i like it(looks professional,matches with avast very well)when will it be available?bri
Suggestion:
Don't put all the letters in uppercase in the information section... ;)
szc.. I like it.. think it looks very proffessional.. super job...
For your next project could ya come up with a new look for the simple user interface?
szc.. I like it.. think it looks very proffessional.. super job...
For your next project could ya come up with a new look for the simple user interface?
When you say Simple User Interface, I think you mean non-skinning interface, because this one that uses skins is also Simple User Interface... differs from Enhanced User interface. That Simple user interface (the one that you have in mind) is accessible only when you don't use skins, therefore there is no skinning option in Simple User Interface. All we can do with SkinBuilder is make skins for this skinable part of avast!.
Ok, then how about a skin that has some consistency with the On Access Control Panel
pssst Sasha... typo alert :) Change Curent to Current :)
I like how it is coming along ... Rejzor was correct.. it looks so much better as it is now. Keep up the good work .. this ones great
I like the look, nice clean lines, reducing the width of the Program MENU column has given extra width to the details area.
I'm not convinced on the text balance of MENU being in Upper Case perhaps being in InitCaps 'Program Menu' would be better balanced?
I know the iAVS is an avast term but for many totally unknown, we have used VPS a lot in the forums, should we use this or try to find something more understandable?
The ordering of the three buttons at the bottom, perhaps, Local Disks, Folder Selection and Removable Media. This is in order Greater to lessor (or fixed and removable) HDDs, Folders (still on the HDD) and finally removable media.
I did like the previous suggestion of a single button On Demand Scan with the three options (this would probably be more difficult) but it woud allow room to the right for the Stop/Resume button when the scan has been started.
EDIT: No problems I just figured it out... stupid me... he already wrote that order in his reply... heh, I just need to read a bit more careful I guess...I didn't explain it well, I should have shown the existing order (left to right) them my proposed order, rather than only showing my proposed order.
Yes, I also though this could work Connie, but there is one small problem... when you press MENU button, there is already another SETTINGS submenu. I don't know, but maybe it would be better if we can keep it separate... what do you think ? Thanks !I think your right about not calling it Program Settings as this is an entirely different listing and one that is available from the right click menu of the avast icon. So this could cause confusion.
Too bad, too much work to do, and I'm not even sure can we control that from SkinBuilder... need to talk to someone from Alwil first...I bow to your greater knowledge of what can or can't be achieved with the skinning elements and even if the skin remains as it is at the moment, it will be much better.
But if it is at all possible, 'On Demand Scan' or something similar may be more meaningful to an inexperienced user than, 'Local Disk', 'Folder Selection' or 'Removable Media' as none of those are immediately apparent that you want to scan them.
David, not to quibble but I do wonder if even On Demand Scan is not immediately apparent to inexperienced users as well. WE know what it means, ya know? But I dont (and I could be wrong) think those not used to Avast know what it means. Im thinking something like "Scanning Options" (and thats not even quite right) would be helpful. At the moment I cannot come up with the exact wording for what Im thinking.
Sasha, can't you upload to avast ftp server and we beta test it?
sZc Norton does not come with skins, AVG does not come with skins, Trend Micro does not come with skins. No, these professional looking softwares come with the default interface and no skin options. So should Avast. Don't want skins. Just Want a nice, professional looking interface , with non-cluttered settings , and soft pleasing colors.
sZc Norton does not come with skins, AVG does not come with skins, Trend Micro does not come with skins. No, these professional looking softwares come with the default interface and no skin options. So should Avast. Don't want skins. Just Want a nice, professional looking , default interface , with non-cluttered settings , and soft pleasing colors.
I just want to hear as much opinions as possible regarding the animation of those 3 sliding panels... do you people want to see animation or just normal panel pop-up (when you press the button, panle just appears without sliding animation) ?
But, why not have them always on top? I think that is more clear...
But, why not have them always on top? I think that is more clear...
Like we have on the skinless ;)
Or like MacLoverOS X Skin.
DavidR and RejZor were talking about possibility of removing those 3 bottom buttons and installing On-Demand button instead which would invoke those 3 buttons when pressed...
And put them by this order:
1. Resident scanner
2. Local disks
3. Removable disks
EDIT:
Oh btw,very cool design. And exactly the same buttons as i wanted them :)
I just don't like the name of the skin. It's unique,but it reminds me to CoolWebSearch too much (that hard to remove CWS toolbar) :P
If I may add something:
I like it very much, exept one thing: the slogan. Slogans are good for web-sites, but are not good for professional skins. No antivirus has it's slogan in it's skin. And the labyrinth on the skin is so small, that no-one will understand that the slogan is reffering to it. So, please consider removing the "let us protect you..." line. Other than that, perfect 8)
I just always wondered if it's possible to hide those Local Disks/Removal media/Folders,before they are acually needed. You'd have button named On-Demand and when you'd press it you'd get these buttons and not before.
But for now i haven't got that far...
Rejzor is right... Update Virus D.base just doesn't look right.. Update VPS would be good I think.
David.. Select Scan Settings OR Select Scan type sounds perfect to me...
Personally I think Update virus D.base is more or equally as meaningful as Update VPS (perhaps Database as there hasn't been that much shortening by the D.base abbreviation), as has been previously mentioned who knows what VPS is?
As I already said, the On-Demand button will be an excelent ideia instead of having the 3 buttons... ;)
If you can make that ideia... ;D
I prefer to have a "Update Virus Databases" button because is more clear to the users, but is bigger than the available button size :(
Sasha, you've asked my opinion here.
Sorry to have, on contrary of all other ones, a sensation of dificulty in all of this.
Changing anything in avast demands 20 languages.
Translation, homogeneity with tool tips, help files, etc.
So, I don't want personaly no one change in the name of the things.
It took me a lot of time, for sure more than to make only one skin (it's not criticism Sasha, I recognize your hard work, you know), to translate avast. A lot of other translators will be on this hot waters too.
I can manage few changes, for better, but not a 'whole' change on avast! buttons, names, processes... :-\
Sasha, you've asked my opinion here.
Sorry to have, on contrary of all other ones, a sensation of dificulty in all of this.
Changing anything in avast demands 20 languages.
Translation, homogeneity with tool tips, help files, etc.
So, I don't want personaly no one change in the name of the things.
It took me a lot of time, for sure more than to make only one skin (it's not criticism Sasha, I recognize your hard work, you know), to translate avast. A lot of other translators will be on this hot waters too.
I can manage few changes, for better, but not a 'whole' change on avast! buttons, names, processes... :-\
I agree that could be very hard to the translators when the program is changed (I'm also a translator of a lot of programs)
But a program should be improved and not stay like it is just because of the hard work that the translators will go to have...
This is my opinion...Sasha, you've asked my opinion here.
Sorry to have, on contrary of all other ones, a sensation of dificulty in all of this.
Changing anything in avast demands 20 languages.
Translation, homogeneity with tool tips, help files, etc.
So, I don't want personaly no one change in the name of the things.
It took me a lot of time, for sure more than to make only one skin (it's not criticism Sasha, I recognize your hard work, you know), to translate avast. A lot of other translators will be on this hot waters too.
I can manage few changes, for better, but not a 'whole' change on avast! buttons, names, processes... :-\
It took me a lot of time, for sure more than to make only one skin
I still need your opinions people... Technical, don't worry, no one will have to change anything inside translations... All those text parts that you see on the screenshoots are just bitmaps (graphic parts)... something like old icons, except, they are not icons now, but something that looks like text buttons...My fault, I did not understand that you're talking about bitmaps but name of the buttoms.
@ Technical - Regarding translations... what this for the God's sake have to do with translators ? You guys can not translate bitmaps. Those are not text files and they can not be translated. That's why Vlk always wanted to have icons instead of English words... but what can I do ? I make English versions... someone else needs to jump in and start to make Spanish or French versions... I can not do that...I've already explain my misunderstanding... God, sometimes I hate English :P
Also, Technical... are you 100% sure this line is 100% ok ?You can judge for yourself: 150 hoursQuoteIt took me a lot of time, for sure more than to make only one skin
You can judge for yourself: 150 hours
Suggestions:
1. The borders of the 'tabs' could be rounded (not with triangles, like you use a scissor to cut the edge).
2. I don't like the arrows (showing that is a menu)
3. Narrow the top banner with the word 'avast antivirus'
4. Will the 'status bar' at the bottom be used for anything different that the copyright?
I know you like criticism, but I have none. This is truly an amazing skin, you've out done yourself again! Excellent work.
So you managed to hide the buttons eh? ;D Hey,Sasha,could you send the compiled skin to my email? I'd like to see the On-Demand in action,so i can suggest something or even check how you realized my idea. I'm really curious :)
This could be a major breakthrough for avast! skin design :)
Don't worry about bandwidth. I got this space with my internet connection (when i signed for my ISP). It's without any limits for bandwidth and servers are very fast and reliable.
Sorry to appear dumb but how do you get a look at this new skin ???
sZc Norton does not come with skins, AVG does not come with skins, Trend Micro does not come with skins.Remember that a missing feature in a program isn't a PLUS.
It's RejZoR. With capital "R" in the end!
I'm still trying to find the name for the skin (although it's not finished yet).
I wanted to use EDGE for the name. Hm...
SZC EDGE
Is this name Ok? Skin will be very squared without rounded edges so i think this name should be fine :)
SZC EDGE
Is this name Ok? Skin will be very squared without rounded edges so i think this name should be fine :)
Also, I think that the colors look a bit too washed out, if you know what I mean. What about bringing a bit more colour to the "avast! antivirus" title area and the shield?
If I may make a suggestion, can you move the "On-Demand Scan" button down (picture 1), and when it is clicked, it will move up with the other three and stay on top (picture 2)?
If I may make a suggestion, can you move the "On-Demand Scan" button down (picture 1), and when it is clicked, it will move up with the other three and stay on top (picture 2)?
Yeah I think that this is very good idea ;)
/szc\, I really like the Silhouette 3-ini-1 skin.
If I may make a suggestion, can you move the "On-Demand Scan" button down (picture 1), and when it is clicked, it will move up with the other three and stay on top (picture 2)?
Also, I think that the colors look a bit too washed out, if you know what I mean. What about bringing a bit more colour to the "avast! antivirus" title area and the shield?
Maybe if the buttons had a more darker tonality... ;)
Sasha, did you remove the status bar?
What about the 'big' window title (with the word avast...)?
Heck, I saw people complaining about the size of one of your skins that's about 3 MB, as it took too much place on his 100 GB hard disk. ::)
By the way, I have two technical questions for you :
I'm not using the Windows XP, so I didn't finish my skin dealing with the possibilities of XP's "translucent" option.
My questions are :
1 - Are all Avast skins available here exploiting this translucent thing?
2 - Do you personally think it's better to integrate what's needed in the skin in order to get those translucent effects?
If so, I might have to work more on my skin. As I said to Vlk, this is the only thing about my skin that I wonder if it's still a prototype.
I really have to tell you must have angelic qualities to listen to all those critics about little details and so on.I can't resist:
Haha Bob... neither you are a butterfly... or maybe... well I don't know... ;D ;D ;D
(http://img35.echo.cx/img35/1249/butterfly9vr.png)
Anyway, thanks for your help and good words. :)
Wow, I just went to the skins page and I didn't know there were already 35 of them. So with your new one and the one coming from RejZor, there will be 37 to choose from.
:D
I just sent my latest release to RejZoR and he will upload it to his web space tomorrow. Link will be available in this thread tomorrow.
Take care !
But Vlk (Ondrej) is in USA (I think so, but I'm not 100% sure)He said he was at San Francisco Airport comming back to Czech but the airplane was late... I think he is in Europe again 8)
Tell me, do you like the way I accomplished xistenz's idea to slide On-Demand button along with those 3 other buttons at the bottom of the screen. I personally like it very much... really, this looks much much better than before...
Sasha,
can you add the "Selected Paths" area to the skin?
And the "Background" button isn't necessary?
Regards
Thanks Sasha I have to agree this is the best one yet.
One Problem.... No Star Trek sounds..... ;D
(actually there are 2 versions only left, 3in1 is out of the business since 4in1 completely "killed" it).OK, in a couple of years, I'll start selling it in the black market as a "collector's item" ;D
I also wanna thank to Martin Novak for using his idea and design style of the avast! official web page. I had great time porting it to this skin project. I hope he will find this skin attractive and good looking.Amen 8)
(actually there are 2 versions only left, 3in1 is out of the business since 4in1 completely "killed" it).OK, in a couple of years, I'll start selling it in the black market as a "collector's item" ;D
Well, now a little technical note: I see a small problem using the 4 in 1 skin: when both the sliding panel of Local Disk and Removable Media are open, it's impossible to close the Local Disks slide clicking on the small "x" icon. Maybe is a behavior of my pc only? (I must buy a serious graphic card, 'cause my old nVidia FX 5200 is slow)
(http://img153.echo.cx/img153/4301/newskin0di.jpg)
Looks fantastic. Waiting for final version in website. ;D
Sorry, Sasha & RejZor but I would want to suggest some small modification.... ahahah... ;D
And here you can see few most recent screenshoots:
...but I prefer standart skin version than 4in1. On the other hand both of them looks fantastic. Nice job, very nice... ;)