[Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Dirk Meyer
Karl Lattimer wrote: > YAWN, i'm so tired, I promised you a peek, well, I've done one layout > for the website, its taken all night after having to do some other > jobs... I know this problem :) > I haven't set up any testing space as yet, so I can't start > having you black box testing the site

Re: [Freevo-devel] Opening Attachments

2005-09-29 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 21:38 -0400, Michael Francis wrote: > Sorry if this is a dumb question, Confucius say, "there are no stupid questions, only stupid people." :) > but how do you grab attachments form the E-mails? I see you're using Outlook Express, so I can't personally help you with that.

[Freevo-devel] Opening Attachments

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Francis
Hey everyone!! Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do you grab attachments form the E-mails? Plus, How do you validate and add keys? Should I use Thunderbird? Sorry, this is my first encounter with mailing list and attachments.   Just wondering on a side note, Is it possible to shrink p

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Bastian Farkas
renders just fine in opera 8.5 and looks great. On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:41 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > YAWN, i'm so tired, I promised you a peek, well, I've done one layout > for the website, its taken all night after having to do some other > jobs... I haven't set up any testing space as y

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
YAWN, i'm so tired, I promised you a peek, well, I've done one layout for the website, its taken all night after having to do some other jobs... I haven't set up any testing space as yet, so I can't start having you black box testing the site, there is a single page here, no graphics yet bu

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Bastian Farkas
I think the best thing would be, if the user could chose from about 3 or 4 different color designs. Tastes are different and personally i like blue very much. True its somewhat cold, but it is also a very calm colour. if you use red/orange, try mixing it with umber. another thing to obey is how col

Re: [Freevo-devel] website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > I can't speak to the skin subsystem, but I can say that the underlying > canvas architecture will have no technical limitations that I can think > of (except for possibly CPU limitations). Actually I'd better retract this statement. If

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:42 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > Another thing about theming, is there any chance of mng animations being > used, some simple animations when events occur could dramatically > improve the appearance of freevo. mng isn't supported directly by the canvas, but it's theoretica

Re: [Freevo-devel] website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:14 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > I'd like to hear what dirk has to say about the state of skins in 2.0, > and given some time over the next two evenings I may just have some cool > layouts and some nice eye candy to keep you tempted. I can't speak to the skin subsystem, bu

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
> > But for the logo, I kind of like the old one. It's only text and a > small rectangle behind it, but it looks kind of nice. Maybe replace > the "o" in the old logo by your idea of a logo. Let me reiterate that the VO device is as flexible as you want it to be, also, do we have something that

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
> What? That's the first time I heard about this. I try to respect > patents and all the stuff I don't agree with, but I will not respect a > color as trademark. So at least for Germany (or complete Europe), I > would like to have a green skin. I can't believe they have a trademark > on green here

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
Could you tell me where i can find an XML definition for the format used in freevo skins? I want to put a border around a rectangle, and i can find many xml formats which use similar syntax but non which use the same, is this pygame or something? or is it coded specifically for freevo? Cheers,

[Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Dirk Meyer
Karl Lattimer wrote: > Another thing about theming, is there any chance of mng animations being > used, some simple animations when events occur could dramatically > improve the appearance of freevo. No mng files (yet). But basic animation is possible. Maybe the switch to Tacks new canvas system c

[Freevo-devel] Re: freevo 2.0

2005-09-29 Thread Dirk Meyer
Andrej van der Zee wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering how far freevo 2.0 has come and if it > would be recommendable to start trying the CVS version > already. I hope to get a pre1 out at the and of the year. And I use CVS (==SVN) all the time but it is not as stable as 1.5.3. Dischi -- If you

[Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Dirk Meyer
Karl Lattimer wrote: >> I like the combination of "v" and "o", but I'm missing the playful >> style of the old blurr idlebar logo (see attachment). >> > > I think at present freevo is maturing fast, and in that sense so should > the design philosophy to go with it. I onlt do the hacking and wrote

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread cellis
Hi I agree with Karl, I always found that freevo, nice as it is looks a little 'blured' and too blue, and i like blue, I modded the background so that is was like sky, with my logo inthe corner, white (bits) made freevo fell more light and air and attractive to use. However i do like very much

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:30 +0200, Lucian Muresan wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: > [...] > > One thing which is getting to me alot of recent is the overuse of the > > blue colour, blue is a depressing colour (thats why they call it the > > blues) it is also cold and unwelcoming, red is too strong an

[Freevo-devel] Re: website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Lucian Muresan
Karl Lattimer wrote: [...] > One thing which is getting to me alot of recent is the overuse of the > blue colour, blue is a depressing colour (thats why they call it the > blues) it is also cold and unwelcoming, red is too strong and angry and > green is patented by microsoft for use on the xbox (n

Re: [Freevo-devel] website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I like the combination of "v" and "o", but I'm missing the playful > style of the old blurr idlebar logo (see attachment). > I think at present freevo is maturing fast, and in that sense so should the design philosophy to go with it. Skins and themes can play with the design as much as they l

Re: [Freevo-devel] website & themes

2005-09-29 Thread Soenke Schwardt
Hi! Karl Lattimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached is the logo i did for Dirk, I hope you all like it as this is a > style i'm going to try and adhere to. I like the combination of "v" and "o", but I'm missing the playful style of the old blurr idlebar logo (see attachment). Sönke -- 56)