2011-10-10, 04:23
After trying a bunch of skins, with none of them being the perfect solution for me, I believe that Simplicity is my favorite. But I several things aren't working correctly or working like I think they should. I am hoping I can get help to fix these things, or confirm if they are known issues.
1. The Pictures section does not work well. When I select the Pictures menu item from home, it opens the Pictures view, in the upper left it says "Browsing: return" and nothing ever happens after that. I get no options to add a source, access addons, or anything at all. The up arrow to view options also does not work. But then, if hit backspace (and would normally expect to go back to the home screen), I finally get a file view allowing me to add source and access addons.
2. When I select music, the next screen has no items to select. I have to then view options and disable library mode. Once in file mode, I can see my music source, go to music addons, etc. If I understand it correctly, there really isn't a library view available for music, so if that is a limitation of XBMC, so be it. But it would then be nice if you were automatically in file mode when you entered the music section.
3. The recently added items that appear above the menu on the home screen (for both movies and TV Shows) only work intermittently. When they are not working, there are still items up there, but they have no data and no thumbnails. But then sometimes they work as expected.
4. When Home is the highlighted item there are three itmes above the menu bar: Movies, Episodes, and Albums. The numbers for these items (total and unwatched) only populate some of the time. Just like in item 3, I have not been able to discover the set of circumstances that leads to this working correctly sometimes but not others.
5. Maybe some of these things are fixed in later builds, but I cannot get it to install. I download the latest zip from GIT and try to install from zip within XBMC but the install fails. I do not see any errors in the ddebug log, I just get a pop up message saying that the install failed.
So if anyone can offer fixes, workarounds, etc. to help me with these issue I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
1. The Pictures section does not work well. When I select the Pictures menu item from home, it opens the Pictures view, in the upper left it says "Browsing: return" and nothing ever happens after that. I get no options to add a source, access addons, or anything at all. The up arrow to view options also does not work. But then, if hit backspace (and would normally expect to go back to the home screen), I finally get a file view allowing me to add source and access addons.
2. When I select music, the next screen has no items to select. I have to then view options and disable library mode. Once in file mode, I can see my music source, go to music addons, etc. If I understand it correctly, there really isn't a library view available for music, so if that is a limitation of XBMC, so be it. But it would then be nice if you were automatically in file mode when you entered the music section.
3. The recently added items that appear above the menu on the home screen (for both movies and TV Shows) only work intermittently. When they are not working, there are still items up there, but they have no data and no thumbnails. But then sometimes they work as expected.
4. When Home is the highlighted item there are three itmes above the menu bar: Movies, Episodes, and Albums. The numbers for these items (total and unwatched) only populate some of the time. Just like in item 3, I have not been able to discover the set of circumstances that leads to this working correctly sometimes but not others.
5. Maybe some of these things are fixed in later builds, but I cannot get it to install. I download the latest zip from GIT and try to install from zip within XBMC but the install fails. I do not see any errors in the ddebug log, I just get a pop up message saying that the install failed.
So if anyone can offer fixes, workarounds, etc. to help me with these issue I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.