aero glass and transperancy?

[Dreadlau]

I just discovered that Foobar also have completely transparent ( with aero effects) skins!

This one for example:

[vpsaxman]

Niccccccce!

[rovingcowboy]

so how do you see the words.? make huge fonts to block the background?
put a solid color in the backgroud of the skin?
whats the use of the full transparent window thing other then to eat up cpu cycles.
and make it hard to click on the links
in the menu with out going to the icon on the desktop behind the menu.

nope i still like the background only seen when i look at the desktop when i am looking at a program i want to see it.
i'm stuck in the mud and digging in deeper you'all have ta get a bigger grip on that rope if you going to drag me in to
this transparent stuff. cause i'm not willing to move to it.

[Mizery_Made]

That looks awful, in my opinion.

[Dreadlau]

Yeah it's not a very good skin. But so what?

I posted that screenshot to show you that foobar now supports completely glassy skins.
That's a great advancement in skinning capabilities. It's the first Media player I see that can do that.

Isn't that exciting?

[Eyal]

That's a great advancement in skinning capabilities.

I do not like it either. I think it lacks substance.
This type of skin has no interest and would be completely unreadable when over another window.

[Dreadlau]

Found another one. ( So that you can write how awful it is )

[rovingcowboy]

but my jungle background would make this hard to read also.
and i would not know what to click on the icon or the monkey in the desktop theme.
i could change the desktop them to a startrek one but then i'd have all the ships in my player
making hard to see that one too?
um? maybe the circus image?
nope the clowns have too many colors on and make it hard to pick a font color.?
my semi truck desktops? no same thing too many colors in it.

i just can't seem to find any way to use photos as a desktop and still use transparent skins,
it needs to be a solid color to get the fonts readable.
and changing my desktop back to win 3.1 style of solid desktop color is just not going to happen.

[Lowlander]

I do think it looks gorgeous, but I'm not sure I would use it. I jumped on the transparency bandwagon in the early 2000's, but now I don't find it that practical anymore and the cool factor has been lost after a decade. Besides on my all black desktop there isn't too much to see.