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Published: 2014-02-21 20:32:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 155396; Favourites: 933; Downloads: 10716
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Description
Skyrim Desktop - a Rainmeter to control and monitor your Windows!
Top wallpaper is Beauty of Skyrim - IX by MuuseDesign .
Others can be found on the official TES V - Skyrim page.
Updates:
1.02:
- Included truetype version of Trajan Pro font
1.01:
- Cleaned up the code
- Fixed some window position issues regarding on top / on bottom orders
The skin includes:
- Top dock that can be activated by moving the mouse to the top left corner when desktop is not showing
- Left side bar, a launcher for 5 x 15 applications, and switches mode for bottom bar
- Bottom bar that can be either system monitoring, weather forecast or media control
- Config utility: set your media player, weather location and units, drives you want to monitor, as well as the application categories for the launcher, and the applications themselves; you can just browse for a file to add it to the launcher!
You might have to install the Trajan fonts located in the resources \Fonts folder of the skin manually
Probably adding to the skin later!
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How the skin works:
- Top dock in the middle lets you access the sidebar (Start), or turn it off. It also lets you access the system tray, and switch between running applications.
- The config on the top dock lets you configure the launcher's categories, and its applications - 5 x 15 programs. It also lets you configure what media player to use, your weather code and weather units.
- Sidebar launches your programs, or the user's files (documents, etc). It also switches the modes for the bottom bar, or turn it off in case you don't need it.
- Bottom bar has 3 modes. A system monitoring mode, with HDD / RAM / CPU usage, but you can extend it to show the top demanding process, your ping to a given server and system uptime. The second mode is a media controller, with album art, seeking in track, volume control and play/pause/next/prev playback control. The third is a weather display, that can be minimized / extended into 4 days forecast.
- The little transparent Skyrim icon stay on top of open windows, gets almost fully transparent on mouseover, and most importantly when fullscreen, it sets the middle dock in top of other windows unless you move your cursor further away from the dock. By getting it on top though, you can use the left side launcher without interrupting your current work session. After either launching an app with the left side launcher, or dismissing the dock though it's set back to normal (desktop) position.
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What next:
I'm planning on making a matching visual style after the final release of the skin, with a simplistic manner, but this time a light one - the frames dark, but the main part of the windows will be light gray (reverse of the original).
It will be a visual style for everyday easy use.
A very early screenshot of the general concept of the color scheme with an explorer window open
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Contact:
- mail: yorgash@mailbox.hu
- Steam account: yorgaSh
- Skype: yorgash55
- and of course, you can contact me here, too.
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If you like my work and want to see more, or support the making you can donate via PayPal at yorgash@mailbox.hu paypal address.
You can also purchase the premium content as a form of donation.
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Comments: 224
Kaigne2192 In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 23:02:39 +0000 UTC]
Any possibility of this working with Spotify rather than Winamp, WMP, etc.?
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yorgash In reply to Kaigne2192 [2014-02-26 00:52:11 +0000 UTC]
- Spotify: PlayerName=Spotify
Partially supported. Only the types Artist, Track and the bangs Play, PlayPause, Stop, Next, andPrevious are available.
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Storkmeister In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 22:54:24 +0000 UTC]
how does one obtain this awesomeness o-o
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yorgash In reply to Storkmeister [2014-02-26 00:51:35 +0000 UTC]
The download is on the right side of the page.
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KevinWScherrer In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 22:33:40 +0000 UTC]
My god! That's just...I can't even find the words to describe, how much friggin' awesome and epic is this!
Pure epicness!
May I ask you just one (dumb) question? Does this theme affect the performance of a pc? If does, it's quite a lot or it's acceptable? I've got 2Gb ram, dual-core, W7 ntb and I'm just wondering if I can use this theme and run something big, like games or Photoshop.
Thank you very much! Imma looking forward to your next work!
Have a nice day
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yorgash In reply to KevinWScherrer [2014-02-26 00:51:22 +0000 UTC]
Thanks!
It uses 0-1 percent CPU of my Core 2 Duo when not active, 1-3% when active; and only ~16 MB of system RAM. All in all, I didn't seem to notice any real performance issues with it.
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AerospikeStudios In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 22:05:15 +0000 UTC]
That is just stunning, it would be good if you had the Elder Scrolls Online Game to boot, Seriously though an incredible job 10/10.
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AerospikeStudios In reply to yorgash [2014-02-26 09:58:32 +0000 UTC]
Not a problem, I'm really impressed on how you were able to do this.
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SirLemongrab In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 21:57:36 +0000 UTC]
People need to chill out with Skyrim already
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Taharon In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 21:55:17 +0000 UTC]
Has a certain irony with how upset people were with skyrim's menu system.
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Taharon In reply to yorgash [2014-02-26 18:30:52 +0000 UTC]
Certainly did better than the original, heh.
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Solar-Wanderer In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 21:44:44 +0000 UTC]
You wouldn't be able to help me, would you? I'm trying to set a path for a program but I can't figure out how?
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yorgash In reply to Solar-Wanderer [2014-02-26 00:49:47 +0000 UTC]
If you open up the config utility, and go to the list, a "Set path" appears, click on the right side of it.
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Solar-Wanderer In reply to yorgash [2014-02-26 00:54:17 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! Really love the skin, fantastic job!
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EqFAzrael In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 19:14:37 +0000 UTC]
I just bought this. Where are the files?
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yorgash In reply to EqFAzrael [2014-02-25 19:24:52 +0000 UTC]
I didn't want to mislead you, the premium content is a form of donation, you can download the skin itself for free with the download button.
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EqFAzrael In reply to yorgash [2014-02-25 22:29:11 +0000 UTC]
It was a bit misleading. However, it looks really nice, and I have to thank you for making it. Feel free to keep the 200 points.
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RebalRebekah In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 18:39:53 +0000 UTC]
Does this work yet
because its really cool and i want it
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yorgash In reply to RebalRebekah [2014-02-25 19:24:13 +0000 UTC]
Yes, you can download it on the right.
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TruthisTruth In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 16:00:44 +0000 UTC]
Congratulations on the Daily Deviation!
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Meddle0 In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 13:10:26 +0000 UTC]
Very rare
Glad to see this finally come together!
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Lintu47 In reply to ??? [2014-02-25 13:09:13 +0000 UTC]
Congrats on the DD!
Have a nice day!
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