Skinners, Artists, Coders, and Testers Needed: Community Suite

Happy Birthday!!

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 by ZubaZ | Discussion: Community

After the success on the Troll Thumping Day Suite some members of the Mother Thumpers are coming together to create the "Happy Birthday Suit(e)".

I envision this suite centered around a DX gadget that counts down to your birthday. On your birthday the gadget will prompt you to download the most recent incarnation of the suite components so for your special day, your desktop will celebrate with you.

At this point we have some components assigned to artists but this is a collaborative project and welcome input and assistance from everyone. Please jump in and help out if you'd like.

WB - theAVMAN - complete, uploaded
Vista Logon - RickJF - complete, uploaded
Dream - Carguy - complete, uploaded
Tabbed Docks - mommaTee - complete, uploaded
Zoomer Docks - mommaTee - complete, uploaded
XP Logon - RickJF, sAARge - complete, uploaded
Winamp - TheD2JBug - complete, uploaded
Avatar - Hog56 - complete, uploaded
SoundPackage - Robjk - complete, uploaded
DX Birthday game  - Haptork - complete, uploaded
DX Clock - theAVMAN - complete, uploaded
Dock icons - RickJF - complete, uploaded
RightClick - Lantec - complete, uploaded
Rainlendar - 2of3 - complete, uploaded
Bootskin - RickJP - complete, uploaded
IconPackage - MommaTee - complete, testing
Sidebar - Mike - complete, uploaded
Xion - alibear123 - complete, uploaded
Cursor - sAARge - complete, uploaded
Sysmetrix - Lantec - pending - drafts posted in thread
DX Countdown Widget - theAVMAN, milksama
DX Weather - puterdudejim - complete, uploaded
DX Calendar - puterdudejim - complete, uploaded


Launch date: Unknown at this point
(Happy Birthday Karma and Snowy! - Original date May 6th, 2008)

Please see the link below for the original suggestion.

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ZubaZ
Reply #921 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:28 AM
Ok, I'm converting them.
Converting what to what?  Maybe I missed something.
How goes the next version of the Xion skin?
Quintessential Player
??  I don't think that's a standard.  

alibear123
Reply #922 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:32 AM
Oh and what font did you use?

alibear123
Reply #923 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:37 AM
I was converting mommaTee's PNGs to Icons. Quintessential Player and the Visual Basic stuff isn't totally necessary, but I do Visual Basic programming, so I've got MS Visual Basic Express on my computer. I don't know why I've got Quintessential player on my computer. Talking about programming... I could write a basic program which takes you straight to the download page without even opening your web browser!

alibear123
Reply #924 Friday, July 25, 2008 9:25 AM
Ok, I've finished the program. If anybody wants to try it out, I'll email it to you in a .zip file.

2of3
Reply #925 Friday, July 25, 2008 9:45 AM
alibear:


mommaTee


July 23, 2008 16:00:50
I'm thinking about taking a crack at the IP set. Here's what I've got so far:



In reply #825, mommaTee states that she is doing the icon pack. She is just showing the .pngs to let us see what she's up to.

mommaTee
Reply #926 Friday, July 25, 2008 9:55 AM
alibear: Thanks for the notice as to what icons I have yet to finish . I know I've still got a ways to go, but I plan on sticking it out. As for converting them to .ico or an IP package, thanks, but I can do that meself. I haven't converted them yet because I don't think it's necessary till I have the entire set done. Thanks, again, though!!

Haptork: Thanks!!

alibear123
Reply #927 Friday, July 25, 2008 9:59 AM
Ok, I'll forget about the IP. But would you like a copy of the app?

ZubaZ
Reply #928 Friday, July 25, 2008 10:05 AM
But would you like a copy of the app?
Most folks here use Icon Developer, Icon Packager (both by Stardock) or Axailis Icon Workshop.

Alibear, I still think the XION skin needs work to blend.  Go back and look through the comments in this thread to see what you can do.

alibear123
Reply #929 Friday, July 25, 2008 10:07 AM
No, I mean the app that I've written to go straight to the search page without opening an internet browser. And I told you some of the problems that I had with the Xion skin.

ZubaZ
Reply #930 Friday, July 25, 2008 10:33 AM
And I told you some of the problems that I had with the Xion skin.
Are you done with it then?  Do you need someone to take it over and finish it off?

No, I mean the app that I've written to go straight to the search page without opening an internet browser.
If we were to go along this route, it's probably work best to use the WebBrowser activeX control in DX to launch the search page.  That way the user would not have to have a unknown, untested, unsupported app running.

alibear123
Reply #931 Friday, July 25, 2008 11:10 AM
Ok then, and I can have a crack at the Maxthon skin. I'll email you the latest updates of the Xion skin now - the uploaded version isn't the latest...

RickJP
Reply #932 Friday, July 25, 2008 11:32 AM
alibear123 there is a saying Jack of all trades master of none I think you would be better of working on your Xion skin learn how to skin it correctly before moving on to your next project.

If you have problems post them here and chances are that someone will help you over come them.

It is up to you give up and move on if you want.

sAARGe
Reply #933 Friday, July 25, 2008 12:38 PM
converting what to what


       ohh zu ...

okay ... got pngs from AV ..... so i can start cursor ...

a candle among horizantle angled lines ..... with animated flame ... is it okay ???

RickJP
Reply #934 Friday, July 25, 2008 12:45 PM
a picture is worth a thousand words.

most likely ok we trust you.

ZubaZ
Reply #935 Friday, July 25, 2008 1:00 PM
a candle among horizantle angled lines ..... with animated flame ... is it okay ???
Sounds good.  we may have a similar cursor done my a super-secret guest skinner too. 

theAVMAN
Reply #936 Friday, July 25, 2008 1:44 PM
Zubaz ..newest graphic packWWW Link

On the cowntdown widget were you thinking along the lines of a cake eruption so to speak?

ZubaZ
Reply #937 Friday, July 25, 2008 2:12 PM
Thanks theAVMAN!  Anyone who wants to take a crack at teh Xion skin or use the images from teh clocks . . they are there.  Many thanks to alibear123 for taking this from V1 to V3.x.  Great work getting it this far.

On the cowntdown widget were you thinking along the lines of a cake eruption so to speak?
I'm not an artist so I'll trust you on that.  I really like the style of RomanDA's Holiday Countdown widget.  That could be a loose guide.

milksama
Reply #938 Friday, July 25, 2008 2:47 PM

Zubaz ..newest graphic packWWW Link

In regards to the clock widget... very interesting development. I had no idea what Winky sounded like until now
Nice work on that, btw

On the cowntdown widget were you thinking along the lines of a cake eruption so to speak?

If need be, you could throw in some cake shrapnel that I could give some random velocity vectors.


Mike


ZubaZ
Reply #939 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:00 PM
Milksama, what do you think of on the birthday day launching a browser control to search for "birthday suit(e)" or do you have something cooler/better?  Originally I thought it would be good to download and run all the components . .but that might be a bit much.  A MyColors-like option to select your components might be fairly intuitive also.

milksama
Reply #940 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:06 PM

I think having something like that, where it opens a dialog and gives you some options about what to download might be interesting. I could have it initiate a search and parse out the results to include direct links to each of the themes.

Having it download them automatically would definitely be doable I think, but might become more complicated if there is a download limiter in effect because the user is not a current subscriber/customer. I was thinking of something like what ThemeManager would do though, where there could be multiple components for a suite not all downloaded, then you could pick and choose what you wanted to download and apply.


Mike


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