The Line Skin for GQmpeg
By Matthew Walton

Copyright Matthew Walton 2000

You may use this skin as a basis for skins of your own, but you must give
credit to the original author. You may not use the graphics for any other
purpose without permission from the author.

The Line skin is a basic skin which does everything I need GQmpeg to do for me.
Thanks to the wonders of the right-click (or Button3) menu, I can dispense with
the enormous amounts of buttons the default skin has and go down to a grand
total of six - play, stop, previous, next, shuffle and repeat. Since these are
the only buttons I use frequently, there was little point putting any more
buttons on the skin.

The big triangle is the play button (quite predictably, really). On a similar
line, the big square is stop. The two circles at either end of the green line
that also serves as a track position slider are previous and next track
buttons - previous on the left, next on the right. You can pause playback by
hitting the play button, and then hitting it again to unpause. The shuffle
and repeat buttons are arranged on the left-hand side of the window, just
underneath play. The top one is repeat - it's a right-pointing arrow when
repeat is off, and two curved arrows going in a circle when repeat is on.
Shuffle is underneath it - a downwards-pointing arrow when shuffle is off,
and three rather confused-looking arrows when shuffle is on.

I made this skin using only the Gimp. The line and buttons were drawn with the
assistance of Gfig (which is wonderful but could be better, I think), while
the text was done by tracing the letters from the TrueType font "Andale Mono"
which I had hanging around on my Windows partition and which got installed
when I added a TrueType font server (xfstt, in case you're wondering) to my
setup a while back. Oh, the repeat and shuffle buttons were drawn freehand.

The status indicator started out white but is now green, since I think it
matches better.

If you don't like this skin, change it or moan at me and I'll probably not do
anything to it, as I'm now working on my next project, which involves
converting various parts of Tux the Penguin's anatomy into GQmpeg controls.
Click his beak to play, the feet to skip forward and back, eyes for shuffle
and repeat toggles, etc. Should be better than this skin anyway.

Matthew Walton
aridhol@wotgame.com