ohh well, interesting talk.. I though of that and though of having a
message say "do you want your settings to be reverted to the skins'
settnigs" whenever you change the skin, just in case you choose a skin,
and you overrode everything so the skin looks bad, all that because you
didn't think of looking at it with its own settings (you overrode skin
settings because the old skin you were using was better with your new
personcal settings)..
well, Tom, what you say is true, but then I would ask "that contact of
yours changed his nickname for you to see his message in the nick, why
would you override that with a custom nick and never see what he was so
proud of displaying in his nick (a quote or "my birthday is tomorrow!!" or
whatever).. it's the same concept..
The idea of overriding the skins settings was brought up when we talked
about being able to choose the smiley's set independantly from the skin...
but some other things became interesting... example, that sash handle
thing/sash width.. that's an option I'd like to keep, but that guy on the
forums didn't want it.. a lot of you like the flashy colors on the 'top'
section of chatwindow for states, I'd like to put them all in one plain
color (for all states) for example... some (on the forums, a lot) ask for
something and I have to say "well, copy your skin and modify it).. some
people want white on black not black on white... it depends.. amsn is
customizable.. I do understand that a skin is a skin, but maybe someone
wants a skin with a tatoo :P
for the moment, this feature should be set by the user, not the skin,
because it has nothing to do with the 'skin'.. maybe we'll decide later to
have it as a skin option, but I think, not until we finish the preferences
dialog that lets us override those settings...
KKRT
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:30:18 -0500, Tom Jenkins
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know I talked to Youness briefly about this before, but.... what the
hell is the point of having an option that both the user and the skin
can set??? The skinner shouldn't care whether display pictures or little
fat buddy pixmaps are shown on the contactlist, it's the user that
cares. The skinner should provide both sets of pixmaps, and the user
should choose which they want. Last time I mentioned this, Youness said,
ok, well why not let the user option override the skin option. What's
the point in that? The whole point of skin options is for the skinner to
be able to choose how their skin appears to the user - a skin option
won't goive the skinner this if it's going to be overridden by a skin
option. Now, I can kinda understand if this was a setting relating to
fonts - maybe a skinner wants a fancy/different font used... and users
W,X & Y like that font, but user Z doesn't because it doesnt fit in with
his desktop theme or something....THEN it makes sense for the option to
be settable by both the skin and by the user.... but that's one of the
very few examples I can think of that's worth it. Maybe it's just me,
but I find it incredibly stupid! (I'm not accusing/insulting anyone,
just saying what I think of the concept :P)
Anyway, what do other people think?
Tom
Message: 3
From: Karel Demeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:11:33 +0000
Subject: [Amsn-commits] msn gui.tcl,1.1202,1.1203
Update of /cvsroot/amsn/msn
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv21037
Modified Files:
gui.tcl Log Message:
Thanks JeeBee
Index: gui.tcl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/amsn/msn/gui.tcl,v
retrieving revision 1.1202
retrieving revision 1.1203
diff -C2 -d -r1.1202 -r1.1203
*** gui.tcl 25 Jan 2006 07:01:02 -0000 1.1202
--- gui.tcl 25 Jan 2006 16:11:31 -0000 1.1203
***************
*** 34,38 ****
::skin::setKey contact_mobile #404040
::skin::setKey chatwindowbg #EAEAEA
- ::skin::setKey show_contactdps_in_cl 0
::skin::setKey tabbarbg "[::skin::getKey chatwindowbg]"
--- 34,37 ----
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