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Old 03-14-2008   #1
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[SKIN] B R I T E v0.12 [2.004.5/2.004.6]

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.

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BRITE wallpapers v0.11.zip
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File Type: zip BRITE_v0.12_blue.zip (2.67 MB, 233 views)
File Type: zip BRITE_v0.12_green.zip (2.67 MB, 82 views)
File Type: zip BRITE_v0.12_grey.zip (2.65 MB, 93 views)
File Type: zip BRITE_v0.12_orange.zip (2.67 MB, 100 views)
File Type: zip BRITE_v0.12_pink.zip (2.65 MB, 32 views)

Last edited by parena; 04-03-2008 at 10:09 PM. Reason: Mention windows version of album art script
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Ooooh its been awhile since we've had a nice clean minimal skin.
Good job!
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The album art is interesting. I'm excited to see how it will work in practice though.
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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.
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Yeah , That cant be possible.. , It would be neat though.
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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).
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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?
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I'll quote myself on this one:
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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:

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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.
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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.
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What font is that?
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I seem to keep quoting myself :P

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Different (open source) font: Liberation Sans
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Thanks.
Are you using the default boldness settings?
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Here are the settings:

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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)
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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
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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.
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Updated the first post with the latest work in progress screenshot, including new wallpapers and the calculator.
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Can't wait for this.
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Looks like a promising skin there, good luck with it parena
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Okay, more progress! The USB animation is finished, see below. Click it to see the animation.

Also check the first post for all of the progress.
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