nontraditional UI

[android272]

I don't know whether this is the place to ask this but does any one know how I would go about making a UI that is little nontraditional

like this.

http://www.alienware.com/Images/intro_page_images/darkstar_player.jpg

or like these

http://www.blogsdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/cool-windows-media-player-skins-wml-11.jpg

I do not want to make a Media player like these but the program that I want to make does not have the normal title bar with the close, maximize, minimize buttons on it.

[android272]

so does no one know what I should do or is this the wrong place for it.

[sanderd17]

It all depends on what programming language and what library you want to use. If you use C with the GTK library, than you automatically have the GTK window. But there should be a way to hide the borders and make it transparant. It will only be more or less difficult for different programming languages and libraries.

I believe you'ld better post the question on stackoverflow and do mention what language you want to use.

[prokoudine]

I don't know whether this is the place to ask this but does any one know how I would go about making a UI that is little nontraditional

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/10/19/exporting-qml-from-photoshop-and-gimp/

[godhika]

I do not want to make a Media player like these but the program that I want to make does not have the normal title bar with the close, maximize, minimize buttons on it.

well for that point emerald-window decorator is your best choice (I guess thats not the aesthetics your aiming for but you may see it as proof of concept ;) ) http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/GAIA-Sprout-179554275

[android272]

If you use C with the GTK library, than you automatically have the GTK window. But there should be a way to hide the borders and make it transparant.


I do not know much about GTK, all I know is there are a lot of programs in the Ubuntu software center that are GTK. If I don't go with GTK will there be a problem for people who use GTK to use my program. I only use Ubunut as my open source OS, so I do not know what GTK is.



I believe you'ld better post the question on stackoverflow and do mention what language you want to use.

I thought you where talking about a ubuntu forum but could not find it. So where you talking about asking on this site http://stackoverflow.com/.


http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/10/19/exporting-qml-from-photoshop-and-gimp/

thank you for this. I dont quite understand what its all about but I will look more into this.


well for that point emerald-window decorator is your best choice (I guess thats not the aesthetics your aiming for but you may see it as proof of concept ;) ) http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/GAIA-Sprout-179554275

this is a nice picture but I do not know what you are trying to show me.

thanks for posting.

[android272]

bump

[alex.rayu]

All that you show are not simply "ui". They are skins for audio players. Linux is very poor in skinnable audio players. It is rich in ITunes clones. What you can find the closest to this, though, is Audacious with winamp 2 skins, and VLC with its skins.

[android272]

again I do not want to make music players like this. I want to make a program that is not rectangular and does not have the title bar. I want to make a UI with that has transparency to it.