[WIP] Neon - a new skin for XBMC

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- seijmo - 2011-01-23

Hi,

I love this skin, and I just have one thing that I miss from Aeon :

I use to listen music in full screen and I like to have the information of the current song playing displayed. With your skin I have it during some seconds but after I only have the fanart (I have fanart enable). Will it be possible to have an option to disable the hide of information after some seconds?

Hope this will be possible.

Thanks

- stoli - 2011-01-23

seijmo Wrote:Hi,

I love this skin, and I just have one thing that I miss from Aeon :

I use to listen music in full screen and I like to have the information of the current song playing displayed. With your skin I have it during some seconds but after I only have the fanart (I have fanart enable). Will it be possible to have an option to disable the hide of information after some seconds?

Hope this will be possible.

Thanks

You can do this with advancedsettings.xml:

Code:
<advancedsettings>

  <songinfoduration>9999</songinfoduration>

</advancedsettings>

More info on advanced settings can be found here.

- seijmo - 2011-01-24

Thanks for the tip, works like a charm!

- pyrocyd - 2011-01-24

Just found this one!

Love it! and the wife also! set as default skin.

Thnx!!

- stoli - 2011-01-24

maui917 Wrote:I just wanted to bump the comment on Submenu's for custom home menu item's. That's a feature I would love since I use custom home menu playlists to seperate my movies from my kids movies, but want the "recently added" submenu's still available.

This may take a little longer or not happen. I spent a few hours on it this weekend and could not get it to work for one reason or another. I'm not entirely sure it's even possible... I'll give it another go at some point, but it will be a couple of weeks out at least.

I did push some other minor tweaks this weekend.

Thanks,

- e2zippo - 2011-01-24

Really love this skin, but i have a few issues and questions.

1: Is it possible to cycle the fanart on the homescreen for tv-shows, without having to pick a "recent" episode, just hovering over tv-shows should cycle the fanart.
Like it works in Aeon MQ2.

2: The font and color that you use when showing a "recent" episode is horrible, could it be comic sans ms?
Please consider using Tahoma or Trebuchet MS.

3: When pausing, "current time and finish time" should be at the top of the screen, it really clutters things up when it's next to the movie information on the bottom.

Great work, thanks!

- stoli - 2011-01-24

e2zippo Wrote:Really love this skin, but i have a few issues and questions.

1: Is it possible to cycle the fanart on the homescreen for tv-shows, without having to pick a "recent" episode, just hovering over tv-shows should cycle the fanart.
Like it works in Aeon MQ2.

Just select your folder in skin settings > backgrounds

e2zippo Wrote:2: The font and color that you use when showing a "recent" episode is horrible, could it be comic sans ms?
Please consider using Tahoma or Trebuchet MS.

The same font is used throughout the skin, so there may be something wrong on your end - was it updated via the addons?. I use one font as standard and then Arial if you select "International" in the font selection.

Edit: If you ever, ever see me using Comic Sans - please come hunt me down and shoot me. http://bancomicsans.com/

Quote:3: When pausing, "current time and finish time" should be at the top of the screen, it really clutters things up when it's next to the movie information on the bottom.

Great work, thanks!

Turn on "Enable Global Clock" in settings and it will be at the top. Smile

Thanks,

- e2zippo - 2011-01-25

stoli Wrote:Just select your folder in skin settings > backgrounds

The same font is used throughout the skin, so there may be something wrong on your end - was it updated via the addons?. I use one font as standard and then Arial if you select "International" in the font selection.

Edit: If you ever, ever see me using Comic Sans - please come hunt me down and shoot me. http://bancomicsans.com/

Turn on "Enable Global Clock" in settings and it will be at the top.

Thanks,

That was a fast reply Big Grin

About the fanart cycle..

Wouldn't that require me to copy/move fanart.jpg for every tv-show to one folder and than choose that one?

No options to just let it use the fanart images from the shows respective folder and cycle them?

So you hate Comic Sans just as much as everyone else, good to hear! Laugh

- maui917 - 2011-01-25

stoli Wrote:This may take a little longer or not happen. I spent a few hours on it this weekend and could not get it to work for one reason or another. I'm not entirely sure it's even possible... I'll give it another go at some point, but it will be a couple of weeks out at least.

I did push some other minor tweaks this weekend.

Thanks,

No Problem just glad it's on your radar, as it's a feature I've thought about trying to mod myself, but now days with skin's being so easy to update right through XBMC, modding them yourself for one small feature isn't cool since you have to redo it after updates.

Anyway thanks again... I'm really liking your skin.

- supertom44 - 2011-01-25

Aeon mq2 uses the fanart splitter script I beleive, its easy enough to change the home screen so it cycles through all fanart but it will shows movies and tv, if you want just tv or movies then you'll have to use the script.

- tormi - 2011-01-25

About fonts and stuff, I might just be getting old but it is very difficult to read the font in the OS keyboard.

Anyway to make this part easier to read?

- e2zippo - 2011-01-25

supertom44 Wrote:Aeon mq2 uses the fanart splitter script I beleive, its easy enough to change the home screen so it cycles through all fanart but it will shows movies and tv, if you want just tv or movies then you'll have to use the script.

Where can i find it and how do I apply it?

- stoli - 2011-01-26

e2zippo Wrote:Where can i find it and how do I apply it?

I have no idea it still works or not...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=56153&highlight=fanart+splitter

I just keep separate folders for Movies, TV, Music, and Picture fanart and point the backgrounds there...

- tormi - 2011-01-28

tormi Wrote:About fonts and stuff, I might just be getting old but it is very difficult to read the font in the OS keyboard.

Anyway to make this part easier to read?

Just wanted to bump that part and ask another question.

The "V" for watched TV shows is no longer displayed in Neon. For movies it works as before. I have checked the "watched overlays" in settings as should be.

- stoli - 2011-01-28

tormi Wrote:Just wanted to bump that part and ask another question.

The "V" for watched TV shows is no longer displayed in Neon. For movies it works as before. I have checked the "watched overlays" in settings as should be.

I'll get to the keyboard today hopefully.

What view aren't you seeing the watched overlay? I'm not seeing any issues on my end and have not made any changes that should have impacted this... Huh

Thanks,