jrce

Hey just some helping points on the transparency:
in the window chrome of the colors.css file apply an opacity to the background color and it should become more transparent. note that this will also apply a transparency to the faceplate and the miniplayer. here is an example that I am using in my feather-in-development:
*/

wizard,
dialog,
window,
prefwindow,
sb-playlist,
page
{
background-color: #000000;
color: transparent;
opacity: 0.7;
}

notice in midnight whisper (my recently added theme) that i removed the left pane background entirely but make sure text stands out enough against your picture (i suggest adding the opacity over taking it out all together)

to implement a transparency behind the playlist, also play with the opacity but if you want there to be an image where the songlist does not reach the bottom, you can go in the images.css file and add a background image behind the playlist. my code is below:

sb-playlist
{
background-image: url(chrome://songbird/skin/backgrounds/background3.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

just play in photoshop to crop the image just right so it matches with the main pane background. (this will also be implemented in my new feather that is yet to be released. ill try and put it up this weekend although Im not quite finished with it yet. (it’ll be names something relevant to dark red/grunge/foliage fyi)

hope this helped :)
~JRCE

Superkoop

This feather really has a lot of potential, but right now this feather needs some work to make it fit in with itself better. Because the BG is beautiful, but we can’t really see that because of everything in the way. But it looks like jrce gave you some good advice there on how to make the background visible using opacity.
But one thing that you will need to address is the color scheme with the text, and making them more visible.
And the bug button needs some work, because there are still some pieces of the old image in there.
And if you need any help finding how to style any of the elements, I recommend DLing a feather that has a feature that you like, and looking through it’s source to find out how it was done.
And you are also most welcome to ask me for any other help that you need/want, and I will try to help with my limited knowledge. ;)
Cheers,
John

Superkoop

What .txt file do you want to extract? I don’t quite understand what you are asking.

Superkoop

You won’t have to add anything in the install.rdf But it would be a good idea if you would take what you already have, and just change the values instead of grabbing someone elses .CSS files. Since odds are they changed some things that effect more than you will want them to change.
If you want to just switch files though, all you will need to do is switch the files. Making sure you delete the old files from the directory, since you only need one file of each.

But really, what I recommend is that you just make the feather using the developer tools Add-on, and making a feather, and then changing values where you want them to be changed, and changing images the same way.

Superkoop

Hey no problem! Glad you are starting to get it figured out! =)

swenhalver

I modified this skin and made the library transparent. here’s a screenshot.

http://swenhalver.googlepages.com/prettylakemodified.jpg
if somebody wants the xpi just say so

swenhalver

Here’s the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wxg331hgyhz

swenhalver

Oh, and it works best if you change the settings to always have the tab bar on.