2014-07-25, 17:42
Dear theme designers,
sorry for flaming and I know that it's difficult to argue about personal taste. But...
There's a tired design trope in XBMC: Themes that use stock photos of impressive interiour design, showing fancy expensive TV sets / home theatres / movie theatres.
Like the refocus skin,
the transparency skin,
the black glass nova skin
or the neon skin.
But there are more examples.
Yes, the user can change those images, but still: Please make it stop.
Dear theme designers, if your theme contains stock photos like these, consider an alternative.
My living room isn't suddenly more impressive when my TV shows an impressive photo of somebody else's impressive living room. My living room is more impressive when the TV shows an awesome interface.
So it's the theme that should upgrade the TV to a more beautiful device. Stock photos don't help with that.
sorry for flaming and I know that it's difficult to argue about personal taste. But...
There's a tired design trope in XBMC: Themes that use stock photos of impressive interiour design, showing fancy expensive TV sets / home theatres / movie theatres.
Like the refocus skin,
the transparency skin,
the black glass nova skin
or the neon skin.
But there are more examples.
Yes, the user can change those images, but still: Please make it stop.
Dear theme designers, if your theme contains stock photos like these, consider an alternative.
My living room isn't suddenly more impressive when my TV shows an impressive photo of somebody else's impressive living room. My living room is more impressive when the TV shows an awesome interface.
So it's the theme that should upgrade the TV to a more beautiful device. Stock photos don't help with that.