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Songbird Vista Aero style feathers with transparency
Is it possible to create a Vista Aero style feather for Songbird? I think it'd be rather nice if you could have a Songbird Vista feather which blended the majority of the dark area using Aero's blending technology, with adjustable opacity. Has anyone created such a thing? At the moment Songbird is sexy, but it could be more so with shadows and alpha-blending.
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Inappropriate?@reaxion try these feathers :
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/101
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/206
Can you try and made some screenshots for us ?
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Inappropriate?@Lenny: Are you going to give it a go? If so, keep us posted here and we'll happily beta-test for you.
@Geekshadow: I will give those a try tonight and put up some screenshots once I have. Thanks for your suggestion.
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Inappropriate?Sure, I'll give it a shot! But before I start, what colors do you wish this feather make use of?
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Inappropriate?Hi Lenny,
A glassy version of the current dark feather would be sweet!
I'm excited to see what you can come up with...
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Do you mean the rubberducky feather or my own sparkle? -
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Inappropriate?@GeekShadow: I've not had a chance to give them ago on my home machine yet, but I will tonight. I'll get some screenies up after that.
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Inappropriate?Sweet! Can't wait to have a look :D
If you need any help at all don't hesitate to ask, I'd be happy to help on this one.
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Inappropriate?Okay, I've tried the two suggestions from GeekShadow. Flyerfox won't work on Songbird 0.61. The second one, NativeBird, looks like a standard application window now with an iTunes type feel. Not quite what I was meaning, but a step in the right direction. I've attached a screenshot of how it looks on my machine.
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?im...
Now, using my rudimentary Photoshop skills, I've created a rough mockup of how I see the final look turning out, using the colour scheme specified by Vista, rather than one tied directly to the feather. Let me know your thoughts on that.
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?im...
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Inappropriate?I can do that. no problems, except one.... I've got to make the feather fit with all screens, but I think I'll be able to manage :P
Give me some time and you'll get a result. at least I hope so because that looks nice! -
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Inappropriate?@Lenny: I'm exited, too! I've tried to get parts of the main-application transparent some days ago, but i didn't got chance... I'm very interested on how you will do this :-) Keep us up to date!
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I'll be out traveling this week, but expect some progress the following Friday.
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Inappropriate?Great to see you're still interested in coming up with something, Lenny. Safe travels!
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Thanks!
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Inappropriate?Take a look @ Glasser for Firefox. May be helpful.1 Comment Add a comment
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Will do. Thank you!
