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Secret of Kells for Rainmeter

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UPDATE 23.10.2015: I have added a three-drives version for disk skin and also adjusted it a bit and adden removable E-drive skin. But mainly, I added icons for all letters from C-Z so you can add or rename your drives. (Now I wonder why I didn't add also A and B... Has the days of floppy disks really passed? Will anybody request them?) To change the icon in existing skin, just open the skin to edit and change "disk=X" in the [Variables] section to any letter you want. Or if you want to create a new skin for new external drive, just copy the folder "disk-h" (for example), and name the new one with the new letter, change the name of the new skin in the folder and don't forget to change the disk variable to your desired letter:)

UPDATE 13.4.2014: I have added the gmail skin in the Mail folder and setting for it to the setting part so you can connect it with your gmail account. When setting, don't forget to input your password for the third side party software.

UPDATE 5.11.2013: I just realized that the theme didn't load automatically after the installation. I am sorry for that, I have just fixed it, now it should be easier to use even for people who have never met Rainmeter before:)

Aaaaand one more theme for Rainmeter:) (last for now, I have to do other things too)

As you surely know, I love the Secret of Kells - the most beautiful animated film that you must see! (Again!:)) And when I discoverer Rainmeter I was surprised that I didn't find any skin inspired by it... or any celtic-themed skin at all. So I just had to do something about it:)

Features:
The Secret of Kells is actually pretty simple theme with no special meters... It shows usual disk capacity (local disks C and D plus removable disks F, G, H), measures current CPU, RAM, upload and download, battery level and energy source, number of unread mails (again, only if you use some mail-client like Thunderbird), shows current and tomorrow weather, music player, current date and time and also the parchment with notest.
Nothing has it's fixed possition so you can put it just where you want.
It has a user-friendly setup that will allow you to input all the necessary variables (your e-mail, location and unist for weather forecast, music player) without need to rewrite the .ini files... Actually, this is the first skin I managed to make it so, so I am unreasonably proud about myself:)
The background is included in two sizes - 1366x768 and 1920x1080 - and you can choose which one you want to use in the setup (they are indentical except for the size).

Flaws
The Secret of Kells theme for Rainmeter has one big flaw - PanguRAM meter that will make you want to use all 100% of your RAM:)
Also, there isn't a lot of crazy skins and meters showing everything about your computer, but I wanted this theme to bery very simple... If you want more, you can allways use one of the great advantages of Rainmeter - combine with another themes (or make your own (or ask me but I don't promise anything)).
Weather.com has changed the url for the feed so the wheather skin might not work. However, the fix is quite simple. Open the weather skin for editing (in notepad or something similar) and there replace line Url=http://xml.weather.com/weather/local/#Location#?cc=*&unit=#Type#&dayf=3 with this one: Url=http://wxdata.weather.com/wxdata/weather/local/#Location#?cc=*&unit=#Type#&dayf=3

Requierements
All you need is the latest Rainmeter installed, which you can get here - rainmeter.net/cms/
And this theme downloaded and installed in the Rainmeter (just double-click it and then you can open it from the Rainmeter)

Credits
The Secret of Kells was created by Tomm Moore and Cartoon Saloon, so they own the rights for the title, the background picture, Pangur Ban and the visual at all...
The main font used is Kells CE, which is included in Resources folder (you don't need to install it, it just sits there and is used by Rainmeter)
The other used font (for the disk and day letters) is Celtic MD.
For the background and the images, I also used some brushes and patterns by :iconredheadstock: from www.obsidiandawn.com, :icongruselwusel:, designquery.com and :iconcammerel: (great work, people!)
And again, it uses the popular USB disk ejector (you don't need to install it or anything, again, it just sits there)

If you like it... go watch the movie!:)
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bonzo-dimduly's avatar

When I saw this I thought of jungle book or something alike