CommunitySkin 4 Open development thread.

[McBainUK]

I'd like CS Blue to have some graphical options out of the box, so like I hinted at earlier I'd like to have CS Blue and CS Blue Dark with glossy and matte elements. I'd also like to include 3 different task image sets. This along with formatting options would give a little bit of customizeability from the default install.

What are the images you've sent already? Just straight CS Blue, or CS Blue shiny, dark, glossy, or XXX?

[Hairy]

As I said what you guys have is just the barebones, but will probably go on to form CS Blue Glossy.

Are you looking for info on folder naming structures or are you looking to pull the trigger, (on that note did you get my PM?).

Also if you'd like it laid out loadable from the skin plugin, let me know and I can format it for that.

[McBainUK]

As I said what you guys have is just the barebones, but will probably go on to form CS Blue Glossy.

Are you looking for info on folder naming structures or are you looking to pull the trigger, (on that note did you get my PM?).

Also if you'd like it laid out loadable from the skin plugin, let me know and I can format it for that.

I am looking at folder naming structures at the moment. "CS Blue - Glossy" is my thought for this default theme.

A SkinPlugin version would be A++. Prehaps even a saved theme file...? Could you include the other files that match also?

or are you looking to pull the trigger, (on that note did you get my PM?).

Yes I did. No timeframe as yet. Trying to get a handle on what needs to be done at the moment.

[Fatman_do]

No time frame at the moment Hairy. We can always "pre-release" before all the tweaks are nailed down.

[Hairy]

Cheers lads,

I'm a demon for timetables As I said I've no real idea of the technical side of what you guys are doing so I can't form any sort of time scale, and I don't want to be letting the side down.

MaBainUk: I'll get on that skin plugin saved theme, it might be padded out with an assortment of older graphics though

[McBainUK]

Created this page as the Google code wiki is a bit nasty. Feel free to add/remove/edit comment on any of the tasks.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...ion=browse

[Fatman_do]

Well that is nicely put together.

[Fatman_do]

Added a list of plugins to cut from installer. This is still a work in progress.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...ySkinTasks

Some of these plugins do work. They just aren't worth the effort to continue foward with. If someone requests one of these, we can add as a separate download.

[Fatman_do]

[*]Change selector composition to include masks for easier color change.

Not likely, further investigation shows that calling all these images from the baseskin.xml is not possible. Some plugin screen elements to not favor "DrawCommonImage" which must be 100% of the element.

[*]Add new selector images for popup box lists.

We can add this. I will edit the popup dialogues this week for the SVN.
PopupList_Selected.png
PopupList_Normal.png

[Fatman_do]

I am willing to drop all "Unsupported" plugins from the installer. Many of the older plugins have tedious install procedures and old common library files. Most casual users would never be able to get these to work if they didn't know about manually creating plugin folders and such.

I/we can add these as "ala cart" downloads later. I just don't have the time to go through all these.

Opinions?