New Skin/Background (Smoked Glass Thin)

[sgtevmckay]

Here we go folks a new background, and there are not many, so new backgrounds are always welcome.

Here we go:
Smoked Glass (thin)



Go ahead and save to your Background folder in Circle Dock and make your selection in the Settings menu.

Got a custom Background????
I want to see it, show us what you got, and make it available if you like 

[Ltan]

I just have one question...

How did you get that clock in the middle?  Linux only?

[sgtevmckay]

I just have one question...

How did you get that clock in the middle?  Linux only?

Greetings Ltan
Welcome to DonationCoder, and our little corner with Circle Dock  

Actually what you are seeing is a Rainmeter. Rainmeter is Windows only at this time
With the "Analogue Digital" Clock skin, and I modified it to give the RGB glassy effect
This particular skin is a bout 5+ years old.
I place the clock to "Bottom and Circle Dock position to "Normal" and voila, the clock appears behind teh Circle Dock graphics

I am one of the Dev Team Members and one of the Forum Admins at the Rainmeter forums.
Ultimately I support about four projects. Circle Dock and Rainmeter are my highest priorities

I also love seeing what Circle Dock can do utilizing third party tools, even some that most folks have forgotten and they are years old  

Rainmeter makes a nice touch and compliments Circle Dock well, with the right skins and background!

The following is just a few samples:





Here is a full screen shot with a no-where-near-complete collection of clocks available


Quite a few of these are personally modified

I am working to see about a time piece with systems monitoring and a small whether in a circular skin and fit it in Circle Dock, but this will take some time, as you can imagine my time is somewhat stretched thin  

[Ltan]

wow!  I can see that I am going to need to grab that one as well!  I also need to attempt making a few skins for Circle Dock and see how I fare on those...

[sgtevmckay]

Okie doke

Rainmeter can be found at:
http:www.rainmeter.net

Have fun

[Ltan]

well, here is a quick background I made for an oriental feel.  it is 800x800. I have also added a center button to go with the background.

[Archon of Fate]

Nice! 

[sgtevmckay]

This Great!!!! 

Thanks for contributing your background designs 

[Ltan]

Got bored today at work and had murder on my mind...  well.. almost...  I am not yet done with it, but for the power tool fans out there here is a saw blade for your background.  I still need to add some text to the blade, and then splatter it with blood for a more sinister approach.


[edit] added a 1% transparent circle to the center[/edit]

[Markham]

Thank you, Ltan, for your submissions. I'll ask the Sarge to open a new page on the web site for user contributions

However, I have a suggestion to make: Set the Opacity of the cental "hole" (where the Centre Button will go) to 1% or 2%. This will make life much easier for people who want a Centre Button smaller than the hole


Mark

[Ltan]

I think I might be at a loss.  The center hole is pure transpare.....  oh.. gotcha!  I will do that from hereon out...  infact, let me fix that right now..

Ltan

[Markham]

When designing backgrounds and centre buttons, you really want to ensure that any internal transparent areas do have some opacity to prevent undesired visual effects



Mark