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Hello all, It's been a really, really long time since I've visited. Truth be told, I was out of app development for quite a long time. I've recently gotten back into the game with a nifty little app that I use for checking my many gmail accounts. You can find the app, Gmail Notifier Plus @ http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/974848-gmail-notifier-plus-23-roadmap/page__st__30__gopid__593751876 . (Sorry mods, don't mean to promote another forum, just thought it would be useful) Anyhow, the point of the thread is that I'm starting new with Nubs, and bring it back to life. This time, it's open source and I welcome contributions. You can find the repo for Nubs on GitHub @ https://github.com/shellscape/Nubs . I'm still in the process of porting all of the old (really effing crappy) vb.net code over to C# and .NET 4.0. But you can track my progress there for the time being. Feel free to clone/fork as well. Cheers

Hey Spas, I was originally developing this for use in some apps I was working on at my last job. Since I've left, the reasons for this client have kind of evaporated. I did sell a copy of the source to a company at one point and I need to review the terms of that sale. If permitted, I'll likely open the source and post it. Thanks

I'm amazed people are still using this Well done.

I've started working on a Kapsules comeback. Just fyi. The technology is finally available to do what I wanted. So we'll see how it pans out.

Phoshi, I don't think your take on english humor is the best way to go about encouraging more development. Comparing it to IE in that regard, even in jest, is downright disrespectful. Phoshi, please do not respond further to this thread. Your posts will be removed, as you've worn out your welcome. I would lock the thread, but I would like to encourage the other users to continue to participate. Thanks for the backup mushu and mps, it's much appreciated. EyesOfARaven, if you happen to revisit this thread, please post a screenshot of the font dialog you're seeing.

Thanks for the suggestions. Nubs hasnt really been updated since the first release because, well, there really hasnt been that much interest in it.

Oh he's still floating around I'll see about having a look at the old widget this weekend. Look in the config file for the widget and let me know what version you have. I havent been developing on kapsules in some time, but I still have all the old code around. So I could probably take a look at it for you.

Thanks for the post, looks cool.

Instead of javascript, use css for image rollovers. http://alistapart.com

I would try it out if either of the download links worked. FF 2.0.0.12

I'm going to be avoiding the menu bar at the top. I have some (imho) good ideas for how to avoid that bar and still allow for easy navigation to features.

Thanks. Individual nubs only close when you close the window or you tell the nub to close. I'de really like to expand the app and do some more work with it, but the response from people on the whole hasnt been that resounding. It's been up for a long while now and only has about 10k downloads. I'm sure if there was a sudden surge in interest in the app again, I would put some more time into it. Perhaps the lack of interest is due in part to the lack of forums on shellscape. But I havent the time to implement forums again

No worries It's for the community!

One of my all-time favorite icons sets is Buuf by mattahan. They have an amazing quirky style that looks almost like they're molded out of clay, and the names for the files are hilarious. Well, turns out mattahan is at it again with a second Buuf set, and at Shellscape we have converted it for use with IconPackager, and provided a download with the original images in 128x128 png format. The download is 100% free and we encourage you to support mattahan (donate link is on the follow page). You can snag it here.

ObjectDock clone Thats a first. We really need a guide for use on the site. Perhaps its time to investigate a wiki.

If you run the app and dont see a tray icon pop in, and you have .net 2.0 installed, I dunno what to tell you. If you do see a tray icon, then it's just that you dont get how to use the app. Drag a window partially offscreen.

Yeah when I was doing the (2nd?) major release of Kapsules back in the day, I tried following that for the UI. All it ended up doing was confusing a lot of Windows users who had never used a mac

matonga, dream_team: yeah i'm following the usual convention for / commands, and trying to include the misc / commands from most of the popular clients out there (so those of us used to an advanced client can still use the thing ) And I'm following the RFC as closely as I can. Granted the latest RFC for most IRC Daemons is effing huge, there isn't a need (seriously, its effing huge) to support every single numeric or message, but I do at least display the incomming messages, even if there is no action taken by the client. When I decide to implement the scripting/plugins, the scripts will be able to handle those messages that the client doesnt react to natively. It's cool to see that there is some interest in this. And as such, if you guys have any suggestions please feel free to lend them. Just know that I dont have an apple machine, so the information I go off of from the mac apps is usually in the form of description and screenshots from someone who does

Hrm. If you're going to try selling software for $20 a shot (and to an English user base) you should consider hiring someone to correct all of the spelling and grammar mistakes. You should also consider NOT using custom rendering in your dialogs. It looks hackish and ala 1997. Let the system render your controls the way it was meant to be. It almost looks like you developed this on windows 2000 and didnt consider the visuals of the application when running on other systems. (I cant find any manifest information anywhere in the resources of your assemblies, nor in the application directory, so I guess it's safe to assume you havent included that.) imho not worth the price being charged. Still needs a lot of polish.

ricktendo, I dont know if anyone has a repository with ALL themes EVER made. But the Theme Pack 1 download is pretty big. It contains most of them that I could find.

It's pretty basic; enter your ftp username, password and port and take the screenshot. It'll upload automagically for you.

Well, a few days turned into a few weeks. I havent forgotten though.

Sorry, I dont have a 64bit machine to develop or test with. I also do not have a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate 64 available. 64bit is still mostly a novelty. Until it becomes mainstream and a majority of people are running on that platform, you're going to be at a disadvantage while trying to run programs developed on 32bit platforms.

Yeah, I havent really decided on a name for it yet, as it's still in development. Those of you familiar with mac apps will notice a familiarity with Linkinus and Colloquy. why I got started writing a basic irc client for integration into a few other programs. When I got to a certain point, I decided that I wanted to theme the channel windows on a per server/channel basis and I wanted something really flexible. (Details on how I implemented it when it's released ) After implementing the theming it really didnt make any sense to just leave it as an embedded client, so I decided to go ahead and make it a full client. what It's just a basic, multiserver irc client at the moment. I like apps with the basics. There's no support for scripting (though, there WILL be support for c# and vb.net scripting much further down the road), no fancy window tiling, no dcc and the configuration is simplistic and easy to understand. The goal for me was to produce an easy to use, easy to understand irc client. As most on windows are far from simplistic and most beginners [who are not geeks] are intimidated by them [in my experience]. when I'm hoping to have a beta ready for public consumption by the end of February. Key word 'hoping' eyecandy

Hello all, Just dropping a quick note into this forum category that I've updated shellscape.org again. The downloads for Nubs and Rumshot are still there, plus I've fixed the link for the 'retired applications' which has apparently been broken for quite some time (whoopsie). We've also added direct downloads for a ZIP and IconPackager file for mattahan's latest icon release, BuufDeuce. I've also been getting a lot of requests for the Kapsules download (plus the widgets) to be put back up. I'll be doing that in the next couple of days, and making an announcement when that happens. It's not a new version, I'm just putting the old download back up for people. I'm rolling around making the old version open source, but theres a good chunk of code that I'm not really wanting to, so we'll see. I might release a partial. Havent decided yet. Cheers