive this:

Rainmeter
-Corner Calendar skin
-Dark Glass skin
-Stikma Rain
-Malice Tab
-Engima

Tanzo7 theme

And RocketDock.

Don't have my iTunes thingie working yet. I've contact the guy who made Stikma Rain and asked him if he could do it, sine my attempt is godawful ugly and barely usable.

[lordnincompoop]

Looks a bit cluttered.

[SolarShado]

New one:
>snip<
Slight editing done to get the RocketDock and context menu to show at the same time.

Stuff I used to acheive this:

Rainmeter
-Corner Calendar skin
-Dark Glass skin
-Stikma Rain
-Malice Tab
-Engima

Tanzo7 theme

And RocketDock.

Don't have my iTunes thingie working yet. I've contact the guy who made Stikma Rain and asked him if he could do it, sine my attempt is godawful ugly and barely usable.

the taskbar changes... are just a win7 theme? 

[Rose]

what? haven't you seen the win7 taskbar?

[dragonshardz]

Looks a bit cluttered.

It's actually not - I had everything expanded for the picture. The things on the left side retract offscreen and the RocketDock docklet retracts as well.

the taskbar changes... are just a win7 theme? 

Yup. Have to do a couple registry tweaks to get it working - that being taking ownership of ExplorerFrame.dll and replacing with a modded version to allow the taskbar and so on to look the way it does, and a one use of a utility that allows you to change what your start button looks like.

[Keita]

Spoiler: Hahaha, you're all gonna die. (click to show/hide)

Picture plz, wish to use =3

Spoiler: Modified version for red and 1366x768. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Massive original version. (Note: only has two colours so you'll have to play around with that to get the red, you can't just paint some red over the top. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: New picture, because I'm crazy and sometimes go through three desktops in a day. (click to show/hide)

Thank you very much!

Also love the new one!

EDIT: CURSE YOU VISTA! Not letting me use it T.T

[SolarShado]

the taskbar changes... are just a win7 theme? 

Yup. Have to do a couple registry tweaks to get it working - that being taking ownership of ExplorerFrame.dll and replacing with a modded version to allow the taskbar and so on to look the way it does, and a one use of a utility that allows you to change what your start button looks like.

ah, so there are some minor hacks involved
still, looks cool. definitely not your average windoze desktop

[ILikePie]

Found this configuration on Gnome-Look yesterday, and spent some time tinkering with it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also, pstree is awesome.

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Anyone know how to stop xcompmgr from drawing shadows on the conky window?