Creating your own skin
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Creating your own skin is pretty easy. If you have done any nice ones, you may send me these to xmms@27b-6.de so I can include them in the skin download section.
Step 1 - Create the graphics
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Create you skin in your favorite graphics program. The skin can be of
any size you want.
Then save it under any name you want. The format must be one, that gtk
recognizes. BMP or JPG will work of course, however jpg may degrade your
skin, as it uses a lousy compression (whereas e.g. BMP does not compress
at all).
Step 2 - Create the ini
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Now that you have saved your skin, the plugin needs to know where to place
the cover, and some other data. Therefore a so called ini-File is created,
where all this info resides in. With a text-editor create a textfile with
following contents:
[Skin]
skintype=CDcover-skin
author=<Your name and skin info>
title=<Name of the skin>
file=<Name of the graphic file>
coverx=<X-Position of upper left corner of the cover display area>
covery=<Y-Position of upper left corner of the cover display area>
coverwidth=<Width of the display area>
coverheight=<Height of the display area>
Replace the tags <...> with the correct values. Note that the filename must be a name of a file in the same directory, so no path must be included.
Step 3 - Save the skin
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CDcover only finds your skin when it is in the correct directory, which
must be
~/.xmms/CDcover/
Save all graphics and ini-files into this directory.
If you have done everything right, your skin will now show up in the
configuration dialog.