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- pm84 - 2011-02-20

stoli Wrote:That's messed up. Hit "S" and go to settings > Skin > Home Window > Set Home Menu to Bottom.

I'll add an update to ensure this can't happen again. Smile

Okay, stoli. And congrats for this wonderful work! Wink


- stoli - 2011-02-21

pm84 Wrote:The skin is very good, but I have a problem, I can't see the background images of Home Button, only the Weather image appears, everything else is a black image. http://b3.s3.quickshareit.com/capturadeecra201102201806pngefd52.png
http://b4.s3.quickshareit.com/capturadeecra201102201833png54880.png

Some help, please? Thanks!

This should be fixed now. In the process I removed several thousand lines of code across multiple files, so please let me know if you see any new issues.


- Helter_Skelter - 2011-02-21

stoli is there an option to let running the next aired addon at startup automatically?

every time that I open xbmc, I have to run it manually.

Thanks a lot, I love the way this skin is going so far!!


- N.O.W.A.L.L - 2011-02-21

Hi

I love this skin. I have just 2 comments concerning fonts:
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What is the cause of the bad accentuation caracters in french?
In the Home screen, the "é" comes in minus. I tried to change this in language/french/strings.xml but didn't found the corresponding category
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It may come from the the typeface you chose, because in the Settings menu, the character seems system forced-accentuated (the E is accentuated, though with a strange misaligned and wrong typeface). I tried to change to the International font in the Appearance settings, and tried varied text encodings, the problem is still the same)
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So could you tell me where I could redefine the font used, with a french accentuated one? (I wanted to change the typeface anyway, with a bolder one like in Night)

Thanks in advance


- stoli - 2011-02-21

Helter_Skelter Wrote:stoli is there an option to let running the next aired addon at startup automatically?

every time that I open xbmc, I have to run it manually.

Thanks a lot, I love the way this skin is going so far!!

It's supposed to run in the startup.xml file. I'll double check and ensure the syntax is correct

N.O.W.A.L.L Wrote:Hi

I love this skin. I have just 2 comments concerning fonts:


What is the cause of the bad accentuation caracters in french?
In the Home screen, the "é" comes in minus. I tried to change this in language/french/strings.xml but didn't found the corresponding category


It may come from the the typeface you chose, because in the Settings menu, the character seems system forced-accentuated (the E is accentuated, though with a strange misaligned and wrong typeface). I tried to change to the International font in the Appearance settings, and tried varied text encodings, the problem is still the same)

So could you tell me where I could redefine the font used, with a french accentuated one? (I wanted to change the typeface anyway, with a bolder one like in Night)

Thanks in advance

It appears to be an xbmc thing - the fonts used all have the correct characters. As for the actual strings.xml files, there are both the built in one in xbmc/language/french and the one provided by users in skin.neon/languages/french. The only option I have seen is to create a version of the font with nothing but uppercase characters and I have not had the time to edit the existing ones for this.

In one of your examples, the actual text in the file is:

"CONFIGURATION DES PARAMÈTRES RÉSEAU"

So if this is wrong, I'd appreciate if you could review the French strings a correct any errors.

The actual font settings can be found in skin.neon/720p/fonts.xml

Thanks,


- tboooe - 2011-02-21

Small feature requests:

I love using the mediaviews for my movies. Is there a way to include flags (DTS, 1080, etc) in this view? There is a lot of real estate above the movie poster and below the plot summary. As it is now, I have to press "i" to see the flags.

In the now playing view for music, I think it would be better to show the music queue/next playing as a text list instead of just album covers. Its difficult to know what is next to play by just looking at the album cover. Also, when you have a bunch of songs playing from the same album it looks redundant on the screen to see all the same album covers.


- N.O.W.A.L.L - 2011-02-21

I replaced the font of the MainMenu by an uppercase only font, it is ok now, thanks


- stoli - 2011-02-21

tboooe Wrote:Small feature requests:

I love using the mediaviews for my movies. Is there a way to include flags (DTS, 1080, etc) in this view? There is a lot of real estate above the movie poster and below the plot summary. As it is now, I have to press "i" to see the flags.

In the now playing view for music, I think it would be better to show the music queue/next playing as a text list instead of just album covers. Its difficult to know what is next to play by just looking at the album cover. Also, when you have a bunch of songs playing from the same album it looks redundant on the screen to see all the same album covers.

It shouldn't be a problem to add the flags in.

I'll work on updating the now playing viz - I want to come up with something new and have a few ideas I need to try out. It does currently display the next song in text at the bottom of the screen.

N.O.W.A.L.L Wrote:I replaced the font of the MainMenu by an uppercase only font, it is ok now, thanks

Good to hear. I need to find a decent font editor and create a new one with all caps.... just another thing on the list. Wink


- pm84 - 2011-02-21

stoli Wrote:This should be fixed now. In the process I removed several thousand lines of code across multiple files, so please let me know if you see any new issues.

The problem remains, stoli. No image on background http://qkpic.com/812e1


- stoli - 2011-02-21

pm84 Wrote:The problem remains, stoli. No image on background http://qkpic.com/812e1

Did you change to another skin before updating?

Try downloading the whole skin from here. It looks like the menu issue is fixed but you are not getting the backgrounds which is a common issue with the addon-updater.

Thanks,


- tboooe - 2011-02-21

stoli Wrote:It shouldn't be a problem to add the flags in.

I'll work on updating the now playing viz - I want to come up with something new and have a few ideas I need to try out. It does currently display the next song in text at the bottom of the screen.



Good to hear. I need to find a decent font editor and create a new one with all caps.... just another thing on the list. Wink

Stoli you rule! You ever think about setting up a donations page? I would donate for sure in order to keep this great skin going.


- stoli - 2011-02-21

tboooe Wrote:Stoli you rule! You ever think about setting up a donations page? I would donate for sure in order to keep this great skin going.

Donate to the team that makes this all possible: http://xbmc.org/contribute/donate/


- IAmNotAUser - 2011-02-21

stoli Wrote:Did you change to another skin before updating?

Try downloading the whole skin from here. It looks like the menu issue is fixed but you are not getting the backgrounds which is a common issue with the addon-updater.

Thanks,

I was getting the issue on the first install on Neon from the Passion Repo. I've since removed the addon, and reinstalled and it didn't fix it. Now the Passion Repo is showing empty (a whole new issue), but installing the zip from github has fixed the background issue - I guess the Passion build hasn't been updated yet.

Thanks Stoli


- stoli - 2011-02-21

The background issue was not related to an update, but a bug with the way skins update that will be fixed in 10.1, hopefully.

In any case, glad to hear it is working for you now.

As a side note, I believe the passion repo updates around 1-2am Paris time...


- IAmNotAUser - 2011-02-21

I remember seeing that bug, just slightly strange it took effect on the first install of a skin, but either way it's fixed.

Now I'm off to solve this empty Passion repo issue.