Hi meetHG.
I provided a picture to explain better in a previous post when the boundary border would blend into nothing effect.
That is why I experimented with a black pattern image, to get a stronger darker border. Either way has good points.
If you want more solid, go the pattern way. For more ever-changing blending effect stick with your way.
Something else I was saying from before. It looks as though on your skin,
one can get the opaque border with transparent inner menu part,
by having "Glass Throughout" and "Show Background Card Color" turned on.
Don't take me as being mean for what I'm going to say.
I just have to pretend I'm trying out skin for first time.
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The "Main Menu Transparency" settings are still a bit confusing to understand.
I don't know. Transparent what? Transparent borders if no image? Glass what?
Could a word be put beside to describe more. example "Transparent boundaries when activated"
or have them all setup with default neutral grey transparency values.
Think about it for awhile.
It's not really needed, but could make it easier to understand, and even more useful.
They could apply to all those transparency selections.
I put it in a text file. Feel free to use. If not appropriate, no sweat.
OK, back to other things now.
Because skin has so many options, it might be intimidating for user, the first time.
For default first time menu view, could have so black arrows show instead of white,
so everything matches and looks the best it can be:
from
OPTION WHITEARROW="Use White Arrows In Main Menu",1
OPTION SUBWHITEARROW="Use White Arrows In Submenus",1
to
OPTION WHITEARROW="Use White Arrows In Main Menu",
0OPTION SUBWHITEARROW="Use White Arrows In Submenus",
0At 144 dpi, the bigger arrows look ok. Maybe Gaurav is using an older skin version?
Here is something like Gaurav was talking about, that gets activated with touch screens,
to make the arrow area bigger, for finger tapping.
[TOUCH_ENABLED]
Main_split_arrow_padding=14,14,100%
Main2_split_arrow_padding=14,14,100%
Main2_text_padding=1,10,8,10,100%
Shutdown_arrow_padding=14,14,100%
Shutdown_text_padding=10,8,10,8,100%
Can practically make the menu into anything you want, using desktop wallpapers as menu image.
The only thing a user has to be aware of, is it draws from the top left corner, if English language.
Sometimes what looks like a wallpaper could look great, isn't, because wallpaper was so huge,
Only a small top left corner part of wallpaper image is seen.
The last screenshot picture is of MS wallpaper, by Adhemas Batista with your latest (not modified) skin .
What's next color picker separators?
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