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Title: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: BartMan01 on April 09, 2010, 11:36:52 pm
Is there a 'skin' for MC that makes it Aero Glass like everything else in Windows Vista/7?  The normal Glass appearance just affects the outer bounding box of the window, not scroll bars or anything actually inside the window.  Noire Glass has transparancy throughout and that (at least on my machine with most of my backgrounds) makes a lot of things unreadable or too garish to look at.
Title: Re: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: BartMan01 on April 09, 2010, 11:44:17 pm
An example of the 'unreadable' comment:
(http://pfeffernet.com/temp/Untitled.png)

Title: Re: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: rick.ca on April 10, 2010, 01:51:16 am
It can be adjusted using View - Skin effects...
Title: Re: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: marko on April 10, 2010, 04:31:25 am
The "Seamless Glass" (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=50925.0) skin only uses transparencies around the program border, though the lack of internal boundaries may put you off....
Title: Re: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: Mr ChriZ on April 10, 2010, 06:30:07 am
There's a quite a few bugs with the aero glass implementation
Here's another, look underneath the player area:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/559/aeron.png
Title: Re: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: ThoBar on April 10, 2010, 01:36:44 pm
There's a quite a few bugs with the aero glass implementation
Here's another, look underneath the player area:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/559/aeron.png
Yup, i've posted a number of times about the semi-transparent background not being resized correctly too.
Title: Re: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: BartMan01 on April 11, 2010, 03:38:41 am
It can be adjusted using View - Skin effects...

That is better, but still not a proper Aero Glass implementation.  The only thing that should be 'glass' is the border around the application frame, not borders w/i the frame itself.  As an example, open up IE and put a bar to the left (history/bookmarks/etc).  The border between the left frame and the right frame is NOT glass.  With MC, every border inside the program window is glass too.
Title: Re: Noire Glass <> Normal Aero Glass
Post by: rick.ca on April 11, 2010, 04:09:37 am
I was only pointing out what you were referring to could be adjusted. I suppose I could have also mentioned I find the skin too flaky for regular use, but I don't care enough to attempt to describe what the problems are. I'll stick with regular skins and trust this will be sorted-out in due course. Meanwhile, (dare I admit it?) I seem to be sort of stuck on marko's iCopy 9 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=55829.msg379299#msg379299). It's a fun way to tease mac users when I show them how a real media manager works. ;)