WIPs

Looks real nice! Maybe use lighter colors on the audio player. That makes the font look not to clattered. Cool the Advent font looks so smooth!

And great you uploaded no beta try out. Please keep everything private until October :).

looks great man.

Yeah man, looks sweet, nice job.

I gt a copy of jg's CAD and made some minor changes to it (mostly with the functionality - the buttons were sometimes a bit finicky). It works brilliantly so far, and props to jg for all of the work he did on it. There's a preview the version I just modified here:

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/1483/previewyl0.png

any suggestions on it would be awesome!

cheers,
Sang

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8620/deskhu0.png

wip footage =D

Looks good guys, love those dock icons. Are you developing the WB for Vista Pep?

Yes and the icons as well =D

Some more wip footage...

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/850/mirandashagvc7.png

added contact hover...

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6158/mirandashagsu1.png

Love it, I think this will be your best work to date. (and that's saying a lot). I look forward to seeing all the elements come together & see the screenies that pop up afterwards.

cheers.

imo pep those contact icons should have some color in them, they'd fit well with the rest of the theme/icons to me guess.

VS: http://www.novoo.de/temp/gaia.jpg

another substyle with a smaller captionbar will follow soon ;)

my two cents...

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4910/gaiamini08rb2.png

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/5959/gaiasub3conceptxp3.p
ng

here is my skincalc so far
http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~miracle/gaia08calc.png

its made to match the CAD already being done by mango

Please give me some tips on what to change such as fonts etc! thanks

HEHE, that's sweet, I would go with rounded non-alphablended corners on the bottom (black) and not completely follow the CAD skin, it will look more tight.

just to throw in my 2 cents. i think jg's second concept should be considered for the more minimal vs.

everything is looking good though :)

Foobar footage =D

http://www.aakio.net/GAIA%2008/foo_looks.png

naalo, thanks mate. I'm having real problems getting alpha blending to work nice with skincalc though. Its all bitmaps not png, so you have to use an alpha mask, no matter how I try I can't get it to look any good. I know it is possible though. Anyone think they could help me with that?

Well you can't get rid of jagged corners completely unless you match it to a wall, but it can improve a little, i'll have a look at it.

Meanwhile, here are some suite updates, the shutdown is WindowBlinds too...

This is as good as i got it Tom...

http://www.aakio.net/GAIA%2008/SkinCalc.png

Here's the psd if you want to use it...

http://www.aakio.net/GAIA 08/SkinCalc.psd

I think the calculate buttons would look better with the font colours from here though http://www.sublevel.us/EN/News/

Started working on the PekWM theme, based it on one of JG-Visuals WIPs just to get my feet wet.

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~bbenne10/GAIA08/pekwm-p
review-alpha.png

Disregard that the GTK theme doesn't match :-)

I also have a WIP

http://www.lafraise.com/contest.php?op=lafraise_submission&l
ang=en&submission_id=127919&category=58

I made this with a gaia wallpaper. If it makes the contest we can all wear gaia ;)

The skins look good so far. We are going to have a real nice core release. And it seems also on a solid running site.

naalo: thanks mate, I'll go with that. I'll also see how those other colors go too. No reason not to be able to have two versions ;)

To show off the menu in it's un-alphablended glory:
http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~bbenne10/GAIA08/pekwm-p
review-alpha-2.png

expanding on the gaia-mini 08 concept.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/5811/gaia08miniox1.png

start button invisible then slides into view partial on hover then fully when pressed.
log off / turn off text visible on hover.

Oh & nice design marius.

That is looking great jg!

yeah, great startpanel jg..

looks amazing.

I know, I konw, it's too early to make MOD of it :D

http://swayso.deviantart.com/art/Concept-GAIA08-MOD-97461391

and yes, it's concept :D

Thanks guys, still a WIP, appreciate the feedback.
novoo: Thanks man, wasn't sure how it'd be received. I might add a little graphic/text to the bare spot next to the run dialog.
Also thank you again to Marius & Pep for the great concepts/inspiration & allowing us to create with.

taskbar =D

http://www.aakio.net/GAIA%2008/taskbar.png

lol @ bernadinho: I just noticed that on the music player, the next button was left of the previous button. Just thought that seemed kind of wierd.

swayso: its a good MOD though, doesn't stray too far from GAIA08 I think

woohooo started on the winamp classic skin:
volume/balance, eq & pl buttons, stereo/mono stuff is not skinned yet....

http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gaiawipky4.png

by the way the the samurize config is done already ;) the menu in the top right corner fades in and out by clicking on the arrow:

http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=menuinko2.png

Great how you fitted it al in there, Winamp classic is hard to use with this design. I would maybe lose the three coloured topright part and just use the most right colour, just as on the Litestep popup, to make it less busy.

The Samurize config looks good too, only the fonts don't seem very sharp.

here's a mockup of the bb4win that I've come up with:
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/318/gaiabb4winwl7.png

the buttons are grey when inactive, orange when active, and red when hovered on

looks fresh =D

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~miracle/previewAA.jpg

a WIP of the rainmeter config alongside the skincalc I'm working on,

based on the CAD skin in the screenshot,

I will revise them as I see more GAIA stuff, to fit with the theme better

Albino that rainmeter looks HOT!

heres my vista WIP

http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gaiawipdn3.png

only been working on it for 2 days so i have lots of more work to do. but this is so far ive come :)

made the CAD from, the psd i got. same with the miranda skin.
and icons.

invaderjohn,

2 days? amazing! Vista is not easy to skin, can't wait to see the finished product

AlbinoAsian: haha yeah.. i made it before. but i had to re-make everything from scrath cuz i fucked something that i couldnt find out.

so yeah ive just been working for 2 days on that :P
but i have so much more work left.

glad u like it :)

heres a new screen from me

have been doin alot of improvements today :)

http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gaia08wipws2.png

hope u like it

Pekwm, xfce, and openbox are all 'done', but I want to rework the pekwm menu...

Pekwm: Looks the same as above, with improvements to make it more consistent.

Xfwm4: http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~bbenne10/GAIA08/xfwmbet
a1.png

Openbox: http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~bbenne10/GAIA08/openbox
beta1.png (credit to mangosango for this one)

invaderjohn, can't wait for it man!! ;)

Lookin sweet

@ synorgy: its looking good :) I'd like to see a smoother gradient on the openbox though :D

An update to Gaia Mini '08 (VS, CAD, GRJ2, Styler)

Preview: http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9291/gaiaminioct08hh3.png

Wallpaper: BHTGR by *imrik (color mod)

O.O wow jg lookin' great!
Maybe have the shutdown button on the grj be white(?) idk, imo it'd just look fresher =) Looks awesome either way :)

Yes, that shutdown should be white =D

The button...

I see me in the contact list, but I don't see you =/

Icon update time!

http://www.4impressions.net/public/gaia/icons.jpg

I really enjoy the gaiamini mod. Very nice work. I really look forward to the release this year. It´s going to be a real, real nice pack!

jg: awesome
imrik: awesome³

mangosango: Thanks for the feedback man, lol I had 4 color variations for the button which I debated on. Red, Green, Grey & White. I guess I picked the wrong one. I'll try the white or dark grey.
Pep: Thanks as well. I added your contact info (ICQ) from the note you sent me, I guess I forgot to give you mine back d'oh! Note sent. :)
Imrik: Thanks mate, those icons are SEX!
Also thanks TXTR.

heres a new WIP update screen from me

http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gaiaupdatevx3.png

hope u like it

and i rly need someone in the project that could test drive this for me? would be great!

Here is a rainlendar and a rainmeter clock
http://reb70.deviantart.com/art/GAIA08-Reinlandar-98272067

yeah, that's really nice..

winamp update:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7825/winampdo2.png

meh, not so sure about the black in the playlist :( what do you think?

I like that, maybe take on of the lighter dark grays from the titlebar, but still... great work on the font too!

I think the playlist could look good in gray, but a little contrasted from the gray in the rest of the playlist's window.

yeah, I agree with naalo & pd as well. Maybe a different font on the song ticker? It just seems a bit out of place when compared to the smoother playlist font :) but w/e its looking good :D

I also had some time to make more CAD skins - specifically more minimal ones to match the bb4win :D

https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/126056/Preview.png

The "Original" is basically jg's mockup - with a few font changes here and there.

The "Small" has hidden next/previous buttons that appear only when you hover over them (the two black buttons next to the bulge at the bottom)

The "Extra Small" has a play/pause button on the left (the black arrow) and a seek bar above the colored bar :)

I'm not too sure about the buttons on the second one though...criticism is appreciated :) I'll hopefully have a fullscreen version soon as well ^^

looks cool :)
but you should delete the white 1px line on the left side of the "original" version ;) and maybe add some more rounded corners on the small and extra small version but that's just my personal taste...

here's another update of the winamp skin:

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5550/20080922162306cz0.pn
g

btw. I tried the playlist with a lighter gray, it doesn't look too good so I kept a darker grey...

Rainlendar update:
http://reb70.deviantart.com/art/GAIA08-Reinlandar-98272067
and SonyEricsson K800i theme:
http://reb70.deviantart.com/art/GAIA08WIP-SE-theme-98671330

It´s real cool we have some new skin sections in like the iphone and other mobile phone skins!

http://www.lafraise.com/contest.php?op=lafraise_submission&l
ang=en&submission_id=129004&category=10

Please give me your vote on this one! I am trying to get it up as a gaia shirt for us :)

ok here is my current linux gtk and emerald status. :)

http://www.abload.de/img/2008-09-23-080808_1440xhug.png

New wallpaper:

http://4impressions.net/public/gaia/desktop.jpg

Nice work on that wall Marius. Looks awesome. :)

Yeah, that looks great. I'm really excited about that photo wall - I think it'll look good with the more minimal stuff :D

RiianF - that GTK looks bamf. Loving the emerald too.

@Bernhadino: Thanks for the feedback :) I think I'm going to keep the extra small, just to keep it simple, but I'm going to put more curves on the small version :)

I also finally had time to make the full screen CAD (basically a screensaver): http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/126056/CADFullscreen.png

@invaderjohn I'm on Vista x64... I could test your Vista port if you like, drop me a note and I'll be glad to help.

BTW, what about a Firefox port? anyone?

Sorry for the double post.

i might will do a modded classic.jar for GAIA:..

mango: fullscreen is nice idea!!!

mango: Nice work mate, all looks great. :)

wow, very impressive, mango

thanks for the feedback you guys :) I'd really like for someone to test the CAD - especially somebody with a dual monitor setup to test the full screen. Send me a msg if you can :)

stele: well.. its kinda late for that now :P so i allready gpot myself a tester. otherwise that woukld be great.


and yes.. what about a firefox port :O that would be awesome.

One day to go friends!

http://4impressions.net/public/gaia/iPhonePreview.jpg
http://4impressions.net/public/gaia/MD.jpg

My last two additions for the Suite.
See you on Gaia.Customize.org tomorrow :)