Minimal

Minimal is a Rainmeter Skin, which can be found here. It offers minimalistic tools for your desktop work and fun, for example Media Player, FeedReader and display of statistics of your CPU, RAM, Volume, etc

It requires the most current version of Rainmeter to work.

Features

Feed Reader

Whole Skin is Non-Ticking means there is no process done, but from Events and User-Interaction
Is currently able to display up to 25 Feed-Entries (easy to extend) with their Images, Content, Titles and Links
LeftClick to show Entry-Description
RightClick to open up the article in your browser
Download Progress Bar if Feeds contain Images (/@Resources/Images/Wiki/DownloadProgressBar.png)
Split all your Feeds into seperate Categories
Display up to 30 Feeds in a List
Use ScrollBar if Amount is higher than resolution
ScrollUp to scroll up
ScrollDown to scroll down
LeftClick on the up arrow to skip a whole page
LeftClick on the down arrow to go back a whole page
Search within all your feeds (only cached, not persistent)
See how many Hits you got
See the Progress of the parsing of all your Feeds
MiddleMouseClick to hide the skin (don't loose the database)

To change your layout browse Rainmeter\Skins\Minimal\@Resources\Variables\FeedReader\vFeedReader.inc but it is advised to stick with default at first.

To change your Feeds browse Rainmeter\Skins\Minimal\@Resources\Scripts\FeedReader\FeedList.lua. The list convention is explained with the Lua File {Category, FeedName, FeedUrl, Pinned}. Don't forget , in each Line.

Media Player

It is designed after EdgePlayer 3.0 but offers additional features and removes in my opinion unneeded meters which are often not provided.

MouseHover of the Controls (Displays another in another color if you mouseover the icons)
LeftClick anywhere on the bar and drag'n'drop however you like to set the media player to a specific position of your song
Smart Aligner - perfectly divides the bar into 100 parts
RightClick and drag'n'drop to set the volume to a specified volume
Low Profile Update - Updates and renders only necessary updates
Hides if Player is inactive (EdgePlayer 3.0) and shows if Player is active again
Fits each WorkArea automatically since it works with #SCREENAREAWIDTH#

Notes

Revolutionary Note-Design which involves seperate NoteSkins which can be called smartly by detecting the Active State in the [Rainmeter] Configuration file.

Fast Edit - Left-Click to edit the file with Windows Notepad, press ESC to close the file (AutoIt Script)
Fast response - updates immediatly upon load or change
Low Profile Update - Updates only on Change or on Load
Easy Disposal - Right-Click to close the skin, but content stays saved
Positioning - you can place each element whereever you like
Expandable - Default are 5 notes, but you can easily expand this by copy & paste the Note1 files and rename them to NoteN where N is the next iteration in line. You can find it under Minimal\Dock\Notes. You will find 5 folders there to replicate. The script will automatically detect more notes if necessary

Dynamic Calendar

A horizontal display of your upcoming events not bound to a date limit but to the amount only

Can cover almost infinite amount of calendars (only download time increases)
Each calendar can use its own unique color
Displays Date to Date if an appointment takes longer than one day
All appointments are sorted by time and date

Launcher

A custom launcher, which can handle seperate things

Calls a custom programs on keyword
Search specific list of webpage
Open websites
Run normal windows commands

System Stats

Easy Display of CPU, RAM and Download without the need for numbers. Minimum and Maximum are displayed through 2 seperate colors

No Numbers
No Cluttering
One Icon displays all information
if necessary MouseOver displays the current percentage as a tooltip

System Access

Gives access to basic Windows functionality as the Trashbin or Volume

Displays if trash is there
LeftClick opens Trashbin
RightClick clears Trashbin without confirmation
MouseOver displays how many files are in there
MouseWheelDown decrease volume by 10%
MouseWheelUp increase volume by 10%
LeftClick toggles mute
Displays different icons depending how loud it is

To-Do

RSS-Reader
integrated weather?

Known Bugs

Icons don't display correct size because of ImageTint but thats on Rainmeter
NowPlaying doesn't change the state, don't know if it is because of the plugin or Foobar
Launcher cannot launch custom programs with whitespaces in it

Thanks to

Rainmeter-Team for Rainmeter
chrfb for his ecqclipse 2 IconSet

Contributor

Original Author: thatsIch
Contributors: contributors
powered by SublimeText 2 and Rainmeter Package by Merlinthered

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

thatsIch / Minimal