Announcing Give Your Workspace A Makeover (GYWAM) 2.0
by florian vogler :: Lotus Notes Client Management
As a response to the chicklet hype on Paul Mooney's and Alan Lepofsky's blogs, we are herewith announcing "Give Your Workspace A Makeover (GYWAM) 2.0":
Give us a few more days, please - the skinning feature will be made available for FREE right here (on this blog).
Note: I didn't have time yet to create more than the two chicklet examples (tennis balls and transparent, rounded chicklets).
GYWAM 2.0 allows you to freely customize your chicklets (= desktop icons; including an alpha channel for freestyle transparency), hinky-minkies (= twisties) on any background image of your choice - all in high-color (unfortunately, the GIF doesn't tell) :)
p.s. the skinning feature is also included in panagenda MarvelClient - the one central(ized) Lotus Notes Client Management solution to audit and manage just about anything on your Notes clients - from (abstract) workspace pages, through icons and icon stacks, bookmarks, replicator pages entries, replicas, ECL (fully editable), desktop compact, to roaming even with only a ~2MB footprint for an entire client configuration.

Give us a few more days, please - the skinning feature will be made available for FREE right here (on this blog).
Note: I didn't have time yet to create more than the two chicklet examples (tennis balls and transparent, rounded chicklets).
GYWAM 2.0 allows you to freely customize your chicklets (= desktop icons; including an alpha channel for freestyle transparency), hinky-minkies (= twisties) on any background image of your choice - all in high-color (unfortunately, the GIF doesn't tell) :)
p.s. the skinning feature is also included in panagenda MarvelClient - the one central(ized) Lotus Notes Client Management solution to audit and manage just about anything on your Notes clients - from (abstract) workspace pages, through icons and icon stacks, bookmarks, replicator pages entries, replicas, ECL (fully editable), desktop compact, to roaming even with only a ~2MB footprint for an entire client configuration.
Comments
Ulrich Krause, 2008-04-07 11:25
Marius Neumann, 2008-04-07 11:28
Thomas Lang, 2008-04-07 11:33
Christian Tillmanns, 2008-04-07 11:59
Dan King, 2008-04-07 12:55
looks pretty good.
Henning Kunz, 2008-04-07 13:27
Mary Beth Raven, 2008-04-07 15:38
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 ^^)
Florian Vogler, 2008-04-07 16:10
Paul Westlake, 2008-04-07 16:43
Cheers..
Markus
Markus Lachnit, 2008-04-07 18:24
Marco Foellmer, 2008-04-07 19:03
yes we definitely need this, looks very cool !!
Klaus Stoehr, 2008-04-07 20:06
Florian Vogler, 2008-04-07 20:06
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
Ian Randall, 2008-04-08 02:18
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.
Florian Vogler, 2008-04-08 08:37
Sylvain PEPIN, 2008-04-08 15:14
Vamsi Krishna, 2008-04-11 06:38
Mirko Malaguti, 2008-04-18 13:03
Any workarounds or fixes? I have LN8.0.1
Klaus Kaltenbach, 2008-04-22 17:51
have a look at the comments in this post
Markus Seitz, 2008-04-22 18:09