Black Friendfeed Widget with Fluid

posted 02:42PM May 15, 2008 with tags fluid friendfeed hud macosx ssb by Lars Trieloff

My Favorite SSB application Fluid got an update some days ago that allows you to fiddle with some window settings, namely the window opacity and the window decoration and the window placement (normal, above all windows, below all windows, above the dashboard). With the window decoration comes a black-window style with dark window borders and scroll bars that looks very cool. But using this style with Friendfeed for which I provided a custom userscript before yielded unpleasant results as the white background of friendfeed and the dark window borders do not match.

So I modified the user CSS file that is embedded in every Fluid SSB application (Right-click the application icon in Finder, select "Show package contents", browse to Contents/Resources) called default.css to give me a black background with white text and links (and I removed all the sidebar and clutter to make it a minimal interface)

The result looks like that and gives specialized desktop applications such as Twhirl or AlertThingy a run for it's money.

http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/lars/resource/friendfeed-hud.png