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Modern Cards: Mica skin series

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Awesome Donkey:
These are forks of the current Modern Cards: Grey Edition and Dark skins that better fit the Windows 11 aesthetic and are the successor to the old Modern Cards: Acrylic series of skins I released a few years back. My other/older/Linux skins can be found in this topic.

Some notes about these skins:


* Because glass (transparency) in skins only works on Windows, these skins are Windows-only. They likely won't look or work correctly on Mac or Linux because transparency/glass isn't supported on Mac or Linux in MC.
* These skins come in three varieties, Modern Cards: Mica Light, Modern Cards: Mica Dark and Modern Cards: Mica Dusk
* These skins have a semi-transparency inspired by the Mica (and MicaAlt) material. Worth noting it doesn't exactly match the Windows 11 amount of transparency, noise and gaussian blur used in the Mica material itself (if you know how to replicate this in an image, please contact me!) but it tries to come as close as possible.
* These skins support Windows 11's rounded corners when Media Center is windowed if using Media Center 34.0.19 and newer.
* These skins have been synced against the current changes made to the Modern Cards skins by EnglishTiger in MC34, so special thanks to ET for all that hard work!
* There are a few other main.xml tweaks made, including to the system button positioning to eliminate the empty pixel line on the edge between the edge of the frame and the edge of the close button (to exactly mimic what happens in Windows 11).
* Unlike the old Acrylic skins I released, these skins do support scaling, YAY!
NOTES: Modern Cards: Mica Dusk is a fusion of the dark skin's main frame with the light skin's inner lists and a white search bar. Also for best results I recommend using the Segoe UI fonts or the Segoe UI Variable fonts in Media Center's settings when using these skins, to help better fit the Windows 11 aesthetic.

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/rqygshtrynfr6og/ModernCardsMicaSeriesv1.02.zip/file

How To Install (Windows):

Drop the folders into C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 34\Skins\Standard View if using the 64-bit version of Media Center. If using the 32-bit version of Media Center the path would be C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 34\Skins\Standard View. If you're using another version of Media Center (e.g. Media Center 33) just substitute 34 for the version of Media Center you're using in the paths above.

Here's some screenshots!

Modern Cards: Mica Light




Modern Cards: Mica Dark




Modern Cards: Mica Dusk




Changelog:

1.02: More updates and tweaks to the skins from the upstream ModernCards Grey/Dark skins by ET, so thanks to him for this!
1.01: Started adding version numbers for updates. Synced with the changes ET made in the upstream ModernCards Grey/Dark skins (hopefully addresses the things marko mentioned, let me know if not!) so thanks to both of them!


Enjoy! :)

P.S. Yes, I do intend on doing updates to the Linux skins. There's been changes the last few years I need to adapt to and update for.

Awesome Donkey:
Did a minor update with some main.xml changes suggested by ET, and fixed the minimize/maximize buttons for the Dusk skin, while uploading the screenshots to an alternate site. :)

bytestar:
I love your skins, the mica update is just beautiful. 😍

Thank you

marko:
Morning AD.... Finally got around to having a look at these...

I won't really use the dusk or light variants, so didn't do a deep dive into those. "Dark" may, or may not need attention, depending on your intentions...

Here's what I found:
The InPlaceFindToolbar is not being used, so MC pulls the white one from default skin items, which just looks wrong to me? I added to main.xml here, looks better.
The list group header is not being used. The required image is there, just not used. I think this one can come down to personal preference. Mine is to use it, so I added it to the main.xml here :)
The skin uses greyscale icons in the tree and action window, but then uses full colour icons in the options tree. Options.png is referenced in the <ART> section, but the file is not included in the skin folder. I added one here, and it's a better fit, to my mind at least. If you agree, I've attached mine here if you want it.
There's something not quite right with FrameTopBorder (the black border is too thick) but I've not had time to figure that out yet :)

The stock "Modern Cards: Dark" skin also has all of the above issues. And should probably be fixed? For a more professional look, feel and new user experience, default skins should really be as close to perfect as possible.

bob:
On a Mac 4k retina I get an odd top region.

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