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 #941 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:10 PM
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.
Brilliant!  I know we have  a few walls and logons and soon cursors.

Sure is nice to have smarter people than me around. 

mommaTee
Reply #942 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:43 PM
Help file:


Still chugging away

RickJP
Reply #943 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:52 PM
Your do a grand job thereClapping 8

mommaTee
Reply #944 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:54 PM
Thanks Rick !

theAVMAN
Reply #945 Friday, July 25, 2008 5:05 PM
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.


I took a look and got some ideas !I will post a image when I get one

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

1st neither did I
2nd Thank you

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


That sound great !

I got a cool little scene going on in my head where on the day of your birthday the top of the blows cake shrapnel confetti balloons etc...

ZubaZ
Reply #946 Friday, July 25, 2008 5:20 PM
I got a cool little scene going on in my head where on the day of your birthday the top of the blows cake shrapnel confetti balloons etc...
I dig that too!

mommaTee
Reply #947 Friday, July 25, 2008 5:35 PM
That sounds awesome, AV!

HTML file and .TXT file (.RTF and .WRI same as .TXT):





I tried to make the writing look like icing. I think it turned out alright.

theAVMAN
Reply #948 Friday, July 25, 2008 11:13 PM
Maybe something along these lines (Starting point maybe)

ZubaZ
Reply #949 Friday, July 25, 2008 11:26 PM
I can work with that.   It's awesome

Notes:
  • platform may need to be shorter/thinner/smaller . . not sure
  • winky may need to be closer
  • paintbrush may need to be replaced with something  . . birthday-y
  • "Happy Birthday: text needs to be supported by  . . . something
  • needs a config button somewhere
  • needs a mini-mode (Maybe a present?  Maybe not)
  • min/max button (not sure about this based on next paragraph)
Config panel needs
  • date-time to countdown to
  • message to be displayed
Milksama . . is it possible to build a gadget so that it could be given away?  Let's say I know when Bichur's birthday is.  I want to add it to the widget and then give it to him.  He runs it and it sits in his systemtray or desktop counting away until it's go time.  On the day of (or the start of week of) it goes from minimode to maximode; always-on-top.  At X time on go-day it does it's magic and the user can pick what to skin.

zakai1369
Reply #950 Friday, July 25, 2008 11:54 PM
Notes:

* platform may need to be shorter/thinner/smaller . . not sure
* winky may need to be closer
* paintbrush may need to be replaced with something . . birthday-y
* "Happy Birthday: text needs to be supported by . . . something
* needs a config button somewhere
* needs a mini-mode (Maybe a present? Maybe not)
* min/max button (not sure about this based on next paragraph)

Config panel needs

* date-time to countdown to
* message to be displayed



Just some thoughts.

What about getting rid of the days,hrs,min,sec. sections and just using d,h,m,s and putting them on the same section with their respective numbers.

Maybe moving the cake to the right a bit and putting Winky to the left of the cake and instead of getting rid of the paintbrush just change its color and use a matching color to write Happy Birthday across the front side of the cake so it looks like Winky just "painted" (with frosting of course) it on the cake. Then maybe a present with some balloons hovering over it to the right of the cake which you could utilize as your config and min/max buttons.

And for the message to be displayed maybe a streamer/banner that rolls out attached to the front bottom of the platform itself.


And don't get me wrong not trying to put the work down at all AV. Just some ideas to accomplish the things Zubaz suggested.


2of3
Reply #951 Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:14 AM
I like the way you think, zakai

Good ideas!

theAVMAN
Reply #952 Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:34 AM
Zubaz & zakai I am gonna take all the ideas and put em together and see what I can come up with!

HAD TO HAVE A STARTING POINT!

Thank you

theAVMAN
Reply #953 Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:37 AM
Tim Rainlendar looks great!!!

ZubaZ
Reply #954 Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:32 PM
Zubaz & zakai I am gonna take all the ideas and put em together and see what I can come up with!
theAVMAN, thanks for taking the feedback in the spirit it's intended.  I could never do what you do or as well as you do it.  Thnaks again.

alibear123
Reply #955 Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:02 PM
By the way, I would still like to do the Xion skin! And, zubaz, it seems that what you envisioned is possible after all! Keep up the good work, guys!

ZubaZ
Reply #956 Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:10 PM
By the way, I would still like to do the Xion skin!
Great news.  I look forward to seeing your next version in these forums (no need to upload it before the team approves it.)

mommaTee
Reply #957 Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:10 PM
Everything's looking great, guys!!

Zubaz: Would you like me to continue to post icon previews or no?

ZubaZ
Reply #958 Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:30 PM
Zubaz: Would you like me to continue to post icon previews or no?
They don't make *me* feel more or less pretty but I like seeing them progress. 

You know what Bob Ross would say?  "It's your world, be happy."  



mommaTee
Reply #959 Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:45 PM


Alright...I'll post what I want, then

mike b1954
Reply #960 Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:01 PM
Thanks for the clocks , Harley .. timed to perfection hehe ! ..

Ok folks here comes the 2nd preview ... and almost ready to go ..

This time , Captions Closed and Open can be seen , the News Alert panel , and the Weather Panel ..

There is also a Double Border , for extra definition , which reverses on the Left Sided Sidebar ...

Stack Panels have a 'Glassy' style , The closed ones are slightly darker ...

Start Panel .. 3 states .. Normal , hover, pressed .. Pressed inverts the balloons . Hover 'mirrors' the balloons ...

Avmans' clocks are in the skin folder , as well as the 2 tweaked by me (which you can see ) ,
So Sidebar users have a good choice of clocks to pass the time away !!!

Anyway .. check it out .. & here it is ..
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