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#1 Xyrfo

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 03:02 PM

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Omnimo is a Windows Phone 7 inspired multifunctional interactive desktop information center based on rainmeter. This suite will turn your desktop into a productive and attractive workarea , delivering only the information you need. Every interactive tile gives you information at a glance, and can be easily customized to your needs. Unlike the initial Metro design, Omnimo gives you limitless customization potential, you can customize just about every aspect of it!

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Created by fediaFedia, Xyrfo, Taichou-Henk, Varelse42 and poiru

Enjoy. :-)

#2 Jatin

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 03:09 PM

You guys just re-invented the desktop! Great job all of you. (Y)

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 03:43 PM

Nice.

Using it now.

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 04:26 PM

i love it great work!

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 05:44 PM

Zune UI? Check.
Functionality? Check.
Sexiness? Check.

Sounds good to me :) .

#6 USG Ishimura

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 01:35 AM

It makes me want to install Rainmeter again.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 02:56 AM

It makes me want to install Rainmeter again.


LOL.. Me too.. and i did!!


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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:11 AM

This is great. I'm still trying to tweak it the way I would like to have it. But... Wow. That's all I can say. Great job all of you!

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:48 AM

O M F'ING G ! :woot:

STUNNING!

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 06:00 AM

It makes me want to install Rainmeter again.

Me too :o

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 08:29 AM

WOW! :woot:

I installed rainmeter again just to use this! Its amazing!

I have a few questions/points:

-Is it possible to use a different email account other than gmail? how?

-Can you make it so that the itunes tile saves the last played album artwork, so that when I close itunes/haven't opened itunes yet it isn't just an ugly blank space or note icon?

-I know this is probably deliberate, and i normally love the metro cutoff UI, but the 'power' tile just looks wierd with the text right in the top corner.. :)

-Its quite difficult to open links in the 'feeds' section for me, its as if the link is only a tiny line so i have to move my mouse slowly over each sentence until the cursor changes.

-Is it possible to have a 'empty recycle bin' option on the recycle bin tile instead of 'open recycle bin'?

-Could you a second 'feeds' window, so we can view 2 feeds at once? I like to be able to see the feeds from both my local paper, and engadget. :)



Thats just a few suggestions from me, i love the skin! :)


Also, a rainmeter question for those here! I'm running rainmeter on Windows 7, and when i click the 'show desktop' button on the right of the superbar, it doesn't show rainmeter, it shows my (empty) desktop. Is there some setting i can change so that it shows rainmeter? I tried changing the position of rainmeter to 'on desktop' but then the nice translucent black background from this theme disappeared! Edit: I installed Rainmeter 1.2 Beta which fixes this issue.

:)

Edited by colourfulclock, 29 March 2010 - 10:13 AM.


#12 Xyrfo

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 11:33 AM

I have a few questions/points:

-Is it possible to use a different email account other than gmail? how?

-Can you make it so that the itunes tile saves the last played album artwork, so that when I close itunes/haven't opened itunes yet it isn't just an ugly blank space or note icon?

-I know this is probably deliberate, and i normally love the metro cutoff UI, but the 'power' tile just looks wierd with the text right in the top corner.. :)

-Its quite difficult to open links in the 'feeds' section for me, its as if the link is only a tiny line so i have to move my mouse slowly over each sentence until the cursor changes.

-Is it possible to have a 'empty recycle bin' option on the recycle bin tile instead of 'open recycle bin'?

-Could you a second 'feeds' window, so we can view 2 feeds at once? I like to be able to see the feeds from both my local paper, and engadget. :)


- It is possible to add other e-mail accounts, but only if they provide info about new e-mails as rss (username & password should be in the rss address)

- Last album art is saved in the media player panel's folder in a folder called iTunesArtwork as a file artwork.jpg. Just change the albumart.png to iTunesArtwork\artwork.jpg in the skin's ini file.

- Just change the x and y variables how you like, we just wanted to follow the guidelines of WP7 UI.

- You can adjust the font size in reader's config.

- Sure, change ButtonCommand=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureBin OpenBin" to ButtonCommand=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureBin EmptyBin" under [Btn] and change Open Trash to Empty Trash under [Text] & [Text1] in Recycle Bin.ini.

- Yea, just make as many copies as you need of the folder Reader in WP7\Text items

Edited by Xyrfo, 29 March 2010 - 11:33 AM.


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Posted 29 March 2010 - 12:56 PM

I installed Rainmeter on Vista for the first time when I saw HUD.Vision 2.0.

I'm now installing it on my Windows 7 for Omnimo UI.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 01:16 PM

Brilliant work! Make it use the (if possible, since that option is out in the Beta and works with Win 7)

Position=-2

I saw it, didn't use though because I worked HARD (and I mean REALLY hard) on my own theme that I'm using at the moment :D

This skin might not be for me anyway, I like it a bit cleaner but here's some suggestions:

1. Snapping to other skins...I don't think this is possible but I dunno
2. More info in the weather skin (I see that Yahoo!'s RSS doesn't even give the RealFeel reading...and MSN's RSS tends to not give any info from time to time =D...Accuweather maybe?)

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 01:39 PM

- It is possible to add other e-mail accounts, but only if they provide info about new e-mails as rss (username & password should be in the rss address)

- Last album art is saved in the media player panel's folder in a folder called iTunesArtwork as a file artwork.jpg. Just change the albumart.png to iTunesArtwork\artwork.jpg in the skin's ini file.

- Just change the x and y variables how you like, we just wanted to follow the guidelines of WP7 UI.

- You can adjust the font size in reader's config.

- Sure, change ButtonCommand=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureBin OpenBin" to ButtonCommand=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureBin EmptyBin" under [Btn] and change Open Trash to Empty Trash under [Text] & [Text1] in Recycle Bin.ini.

- Yea, just make as many copies as you need of the folder Reader in WP7\Text items



Thanks!

-When i change the album artwork image to ItunesArtwork\artwork.jpg, it works fine for a while, but then the whole tile just disappears again (does it require itunes to be open? if so, can I change that?)

-With email, I've just set up a gmail account and forwarded my live mail emails to it, so they can be displayed in this skin. It works well now! Maybe you could include a little popup window which can display the email contents without opening a browser?

-I've edited the recycle bin ini as you suggested, but now rainmeter crashes whenever i click the button?



There is one other problem, which is hard to describe. I'm using Rainmeter 1.2 Beta. I have all of the panels and the background of the skins set to 'on desktop', so that when i click the show desktop button in Windows 7 i can see the skin. Unfortunately this causes some issues. Its like the translucent 'background' keeps jumping in front of the panels, so i have to constantly right click, select position, and the 'on desktop' for the background over and over again so that i can use the panels. Is there a way i can stop this? Its becoming annoying :P

I love the skin! :) -installed on both of my computers :D

Thanks!

#16 Xyrfo

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 02:18 PM

Thanks!

-When i change the album artwork image to ItunesArtwork\artwork.jpg, it works fine for a while, but then the whole tile just disappears again (does it require itunes to be open? if so, can I change that?)

-With email, I've just set up a gmail account and forwarded my live mail emails to it, so they can be displayed in this skin. It works well now! Maybe you could include a little popup window which can display the email contents without opening a browser?

-I've edited the recycle bin ini as you suggested, but now rainmeter crashes whenever i click the button?

There is one other problem, which is hard to describe. I'm using Rainmeter 1.2 Beta. I have all of the panels and the background of the skins set to 'on desktop', so that when i click the show desktop button in Windows 7 i can see the skin. Unfortunately this causes some issues. Its like the translucent 'background' keeps jumping in front of the panels, so i have to constantly right click, select position, and the 'on desktop' for the background over and over again so that i can use the panels. Is there a way i can stop this? Its becoming annoying :P

I love the skin! :) -installed on both of my computers :D

Thanks!


- The tile disappears because it can't find artwork.jpg, possibly because some of your albumart is in PNG format, so the file is artwork.png instead of jpg. If you have more albumart in png format, use iTunesArtwork\artwork.png. Or a really elegant solution would be to also add the placeholder image for albumart (albumart.png) under the last used albumart (artwork.jpg/png), like this:

[MeterAlbum]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=albumart.png
X=0
Y=0
W=150
H=150

[MeterAlbum2]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=iTunesArtwork\artwork.jpg
X=0
Y=0
W=150
H=150

[MeasureAlbumArt]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\iTunesPlugin.dll
Command=GetCurrentTrackArtwork
DefaultArtwork=img\defaultartwork.png

This way the note image is the most bottom image, and is only visible, when there isn't any artwork available and it can't get last used albumart (albumart is in different file format/file doesn't exist). If artwork.jpg/png is found, it will show that on top of the placeholder and current albumart will go on top of that. So basicly, it would be: Placeholder -> Last used albumart -> Current albumart. You could also include another meter for the other file format, so that if it doesn't find current albumart and artwork.jpg, it tries artwork.png (or the other way around):

[MeterAlbum]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=albumart.png
X=0
Y=0
W=150
H=150

[MeterAlbum2]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=iTunesArtwork\artwork.png
X=0
Y=0
W=150
H=150

[MeterAlbum3]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=iTunesArtwork\artwork.jpg
X=0
Y=0
W=150
H=150

[MeasureAlbumArt]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\iTunesPlugin.dll
Command=GetCurrentTrackArtwork
DefaultArtwork=img\defaultartwork.png

- It's not possible to parse e-mail contents from the RSS so sorry, no.

- It seems that the plugin bang EmptyBin doesn't work with Windows 7 (I think), but just tried and EmptyBinSilent should work, so change it to this:
ButtonCommand=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureBin EmptyBinSilent"

And to your last problem, I don't know exactly how to solve that but we're looking into it.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 03:27 PM

Probably the most complicated Rainmeter theme i have ever tried to install o.O

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 03:43 PM

Probably the most complicated Rainmeter theme i have ever tried to install o.O

Haha, it's worth it though ;) .

One question- I've noticed that clicking on the mail icon, feeds, and twitter updates highlight them but they don't open in a browser. Are they supposed to?

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 03:48 PM

There is one other problem, which is hard to describe. I'm using Rainmeter 1.2 Beta. I have all of the panels and the background of the skins set to 'on desktop', so that when i click the show desktop button in Windows 7 i can see the skin. Unfortunately this causes some issues. Its like the translucent 'background' keeps jumping in front of the panels, so i have to constantly right click, select position, and the 'on desktop' for the background over and over again so that i can use the panels. Is there a way i can stop this? Its becoming annoying :P

I love the skin! :) -installed on both of my computers :D

Thanks!


To change the "z-order"

just make the Background skin the first entry in the Rainmeter.ini

Also be aware that the "order" of skins when two or more are set to "On Desktop" andpositioned on top of each other is determined by their order in Rainmeter.ini inascending order. The first skin [section] in Rainmeter.ini is on the bottom relative toones that come after.


now suddenly I've started liking it :s after installing the beta :D and now that I notice, there is snapping :D
But I shall use my own skin for now

Edited by Afzal, 29 March 2010 - 04:26 PM.


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Posted 29 March 2010 - 09:49 PM

-I've edited the recycle bin ini as you suggested, but now rainmeter crashes whenever i click the button?


Same here +1.
Ok solved with "EmptyBinSilent".

My problem is that it doesn't shows my userpic in the user panel.

Edited by thorden, 29 March 2010 - 10:06 PM.


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