Cool and eye-candy GUIs

AIR is a great platform for any web-oriented (and not only)
task and it's clearly in some way derived by Flash.
Flash made us get used to nice looking GUIs where we didn't
expect, and it could be great if we could bring this know-how on
AIR. There are apps, like Klok (
http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm)
having a great interface, with liquid and tweening components. So I
was asking myself how did the developer of this app achieved that.
Maybe is he using some commercial components? And what about the
"rewritten" systemChrome? Are they PNGs crafted and embedded or are
there strategies to make our apps so nice-looking?
Thank you.

Hi Marco,
There are a lot of cool looking flex components and themes
out there.
http://scalenine.com/ is an
invaluable resource for great looking themes.
For flex components, check out:
Flex exchange -
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=15&loc=en_us
http://www.fxcomponents.com/
http://actionscript3libraries.riaforge.org/

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Disabling interface animations and eye-candy

Is there any way to disable the interface animations and eye-candy in Aperture. I particularly want to disable the animations that play on stacks. Opening, closing, and sorting of stacks. They are sooooo slow with stacks of 30+ images. Especially when using keyboard commands to quickly perform multiple commands on a stack — it will start to play 2 or 3 animations on top of each other and it grinds the app to a halt.

Amen, brother!
It would be fine to have all the spinning, swooshing, eye candy if the basic program ran well. But it's so sluggish, and there are so many performance issues on such a wide variety of hardware (just peruse the topic titles here if you have any doubt) that it's completely exasperating to have to wait for all the eye candy to execute before the program can actually do what you're asking of it.
I've learned not to use stacks or smart albums (even touching these brings my Dualie 2.5 ghz G5 to its knees, spod city...) but there are a number of animations you trigger just in use. Would be interesting to see if turning them off speeds up the programs core functions...

Minimalist services and eye candy

I want to eliminate all possible unneeded processes, services and eye candy to devote maximum CPU and RAM to just one task. How do I do that?
Can I set up one user account that way or do I have to set up the entire computer that way.

You can disable Finder animations by running the following command in Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal):
defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true
and then run:
'killall Finder'
I'm not sure that you're going to appreciate a noticable real-world benefit however. You might want to search VersionTracker 'renice' and download a utility to devote more CPU cycles to a specific program.
Matt

Remote performance and "eye candy"

Hello.
I am still on Tiger, and have not jumped to Leopard because I spend a lot of time remoting into my machine from work. My husband, who has Leopard, is always complaining about how his system is virtually unusable because the performance is so bad while waiting for all the Leopard "eye candy" to draw. He's tried my system from his work, and it's much much faster.
Any way to disable the "eye candy" like drop shadows and reflections and such so that remoting goes faster?
Thanks.

What VNC server?
What VNC Client?
I have found that the Leopard to Leopard provided Server/Client combo to be very efficient over an internet connection.
However, I've found that using A Leopard Server with a 3rd party Client, or a 3rd party server and a Leopard Client (aka Screen Sharing.app) has not been very fast.
The JollysFastVNC client is actually fairly good for a 3rd party client.
Using all 3rd party VNC components, I have found that using the Vine Server (aka OSXvnc) and Chicken of the VNC WITH CotVNC set to use only 8 bit color (or even 16 bit color) to be fairly good over a slow DSL connection between my Mom's system and myself. Of course I'm not interested in fantastic color from my Mom's system. I'm just trying to do admin tasks without driving 300 miles one way.
I also use Vine Server and Chicken of the VNC between home and my work system using lower color density. It is servicable, although I prefer to just pull the needed files to my MacBook and work locally, then push the results back.

Fireworks Cs and EYE candy 4000 compatibility issue ?

Hello ^^
i got the same problems with the Windows version. i fix it
but i cant do the same process on the mac version .
Somone already Try to install Eye candy 4000 on a MAC OSX
firworks CS3 version ? Is it working ? somes TIPs ? another Version
of eye candy is need ?
I try to download a demo Version but not yet success to
install . When i lauch a File is says that Some effect are missing.
TOo bad , any ID ?
Sry for my english Guys :p
Thans for all Comments ...

http://www.alienskin.com/eyecandy/index.aspx
The latest version is EyeCandy 6. EyeCandy 4000 does not work with Fireworks CS5.

Chrome effects like eye candy

Hi, i'm the owner and creator of 2cooldesign.co.za & tshirtprinting.co.za & have come across a little issue, i had CS4 and upgraded to CS6 and the eye candy i have doesn't install onto CS6 and want to create a cool chrome effect with the eye candy plug-in.. any suggestions for free plug-in or effect that can offer same results, this is for a cool t-shirt design

Could you not word things so annoyingly?
Your post started out well enough then bleeded into what I would expect from a mandrake lover defending his love of KDE.
Short of that I found the "article" little more than the same old ramblings of an insane GNOME user going on about the linux desktop "situation".
I can't help but have a laugh every time I read these little rants and continue to hope they just "go away".
I bet in about 5 years we'll be reading about how HURD is the next big thing but just not "newb" friendly enough and/or doesn't look as good as it could.

KDE Eye Candy

Hello all you KDE users!
I want to put together a temporary KDE Eye Candy repository with a view to adding all the pkgs to the AUR and then to [community] for the most popular. Some pkgs already exist in AUR but I want to tidy them up and standardize them. The name should depnd on kde-look classification. I am proposing the following names for KDE Eye Candy pkgs:
kdedecor-$name - for kwin decor pkgs
kdestyle-$name - for styles/themes
kdeicons-$name - for icon pkgs
kdesplash-$name - for splash screens
I will collate all existing pkgs with new naming schemes into a temporary repo - from there we will move them back to the AUR.
We also need to figure out exactly what the dependecies are: kdelibs, qt, kdeartwork...what?!
Hope to get some willing contributors!
[kdei] repository pkg list
UPDATED: Sun Apr 16 14:25:19 BST 2006
<ul>
<li>kdedecor-activeheart - 1.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a KDE window decoration</li>
<li>kdedecor-alloyon - 0.2
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a KDE window decoration</li>
<li>kdedecor-alphacube - 0.3
Homepage - PKGBUILD
KDE 3.4.x Window Decoration with the same look and feel of Metacity's Alphacube Theme</li>
<li>kdedecor-blended - 0.3
Homepage - PKGBUILD
Requested native KDE version of my Blended theme for deKorator made with DecGen</li>
<li>kdedecor-crystal - 0.9.5
Homepage - PKGBUILD
Transparent window decoration theme with a simple design</li>
<li>kdedecor-crystalgl - 0.8.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
Transparent window decoration theme with a simple design and OpenGL-based effects</li>
<li>kdedecor-dekorator - 0.3
Homepage - PKGBUILD
dekorator is based on the howto: kwin window manager decorations</li>
<li>kdedecor-hypnotista-siyah - 0.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
This is the Black version of Hypnotista Sade</li>
<li>kdedecor-hypnotistasade - 0.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
This theme is inspired of windows vista visual style</li>
<li>kdedecor-klearbox - 0.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
KDE 3.4.x Window Decoration with a smooth, tight feel to it.</li>
<li>kdedecor-knifty - 0.4.2
Homepage - PKGBUILD
Knifty is lightweight KDE 3.4.x Window Decoration</li>
<li>kdedecor-porcelain - 0.2
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a KDE window decoration</li>
<li>kdedecor-pureline - 0.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
Port of the Windows Visual Style by SwaySo (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24025352/) made with DecGen</li>
<li>kdedecor-suse2 - 0.3
Homepage - PKGBUILD
KDE 3.4.x Window Decoration from SUSE 9.3</li>
<li>kdedecor-svgdeco - 0.0.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a KDE window decoration</li>
<li>kdeicons-nuvola - 1.0
Homepage - PKGBUILD
An iconset for KDE 3.x</li>
<li>kdeimprov-kbfx - 4.7.3
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a KDE improvement</li>
<li>kdeimprov-kmetabar - 0.2
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a KDE improvement</li>
<li>kdeimprov-ksmoothdock - 3.5.1
[url=]Homepage[/url] - PKGBUILD
a KDE improvement</li>
<li>kdeimprov-systemtray2 - 0.51
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a KDE improvement</li>
<li>kdeimprov-yakuake - 2.7.3
[url=]Homepage[/url] - PKGBUILD
a KDE improvement</li>
<li>kdestyle-activeheart - 1.2.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
A harmony of sharpness and softness based on Keramik</li>
<li>kdestyle-alloy - 0.5.3
Homepage - PKGBUILD
A style based on the Java Alloy Look & Feel</li>
<li>kdestyle-baghira - 0.7
Homepage - PKGBUILD
KDE 3.4.x Window Decoration and Style (like Mac OS X)</li>
<li>kdestyle-comix - 1.3.4
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Another flat style for KDE</li>
<li>kdestyle-klearlook - 0.9.8
Homepage - PKGBUILD
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<li>kdestyle-krisp - 0.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
A simple and vibrant KDE 3.4.x Style</li>
<li>kdestyle-linspireclear - 1.11
Homepage - PKGBUILD
a QT style</li>
<li>kdestyle-lipstik - 1.3
Homepage - PKGBUILD
A purified Plastik style with many options to tune your desktop look</li>
<li>kdestyle-lipstik2 - 2.2
Homepage - PKGBUILD
Based on the plastik style, Lipstik is a purified KDE style with many options to tune your desktop look.</li>
<li>kdestyle-polyester - 0.9
Homepage - PKGBUILD
KDE style and window decoration</li>
<li>kdestyle-qinx - 1.4
Homepage - PKGBUILD
A style inspired by the QNX Photon desktop</li>
<li>kdestyle-reinhardt - 0.8.2
Homepage - PKGBUILD
KDE style based very heavily on clee's dotNET style</li>
<li>kdestyle-thinkeramik - 3.2.1
Homepage - PKGBUILD
Based on Keramik, this style modified GUI parts neatly, and added various custom options.</li>
<li>kdestyle-tiblit - 1.2
Homepage - PKGBUILD
A lightweight KDE 3.4.x Style focused on customization</li>
</ul>

Dibble, I followed your post 2 exactly as it was written. My /etc/pacman.conf :
# /etc/pacman.conf
# NOTE: If you find a mirror that is geographically close to you, please
# move it to the top of the server list, so pacman will choose it
# first.
# To re-sort your mirror lists by ping/traceroute results, use the
# /usr/bin/sortmirrors script. It requires the "netselect" package.
# See the pacman manpage for option directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
NoUpgrade = etc/passwd etc/group etc/shadow etc/sudoers
NoUpgrade = etc/fstab etc/raidtab etc/ld.so.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/rc.conf etc/rc.local
NoUpgrade = etc/modprobe.conf etc/modules.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/lilo.conf boot/grub/menu.lst
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/snarf -N %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -c --passive-ftp -c %u
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here.
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#[testing]
#Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/i686
[current]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/current
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
[kdei]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/kdei
#[unstable]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/unstable
#[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/community
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
And /etc/pacman.d/kdei :
# kdei: kde eye candy pkg repo
[kdei]
Server = http://dtw.jiwe.org/pkgs/kdei
Result :
# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
connect: Connection timed out
error: cannot connect to dtw.jiwe.org
failed to synchronize kdei
error: could not open sync database: kdei
have you used --refresh yet?
Are u sure you made it temporarily available ?

Java Swing/AWT and FX is so old school! Give me HTML and CSS for GUI!

Dear Java,
I am a seasoned programmer and I feel it's time JAVA implements a GUI system where it uses HTML and CSS for the GUI. For the love of god just look at the interfaces you can make using HTML and CSS alone. I am a big fan of Java Swing and the recent GUI designer for FX is quite cool. But they are just not as simple as HTML and CSS. And JavaFX has some interesting requirements for the graphics.
I know it is possible to use JavaFX and implement the WebView/WebDriver and make it load a HTML page, etc... but why go through all the trouble?
Just imagine... if you make Java where it has powerful back-end to do what it does best and the HTML/CSS powered GUI on the front-end. It will make the lives of many developers much much easier.
I am not sure whether a Swing designed GUI will be faster than a HTML designed GUI... but if you look at a traditional browser and how fast it renders HTML/CSS, I am sure if Java had a native Form where it uses HTML and CSS to render the GUI, Java will make the dreams of many programmers a reality.
Make it happen!!!!

Check this i solve problem just now using this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ja … ow_Manager

Is there a Eye Candy 4000 plug in for Fireworks CS5?

I am in great need of plug ins like the Eye Candy 4000 that was with the Macromedia Fireworks 8 program. If anyone know of where I may locate and download such a set of plug ins please be the grace of the Gods let me know.
I am hoping that Adobe Fireworks is as good as the Macromedia Fireworks 8 but I just do not have the plug ins I so badly need.
Thank you for any help the community can send me.

http://www.alienskin.com/eyecandy/index.aspx
The latest version is EyeCandy 6. EyeCandy 4000 does not work with Fireworks CS5.

Enough Already.... Turning off Eye Candy Animations

Hi....
I love this app...
Now that is out a the way...
It kills me to have to watch all those wild animations.... Fades etc... Every time I move the mouse from one window to another...
I would like to turn them off...
WHY on earth do we need to see a clip being disabled.... FADE OUT... Just set the opacity to ZERO instead of wasting processing power.
Moving the mouse from i.e. even lib. to timeline makes the timeline turn "fade in" like some 5$ flash website programmed by an amateur...
Does anyone REALLY wanna watch the inpected and color boards.. Slide on... Or would you prefer to just have them appear instantly ?
If anyone knows how to turn off all those eye candy animations I would love to know about it...

No... I can turn off skimming all I want, hitting i.e V to disable a clip makes it fade out to a state of gray instead of just being gray...
In the colorboard click on correction one's right-arrow to open the color correction tools.. It will slide on...
all those effects...
They look nice... FIRST TIME you use FCPX -- then they become a horros

Lion - Turn Off Eye Candy, Visuals, Extra Effects

Hi,
Apple, please listen.
I just want to work on my iMac with Lion.
All these animated visuals, eye candy, and extra effects are quite annoying.
How does one control these or turn them off?
DJ

Apple isn't listening to you here. These are user-to-user forums.
If you want to file feedback file feedback here.
If you tell us the specific features you want to turn off we probably can help. Or, just search the forums. This has all been asked before.

Visual effects "eye candy" is way too slow! love t...

why? oh why Nokia? please offer a way to turn OFF THE VISUAL GARBAGE! I am a nokia fan because of the speed and efficiency of your software NOT EYE CANDY! I have dumped a cell carrier costing me $1000's for 5 phone lines to be with you on tmobile! and you dont even have 3g support for them! I WOULD BUY ALL E63'S EXCEPT THE E72 HAS OVI MAPS AND more memory, faster processor and way better looks! except of course for the 'eye candy'! GET RID OF IT! MAKE YOUR DEVICES EFFICIENT! It is going to win in the real world, every time if you combine it with FEATURES like you are doing better than most!

thanks. I have spent weeks working thru all these settings to make this work. Now all I need to do is to figure out how to have the ui stop popping up messages such as prompting to connect to the inet? and why cant I simply choose when I want to connect to which inet connection??

I like eye candy don't you like eye candy too?

Now here's an interesting read and a glimpse of the probable future of X. Yeah I know it's Gnome propaganda and all and you hate eye candy. Well, don't read it! (In fact it has more to do with X than Gnome )
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xrendering

Could you not word things so annoyingly?
Your post started out well enough then bleeded into what I would expect from a mandrake lover defending his love of KDE.
Short of that I found the "article" little more than the same old ramblings of an insane GNOME user going on about the linux desktop "situation".
I can't help but have a laugh every time I read these little rants and continue to hope they just "go away".
I bet in about 5 years we'll be reading about how HURD is the next big thing but just not "newb" friendly enough and/or doesn't look as good as it could.

Imagenomic Portraiture - Eye Candy & Photo Tools Conflict?

Hello, I'm running PS CS5 64 bit/Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I rely heavily on Imagenomic Portraiture Plug-In, but since installing 64 bit Photoshop on 64 bit Windows I have not been able to use Eye Candy or Photo Tools. With Portraiture installed, installing either Eye Candy or Photo Tools causes Photoshop to crash on opening. I have searched this forum and the Internet in general but have not seen anything on this. I had a fairly long thread going with an Alien Skin rep who stated:
Jim White, Mar-11 16:08 (EST):
Yes. There is a bug in their plug-in that fails to correctly isolate the plug-ins from one another. They addressed this in the 32-bit version with an update, but last time I checked they had not updated the 64-bit versions. I sent a couple of emails to them but never received a response. You can check to make sure that is the problem by dragging their plug-in out onto the desktop, restarting Photoshop, and trying our program again.
I made the problem go away by doing his test. I have not posted to Imagenomic yet (they are next) but have searched their forum and have not seen anything about this conflict. I have the latest Portraiture version which is many moons old.
Has anybody here dealt with this conflict? Is this the right place to post this subject? I don't see anything about plug-ins here.
Thanks - Dave

leroydouglas wrote:
StephenHarding wrote:
Please tell me that there is some way to make it so I can change the three finger swipe to go back a page if I swipe to the right.
That is counterintuitive. I suspect you uncheck this box but with other ramifications.
As I understand it, with natural scrolling the paradigm is that you are directly manipulating the content as opposed to manipulating the scroll bar. That is why you do a two fingered drag from the bottom of a trackpad to the top in order to scroll towards the bottom of the page. Similarly, if the app supports it, when you swipe from left to right you should get the previous page (this works in safari). If the app doesn't support the two finger swipe gesture you have to use the three finger swipe. Unfortunately, the swipe direction is in the opposite direction. In order to go back a page you need to swipe from left to right.
You said: "That is counterintuitive. I suspect you uncheck this box but with other ramifications."
Apart from being grammatically incorrect, the statement seems to indicate an incomplete understanding on your part of natural scrolling.
The three finger swipe utilizes the old (unnatural) scroll paradigm. What I want is a way to make the three finger swipe (for apps that do not support the two finger gesture) conform to the natural paradigm.
Any suggestions?

Eye candy for MIDP

Hi all,
Has anyone used anything to make nice-looking interfaces? Something like J2MEPolish, Fire, or anything else?
TIA

As far as eye-candy goes, you can't go wrong with xcompmgr and awn.
Though my definition of "eye-candy" has evolved (devolved?) over some time, and now I'm pretty sure my shortlist involves conky and that's it. Dzen if you're on xmonad, etc.

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