Do you use the Shademode?

martin.deimos

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Thursday, February 11th 2010, 8:31am

Hey folks, we call to action again!

Today we have a simple question for you: Do you use the Shademode in skins? May it be Winamp, Xion or whatever.
Let us know and participate in this poll.
Feel also free to give a short statement by posting a comment.

Some ideas have been floating around during the last months. Among those is the ClassicPro::Two approach and also a variant for an extended, full featured shade layout. So we basically want to know in which direction development should go.

Stay tuned for new updates from Skin Consortium!

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Saturday, February 13th 2010, 8:25pm

Sometimes, in cPro skins, or some modern winamp skins. Never in classic winamp skins.

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martin.deimos

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Saturday, February 13th 2010, 9:54pm

same here, maybe the shade mode is a bit 'aged'.
we all have big monitors, so no need to make stuff smaller...

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Saturday, February 13th 2010, 10:12pm

I am using taskbar preview in win 7 rather than shade mode. Maybe there should be a mini mode implement like that or not?

Its like that the shade mode is a bit 'aged'.

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martin.deimos

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Saturday, February 13th 2010, 10:38pm

dunno if a mini mode would be better?
i would distinguish now also between a SUI (cpro-like) and Multi Window Userinterface.
for SUIs a minimode would be nice, but for a normal MUI skin, there would be no need imo.

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Saturday, February 13th 2010, 11:00pm

I use shade mode at times but seem to have taken a liking to small form skins, it may also be worth noting that Ebonite has had 42,834 downloads from Winamp, 18,251 from Skin Consortium and 40,803 from Deviant Art (Wow!).

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Sunday, February 14th 2010, 10:23am

yea that's the reason why i want to introduce easier skinning for non-SUI skins

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Sunday, February 14th 2010, 5:21pm

@Cozmoz I will correct you on your numbers... on Winamp.com the original Ebonite release has 42k.... the new release has over 321k http://www.winamp.com/skin/ebonite-2-0/222012

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Spannerz

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Tuesday, February 16th 2010, 4:10am

Uhm I'm thinking for Shademode in CPro2 it could have all the normal modes, including a task-bar mode, like itunes or WMP? (I could even design it!)

but I use shademodes when I have my designing programs in, like GTA SA map editor (you can have endless fun in that!!!)

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Sunday, February 21st 2010, 12:59am

I do not use Shademode at all.

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Alex567

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Tuesday, February 23rd 2010, 12:15am

I always use shademode. I mostly use my notebook so i dont have space for anything else.

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Wednesday, February 24th 2010, 6:34pm

I mostly use no interface at all

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Cozmoz

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Wednesday, February 24th 2010, 7:02pm

@transistor09: Are you using Winamp via command prompt?

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Wednesday, February 24th 2010, 9:00pm

@Cozmoz: yes... OK, no. I use global hotkeys. Although I open up the main window just to check the name of the song.

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Spannerz

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Thursday, February 25th 2010, 8:01am

Would there be a way to make a task-bar shademode? I have the design/graphics ready

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Thursday, February 25th 2010, 11:09am

@transistor09: Ah, ok, fair enough. @Spannerz: Agreed that would be useful.

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transistor09

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Thursday, February 25th 2010, 7:08pm

To make a toolbar (like WMP, if that is what you mean) you would need to hard-code it to the skin engine. I don't think Winamp/modern skin engine development team would be just be giving away the source.

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Spannerz

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Thursday, February 25th 2010, 9:40pm

Hmm... Well what if we had it bound to the bottom of the user's screen, and give the user the ability to move it left and right - and have the 'always on top' feature on when you turn that shademode on.

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