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Awesome Donkey:

--- Quote from: JohnT on June 28, 2016, 03:55:57 pm ---Dihael said he'd be happy to see his work included in Media Center.  He's willing to provide PSD files, so if we can find someone to create scaled up versions of the lighter skins we'd have them all.

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I wonder if he was able to get started on a light version of the skin. If at least the buttons are done, it should be easy to finish and create both light and gray (for the Mac) versions. I'd offer to give it a try, but I can't draw things like the buttons. Assembling the skin would be pretty straightforward, I'm thinking.

IMO, ModernCards is the best skin available for MC. And it's the only third-party skin that supports scaling, as far as I know.

blgentry:
Just my opinion but...

Modern cards is "eh".  It's ok.  It's not bad.  The light versions are just about unusable for me because the fonts are so tiny and the whole thing is just blaringly bright.  The "dark edition" is much more usable, but again, it has rather small fonts.

Skins are a matter of personal preference, tempered with the hardware (display, graphics card, viewing environment) that one has at hand.  So opinions are going to vary.

Awesome Donkey and I tend to agree on a lot of things.  This is one where we don't.

Brian.

JimH:
Can you change the font size in MC's options (under View)?

Awesome Donkey:
If that doesn't work, you might want to try looking at the dark edition skin's main.xml file - I do see differences for fonts, e.g. the <Entry Name="Display" > portion where scaling isn't used (like in Noire).

Dealing with the font size issue(s) in the main.xml file shouldn't be too hard to fix, as far as I know. Today I'm going to attempt creating a light version of the skin... or at least partially create one (likely sans buttons, for now). I'll also log into my Mac partition and see if I can do anything about the fonts there.

P.S. How does one enable retina mode for use in a skin? Is Noire the only skin that supports this?

blgentry:

--- Quote from: JimH on June 29, 2016, 06:13:57 am ---Can you change the font size in MC's options (under View)?

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Yes.  Tools > Options > Tree & View > Advanced > Select font .

Unfortunately this causes MC to pick a new font.  I believe it's Lucidia Grande.  This font looks quite different than the default font.  I've never been able to figure out the default, as it's not listed anywhere (in the INI files) and doesn't show up in the font picker interface when trying to change fonts or sizes.

So if you change the font size, it's effectively a one way trip:  You can never get back to the original font without manipulating the User Settings.ini file.  Luckily I already knew this and I made a backup of the file before I made a change today as a test.  I was hoping that maybe this was working differently now, since you asked about it.  Unfortunately this functionality is still not exactly what you would expect, and for me, it's not a great solution.  It's pretty weird behavior really.

The good news is, I'm very used to the way that MC looks, with the default font, at 100% size settings, on my current system.  So I'm happy.

But someone might want to look into the font issue I've described above.

Brian.

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