My aim here was to try and create a skin with elements I quite dislike in a way that I might like them (I was bored, OK)
3 main skin turn-offs for me are dark skins, skins with full width action windows and skins with images for tree backgrounds (there are not many out there because they're hard to do as the background image constantly resizes as the action window expands and collapses)
If you spot anything that's broken or just needing a bit of TLC, please let me know.
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Edit: 28/07/2015
I have begun work on trying to get this skin to work correctly with the new scaling/dpi stuff introduced during the MC20 cycle. There is a way to go still, but I think that I have fixed the main UI breaking up when it is moved away from 100%.
Download the attached zip file and extract it somewhere handy. It contains a single mjp file. Double click on that and MC will download and install the skin. When I post an update to the skin, just double click on the same mjp file and it will download and install the updated skin.
Edit: 19/08/2015
I think this is done now...
The whole skin should now scale quite nicely. Some changes have been made, most notably:
- Background images for the tree, tag window and options windows now tile rather than stretch. I think this works better, but has meant that the "top down" lighting effect in the tree has had to go. This can be put back if it is preferred.
- The player display window had to be tidied up. I couldn't get the desired effect to scale up without looking awful, so what you see now is the compromise I arrived at.
- The experimental tag window has been skinned, shown in the image in the first post.
- Scrollbars have been made a tad wider (4 pixels only).
- Most of the skin has been reworked to fascilitate scaling, resulting in them being tidied up, as the 1:1 originals were hiding a multitude of sins! This has also meant some slight changes to shading and colours in some areas. Overall, scaling issue notwithstanding, I'm happy to call this final. Hope you enjoy the results.
Edit: 18/11/2015
Skin updated to handle the scaling changes introduced in build 21.0.23. This means that if you are using any version of MC earlier than that, the window control buttons (close, minimise, maximise etc.) may be missing or incorrectly placed. If this is a major problem, let me know and I'll try and sort out a backwards compatible xml file.
Edit: 25/01/2018
Tag Window fix along with a bit of a change (because I can't help myself
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If you don't like it, just let me know and I'll change it back. It's just an xml change so not a lot of work.
Updated (24/11/2019)Added suitable colours for the new MC 26 waveform progress bar.
Updated (11/06/2022)Integrity checked xml vs filenames. Skin should now work correctly on Linux.
Added a Spotlight button.
Set the Spotlight page background colour.
Toned down the default button brightness a little to make it less distracting, especially in places such as the 'links' manager.
Edit (04/02/2023):Updated attached mjp file, which should now work for Linux and Mac as well as Windows.
-marko.