by kasje on Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:10 pm hi,
Steven is taken xlobby to the next level...i look at those small movies and i think...
woops...very nice...but then...is this the way to go?
I'm trying to configure xlobby for 4 months now and i just have covered 25% of the whole
program..Yes, it's an incredible program (thanks Steven for that) but so damn difficult
to learn.
And now he is going to take it to another high level. And yes..xlobby is the best thing
out there but please Steven...don't go so fast. I know how tempting it must be for a programmer to work with 3d animations and so on but my humble opinion is that the force of xlobby is not
the animation but you can addept it to your own needs.
I see xlobby as a nice skin where i can structure my databases in. I know there are many people who want to do everything with xlobby but i don't see the point of it.
The base of xlobby is: - to show your music collection and play them
- To show your moviecollection and play them
- To show your picture collection and show them
Then to show the weather ..what is a nice thing cause everybody in the whole world uses it.
All the other stuff that most of us want, are things that i don't want to be integraded with xlobby.
Why? cause first it's to difficult to integrade in xlobby and second...there are many other programs that does these things better.
If i was a programmer, i made something like a adeptable background so when i make a button in the main menu...... exemple msn messenger..i go to a page with the same background as in the menu but where i can draw a transparant rectangle with the same size and on the same place as msn messenger when it opens. So i could see a part of my desktop..the part where msn meesenger opens.
From now on, i can addept every other program that not opens fullsize (like msn, skype etc) to xlobby. Very easy and i don't need all those difficult plugins. (sorry guys, i now you put so much work in these plugins but for me, most of them are to difficult to master).
There are only 2 sorts of programs that you can use on a pc..those that opens fullscreen and those that opens in a adaptable window.
So now i can make all the buttons i want in the menu to start every program i like and still get the feeling i'm working with xlobby.
Maybe something like this is not possible...but maybe it's worth of thinking about it?
just my humble 2 cents:-)
opinions always welcome !!
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