Press kit for Nimi Visuals

Today, we release latest build of Nimi Visuals 20150101 with some of the updates accumulated from other projects since last few months - especially those related to collections and locking.

Additionally, some of the effects were revised like transparent when inactive effect - now with limited support for child windows (grouping with parent).

Revised collections.
Revised jelly windows effect conditionals.
Revised locking.
Revised transparent when inactive effect.
Other changes, fixes and updates.

Mentioned projects

Nimi Visuals: Adds eye-candy effects to windows like deformations, physics and other SFX.

Note to Editors

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Fact sheet

Adds eye-candy effects to windows (and start menu) like deformations (e.g: jelly windows - that makes moved window wiggle like being made from jelly; or fold - which hides windows by folding up horizontally, and unfolds when showing), physics (e.g.: keep momentum - making window to conserve move momentum; or bounce - that makes windows bounce upon receving focus ) and other SFX (e.g.: pixie dust - which makes moved window to leave a trail of twinkling pixie dust; or close puff - which displays puff cloud below cursor when closing window).

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Target audience

Users whom are interested in system customization.

Key benefits

Can help in system customization:

By adding matching effect to customization e.g. pixi dust for magic themed desktop.
By option to quickly toggle system effects when available.

Can increase productivity:

Effects can make windows more noticable e.g. window bounce, transparent inactive windows effect.
Effects can help in windows management e.g. warp on edges, reorder shuffle effect.

Key features

Accessibility features
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Accessibility features to ease and enhance usability.
- Language translations support
- Online help
Core features
Various core features.
- Autoupdate
Start menu effects
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Effects that can be applied when showing and hidding start menu.
- Aurora transition
- Fold transition
- Jellify transition
Windows focus effects
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Effects that can be applied when window gets focus.
- Contrast screen
- Reorder shuffle
- Transparent inactive
- Window bounce
Windows minimize, restore, close & create effects
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Effects that can be applied when window is being minimized, restored, closed or created.
- Aurora transition
- Close puff
- Fold transition
- Jellify
- Liquify transition
- Shuffle transition
- Twirl transition
Windows move & resize effects
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Effects that can be applied while window is being moved or resized.
- Fade on move or resize
- Jelly windows
- Keep momentum
- Pixie dust
- Push other windows
- Warp on edges

Publishing guidelines

Nimi Visuals in text

When writing about Nimi Visuals in text, following general projects naming guideline should be followed:

Name should never be in plural or possessive.
Name capitalization should be unaltered.
Name abbreviations should consist of each word first letter, however lower-case starting words can be omitted when resulting abbreviation would consists at least 2 characters.

Internal Nimi Visuals project name abbreviation is NV.

Graphics guideline

Do not alter graphics: colour (excluding technical necessary changes), proportions, spacing or any other aspect of those.
Do not overlap graphics with other visual elements.
Align graphics with enough spacing (2 em or greater) to other elements.