#1 skinning

[Tobias Kopelke]

Since noone is posting anything I'll try again. The Bug is fixed, so I think your listening ;-D

Anyway, I'd like to be able to skin the little Feedling, maybe like Rainlendar (XML-Layout-format) or maybe like some Gadgets (Google, Yahoo...) your choice.

But I'm horribly missing the background, I'm using Rainlendar and like the semitransparent view :-D

Take care

[Andrew Rowson]

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So, you'd like to be able to add any image at any opacity as the background of the feeds? Shouldn't be a problem. I'd have a few questions though:

-- How should the feed behave when it changes height? Rescale the image, or stretch it in some other way?
-- I'm planning on adding in resizing of the feed width at the users request - again, how should the skin image behave?

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-- How should the feed behave when it changes height? Rescale the image,
or stretch it in some other way?

Hm, maybe you could implement something like CSS, with the background-options like no-repeat, repeat-y, repeat-x and additional 'stretch' or something [stretch, stretch-x, stretch-y]. This would cover most, if not all, cases.
The Rainlendar skin-config has for the images to lines:

<image id="Todo List.background.top" element="bitmap.background.top.todo" origin1="TOP-LEFT" x1="0" y1="0" origin2="BOTTOM-RIGHT" x2="0" scaling="STRETCH" margins="95,0,8,0" />
<image id="Todo List.background.tile" element="bitmap.background.tile.full" origin1="BOTTOM-LEFT" x1="0" y1="0r" origin2="BOTTOM-RIGHT" x2="0" y2="-12" scaling="STRETCH" margins="8,0,8,0" />

The strange thing is, there is no stretching with the titletext. If you like I'll send you the skinfiles.

-- I'm planning on adding in resizing of the feed width at the users
request - again, how should the skin image behave?

Same thing, i think.