WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

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rusty
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WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

Post by rusty »

Hi,

We're getting ready to begin beta testing MediaMonkey 5 in the not too distant future, but before we do so, we'd like to get some skinners involved in order to develop a few skins and collect feedback on the skinning interface.

Are any skinners out there interested in working on MM5 skins? Note that MM5 relies on html/CSS for skinning, so you'll probably need to have some experience with that.

If interested, please send me a private message.

Thanks!

-Rusty
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Re: WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

Post by rovingcowboy »

Nice to see you are close to mm5 but I'm not doing skins anymore sounds like monkey rok skinners will be able to do it. 8)
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Re: WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

Post by Eyal »

rusty wrote:Note that MM5 relies on html/CSS for skinning, so you'll probably need to have some experience with that.
I'm very disappointed to hear that.
I can't retrace it but it was mentioned here once: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =4&t=80889
but from past discussions I was left with the impression that MM5 will allow us to easily create skins using a powerful new skin engine. "Users wont need to learn a complicated code-oriented software, it will be almost all graphic-oriented.

I'm not really active in MM5 development and I may be wrong to think that relying on html/CSS for coding graphic components is complicated, it seems it will be worse than it is now.

I won't mention the countless days/hours I spent with the archaic Theme Editor 7 and CSS files on different plugins (what a headache to change a simple thing as one font/color)...

To conclude, it also confirm that all the current skins we like in Mediamonkey won't be available in MM5.

Don't be surprised I still use (and love) my Mediamonkey version 3. It has everything I need.
Version 4 was too much for me, and version 5 seems out of reach.

Long life to MediaMonkey, anyway.

Eyal
Skins for MediaMonkey: Cafe, Carbon, Helium, Spotify, Zekton. [ Wiki Zone ].
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Re: WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

Post by jiri »

Really, skinning in MM5 is not only very powerful, but the basics are also easy to do, for example changing the basic color thorough the skin (i.e. all controls) is only one line in CSS. You know, HTML/CSS can be used in a nice way, but can also be misused and then the experience might be as you describe.

Jiri
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Re: WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

Post by JohnBookman »

HTML/CSS are great news! I'm very hyped to see MM5 in action one of these days!
Also, if I may suggest, you might want to also use <svg> instead of images for icons. This way people can just change colors of the default player icons through css without bothering with creating new icons.

You can even make two modes for skinning:
Color schemes - color scheme variations of the default skin (might even be as a built-in player functionality for an average user).
Complete skins - where a skinner can change MediaMonkey appearence more "in-depth" with his own css rules and icons.

I've recently read this article about <svg> icons on CSS-tricks, and it looks very promising:
https://css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use- ... con-fonts/
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Re: WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

Post by Chaos_Therum »

With html and css skins I might finally be able to make a skin finally my useless web design certification might come in handy.
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Re: WANTED: skinner with html CSS experience for MM5 skins

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Chaos_Therum wrote:With html and css skins I might finally be able to make a skin finally my useless web design certification might come in handy.
If you figure it out how's about writing a super simple step by step so us knuckleheads can do the new style. I'm sure there's a few more knuckleheads out there besides me. :D
roving cowboy / keith hall. My skins http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =9&t=16724 for some help check on Monkey's helpful messages at http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 4008#44008 MY SYSTEMS.1.Jukebox WinXp pro sp 3 version 3.5 gigabyte mb. 281 GHz amd athlon x2 240 built by me.) 2.WinXP pro sp3, vers 2.5.5 and vers 3.5 backup storage, shuttle 32a mb,734 MHz amd athlon put together by me.) 3.Dell demension, winxp pro sp3, mm3.5 spare jukebox.) 4.WinXp pro sp3, vers 3.5, dad's computer bought from computer store. )5. Samsung Galaxy A51 5G Android ) 6. amd a8-5600 apu 3.60ghz mm version 4 windows 7 pro bought from computer store.
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