Anyone using XP want to share any experiences changing the UI of the bar? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:40 AM Subject: [DQSD-Devel] [ dqsd-Feature Requests-577675 ] XP Taskbar UI Ugly
> Feature Requests item #577675, was opened at 2002-07-04 23:40 > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=432069&aid=577675&group_id =42081 > > Category: Interface Improvements (example) > Group: Next Release (example) > Status: Open > Resolution: None > Priority: 5 > Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) > Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) > Summary: XP Taskbar UI Ugly > > Initial Comment: > The problem is the 'look-n-feel' of the deskbar with XP. > There was a suggestion posted for a previous deskbar > version that had to do with setting the background for > the body to a bitmap. I was able to get this to work but > it required building the appropriate bitmap and fiddling > with quite a few of the top/height values in search.htm. I > have not been successful in implementing a > similar "patch" with 3.0. Adding a background bitmap > to the body has a couple of problems. One problem is > that it appears to use that background for the help box, > not just the deskbar. The worse problem is that the > deskbar takes up all space in the taskbar so the > background bitmap fails to show through. And, I have > not been able to find the appropriate values to adjust > (presumably still in search.htm?) without leaving pieces > of two deskbars showing in the taskbar and/or getting > script errors when I resize the toolbar. Can someone > help identify the values necessary to change. Further, > may I suggest that the values necessary to > shrink/relocate the deskbar within the taskbar be > abstracted to one of the "local..." files so that they can > be tweaked. On the other hand, is there just a way for > the deskbar to make itself look right in XP? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=432069&aid=577675&group_id =42081 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > DQSD-Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ DQSD-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
