[SKIN] B R I T E v0.12 [2.004.5/2.004.6]

parena · 03-14-2008

My first skin, hopefully in the end will be a complete revamp, but it's ready for use since v0.11.

Note: I actually forgot to update the startup image to say v0.12 instead of v0.11. The image will be fixed in the next release.

Changelog v0.12
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Available now are different resources with different top bar colors and default backgrounds: blue, green, grey, orange and pink
Sacrificed the "Purple" text string to display "Green", to make selection of the menu bar more clear (nobody uses the purple font, right? )
Added small folder icon
Added big (pictures) folder icon

Don't forget to check the screenshot. Yes, the album art is real. Check out how to get it. Both Linux and Windows versions of the script are available.

Font and some icons look slightly smoother in the screen shot than the real version.

Repeat and Random icons heavily inspired by screen shots from our good friend, the iRiver Clix 2.

Any suggestions for existing things or the missing ones are really welcome. Icons, wallpapers, anything. Eventually, I'll probably release the image source files as wel, for anyone to use them.

Screenshots

Other downloads

BRITE wallpapers v0.11.zip

kalel90 · 03-15-2008

Ooooh its been awhile since we've had a nice clean minimal skin.
Good job!

Err0r · 03-15-2008

The album art is interesting. I'm excited to see how it will work in practice though.

puffel · 03-15-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Err0r

The album art is interesting. I'm excited to see how it will work in practice though.

I guess you mean the mirrored image. I don't think this works

Still your skin is really nice and simple, although I don't like the wallpaper. I'm excited to see the final result.

lite · 03-15-2008

Yeah , That cant be possible.. , It would be neat though.

parena · 03-15-2008

I can guarantee you that it works. Been using it for a while, myself.

It's not a hack or anything, just creative scripting. Like I said: the script fetches your albumart from Amarok and with some ImageMagick it creates the image and places it on your M6.

Anyway, just wait and see, it works.

The wallpaper I am working on, actually. Any suggestions? I'm doing them more with vertical lining (bit blurred).

lite · 03-15-2008

So you can just put album art onto the M6 like normal and the M6 magically creates a mirrored version underneath , or is it pre-edited with an app?? Because i cant understand how youve done it to get the M6 to convert the image for you...

Edit: Ah , Yeah i see from the pictures , Youve edited the album art pictures on your computer so they have a mirrored image underneath then transferd them onto the M6 , yes?

parena · 03-15-2008

I'll quote myself on this one:

Quote:

Originally Posted by parena

the script fetches your albumart from Amarok and with some ImageMagick it creates the image and places it on your M6.

It's an external script. All I have to do is:

Code:

meizu_amarok_albumart true <full_path_to_background_image>

Obviously, meizu_amarok_albumart is the script. "true" is to set 'fancy' on. If you leave it, it will just create 80x80 images from the original albumart it finds. The background image is needed to fake the transparancy.

I'll try to document it clear enough so that runs anyone who runs Linux, has ImageMagick installed (lots of distros do this by default I think) and uses Amarok can use this.

Edit: almost. It finds the originals and modifies a copy and puts that on the M6.

parena · 03-15-2008

Okay, this is the wallpaper type I have now. Don't know if I'm really happy with it, but I like it better than the old ones.

edit: okay, replaced the image again. No more blurry stuff, just subtle color change.

kalel90 · 03-16-2008

What font is that?

parena · 03-17-2008

I seem to keep quoting myself :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by parena

Different (open source) font: Liberation Sans

Linky!

kalel90 · 03-17-2008

Thanks.
Are you using the default boldness settings?

parena · 03-17-2008

Here are the settings:

Code:

Liberation Sans
Liberation Sans
Liberation Sans
DEFAULT
600
600
600
0x0021 0x00ff

kalel90 · 03-17-2008

Thanks again.
Hmmm i just thought of something you should make a brother/sister theme to this called DARK and use dark colors but keep the same layout. (after brite is done of course because i want to use it lol)

parena · 03-17-2008

I was thinking of exactly that. I have a bad habit of not finishing things because I want to get started on something new, though. So I really need to focus on finishing BRITE first.

*focus focus focus* :D

parena · 03-17-2008

Okay, here's the work in progress on the calculator. First setup. I will probably use a bit smaller font and not all texts are nicely aligned horizontally. Not too happy about the 'screen' (where the numbers will appear) yet, either. It also shows the new wallpaper. Works quite well, I think.