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A skin is a custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users.

A skin (also known as visual styles in Windows XP) is a custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users. A skin may be associated with themes. Software that is capable of having a skin applied is referred to as being skinnable, and the process of writing or applying such a skin is known as skinning.

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Remove gradients from richfaces controls

I'd like to use the richfaces panel as its basically the right shape and is skinnable, so I can change font, colour etc. However, as part of the default skin the horizontal bar containing the header has a gradient. My design has a flat simple colour…
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Does qt 4.5 have any skins?

I am developing for the first time using qt 4.5. I am developing a desktop app that will run on windows xp/vista. The client would like to have a skin that assemblies a softphone, or something similar. Does qt come with any skinning engine? Is it…
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Is there a list of readymade Theme Frameworks for Asp.net web development

As for Php there are loads of Theme frameworks warp5 etc. But is there a single Theme framework OR some framework with which I can rapidly develop wireframes and prototypes for new website being created. I primarily use 960Gs for the css stuff. but…
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How to disable default skin for a particular control?

Is it possible to have a control which does not use the default skin that is specified in a .skin file? I have a control for which I do not want a default skin applied to.
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Can you set a page's title via CSS or a Skin in ASP.net 2.0

I am using asp.net 2.0 I know can set the pages title via the code behind. But is it possible to set the page title using Theme, skin or css? I need to display a different title depending on the theme selected.
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In a theme, how can you check if a user is logged in or is "admin"?

I'm creating a mediawiki theme for my wiki. It is more than just css, I'm changing the layout too, as described in the mediawiki docs. I would like to make the interface very simple, so I want to only show certain sidebars and other content if a…
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How to get the current Skin's file path in Mediawiki?

In MediaWiki skin definitions, the BaseTemplate that gets extended has several attributes for creating links to other pages in the wiki, but I've got a situation where I need the path to the skin's directory, to pull some images used to create the…
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DotNetNuke subskins

I have three DNN skins but they are similar. The difference is the style of ContentPane. Is there any way to create some "master" skin with header and footer and three subskins with different styles of Content pane? Because it's a bad idea to create…
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Questions on ASP.NET themes?

1) If I create a theme and a skin file and a css file to go with that theme, does the skinfile automatically pickup the css file I created? What happens if you have multiple css files under a theme? 2) Do css files in themes override global css…
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The 'Text' property of 'asp:TextBox' does not allow child objects #2

So this is my first attempt at using skins in asp.NET. I find the concept to be fairly straightforward - or so I thought. My .skin file looks like this:
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ASP.NET theme skins

Is there a way to apply a skin only to controls of a certain type and a specific ID? For instance, I have controls throughout a site used to display our company phone number that look like this:
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background image somehow covers up all the controls adobe flash builder 4.6

I created a skin using an image as background. When my View imported the skin as skinClass, it covers up all the other controls. How do i make all the controls display above the skin? This is my Skin code called Background.mxml
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How to create a go keyboard theme?

I have developed many keyboard skins (better keyboard format) but I am having trouble making a go keyboard in eclipse. I am a designer not much of a programmer so I'm very clueless when it comes to this area. The errors I am getting have to deal…
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Free/Paid Silverlight Video Players?

I'm looking for some nice looking silverlight video players to be used on a website. Similar to this question regarding flash: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/167072/free-paid-flash-video-players, I'm looking for some good silverlight…
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What is the best way to implement skinning in a Rails app

Using Rails, I am building several sites which are very similar. I want to implement these as one Rails app answering to multiple domains, and change what is presented and the processing logic based on the domain name. The areas I need to…
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