To 4# Yes, images has a little bit more of Saturation... agree that should have less. When deleted the box images speeds up way faster the skin, is why i did. About the state colors of the buddies, is like latest WLM does, and i think is pretty more simple than adding an extra icon next to the buddy to represent it (and since small images are hardly to represent in a clear way). So, that won't change. If i add more black colors in the skin, i should change many others images. So, i don't know.
Cheers. 2009/3/26 Youness Alaoui <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> > Ok, well my opinion is this : > > 1 - Ship only one skin.. adding more skins will just make our download file > bigger, no need for that when users don't care. > > 2 - I don't like the minimal skin, I tried it, and it's dead ugly, I do not > believe that it represents aMSN properly! It is also a "skin based on > pidgin", but we are aMSN, we have our own identity and I do not beleive that > we should have a default skin that is a copy of another software! > > 3 - The attractiveness in the minimal skin is that it's fast and small > memory footprint (I guess)... but we only chose it as the 'fast skin' > because of its name!!! It's called minimal, so we think it's the best we > can get.. that's wrong. I believe that we should instead make our default > skin use less cpu/memory! The CPU is mostly taken for constantly resizing > the images in the background box of the groups in the CL, and in the chat > window's top bar, etc.. we should make a skin that do not use these features > and that's all we need! > > 4 - The screenshot of the newest saphire that vivia posted looks nice! no > more box, which makes it quite nice and probably speeds up the CPU usage, > however, I think the orange/green are way too flashy and they hurt the > eyes.. I think the colors should have a lower tone... also, most users don't > like the colors per status thingy, so we should maybe try to make it pretty > much black with just small variations... I don't know if you understand what > I mean... > > 5 - maemo will have its own .deb, so if you think a skin fits better for > that platform, then make that skin the default! Same applies for anything > else, ubuntu could use the 'human' skin as default, etc.. anyone is free to > have specialized skins per arch/distro.. but the official default one should > be something that we all like and that is universal and that we think > represents aMSN clearly, and I believe the current Saphire is close to doing > that! > > 6 - Taken from here : > http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=37140#37140 > > a few suggestions on what a user thinks about the current default (his > views might not be everyone's views, but still interesting to consider) : > > [quote] > > 1- In the contact list, no boxes and plain white background would be > better. > 2- Top part shouldn't be white to differentiate it from the contact list. > 3- Contacts take up too much space (make images smaller.) > 4- No colored nicknames based on status (or make it optional). > 5- Blue icons with shadows and simple gray layout don't go together, so > either everything blue with shadows (like Windows Live Messenger) or > everything simple (like the skin you mentioned). > 6- Icons in chat window are too big and space between the text areas is too > wide. > 7- Messages in the chat window should begin a bit to the right (relative to > 'Contact says:'). > [/quote] > > I think about his comments that : > > - 1, 2, 6 are valid.. > > - 3 and 4, more or less : the CL images are a good size, but maybe just a > liiiiiitle bit smaller would be better and, the coloring should be very > subtle rather than very flashy > > - 5 I don't understand that stuff > > - 7 is unrelated to skin... > > That's my 0.03 CAD > > KaKaRoTo > > 2009/3/26 Mirko Hansen <baaa...@gmail.com> > > Minimal skin as default skin? Well, I don't know if that's a good idea. >> There are many people that rate software after their first look, so if they >> see our great screenshots on the homepage, download it and then "only" see >> aMSN with the minimal skin, it's not the best first impression. Sure they >> can change the skin, but I there are so many people that kick away software >> that doesn't fit their imaginations from the beginning. So I think we should >> let Sapphire be the default skin if possible. Maybe we could decide >> depending on the OS which skin is the default: >> Memo, Windows < XP, and maybe other OSs that are run on systems with lower >> resources for sure = minmal >> others = Sapphire >> >> >> 2009/3/26 Vivia Nikolaidou <vi...@ee.auth.gr> >> >>> >>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Boris "billiob" Faure wrote: >>> >>> > I fully agree : minimal by default + ship Sapphire. >>> >>> OK - which version of Sapphire? IIRC this is the most recent screenshot >>> of >>> the most recent version: >>> http://amsn.lnxteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sapphire25-alt.png >>> >>> Should we make a forum poll? >>> >>> > About the aWLM2009 skin, we may not be able to ship it due to licensing >>> > issues. >>> >>> IIRC there are no licensing issues as long as you redesign every icon >>> from >>> scratch instead of copying it - you can even GPL it. :) I'm not sure >>> though, can anyone tell me for sure? >>> >>> > BTW, we should ask the author of the minimal skin to complete it a >>> > little bit. >>> >>> Yes - and if he can't, we should complete it. >>> >>> Vivia >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Amsn-devel mailing list >>> Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Amsn-devel mailing list >> Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > > -- Gustavo A. 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