Re: Themes, where?
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 4:17 pm
I am spying on this xaml theme topic and i do not like it.
I know every one will care a lot... but i feel that i must tell you what i think about xaml buzz theme topic...
I think its some kind of negative developement in buzz
Sure the themes look great and awesome, but there is no clear and full tutorial on buzz themes and xaml, every where is a snipet and this topic is the most useful on that, just because the link to this Kaxaml tool.
The rest of information seems to be very fragmented and to new users the whole skin/theme process seems to be mysterious.
The old buzz themes.col files, in the other hand, were easy to understand, also to non-programmers.
I think the old themes were more animating to do them while the xaml themes are scaring people (as me) away from thinking a lot about new themes.
I think the creation process of themes should be more transparent to endusers, its only logical that a easy skining process will return more awesome skins for buzz.
To put the skining process into the hands of simple endusers there should exist some tool lke the old CyanWerks CyanBuzzTheme 1.5 tool. This tool had a preview window with different buzz gui elements in different states, like LED on/off, Mute/Unmute, Effect/Generator and so on and a color chooser. It was simle and it was fun to make skins, but today it is rocketscience.
If it has to be grafical picture stuff, i also remember winamp skins with the picture and mask and the magenta background, there you could use a template picture and draw all elements and then put it into winamp, so there you had to draw some stuff, but yeah it was userfriendly.
But if it comes to xaml, i read some postings in some topics here, and the most secured information i can assembe from all the postings is, it is not easy, replace this and that but not that and fix this and do not touch that, copy snipet or not, here is the tool, how can we, ... this is all i get beside of the kaxml tool link.
yeah now i have to live with the skins i get, and i hope there will come out some sort of, buzz skinner for endusers 0.1 .exe.
This are my thoghts on xaml
I had to say it...
... but thanks so far for buzz and the ool machines
I know every one will care a lot... but i feel that i must tell you what i think about xaml buzz theme topic...
I think its some kind of negative developement in buzz
Sure the themes look great and awesome, but there is no clear and full tutorial on buzz themes and xaml, every where is a snipet and this topic is the most useful on that, just because the link to this Kaxaml tool.
The rest of information seems to be very fragmented and to new users the whole skin/theme process seems to be mysterious.
The old buzz themes.col files, in the other hand, were easy to understand, also to non-programmers.
I think the old themes were more animating to do them while the xaml themes are scaring people (as me) away from thinking a lot about new themes.
I think the creation process of themes should be more transparent to endusers, its only logical that a easy skining process will return more awesome skins for buzz.
To put the skining process into the hands of simple endusers there should exist some tool lke the old CyanWerks CyanBuzzTheme 1.5 tool. This tool had a preview window with different buzz gui elements in different states, like LED on/off, Mute/Unmute, Effect/Generator and so on and a color chooser. It was simle and it was fun to make skins, but today it is rocketscience.
If it has to be grafical picture stuff, i also remember winamp skins with the picture and mask and the magenta background, there you could use a template picture and draw all elements and then put it into winamp, so there you had to draw some stuff, but yeah it was userfriendly.
But if it comes to xaml, i read some postings in some topics here, and the most secured information i can assembe from all the postings is, it is not easy, replace this and that but not that and fix this and do not touch that, copy snipet or not, here is the tool, how can we, ... this is all i get beside of the kaxml tool link.
yeah now i have to live with the skins i get, and i hope there will come out some sort of, buzz skinner for endusers 0.1 .exe.
This are my thoghts on xaml
I had to say it...
... but thanks so far for buzz and the ool machines