Closed Bug 8832 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

[req] ability to design skins in a display propeties fashion

Categories

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P5)

x86
Windows 98
enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED WONTFIX
Future

People

(Reporter: csbooton, Assigned: bugs)

References

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Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

I think it would be real groovy if you could via a menu command bring up a window simular to the win 95/98 appearence section of the control panel that could be used to design the skin colors etc. Possible it could have a sepearte tab for each part of communicator (ie messenger,browser address book) or if you wanted you could also have it so that you could pick a general color scheme for the entire suite. This would be easier then going to a site to do it, and anyone of any skill level could use it.
Assignee: don → trudelle
Component: Browser-General → XUL
QA Contact: leger → ckritzer
Setting componet and QA Contact
Assignee: trudelle → german
yeah, baby, yeah!!! reassigning to german for consideration, cc'ing hyatt
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M15
later.
spam: changing qa contact from ckritzer -> paulmac for xul bugs
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Matt: I am moving to m16, since we will not likely have skin switching capability by m14, the currently prototyped dialog should suffice for beta and beyond to simply assign skins to components. I cannot image that we have the resources to create a skin editor the way you describe for 5.0, although it would be really nice. Unless somebody on the net steps forward with some real, cold, hard code as well as the respective XUL interface I just don't see it happen in time for the first release. Any takers?
BULK MOVE: Changing component from XUL to XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL. XUL component will be deleted.
Component: XUL → XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL
*IGNORE* - more massive spam, changing open XPToolkit bug's QA contact to jrgm@netscape.com
QA Contact: paulmac → jrgm
Adding 'skins' keyword to appropriate bugs en masse, sorry about any mistakes...
Keywords: skins
Blocks: 29160
Mass-adding beta2 keyword to all skins bugs.
Keywords: beta2
Removing the skins and beta 2 keyword and the dependency from bug 29160 on this bug, since this request for enhancement will not hold up skinnability at all. In fact we can do this after NS 6 ships. Right now we are only planning on showing a small author-generated bitmap preview for each skin in the appearance panel. Also moving to m20. We are accepting fixes/patches if anybody needs this kind of functionality, please talk to Ben Goodger (ben@netscape.com)
No longer blocks: 29160
Keywords: beta2, skins
Priority: P3 → P5
Target Milestone: M16 → M20
*** Bug 45620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
a skin editor of the kind described is not something we can do in the timkeframe described. This is something a contributor or third party could easily take on. Marking future milestone, setting keyword helpwanted
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: M20 → Future
since this is something a mozilla contributor could engage on I propose reassigning this bug to ben, the mozilla UI owner
Assignee: german → ben
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
You can already change the colours of the classic skin by modifying your system settings. Discrepancies of the classic skin with your system settings should be filed as bugs. I doubt that this feature will be implemented in a proprietary way for Mozilla skins. Marking WONTFIX. If you feel strongly about it, reopen and assign to yourself or nobody@mozilla.org
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL → XUL
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets
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