2011-02-23, 21:58
Media Info Icon sets - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=81203
jmarshall Wrote:1.1. Weather fanart packs. Either multi or single image packs. Skinner uses Weather.Fanart info label and XBMC handles the rest.
jmarshall Wrote:1.3. More specific background packs, such as Genre fanart. These would be set by XBMC during directory listing. Personally I'd be reluctant to include these, as they start cluttering the UI - we'd need a setting for them, and I'm not clear as to where this sort of thing makes sense.
jmarshall Wrote:After all, are folk going to want Director fanart? Year fanart? Where does it stop?
jmarshall Wrote:2.4 Skin-specific artwork packs. These would essentially give you a way to push out some of your artwork to separate packs, theoretically decoupling the media from the XML files. I'm not sure how far to go with this - after all, it's silly if you need to change them both as you mayaswell include them together and keep things self-contained. Then again, often you may have a small XML based fix that doesn't affect the media at all, so having all of the media completely separate from the xml files makes sense. Your opinions on this are wanted. There's technical issues to consider (eg will the packs be packed, and if so how will this affect performance? what to do with clashes and so on...) but that's primarily my jobForgive my ignorance because I have to assume this has been discussed elsewhere, but why are the skins being pushed to end-users as zipped files when the repo is already a VCS (presumably git)? I'm confident the technical hurdles to have XBMC issue a pull request natively are non-trivial, but if you're considering doing the above (which is slightly awkward and requires technical consideration as you say), would it be worth solving the git problem instead? Would save heaps on bandwidth, streamline and simplify the maintenance in skins, and possibly open the door to other interesting use-cases (auto-update/hotfix all or part of XBMC itself, etc)....
ronie Wrote:i'd very much like to see this one moved to section 2.
if a skin has support for weather fanart, why not install it by default?
weather fanart certainly adds to the xbmc wow factor and if we don't install by default,
95% of the users (the non-forum ones) would miss out of it as they won't even know of it's existence.
Quote:for paperstreet we're looking into actor fanart...
so yes, i guess the sky is the limit.
pecinko Wrote:I'm really curious how this will end. Half of my friends don't care about those and want easy to use thing. The other half keep adding/changing fanart stuff on week basis, as they want something "fresh".