WACUP
General => Wishlist / Feature Requests => Implemented Requests => Topic started by: Juanus on April 06, 2017, 12:20:52 AM
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In playing with new skins and color themes, I am proposing a change to the menu structure. This may or may not be a good idea so please let me know what you think.
It seems like the Color Themes option should be under the skins option because it changes the colors of the skins being used. It can be moved from it's current location or just added to the new location
Currently you can change the color themes of the skins by going to
Right Click > Options > Color Themes
The new proposed change would be to put color themes under the skins menu. It would look like this.
Right Click > Skins
You have the options of:
Skin Browser
<< Get More Skins >>
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Classic
Modern
cPro
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Color Themes
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At times those menus are a mess but some of it stems from the needs of classic skins vs re-using things in other places which the skins aspects falls under. Then modern skins came along and things got a bit messier as it depends on whether it's the 'main' right-click menu or if the skin provides a menu bar option (e.g. bento, winamp modern) which provides another altering of the format of the menus.
I'm mentioning all of the above as I like the idea of it being added to the skins menus but for the skins with menu bars, it can potentially make things seem a bit more messier than it already is (e.g. for Bento the 'options' menu starts with the 'skins' submenu along with the colour themes sub-menu being at the bottom of the 'options' menu).
However, knowing the hassle it can be to get to that colour themes submenu at times (especially when playing with cPro skins & a few things I've been playing around with), will see what appears in a later WACUP build :)
-dro
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I completely understand. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Combined screenshot of the obvious places the additional submenu will appear is attached.
-dro
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VERY Cool!
Thank YOU!
I know how much of a hassle it can be to alter a lot of this legacy code, but you are masterful.
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Is a good thing I'd already got the skin manager plug-in in a good state that made it easy to quickly add that in along with knowing how to enumerate the colour themes after fixing the modern skin menu updating issues from a few months back now. So not too masterful in just some copy + pasting of my existing code but the effect works :)
-dro
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Question: will this still work without the skin manager plugin?
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For the moment, no. But I intend on moving the plug-in into the WACUP core (which has already been partially started on but needs a bit more work to get it all done) as I don't see any real merit in allowing for it to be disabled since it's just a better (imho) way of dealing with skin management.
-dro