New status colours

[ciaobaby]

One of the causes of 'resource bloat' is the Windows 'dumb' cache system, and by 'skinning' the GUI and making UI image objects external to the application, means that Windows has to reserve cache space for each file that the application has open. Thereby  increasing the running footprint significantly, and qBittorrent stands to lose far more by increasing the 'footprint' than the small 'benefit' of being "skinnable" will add.

Embedding the images in the application avoids the problem of additional cache overhead.

[skribb]

I have successfully built a 3.2.3 with fixed colors and better, less confusing icons (for Windows anyway)



Feel free to give it a  try:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lyob35zhq6p40 ... e.rar?dl=0
http://www.filedropper.com/qbittorrentskribbifiedtheme

[dragons4life]

Going to try it later, thanks for sharing.

[Nemo]

Thats actually quite nice, like the icons. Thanks skribb.

The exe file seems a little bit bigger though.

[dragons4life]

@skribb how do I install it? just run the .exe?

[Nemo]

I didn't tried yet but it seems you replace them with the originals in the installed dir.

[skribb]

[quote="dragons4life"]
@skribb how do I install it? just run the .exe?
[/quote]

Just put the exe and pdb in your install/portable directory.

I saw that sledge uploaded a version where you could specify the colors yourself, and the exe and pdb was the only files in that dir (apart from the text file where qb looks for colors), so I figured that would be the right way to  do it.

ps: I also stole iLexx's logo redesign for the splash screen and tweaked the mascot a little 

[ciaobaby]

The .pdb file is Visual Studio's debugging database so is not 100% necessary

[skribb]

Oh, ok. Noted