Artist For Pmenu Skins Wanted

[Trevsweb]

right i'm installing ubuntu to a virtual box setup. http://www.virtualbox.org/ and using the beta of ubuntu 7.10 http://www.ubuntu.com/ was the only one i had atm

now what? what do i need to type in the terminal to download the needed stuff to run pmenu?

 

[conso]

right i'm installing ubuntu to a virtual box setup. http://www.virtualbox.org/ and using the beta of ubuntu 7.10 http://www.ubuntu.com/ was the only one i had atm

now what? what do i need to type in the terminal to download the needed stuff to run pmenu?

Use a browser to download the pmenu-archive in the first post and extract it to your home directory. Then open a terminal and use cd to switch to the folder you extracted pmenu to (eg "cd /home/trevsweb/pmenu/release"). After that, try to start the app with "./pemnu". If there is an error, you can use "sudo apt-get install PACKAGENAME" to install missing dependencies or search for them using the gui "synaptic".

 

[hells_dark]

A lot of good skins there

 

[Trevsweb]

didnt want to run anything. not even getting an error code in the terminal. got to the release folder fine but the file doesnt run.
i just type ./pmenu correct?

does it matter what version of ubuntu im using? just reinstalling the 32bit version of 9.10. hope that works.

 

[conso]

didnt want to run anything. not even getting an error code in the terminal. got to the release folder fine but the file doesnt run.
i just type ./pmenu correct?

does it matter what version of ubuntu im using? just reinstalling the 32bit version of 9.10. hope that works.

oh, sorry. it's ./run.sh

 

[fusion_power]

The mockup from monkeyo2 matches my taste. I would like to see this. Maybe also a variation in darkblue but black is also beautiful.

I wonder, If I (or someone else) could make a theme in "Art Deco". Yes, I played too much "Bioshock" and this Design-Style is absoluteley superb for my taste.

 

[Near_Kstor]

So, my theme is now mostly what I imagined in the start. Tell me if I'm missing some obvious flaws.

* 800x480 pixels of AWESOMENESS *

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z2xumzgvzmx

Wow!! NICE going, conso! That is my favorite skin from now on! =D

 

[barzoule]

So I guess there's only Linux bninaries and I'll have to go the Virtual Box way too if I want to contribute eh?
That's a bit sad I think, since the more graphically oriented people are potentially using Macs or PCs..
However seeing what's been done already it doesn't seem to be that much of a problem ^^

All that being said, what I've seen so far is very inspiring! I might give it a go tonight

 

[s33k3r]

I've been trying to run pmenu. I've added all the libraries mentioned in this post and it still won't start, or better the it start and closes almost simultaneously, and gives the following error

./run.sh: line 2:  4298 Segmentation Fault  LD_PRELOAD="./libs/libGLES_CM.so ./libs/libEGL.so" ./pmenu

I' running Mandriva 2010.0

 

[dflemstr]

I have still not managed to compile pmenu, either... Cpasjuste has to do some magic or something that makes the whole thing break so spectacularly

I've managed to build GLES2D by linking it to the PowerVR SDK, and I've of course also built libpnd and libconfig (it's a hell trying to build libconfig for 32-bit on a 64-bit platform without a chroot!), but whatever I do, pmenu always fails to run, and always with that weird exit code. GDB won't let me debug the executable, either; any breakpoints are just swallowed by a black hole; it seems as if main() is never called...

Something tells me that this project will require some major "portabilization" some time soon so that people can contribute to it in any shape or form.

 

[conso]

So, my theme is now mostly what I imagined in the start. Tell me if I'm missing some obvious flaws.

* 800x480 pixels of AWESOMENESS *

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z2xumzgvzmx

Wow!! NICE going, conso! That is my favorite skin from now on! =D

That's very much appreciated. Creating all those icons was quite a lot of work. But I really enjoyed it thanks to inkscape

 

[Cpasjuste]

I have still not managed to compile pmenu, either... Cpasjuste has to do some magic or something that makes the whole thing break so spectacularly

I've managed to build GLES2D by linking it to the PowerVR SDK, and I've of course also built libpnd and libconfig (it's a hell trying to build libconfig for 32-bit on a 64-bit platform without a chroot!), but whatever I do, pmenu always fails to run, and always with that weird exit code. GDB won't let me debug the executable, either; any breakpoints are just swallowed by a black hole; it seems as if main() is never called...

Something tells me that this project will require some major "portabilization" some time soon so that people can contribute to it in any shape or form.

It's strange, it should not be so difficult. The pmenu makefile is very basic, and so should be easily build. No magic involved here !

 

[Cpasjuste]

I'm thinking to replace the old "applications" section with a video player (with the help of mplayer). What do you think of this idea ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vplFbqycMg

 

[SlashEMc2k]

Thnx for the welcome Gruso..
Counting down the days for the Pandora to arrive to my doorstep...

Video idea sounds great and vid looks good plus I have one spot left on my icon list for movies

Ok my design is almost ready...
I`m still a bit concerned about font sizes.
I need to replace the chip icon for something a bit better.

Do you guys think my fonts will be too small to see on screen?

 

[bzar]

I'm thinking to replace the old "applications" section with a video player (with the help of mplayer). What do you think of this idea ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vplFbqycMg

In my opinion the menu should stick to being a good menu (see: unix philosophy). It can never (well, never is a strong word but with reasonable work) be as good a video player as dedicated ones, and will probably end up with little use. Nice idea though

 

[Cpasjuste]

Who, very nice one SlashEMc2k. If you could do the skin soon it would be great
Else i think i may allow a font for each text type : App name, App description, Time, infos, etc.

 

[Cpasjuste]

I'm thinking to replace the old "applications" section with a video player (with the help of mplayer). What do you think of this idea ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vplFbqycMg

In my opinion the menu should stick to being a good menu (see: unix philosophy). It can never (well, never is a strong word but with reasonable work) be as good a video player as dedicated ones, and will probably end up with little use. Nice idea though

In fact it's actually a pretty good player since it use mplayer I would personally use it, it would prevent me to launch X and browse to my video folder and all that stuff.

 

[hells_dark]

Nice SlashEMc2k !

cpasjuste > a video player would be awesome (mplayer forever).
Maybe a picture viewer too (something like feh or else) ?

 

[SlashEMc2k]

Whats the best way to setup PMenu and test the skin for it?

Setup vmware/virtualBox with Ubuntu install pmenu and go from there, dropping sliced images into place?

 

[bzar]

I'm thinking to replace the old "applications" section with a video player (with the help of mplayer). What do you think of this idea ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vplFbqycMg

In my opinion the menu should stick to being a good menu (see: unix philosophy). It can never (well, never is a strong word but with reasonable work) be as good a video player as dedicated ones, and will probably end up with little use. Nice idea though

In fact it's actually a pretty good player since it use mplayer I would personally use it, it would prevent me to launch X and browse to my video folder and all that stuff.

Well, yes, it plays anything mplayer does. My point is more toward usability. A dedicated video player has a UI designed for playing videos, and menus, and settings, searchable media libraries and whatnot. I'm not trying to be difficult here and won't complain if this ends up in the final version. I'm just concerned that in a while everyone will switch to a more featured player and it will be just an extra feature using menu space. Then again I might be completely wrong and this could become the most used feature of pmenu.

EDIT: Hells_dark's post actually shows some of my point. You go down this path, and you'll soon be making something more like XBMC (a combined media library/player, image viewer, program launcher, script-enabled all-in-one package), not a menu.

EDIT2: more stuff to last edit. Sorry it's late and I'm quite tired, I'm not sure I still made any sense, but I've got a point, trust me!