stevel
great job boosh :)
Gonzo 2.0 boosh
The Original Gonzo Feather - Purple Rainified
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for those that just can't let go..
Release Notes
-Update for 1.10
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klint
Very well done, boosh...Sometimes greatest things come from someone getting bored ;)
@stevel: I hope you will replace the current Gonzo "1.0" theme in 1.4.1 by that one before shipping Songbird.. or remove the current broken Gonzo 1.0.
Will you?
Yves
Thanks =) It was like a purple ink dropped in my eyes ...
boosh
@GeekShadow: agreed and updated!
@Klint: Gonzo is gonna be removed for 1.4.1 final, so i uploaded this.
BR-Charles
People,
what about hide the left service pane, like in "Pane buttons" add-on?
boosh
@BR-Charles, That's something that's only available with Gonzo based feathers. And this is a Purple Rain based feather now. I'll try to look into it if I can add that back. But the Pane buttons addon has a mixed future, the author, atreiu, has been missing for many months now. Feel free to join the search ;-)
JulienFrance
Erreur : Feathers Metadata Reader: An error occurred while processing extension urn:songbird:addon:gonzo@songbirdnest.com. Exception: TypeError: skin[prop] is undefined
Fichier Source : file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Songbird/components/sbFeathersManager.js
Ligne : 439
boosh
@JulienFrance: Thats actually not me, my feather's internal name is gonzo-2@songbirdnest.com. Do you have the "More Gonzo" addon installed? It might be an issue with that. If you don't have More Gonzo, I would suggest filing a bug.
KotW
Welcome back Gonzo! Thanks so much for revising it - I thought it would have been self-evident to ship an updated Gonzo with SB 1.4.
sin
@boosh
You save me from purple nightmare. Thank you
Chlorophyll
Thanks for this!
One small issue though: (which led me to create a songbird bug titled 'no version info displayed in 'About songbird...' - I already closed it in the meantime as invalid!)
It is nearly impossible to see the songbird version in the 'About songbird...' dialog (white font on nearly white background)
boosh
woops, ill fix that, thanks Chlorophyll!
HOLOGRAPHICpizza
Thank you for making this, I can't stand the new terrible purple theme. The thing I hate most is the HUGE miniplayer! If you could bring back the old miniplayer in a theme, that would be amazing!
foolishgrunt
I second (or third) the movement for the smaller miniplayer. I thought the original Gonzo miniplayer was one of the best miniplayers I had ever seen, and was really bummed when they scratched that style for Purple Rain.
boosh
@HOLOGRAPHICpizza, foolishgrunt: Hopefully the next version of WindowShade will support gonzo 2. I emailed Mook a fix for it. If you are antsy, you can get it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49620/Songbird/windowshade-gonzofix.xpi
BR-Charles
Really it's one of the best songbird add-ons. Should stay forever :)
xplosneer
One problem: Even with the mini player as it is, the "expand" "+" button switches it to the mini player... that the player is already in. You can bypass this by right clicking>main player, but the actual button doesn't work.
boosh
hey xplosneer, seems like multiple feathers are having this problem (Ne+, Purple Rain, Gonzo2), its filed as Bug 19547, ill try to investigate more.. Thanks!
Mook
boosh, is it possible to remove the !important declarations in feathers.css starting at line 1245, in the /* PLAYER CONTROLS */ block? They don't appear to be necessary, and with that windowshade would work without changing the root element id (well, not that there is a point now, since you already include an equivalent layout ;) ).
See updated windowshade (imported your CSS; thanks!).
boosh
mook, sure thing! Thanks!
xplosneer
@boosh
Oddly, I switched to purple rain and it worked, but I surmised that it would not be a skin issue initially. Thanks for the bug lookup :)
Malte
Beautiful feather. Is it in your power to do something about the two thick bars at the bottom and the right? (I mean those bars that help to drag out add-ons, in case any are installed.) Or is there an easy way to solve it myself? They take quite some space and I have a small screen.
Cheers!
boosh
Hey Malte, it depends on what you want to do with them - Firstly it is probably easiest to do so by installing Stylish.
If you still use display pane addons and just want them smaller, load this in Stylish:
#displaypane_right_sidebar_splitter {
min-width:10px !important;
width:10px !important;
max-width:10px !important;
}
#displaypane_contentpane_bottom_splitter {
min-height:10px !important;
height: 10px !important;
max-height:10px !important;
}
10px being how small you want it(default is 22). You also might want to edit the images that they are made from. Located: path to profile/extensions/gonzo-2@songbirdnest. com/chrome/skin/splitter/
If you want them to be gone for good, load this into stylish:
#displaypane_contentpane_bottom_splitter,
#displaypane_contentpane_bottom,
#displaypane_right_sidebar_splitter,
#displaypane_right_sidebar {
display:none !important;
}
Rolle
This was quite what I was looking for (since More Gonzo does not support those fancy new panes), but the footer and titles in playlist rows are very ugly. I'm going to stick with my modified More Gonzo...
Rolle
Argh. Is there easy way to make Main Alternate for this? I have tried but always end up banging my head to the wall. Display panes just won't work.
boosh
Hey Rolle,
I actually did support Main Alternate in the first couple versions of Gonzo 2, but i took it out for reasons that i have forgotten now. If you look through the previous versions(first one, 2.0.0?), and open up the install.rdf you'll see these lines:
<songbird:compatiblelayout>
<description>
<songbird:layouturl>chrome://more-gonzo/content/xul/mainalternate_pp.xul</songbird:layouturl>
<songbird:showchrome>true</songbird:showchrome>
<songbird:ontop>false</songbird:ontop>
</description>
</songbird:compatiblelayout>
Thats what you need to add. I think alfredkayser just added the '_pp' on the end of 'more-gonzo/content/xul/mainalternate_pp.xul' for "More Purple" support.
And also, could you send me a screenshot of what you have compared to Gonzo so I can try to improve it for you. Thanks!
Rolle
Many thanks boosh. I will try that tonight. Here is the screenshot of my current Songbird. I have made some modifications to More Gonzo with Stylish (hiding elements I don't need or use, for example nav bar, menu bar, some bars, borders thinner and elements nicer etc.), but Display Panes won't work.
I'm more than happy to help developing Gonzo because that's the only feather I like to use. I have tried several feathers and I just don't like the others... this or nothing :-)
Rolle
@boosh: Okay, I tried it, but there is no "Alternative" option in menu after installing customized gonzo 2 xpi. Also tried Gonzo 2 v2.0.0 but there is no alternative either. So what's up?
boosh
Mmmk, looking through More Gonzo versions, he did do the "_pp" for Purple Rain feathers but then took that version down, so just add:
<songbird:compatiblelayout>
<description>
<songbird:layouturl>chrome://more-gonzo/content/xul/mainalternate.xul</songbird:layouturl>
<songbird:showchrome>true</songbird:showchrome>
<songbird:ontop>false</songbird:ontop>
</description>
</songbird:compatiblelayout>
to the install.rdf. ('more-gonzo/content/xul/mainalternate.xul' without the _pp).
I'm not not sure why he took that version down(or didn't make a "More Purple") because it did work without breaking any of the features like the new display panes, might want to ask him to see whats up.
Rolle
@boosh: There is no Alternative view visible in menu if I put that... From where I can send PM for alfredkayser? This really bugs me.
boosh
No I don't, I'm sorry. You can try posting a comment over on his addon pages and see if he responds.
Lilmarsu
Hello all,
Rolle i like your Gonzo mod, can you post you modifications here ? Or explain us how u did it ? Thks
burden
I just upgraded from 1.4.3 to 1.7.3 and I really hate how the Search and the view buttons moved a separate bar lower rather than being a part of the Player Controls. Adds an unnecessary bar, and now switching to the internet doesn't auto hide the side bar on the left with my Library and stuff.
Just some things I though didn't really improve the addon.
Sunraycer
Hey boosh-
I noticed that only your Gonzo 2.0 and the simplyBlack feathers (of those currently working with Songbird 1.8.0) do any scaling with layout.css.dpi. rsjtdrjgfuzkfg thought that it may have something to do with doing a custom layout instead of building off the Purple Rain feather. Any idea what the difference may be when doing a custom layout?
boosh
Sunraycer, It seems to be working on all feathers for me; Purple Rain, ones w/ a custom layout, and ones w/o. So you may be hitting a glitch? (192+ being the only setting that works of course)
Sunraycer
@boosh
Somehow I goofed. I can't get it to work on this feather anymore, but it still scales on simplyBlack. I'm not sure what is going on.
What did you mean by "192+ being the only setting that works of course"? It looks like on most feathers it's 144 that it jumps from normal to huge. With simplyBlack I get a rescale for every dpi setting (110 looks different than 120, etc..)
boosh
Ya now i see what you mean on simplyblack. (for me its 192 cause I assume it depends on your monitor's DPI rating) On simplyblack it changes font size on select elements(e.g. Menubar, ServicePane headers, and tree[library] element text) but not on images until 192(144 for you) like all other feathers. Is this what happens for you?
If so, I did a little digging and found out why. If you look in his colors.css file and locate these lines:
description,
label,
menu,
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size:8pt;
}
He uses "8pt" for the font size, 'pt' standing for "point" (you will most likely see px(pixels), or em(%) used in css). But what pt does differently is it grabs your computers font settings (in this case it is hooked up through layout.css.dpi then to your computer). So if you need your favorite feather's dpi adjusted, you're gonna have to convert all the px's' to pt's in the various css files. But all the images still won't adjust until you reach that specific dpi threshold.
Sunraycer
Yeah, it does look like that's what's happening. It was hard to tell at first, because I was testing with two PCs with different DPI settings. (Text was too small back on the couch, so bumped DPI to 150% in Windows7. But had to disable for Chrome since it was blurry, and Songbird doesn't scale so it's still tiny)
I spent some time earlier today introducing myself to px, pt, em, %, etc. I just started looking at css for the first time a couple days ago while tryng to figure this out.
Thanks for pointing to a spot in the other feather where I can dig into it more. Maybe I need a new scalable feather if that's possible....task for another day.
rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
@Sunraycer,boosh:
Understood Sunraycers issue a bit wrong - thought it would not scale at all ;)
Nice to see this solved :)
krischik
Hi, You just dropped from 5 star to one star. I like my fonts as they are and I don't want your tiny once thank you very much.
boosh
krischik,
I have never changed any of the font settings from the first release to the latest. Did this happen upon upgrading to 1.9? What is your OS? What is your version of Songbird? Version of Gonzo? What are your DPI settings? Screenshot? Maybe you hit [Ctrrl]+[-] accidentally?
krischik
Sorry, you are right. The newest Songbird deletes the "layout.css.dpi" setting on start-up resulting in a unreadable GUI (and least for those without 120% eyesight). Well another case of accessibility sacrificed on the altar cool and hip design and I have no words for such an inconsiderate behaviour which would not be considered an insult in most civilisations. Not you fault, so you got your 5 stars back. It is the nicest Songbird design out there.
krischik
To bad that changing the font sizes in prefs.js won't affect menus and dialogues.
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GeekShadow
@Boosh : You rules.
- You should put the original bird on faceplate
- New playlist servicepane node should be white