ok, now my comments... 1 - the skin looks nicer now, much more simple! the CL : 2 - the CL top is still white which is too different from the low CL... 3 - the 'new mail' icon has a somehwat different style, no? could be only me.. 4 - the buddy icons skin color is too different, looks nice, maybe only need to get used to it, but is it necessary to have skin there ? 5- the expand (not collapse) group button doesn't look too good because the arrow is not centered.. 6 - the box around the group's name is a bit non centered too, too much space below and not enough above... but I like it 'slim'.. 7 - the dp frame in the top CL doesn't give the right feeling because you already have white padding in your own DP, so maybe show us what it looks like with the defaut aMSN DP (which is another pixmap we'd like to see) 8 - the 'spaces' star is maybe too big (even in emerald) 9 - the star in vivia's nick is weird, I guess you have your own smiley set, we'd like to see that, I think we should keep one smiley set (the current one) and not change it, people hate changes (especially for the smileys that we're all so used to see) 10 - the grey status isn't contrasted enough with the bg.. it's hard to read (a little) 11 - would be nice to have a VERY light, kind of like a watermark, icon of aMSN in the BG of the CL the CW : 12 - I don't like it that much.. 13 - humm.. looks like your DP has a very small padding, I thought it was bigger.. so it means the fram on the Cl is really with such a big padding? then it doesn't look good as it is.. 14 - the paddings everywhere (status bar, buttonbar, etc..) is too big, I hate it and I don't understand why almost all skins use big padding there, I like it when it's pad=0 or pad=2 maybe.. 15 - the tabs are too big, make them smaller please 16 - I like the arrow on the selected tab, it changes from the way it is now... but maybe make the arrow more noticeable.. or even do it like windows tabbar, have a 'sunken' relief or something.. but arrow is good! 17 - the buttonbar's buttons are black/white.. I don't know if I like that or not.. with the bg amd tabs, it makes too much grey in the window I think 18 - nice on the coloring of the buttons when hovered... 19 - the arrow for the show/hide dp looks like the group collapse/expand, but I don't like it too much, i think a vertical bar is better than a one small button..
That's it for now, maybe more to come.. thanks for the screenshots and the effort.. now concerning your skin as being default or sipped by default, I don't know, I still prefer emerald2, and I think most people prefer emerald2.. emerald was chosen as the new default not because 'we wanted a change' but because many users in the forums suggested it and wanted it to be default.. we already changed to emerald2 and people like it and we'd better stick with it. also I prefer how it is, it's still simple but nice looking, now that we removed the crystal/shiny look, it's even better.. So I'm pretty sure we'll keep emerald2 as the new default.. About shipping your skin, I don't know either, as I said before (was it to you?) i don't mind shipping it with amsn, but I don't see what makes your skin 'more special' than all the other skins that users contributed.. it's good, although not my 'style', but there are other good skins out there.. so.. the skin is good, I wouldn't persoanlly use it, but others will for sure, I wouldn't vote for it as the new default (replacing emerald2.. if emerald wasnt' there, I may have voted for it)... and for shipping it or not, as Is aid, I really don't mind, but what others think ? It will depend on the general decision I think.. thank you for your work:) KaKaRoTo On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:37:00PM -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote: > Hi, > I'm forwarding this email from Lee, he sent it 3 times to the ML but it keeps > getting bounced because of DNS > errors from SF or something.. > so read.. and reply! > > KKRT > > ----- Forwarded message from Lee Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; > d=gmail.com; s=beta; > > h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; > > b=IrJLruGdh9+KIuBJNAfSPwV5wAm4uMo9OQIXoJBv33xpV+fxZY4F+JuoATukTHK0rrID+KT5qUNPyq/3if6V87kDIWUUCykAGza9a3SUqEWBUCku2tEN9bbRlhziyD8jcGDG2KaTIXXWWkfTG+pr8tBQx0zZR+qxzwFcDXf5q/4= > From: Lee Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Fwd: new skin preview > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lee Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mar 27, 2007 10:46 AM > Subject: new skin preview > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I've been busy working on a new skin and I would like to get some feedback > concerning it. I've provided 3 links for you below so that you can comment > on each one. This feedback is very important to me, as it will determine > the direction that we move towards for the new default skin. I am torn > between which skin we should use as the default, as the original idea was to > take the emerald skin and modify it a bit to make it more appealing for > everyone, but my version of this skin has taken a somewhat different > approach (as seen in the screenshots below), and I'm afraid that it is > possibly too different from the emerald skin, so I'm really looking for > suggestions on how to proceed. Shall I continue to finish this skin that > I'm working on, or shall we wait for Gus to finish his emerald2 skin and see > the changes once he commits them to the default skin in svn? Shall we ship > both emerald2 + this skin that I've been working on? > > These screenshots each show something different. > > #1 shows the contact list + chat window, contact list shows the slight > difference between the emerald2 buddy icon and the modified emerald2 buddy > (green buddy vs. green buddy with skin color). > #2 shows the contact list + chat window, contact list shows user's display > pics. > #3 shows chat window with active button hover effect. > > #1: http://img458.imageshack.us/my.php?image=amsnclcw2mc9.png > #2: http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=amsnclcwwo8.png > #3: http://img458.imageshack.us/my.php?image=amsncwwd0.png > > Please let me know your comments, suggestions, and criticisms. Thanks! > > ~Lee > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
