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*ähem* GYWAM 2.0. Do we really need this ?? I don't think so.

As a committed workspace user, this is a very welcome improvement.

Question: Does the foreground colour of the text in the Chicklet dynamically change (to a contrasting colour from the background colour) when the chicklet is transparent? The standard Notes Client does with the text in tabs above the workspace, but not in Chicklets

I'm trying .... after restart Notes, only some features are active .... arrow for choose ReplicaDB is OK, but icon background and desktop background NO .... why ? Have you some ideas ?

We definitely need this! Notes needs to look cool

@Mirko & Klaus:

have a look at the comments in this post

Oh yes, we need that. Everything that makes Notes look fancier then the dark side is good. And I am really fed up with the look of the workspace but I will never get used to the Open list.

Waiting for it

Great work, will it works on mac?

Right, I don't need it, but I definitively want it!

Hi Flo,


looks pretty good.

Please provide the link to download gywam2.0 and its skins

Hi Ian,

thank you for the nice feedback - unfortunately, we cannot (or don't know how to) set the font color on desktop icons (yet - Mary Beth?), not even in general for the entire workspace / Notes desktop (e.g. black shiny desktop icon tiles with white text would be way coool!) - changing the text color for the entire desktop would be a huge step forward on its own.

As for dynamically changing the text color for every desktop icon based on its icon tile or overall background: This would in my understanding involve doing so for every single pixel. As opposed to workspace tabs which have one solid background color, icon tiles / chicklets and the background image can have different background colors behind every font pixel.

We'd certainly want to do more with the Notes workspace, for example positioning the database / application icon as well as the text, and twistie / hinky-minky, but we'd need help from IBM there ^^.

After all, this will be just the first release of MarvelClient's Skinning Edition - wherever possible, we will certainly enhance it further along the road.

I say YESSSSSSSSSSS .... we need this sort of tool to make Lotus Notes client more sexy and more appreciated by the users. As winamp has is skins, it's a very good idea to be able to make the same thing with the client with our own corporate Logo...

Hi Florian,

yes we definitely need this, looks very cool !!

Always Customise my workspace.. looking forward to a new way !

I don't need it also but I like it a lot. And it's great so see what's possible with that ugly and old fashioned workspace. Great!

Hi, I have the same problem as Mirko.
Any workarounds or fixes? I have LN8.0.1

Hi Mary Beth,

if you could add one of your developers to the project, we should be able to also offer this on Linux and Mac :) (if not do a lot more ^^)

Cool! Does it run on Linux? what about Mac?

@Marco: In a Windows VM, yes ;-) - *hint*: we're still waiting for help from Mary Beth re Mac and Linux.

Yes, it is very good, I like it.

just WOW! :)

Cheers..
Markus