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Title: Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: mkutsen on November 18, 2003, 09:35:41 am
I, for one think that Bzero was a much cooler choice for the default Mega-Me skin than Blue Steel.
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: kiwi on November 18, 2003, 10:36:28 am
Could you post a link to at least screen shots of each skin? and/or to the thread to download them from?

kiwi
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: sraymond on November 18, 2003, 12:19:10 pm
I use a modified BlueSteel...  a light background and orange Office2003-like highlights.

Scott-
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: nameless on November 18, 2003, 01:06:04 pm
OK, where can I find "BZero"?
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: LonWar on November 18, 2003, 06:20:08 pm
That took a little while to find.. (Needed it again anyway)

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=10087;start=msg60479#msg60479
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: JorgeGVB on November 18, 2003, 06:39:16 pm
I voted for Blue Steel, but I am not totally sold on it.  Although it does look pretty cool on my laptop using the negative skin effect (didn't have the same feel on my CRT though).  

I wish one of the Skin gods at J River (or other guru's) would update the old Tekno or Optimal Skins from MJ 8.0.  BTW, whatever happened to Moo?
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: nameless on November 18, 2003, 06:41:39 pm
That took a little while to find.. (Needed it again anyway)

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=10087;start=msg60479#msg60479

Thanks.  OMG, what an atrocity that thing is.
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: rocketsauce on November 18, 2003, 06:51:46 pm
There should be two default skins to choose from on install. A Win9X-style skin and a WinXP-style skin.

Rob
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: xen-uno on November 18, 2003, 06:56:44 pm
Blue Steel with PixOS a close 2nd. I changed BS's vertical scrollbar background "dashes" to a light yellow. Looks good and doesn't clash with what I'm wearing.

10-27
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: kiwi on November 18, 2003, 07:10:16 pm
I have been using PixOS recently... I should of course preface that by saying that I can only use it with the "greyscale" skin effect.

Similarly, I find the BlueSteel skin is improved in "greyscale" mode as well.

I find the controls on BlueSteel to be a little clunky looking and unrefined.  In addition, they are too bright.

I can't wait to try the metal snow skin.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16334 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16334)

kiwi
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: gpvillamil on November 18, 2003, 09:11:30 pm
I use a modified BlueSteel...  a light background and orange Office2003-like highlights.

Scott-

Post a screenshot and your mods! Sounds interesting.
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: sraymond on November 18, 2003, 09:54:13 pm
I use a modified BlueSteel...  a light background and orange Office2003-like highlights.

Scott-

Post a screenshot and your mods! Sounds interesting.

Here's a screenshot:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/BlueSteelMod.jpg (http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/BlueSteelMod.jpg)

Nothing too fancy... and I'm not smart enough to get rid of the black border around the AW.   Another thing I can't figure out is how to backshade the toolbar icons and menu names when they're selected - I don't think the MegaMe SDK allows this.

I wish it were possible to do a better replica of Office 2003 - I really like the aesthetics.  I've been playing with a really great RSS feed aggregator called FeedDemon - the author did a great job of matching Office 2003.  I'd wonder out loud what skinning engine he uses, but I don't see JRiver changing any time soon.

Scott-
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: jleerigby on November 19, 2003, 02:21:34 am
Nice Job Scott.  Any chance you can zip it up and post it for download on the other board?
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: jleerigby on November 20, 2003, 02:15:46 am
Scott - Just the main.xml would do it..
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: sraymond on November 20, 2003, 09:48:16 am
Scott - Just the main.xml would do it..

Here you go...  http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/main.xml (http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/main.xml)

Scott-
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: LisaRCT on November 20, 2003, 10:27:26 am
Here you go...  http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/main.xml (http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/main.xml)
Scott-

Thanks Scott   ;)

Nice variation.

BTW, I 'voted' for Blue Steel as the default skin and I still feel so.   :P
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: jleerigby on November 20, 2003, 05:10:55 pm
Thanks Scott.  Nice.
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: Madcow on November 20, 2003, 05:28:11 pm
I still like PixOS best of all - I don't like skins with dark backgrounds.

Blue Steel looks better with a light background.  I have no idea how to get that though - the screenshots posted here look better than the "negative" effect gained through the Skin Effects menu.  I guess I'm still something of a novice. :)
Title: Re:Default Mega-Me skin?
Post by: sraymond on November 20, 2003, 07:41:12 pm
I still like PixOS best of all - I don't like skins with dark backgrounds.

Blue Steel looks better with a light background.  I have no idea how to get that though - the screenshots posted here look better than the "negative" effect gained through the Skin Effects menu.  I guess I'm still something of a novice. :)

Simply replace the BlueSteel's "main.xml" with http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/main.xml (http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/main.xml).

Scott-