The download size

maocul Wrote:I'd agree with natethomas on this. I think your average Joe will really appreciate having the XML preset and the files already there. Just cut it back to a couple of images per condition and then link to the larger file and explain where the images need to be extracted to.

the next release of Transparency! will contain a reduced weather fanart pack. main reason for this is, i couldn't guaranty all the images were 'free to use' and i certainly don't want to violate any copyright regulation by distributing them as a part of the skin.
so those just had to go. it'll cut another 30MB of the download size.

old download size: 175MB
new download size: 110MB

i hope i can meet everyone half-way by making these changes.

Vote for the complete package. One thing I love about this skin is everything being bundled into a single download.

Thanks for the hard work.

Ronie, from what I have seen of your screen shots, I would really like to use your skin. There is one problem though. You are using zshare.com and I am currently deployed to afghanistan at the moment. Over here, the satellite connection and zshare do not get along at all. I wouldn't mind taking the 8 hours to download the skin if all would cooperate. Is there any way that you might could post it on rapidshare.com? That is pretty much the only service that does not lose the connection because of it being too slow.

On topic though, one way that you could really cut down on size if you wanted to is to put it into multiple rar's, like putting it 3 deep into a rar file and then sending it off. I know that may sound a little pretentious, but it does work though. I have used that method many of time to get things to send through yahoo mail.

Good work on the skin though and hopefully I will be able to download it as soon as I can get a link other than zshare. Thanks for your hard work.

Ronie i'm with you on this one stick with the complete package as it's a lot easier for the majority of users. for those like me who don't use the weather just delete what you don't need. don't be bullied into doing doing something your not happy with, if you want to do the extra work on makeing it smaller that's ok as long as your happy with it.

And keep up the great work your doing on this port of JezzX's great Pm3HD

Ronie keep it as it is the more complete a skin the better for me tbh

download size hasn't been a problem for me - however i don't actually use the weather function whatsoever. not knowing the size of the skin was mostly due to weather icons until now - i'd love a reduced/alternative zip without these large images if it's just 100mb of weather related stuff

OK who the hell keeps editing the topic name ? my original post was was
"The Download size" then someone changed it to
"The download size of transprancy is bloody huge" or somthing close to that so I changed it back. now some one has changed it again to
"The download size of the Transparency skin needs to be smaller... " all of these changes to the topic make it sound like I'm being rude and pushy please stop changing it !

As of now I shall change it back

well it must be one of the dozey developers as most users can't make those kind
of changes, and they called me childish?

lunerceli Wrote:I will be able to download it as soon as I can get a link other than zshare.

check your PM for a download link to Transparency!-v0.27 on rapidshare.

i wouldn't mind not having the weather pack in it because i don't use the weather feature. so i just delete all that stuff after i've downloaded it.