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Developed New eScheme for people to try

Started by DavidG, 2008.05.20, 00:58:37

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DavidG

Hi Everyone

I have been playing around with development of an eScheme.  I basically, took my Mac like Window theme and used it as the basis for my escheme.  I modified some of the mouse pointers in the Bubble escheme and used some of its icons. I added new system sounds, but at least on my system, only the default sounds work.  I am attaching it for people to try.  If WPS resets during install, just install it again and everything will be back to normal.  Why the WPS resets sometimes during install is beyond me. 

melf

Hi David.
I would have tried you scheme if I hadn't uninstalled eschemes again. I have begun to travel a little more in my work and have discovered that important functions in xwlan doesn't work if eschemes is installed. "Connect to hotspot" is one of them and add/edit profile. "Connect to hotspot" just doesn't work. I have to delete the widget, set MPTS to connect to "ANY" network and reboot. If I try to edit a profile, ecenter will close down. These findings are consistent - if I install eschemes they appear, if I uninstall they disappear.
I have bugreported that. Have you noticed that behaviour?
/Mikael

DavidG

Quote from: melf on 2008.05.21, 09:33:47
Hi David.
I would have tried you scheme if I hadn't uninstalled eschemes again. I have begun to travel a little more in my work and have discovered that important functions in xwlan doesn't work if eschemes is installed. "Connect to hotspot" is one of them and add/edit profile. "Connect to hotspot" just doesn't work. I have to delete the widget, set MPTS to connect to "ANY" network and reboot. If I try to edit a profile, ecenter will close down. These findings are consistent - if I install eschemes they appear, if I uninstall they disappear.
I have bugreported that. Have you noticed that behaviour?

I have never got xwlan to work even though supposedly my wireless nic is supported.  The driver loads, but I have no internet access.  This is before eSchemes is even installed.

I attempted to do a black theme and discovered it is near impossible.  Some text setting are tied to others when they really need to be separated.  In the end, the black theme trashed my system and I had to reinstall.  I think I found out why the new sounds don't work. eSchemes installs them to the root directory instead of where they should be installed.

David

melf

Yes, there is still quite a few issues with eschemes. Seems to be hard to construct schemes that works in all types of dialogues. Sometimes you don't see the icons, sometimes not the text. I hope these bugs is possible to get rid of cause eschemes really have capacity to lift the desktop.


/Mikael

Saijin_Naib

Once its fully functional, I'd like to step in and try my hand at skinning. There are a ton of Luna skins that are really beautiful and well done, I'd like to try and adapt them to eSchemes.

DavidG

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Quote from: David Graser on 2008.05.20, 00:58:37
Hi Everyone

I have been playing around with development of an eScheme.  I basically, took my Mac like Window theme and used it as the basis for my escheme.  I modified some of the mouse pointers in the Bubble escheme and used some of its icons. I added new system sounds, but at least on my system, only the default sounds work.  I am attaching it for people to try.  If WPS resets during install, just install it again and everything will be back to normal.  Why the WPS resets sometimes during install is beyond me. 

I modified some of the colors in my scheme and uploaded the revised MAC_Like.sch

Just scroll up to my first post.  I replaced the old MAC_Like.sch with my revised one.

One thing I have noticed is that sometimes I either need to run Unimaint or Cleanini  before  the old scheme is totally replaced with the new scheme.

DavidG

I created a new simple escheme called jewels that can be downloaded from the Canadian site for anyone interested.

http://ecomstation.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18

David

DavidG

I just revised the jewels theme.  Changed the sounds which at this point does not work in eSchemes 1.47.  I also changed the mouse pointers giving them more color since the control buttons are colorful.  Again the revised escheme can be downloaded from the Canadian site.

David

Saijin_Naib

Do you have a screencap of the applied scheme? Not that I'm going to bother with eSchemes for a long while...

DavidG

Check the Canadian site for a pic.  There is something wrong with this site.  Barerly able to post a message.

David

DavidG

I have posted a new picture of another escheme I am working on. For lack of a better name I am calling it XP_Clone.  It can be found it the same topic at the Canadian site.

David

Saijin_Naib

Very nice. Does eSchemes allow you to skin all the window components or just titlebar, buttons, radio, and colors? I have reworked the default XP luna skin to a very sleek black/grey version and I'd love to make an eScheme out of it, but only if every object is skinnable, otherwise, it just looks horrible IMO.

DavidG

Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.06.02, 07:35:21
Very nice. Does eSchemes allow you to skin all the window components or just titlebar, buttons, radio, and colors? I have reworked the default XP luna skin to a very sleek black/grey version and I'd love to make an eScheme out of it, but only if every object is skinnable, otherwise, it just looks horrible IMO.

You can change the control buttons, radio and checkbox buttons, mouse pointers, sound, titlebar colors and text colors.  You can also change background colors, however, it does not allow one to gradient the colors except for the titlebar, nor at this point allow one to apply a skin over an opened window.  It would be nice if one could do gradients to the backgrounds such as the properites pages.

David

Saijin_Naib

Aw, that's a bit of a dissapointment. I was hoping I'd be able to change the scroll-bars, everything, window frames, etc. Ah well, I'll stick to fiddling with Luna for now.

Speaking of, eCenter/xCenter should be color aware, or at least the icons need to not be all gray so it looks goofy as hell if you change its color like it does now. :shudders:

Also, I think you should be able to grab something, hover on its title in the window list in ecenter, and have that window raise to focus like in Windows, it makes things so much easier than having to get the windows ready beforehand then drag across. I work with most apps fullscreened :\

DavidG

Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.06.02, 07:49:27
Aw, that's a bit of a dissapointment. I was hoping I'd be able to change the scroll-bars, everything, window frames, etc. Ah well, I'll stick to fiddling with Luna for now.


You can change the scrollbars and windows frames.   The problem is that this is not the only thing one changes.  Unfortunately, the scrollbar is tied to the color of the SYSCLR_ButtonMiddle.   The Scrollbar setting is for the background color and not the scrollbar itself. The checkbox text and radio text background colors are also tied to this setting.  With the window frames, you are also changing the outlines of the scrollbar and other buttons.  As a result, one cannot do what one always wants to do.

David