Skinning Minimenu

[Pleng]

Well I just don't use minimenu anymore, so Im not going to be producing any more, I'm afraid.

 

[Sarlix]

Heres one I made called Wasp - Couldn't figure out how to take a screenshot so I had to use my camera :s

Did have a custom font but it was too hard to read. Will work on it.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ccfdsccluk9900d/wasp.zip

Updated~ A few tweaks

Any suggestions for improvements are welcome.

 

[Sarlix]

And heres one more called 'blue future' - Enjoy.

Download

 

[HackModford]

Yay

 

[Chaser]

3 nice skins there (I'd missed the release of Newsprint and sadly the 'select' text is invisible but still useable) so many thanks to Pleng and Sarlix

 

[milkshake]

can I just ask when I remember the early development of minimenu im sure I remember there being a memory card memory indicator similar to the battery indicator is this not the case? is it somthing thats going to be implamented into the future?
also looking through the mmskin.conf I cant find where to change the font size for the battery text or hint text does this need to be added?

 

[milkshake]

Hey just to let you guys know I made my own theme/skin last night its called graybasic, if you like it give me a shout ill put it up for download, found the bg image on the net so if its not allowed then I can just supply the theme without a background or a basic one or one that you guys thinks might go.

 

[Esn]

Looks nice and simple to me. I think the BG image actually makes it a bit too busy. A plain background that's a slightly different colour (maybe nearly white, or a darker grey) would seem to work with that theme better...

 

[DaveC]

can I just ask when I remember the early development of minimenu im sure I remember there being a memory card memory indicator similar to the battery indicator is this not the case? is it somthing thats going to be implamented into the future?
also looking through the mmskin.conf I cant find where to change the font size for the battery text or hint text does this need to be added?

The memory card indicator was just in the mockup I did to explain the concept.

That was not coded into the actual MM so no need to try to find the feature.

 

[milkshake]

Ok people here it is, I think its final now but I may tweek it, please try it, let me know if you like it.
if you find any bugs with the theme let me know, also if you have any ideas?

EvilDragon if you think its good enough for the archive feel free to upload it

 

[milkshake]

can I just ask a question why would it make me login when changing themes? with one theme its causing a loop and the theme doesnt even load.

its ok figured it out

 

[Esn]

I figured that these skins should be conveniently listed in one place, but couldn't quite think of where to place them... anyway, I put them all over here:

http://pandorawiki.org/Software_projects#Operating_systems_.26_skins

Did I miss any?

 

[Sarlix]

One more - Red Devil -

Download


Nice skin btw milkshake, nice an clean looking

Anyone figured out how to take a screenshot in minimenu yet? And does anyone know if it's possible to add sound effects to minimenu at all?

 

[Sarlix]

And another - executive-

Download

 

[milkshake]

That was not coded into the actual MM so no need to try to find the feature.

Is it ever going to make it into mini menu because it would be quite usefull

 

[Chaser]

Anyone figured out how to take a screenshot in minimenu yet? ...

Yes, you can use the script given in the Taking Sceenshots guide of Someguy99 from the poster LinuxMaster.

It allows for timed screenshots. Launch it from XFCE (or hotkey it), then launch minimenu.

That's what i need Thank you. I have modify the script a little bit. So it takes all 25 seconds a screenshot. So i can take screenshots from the inside of any emulator or other programm. It's not a perfect solution, but it works fine

Here is it:

#!/bin/bash
i=1
while [ $i -le 25 ]
do
sleep 25
fbgrab ~/screen`date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S`.png
notify-send screen $i
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

An improvement was also made elsewhere but I cant find it at present. The newer script allowed for hotkeys to switch the script on/off like the wifi-toggle, as with the above one you'll need to log out/in again to turn it off. Just modify it to write the grabs to where you want them stored and the timing.

 

[Sarlix]

Thanks Chaser! I'll give this a try

 

[Chaser]

Heres the newer script from the other forum. http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/601-taking-screenshots

Thanks! I did see that snippet on the gp32x thread. I'm not so hot on having that running in the background though, because screen grabbing introduces some lag. I still much prefer an on demand approach, and I'm ok with using ssh (even without the wife ), though clearly it's not a good solution on the go :/ . Perhaps, I'll check low level key binding later.

Now with that said, it should be quite easy to have a start/stop toggle system for that script, maybe like so (warning, not tested):

#!/bin/bash

PIDFILE=~/.snapsnap.pid

if [ -f $PIDFILE ]
then
    kill $(cat $PIDFILE)
    rm $PIDFILE
    exit 0
else
    echo $$ > $PIDFILE
fi;

i=1
while [ $i -le 24 ]
do
    sleep 10
    fbgrab ~/screen`date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S`.png
    notify-send screen $i
    i=`expr $i + 1`
done

I've yet to test it yet either

 

[milkshake]

OK I did another one thats a bit sexier than my basic gray one although it does have alot of gray again
this one is called gray is sexy

Download

 

[sebt3]

gray is sexy

indeed