Hi Jeroen,
Thanks for such an amazing skin! I've been using XBMC since it was called XBMP and have tried out many, many skins and for me this is the best one yet. I love the clean design and attention to detail; despite not being at v1.0 yet it feels like a complete package. Even often neglected context menus, the video OSD, and music visualization are nice, clean, and usable. A little polish like that goes a long way... I love it!
If you're counting votes, there are some things that have already been requested in this thread that I'd like to second:
Unicode font support
Current font doesn't show unicode characters (in my case, Japanese).
Menu navigation
Activating menus works normally with SELECT, but then depending on where you are (library mode, main menu, settings, etc), you have to press either MENU or BACK or LEFT to return to where you came from. I know this is the default XBMC navigation style, but I find it confusing and prefer a consistent metaphor with the same button always taking me "back". I've remapped my remote a bit to deal with this as best I can, but it's still inconsistent.
Color themes
+1 for color themes... I tend to go for grey/b&w over blue.
Home menu
As another poster mentioned the home menu screen seems a little spare to me. I can't quite pinpoint it but it just seems to not quite fit with the rest of the skin; just sounds like pointless whining here I know, but if you consider adding another version or something I'd love to check it out. Also the fanart change is pretty jarring with no fade or anything. Might be because I'm on an Apple TV. Speaking of which, this skin runs way, way better than any other modern skin on my underpowered ATV, so kudos once again!
Github hosting
Any chance of hosting the source on Github? I've made a bunch of little tweaks locally (colors.xml; added director to the movies views; modded Video submenu to include some dynamic playlists), and merging these tweaks every time you release an update is a pain. If it's on Github though I can just keep a local repo and merge changes in super easy -- did it with Alaska and it was really nice. I imagine making merging easier for a small set of users (possibly just 1
) isn't a big enough motivator to change your hosting, but it never hurts to ask.
Also for anyone interested in seeing when a new version of reFocus (or any new file) is uploaded to the Google Code site, you can follow
this Atom feed.
Thanks again for the awesome skin, and I'm really looking forward to the next update!
Cheers.