csdahl01
One of the best feathers I have seen for songbird! One idea is to lighten up the diagonal stripes in the current song box(the box with the bird in the middle/top-center). Keep up the good work.
Glossy Coat LIB53
a shinier songbird
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This is my first feather. I would greatly appreciate constructive comments and tips. I hope you like it. I'm also looking for ideas for a new feather.....
This is where i got the wallpaper from: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/index.php?w=&h=&sort=date&id=&page=2
I know someone will ask. :P
Go and get Glossy Coat 2!
screenshot: http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=glosyycoat10db7.jpg
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Schwadegan
So damn nice!
One thing though, the progress window is really annoying with those stripes. I hope you don’t intend to keep it like that …
But this is a great first job :)
SonnyJim
Love it.
the stripes don’t really annoy me, but wondering if it were possible to round-off the edges of the progress window at all?
Btw love the fields background from the screenshot, where’s it from?
LIB53
Thank you, I’m glad you like it.
I will try to round the corners, but that throws off the stripes, which i might remove remove later due to what people are saying.
I got the background from interfacelift.com
The exact link : http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=1545
csdahl01
The changes look great! I kind of like the stripes so don’t get rid of them. :)
komi
Nice–I like how the shuttle controls buttons pop.
LIB53
Thanks for the comments. I really do appreciate it. Now how about rating this feather? Who knows, this could be one of the most popular. :P
Schwadegan
may I suggest you remove left pane and make it one with the background?
LIB53
I don’t know how… :(
Schwadegan
Simply put the leftpane background as transparent and there you’ve got it!
I did it myself with this feather to try it out, and I thought it looked nice :)
But, its your call.
LIB53
Where do I go to edit that. I really can’t find it.
An editing leftpane backgrounds for morons would definitely be nice :)
Btw, removing the left pane background gave me a sweet idea, so I’m very eager to know how to do this.
Schwadegan
I could send you a copy of a transparent version if you want me to, but you’ll find leftpane editing in the colors.css , simply set the values desired for that pane t o transparent and remove (if any) code that includes leftpane pictures from the images.css code and it should be transparent.
As I said, I could with no problem put a link to a version without pane to help you if you want, just let me know and good luck!
//Schwadegan
LIB53
Thanks a lot. It worked. I didn’t see much of a difference though, but i kept it anyway. I was also able to learn a bit more about the CSS and have began working on a couple new things to push it up to 2.0.
Something that’s bothering me though is that i added an image to the background of the focused row, yet when songbird starts up, I still see the gray highlight it starts out with. What I did to achieve this was I went to images.css and added:
.servicepane-tree > treechildren::-moz-tree-row( selected current focus )
{
background-image: url(‘chrome://songbird/skin/backgrounds/shadow.png’) !important;
s/** Selected Focus Row */
}
(Don’t know what !important is, but i doubt that matters right now)
Schwadegan
if you put !important after a piece of code it might help as the !important value, as I’ve understood it, can force certain things to work in songbird.
extremfalke
best theme ever come accross^^
fnaax
really nice.
favorite skin so far
smirky
I love this feather!.
but …. the Mini Media Player doesn’t seem to want to
stay on top of all windows. I don’t know if this is new to
0.6 or not.
thanks for this!
LIB53
Weird. It does do that to me too, and only on this feather. I’ll try to figure it out, but i don’t really even know where to start looking. :(
smirky
Hm, well now I realize that other Feathers do the same thing for
me in Mini-mode… I suspect its something to do with Sb and
not Glossy (?) ...
Strange that its not the same for you, LIB53
LIB53
My only other feather is rubberducky. lol. Did you try that one?
smirky
Yes, that’s why I thought it was only Glossy at first,
because it was my only other feather as well.
So I installed a bunch of others to test them for the problem, and
all the feathers besides Rubberducky lose their ‘stay on
top’ function. Rubberducky still works as expected
tho…
This is only on my Windows version of Sb, haven’t tested it
out with the Mac yet.
LIB53
So it isn’t only my skin that does that. phew.
I really don’t have anymore work on this skin, or so i think.
If anyone requests stuff, I won’t mind, but I’m
thinking about making a windows media player 11 skin clone. I
mainly made this one as a little bit of a test to see how songbird
skinning works.
FazzMunkle
I love the piano finish type themes. Very nice.
poupougnac
Probably the best theme for SB. If I can give you a suggestion, make the same in grey (like an other popular player). That will be easy to motivate some communities to join SB. Great job, really!
LIB53
I tried to do it in white/grey, but i couldn't do it. I'm not that good yet. I just can't make grey seem shiny, or white. I just don't understand the colors. I've tried looking up some photoshop tutorials, but i got nothing. If you know something that would help, i would really appreciate it. Thanks for the comment. It made my day. :)
poupougnac
Ok LIB53, I'm trying to do it just on a JPG and I give you the file. I don't promise anything but I will try to make it. Thank again! well job!
dieguinho
Very well....!!!! thx 4 all
smackedme
Whatever, I like the stripes. Nice work. Simple, but it's cool.
gilgameish
Excellent, sinple and pretty, just like me!
tuxracer
This is my favorite theme so far! An update for 0.7 would be much appreciated!!
ragnar
I love this theme, please, please make a theme like this for Firefox!
LIB53
@tuxracer: ??? it is for 0.7. lol.
tuxracer
ah sorry. The preferences pane is messed up and I have compat override enabled so I assumed it just wasn't meant for 0.7.
LIB53
@ It is a rubberducky based theme. Among my list of "songbird skins to make" a Gonzo glossy coat port ranks pretty high. That could be a future solution to your problem.
petercaddy
Nice skin :)
ceyeber62
Nice try but it messed up my playlist: I could not enter numerical values and the alignment of buttons in the various dialogs was not very pretty. Also, the 'sticky' feature (?), was this intended?
LIB53
@ceyeber62
Alot of those errors are from being a rubberducky based skin. I don't think i'll be able to fix them unless i switch this to gonzo. I really am planning on switching it gonzo, but i'm pretty busy with other stuff right now, so you'll just have to wait.
mfgillia
Just downloaded it and really really like the look. My favorite so far. Not sure yet how stable it is but based on looks really hopes it works out. Thanks for the hard work. Agree with the one reviewer - a similar firefox theme would be great too.
kevin
It worked at first
and I liked it
but I don't know what I did
because the Glossy Coat doesn't work anymore
it want back to the original skin
and I did NOT Disable it
can any one help me?
LIB53
@kevin
check if you have the latest rubberducky dependencies installed. This an old school theme and requires that stuff. Any bugs can only do with that.
kevin
no that didn't work
ok but
I think I know what happened
so I was was trying different skins so I disabled Glossy Coat
I like Glossy Goat better so I uninstall the outer and enable Glossy Coat
and Glossy Coat didn't work
so i try what it did to an other skin and it did the something
LIB53
@kevin
What version of songbird are you using? That could be of use to know, but i'm sorry to say that skin is old and don't think songbird wants skins based on rubberducky to still be out and working. I heard the original rubberducky isn't even going to be updated to 1.0.
kevin
version 0.7.0
ok
thanks
LIB53
@kevin
it doesn't even work properly for me anymore, so you and I are just going to have to wait for me to finish glossy coat 2, which will be based on the new UI (Gonzo), and shouldn't have any of these odd problems.
kevin
ok
thanks LIB53
jayuk20
This is nice, would like to be able to have controls down the bottom
LIB53
@jayuk20
I'm guessing you weren't around for the days when Songbird was 0.6 or earlier, and used a UI called rubberducky, because this skin is based on rubberducky, which doesn't have player controls at the bottom. You're another person that's just gonna have to wait for Glossy Coat 2, which is coming along very nicely indeed... :)
oliiix
The only thing I wasn't able to do yet is to display the list, media flow together... Besides that it looks really great!!
Ghis1964
I can't wait for the up-date to get it.
This was the lightest and prettiest skin. Everything is easy to see in it(most black addon skin force user to guess his way through out functions)
Maybe you wait until x-mas to give us that as a gift lol;)
Peace
jackflapb
im not even upgrading to 1.0 till i get my glossy coat back..
i completely despise the default skin.. i can just see everyone saying 'oh you're using itunes' when they come over.. yeah nice
LIB53
This won't work unless rubberducky dependencies updates to 1.0 too. I'm making a Glossy Coat 2, and I'm almost done with it. If you want, you can give me your email, and beta test Glossy Coat 2. ;)
Russ
Hmm, the install button won't activate for me. Am I being an idiot?
LIB53
@Russ
This skin can't be installed on Songbird 1.0. This skin can't be supported anymore. Read my description above.
K.Money
I liked the classic Glossy Coat much more than Glossy Coat 2. That being said, I would rather find a different feather than go through the work to get classic Glossy to work.
My two cents.
LIB53
@K.Monkey
I know what you mean. I like the classic better too. But, for progresses sake, they have to give up rubberducky support. I'll try my best though in trying to remake this in Gonzo. Glossy Coat 2 wasn't a remake.
jackflapb
I actually moved over to aero bird, and then i realized that you made that one too! You're doing something right, I tell ya :)
LIB53
@jackflapb
thanks, you motivated me to finish two of my four feather projects for songbird. :)
BR-Charles
Please, bump it!
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GeekShadow
Cool one ;)