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doctorfrog
2006-07-29 16:00
Hrm... bsetroot appears to turn transparencies in .pngs and .gifs into white or black, which are then made translucent, but not transparent.

Nightbreed
2006-07-29 14:34
I always thought it did.. I remember being able to use a transparent image and still having bsetroot's background color showing through

doctorfrog
2006-07-29 13:23
does bsetroot support transparent pngs?

freeb0rn
2006-07-29 07:02
Ease of use blackbox, configurability litestep--at least IMHO. BBI is quite an amazing plugin and we're lucky to have something that's so easy to use. There's a bit of a difference between small glyphs used for buttons and using actual images to skin every part of the UI, though.

Nightbreed
2006-07-28 19:00
I think for ease of use and configurability, blackbox users wouldn't be bothered with litestep. I've used their xlable before, it's good, but all in all bbi really takes it as far as "easy" to use. A great deal of blackbox already uses images files in one way or another.. either built into the code or user selectable... bbleanskin for example and it's buttons.

freeb0rn
2006-07-28 17:59
I'm not saying that pixmap=LS, but if you're going to use something that's almost basically images you might as well go to LS.

cthu1hu
2006-07-28 17:30
I don't ue pixmapped styles with fluxbox either. hmm. I'd just love to make skins for it.

Nightbreed
2006-07-28 16:56
Pixmapping wouldn't just be a litestep thing though. It would be matching bb4win with Fluxbox. Then again, I don't use pixmaps on my Linux boxes.

Nightbreed
2006-07-28 16:51
The four color thing was the first to pop into my mind, I just didn't want to push it ;)

freeb0rn
2006-07-28 16:16
I'm not sure how it's 3 colors. I think it's 4 (2 for the top half, 2 for the bottom half). However, the gradients could easily be calculated by the shell (like xob can calculate shadow color on its own). Also, they would be purely optional if the gradientstyle was of a certain type. The same way that implementing "border" didn't break old styles, neither should this. As for old plugins, yeah, probably (although there should be a default set in cases like this). But why does border work (does it?)? If not, then there's an example of borkedness. cthu1hu: we might as well use litestep at that point.

qwilk
2025-04-19 23:25
Pitkon: I can't add comments either; I click submit and it just flips to only showing the sidebar, then doesn't proceed from there. Brian?

qwilk
2025-04-19 14:45
Thanks Brian & Co! :D

pitkon
2025-04-18 05:40
For some reason, now I can't comment under screenies.

pitkon
2025-04-18 05:32
Hi again, friends! So good to c u again, Brian. Karl, the screenies function wasn't broken, just needed approval. I AM moderating, from time to time :) How do u think those newer screenies got up in the first place? :D

tresni
2025-04-17 10:52
uploading works, but uploads always require approval and I don't think any of us are as actively moderating as we did in the past ;-)

snkmchnb
2025-04-16 12:49
qwilk: that's exactly what I was wanting to get done :D

tresni
2025-04-16 09:25
qwilk - All pending screenshots approved :)

tresni
2025-04-16 09:20
I do check in from time to time :D I didn't realize it was broken. I can try to take a look

qwilk
2025-04-15 11:56
Hey old friends, another old-timer hanging on here :) snkmchnb: Do you think it would be possible to get this site's screenshot posting function going again with Brian's help? (read: not sure if he'll be reading this himself so asking any other admins more broadly)

snkmchnb
2025-04-14 11:59
glad to hear, pitkon.