2008-06-12, 22:40
Jeroen Wrote:WAF?
Wife acceptance factor. It's a common term for HTPC and home theater buffs.
Jeroen Wrote:WAF?
szsori Wrote:Wife acceptance factor. It's a common term for HTPC and home theater buffs.Hehe ah ok. I guess I have to update my slang dictionary
marlboroman1 Wrote:The font change made it crash for me and when i restarted there were no fonts making navigation impossible; so I had to delete the skin I think the last skin font selected was "funky" or some such.
I think i'll stick with the default fount next time thanks for creating this the hard work is much appreciated.
Quote:I'll have to think about it. It seems a bit counter-intuitive to press right to open a menu on the left. Maybe a user definable setting would do the tricj. Also, I'll have to make a decision about what I'll be doing about the scrollbars first. Because if they will be staying the right button would be needed for that.
Bram77 Wrote:My aim is opening the menu at the right, like you'd expect when pressing "right"
Quote:Also.... it might be cleaner to open the menu in an overlay, without moving the file or library list (semi transparent ?), eventhough the current animation is quite unique, as far as I know and I love new perceptions .I like the fact that the menu doesn't overlap anything, which I think is cleaner. I tried semi-transparent before on the dialog windows and I just never felt fully content with it. I wish the skinning engine supported blurring, then stuff like that could look much better.
Topfs2 Wrote:I'd like some conditional size so the overlay from the scan isn't over the library (scan TV shows and watch Movie library and you'll see what I mean)
Quote:Also the fanart blend doesn't seem to work for me?Hm, that sounds familiar. I did a little fanart mod on xTV some time ago and someone reported the same problem. It worked for me though. And I was using basically the same code on that one. I'm going to completely rewrite the images overlapping bit and try to make it more efficient.
Quote:P.S Considered open sourcing it and putt it on the skin svn? would keep this lovely skin alive for a long time.Yup, at the moment I am rebuilding the skin based of this one, the next release will be 720p only, and when the worst bugs are solved it will be put on the SVN. After that I'll maybe release a revised SD version which would be released seperately.
xb00t Wrote:Even though it still hasnt got OSD (or it doesnt work?).I did make an OSD, but I have ran into it sometimes being displayed at the edge or completely outside the screen boundaries. I believe this only happened to me while launching from file mode. Did you launch while in filemode or in library mode?
Quote:* Volume control is too much "in your face" and takes to much spaceThese like the OSD will be completely redone. I'm trying to take a different approach in order to make the best out of every inch of the screen while not looking cluttered. I don't know if it will work out good enough, because I'll have to deal with various scenarios of elements being on screen at the same time. This approach will only be doable on an HD version though. I know this sounds vague
* Library update notification overlaps the time-and-date and weather information in the homescreen and just about anything that is at the bottom in any other screen
Quote:* Could it be possible to be able to choose the home menu position (top/bottom)?This would take a lot of work. Moving the menubar to the bottom is a 2 minute job but I would also have to move the submenus. Actually I would have to create new seperate ones, because the focuspoints and animations would also need duplicates. Plus I think it would look out of place since the bar in other screens would still be on top. So I don't think I'll be doing that sorry.
Quote:* Maybe add the option of icons in the home screen?Eventually I would like to create an alternate icon based layout. But I want it to have the same features as the current one without looking cluttering. So, I'll have to think of something.
Quote:* A small preview of what is played at the moment would be nice when hitting the X button on the controllerWhat do you mean exactly? Like a media overlay in every screen? Or the full screen window with visualisations like in PM3 for instance? Because that should be there already. No visualisation though I think and hardly any real design work done on it.
Quote:Thats about it. Thank you for making this beauty and please dont abandon it.Thanks
Quote:What do you mean exactly? Like a media overlay in every screen? Or the full screen window with visualisations like in PM3 for instance? Because that should be there already. No visualisation though I think and hardly any real design work done on it.
Quote:I did make an OSD, but I have ran into it sometimes being displayed at the edge or completely outside the screen boundaries. I believe this only happened to me while launching from file mode. Did you launch while in filemode or in library mode?Filemode or Library mode both dont show the OSD at all. I am guessing its not even off-screen because the arrow keys work just as they would when the OSD is off. So maybe its not starting up at all? And by OSD I mean the controls that show up when you pres the START button on the controller.
Jeroen Wrote:Yes, I haven't worked on the scrollbars at all, so practically all of them are in the wrong place. I am still in doubt whether to include a scroll bar option in the next version at all. I personally never use them, I find them cluttering. I see no real use browsing by scrollbar. The only benefit I see in them is to provide an indication of how far down a list you are. Something else I have been thinking about is to hide them or obscure them untill they are focused.
I'd like to hear more people's thought on scrollbars. Do you use them a lot? Are they essential to you? So in any skin?
xb00t Wrote:No edit button
Filemode or Library mode both dont show the OSD at all. I am guessing its not even off-screen because the arrow keys work just as they would when the OSD is off. So maybe its not starting up at all? And by OSD I mean the controls that show up when you pres the START button on the controller.