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Ability to edit resource icons or Theming implementation #3

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Mancerrss opened this issue May 31, 2017 · 0 comments
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Ability to edit resource icons or Theming implementation #3

Mancerrss opened this issue May 31, 2017 · 0 comments

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Here's my suggestion for Theming implementation. I suggest for a TrayBin inspired implementation.

On Taskplay's Program directory, there should be a "themes" folder where all themes are stored.
Here's how I'll suggest the icon pack or theming implementation: Inside the "themes" folder, there will be folder, where every folder represent an icon pack: say there's folder named "Windows 10 MDL Icon Style by Evil Pro", inside it is where you'll find a 8 icons and an .ini file. The first four files are for the active icons for Previous, Play, Pause, Next, the next fours are for disabled or greyed out icon "Previous_disabled", "Play_disabled", "Pause_disabled", Next_disabled". the ini file is names as "info.ini" where inside the name and infos of the theme folder is listed as it follows:

[Taskplay-theme]
name=Windows 10 MDL Icon Stlye"
version=1.0
copyright=©2017 EvilPro
website=http://twitter.com/evilpro

On Settings there should be a new Tab named as "Theme" where the user could select all the theme folders installed on that "themes" folder in a dropdown box, Under it is where the user could preview the selected theme icons, all the icons both on active and disabled state. I suggest to render it under a Black Windows 10 Taskbar picture to really represent the icon as it is, and so themes that is rendered in pitch white could be seen instead of just showing it an standard Win32 white dialog box background where it's contrasting and hard to see. Under the icons is the Name of the theme file, it's version, copyright and link to the website which is optional. I also suggest to already apply the icon live on the taskbar if that's possible or if you can even when you're just selecting from the dialog box. I also suggest a new button on under it y where you could easily launch and open the "themes" folder of Taskplay. Named as "Open themes directory" at the bottom. And a subtitle text below it teaching and describing the user how to create their own Theme or icon pack. The only thing missing is an "Apply" button. Even if what I suggest Taskplay Live preview of the icons on the taskbar is being shown, if the user clicks X or Cancel it will revert to previous design

I also suggest for already built in two theme created by you that'll ship together with the app, the hollowed styled icon from Windows 8.1 tray icon and the Windows 10 MDL Style that'll perfectly fit along the Windows 10 Tray icons. Name them whatever you want. I suggest to make "Windows 10 MDL Icon Style" the default upon install

Keep on innovating

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