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[BETA] metroTV - ZexisStryfe - 2012-08-24 Hello everyone! metroTV BETA is here! After multiple requests to post more information regarding this skin I decided it was time to make a post about it. This skin began as a simple mod of tree_jammer's wonderful Lightbox skin (hence the little nods to Lightbox in the logo) and quickly blossomed into something much bigger. Although I have kept the home screen largely the same as Tree_jammer's skin, I have since decided to take this mod and incorporate what I consider some of the best views and mods from some of my favorite skins, integrating it in with the well defined Windows 8 "Metro" style. I am actually using the Microsoft's own Metro App styleguide in designing the views and screen arrangements for this skin. metroTV 0.5b Changelog: General - XBMC 13 GOTHAM is now the minimum required for using metroTV - The entire skin has been optimized for better performance - Trakt.TV support is now official - Skin is now completely LOCALIZED- Let the translations commence! - Skin now uses icons for most buttons - Skin will be added to the Development Repository - "Themes" have been totally recoded as "Colors" - The skin is now "Feature Locked" until after the 1.0 release - Skin has moved to GitHub! Appearance Changes - Added two new colors- Green and Indigo - All windows are now skinned - The font has been changed (for the last time!) to Roboto to prep for official repository - Gradient tiles and keybacks have been removed - Redesigned the login screen - All codec images have been replaced - The Album, Add-on, Song, Video and Trakt.TV Info dialogs have been totally redesigned - The Personalize settings menu has been restructured - Intelligence has been built into the Personalize setting menu so options disable if the necessary script isn't present Home Screen Changes - Added a scrollbar for the category list (and can be disabled in Personalize) - Custom tiles can now be created for Video Add-ons, Music Add-ons, Program Add-ons, Picture Add-ons, Video Playlists, Music Playlists and Favorites - Trending Movies and In Cinemas panels are now available for movies - Trending Shows panel is now avavilable for TV shows - Hub screens can now be accessed by clicking on the category titles (Movies, TV Shows, Music and Music Videos) - The "More Views" tile has been deprecated now that Hub screens exist. View Changes - The List view has been redesigned (again!) - A new Thumbnails view is available for Movies, TV Shows, and Seasons - A new Thumbnails view is available for Artists, Albums, Files, and Add-ons - Trakt.TV is now fully skinned - Next Aired episode notification has been unified across all views - Scrolling sort screen has been implemented (and can be disabled in Personalize) New Windows - Added a First Launch window - Added a Startup screen - Added a Tile creator window Scripting - Trakt.TV script is now integrated and skinned (and can be disabled in Personalize) - Extended Info script has been fully integrated - Random and Last Items script has been fully integrated To Do List: - Beta Testing! - Further code optimization - A few more surprises! Thanks to: - Hitcher for Foundation which was used as a base - 'Black for all his help with my coding woes - Tree_jammer for Lightbox and the inspiration - Ronie for the Fanart view and inspiration - Sranshaft for his help with the new TV Guide and Hub windows - Icons8.com and MetroStudio for much of the iconography - The Community- Without you this skin wouldn't exist! Script Dependencies - Global Search - Skin Widgets - Rom Collection Browser Optional Scripts - Next Aired - Favourites - Extended Info - Random and Last Items - Trakt.TV - Advanced Launcher Download Link metroTV Alpha version 0.5b Project Site Please report all bugs to the project site so that they can be addressed properly! metroTV Project Site Screenshots: watch gallery
RE: [WIP] metroTV - ZexisStryfe - 2012-08-24 --Reserved-- RE: [WIP] metroTV - ZexisStryfe - 2012-08-24 --reserved-- RE: [WIP] metroTV - phil65 - 2012-08-24 nice. keep it up. RE: [WIP] metroTV - moneymaker - 2012-08-24 nice one. RE: [WIP] metroTV - username145 - 2012-08-25 Fantastic, looking forward to it And totally subjective ofcourse, but are the posters/art borders as thick when running 1080p? They stand out so much RE: [WIP] metroTV - ZexisStryfe - 2012-08-25 (2012-08-25, 07:57)username145 Wrote: Fantastic, looking forward to it It is funny you should mention that. I was looking at them the other day and thinking about reducing the borders across the board and the size of the poster art on the Fanart list view. I will also be changing the 50 list view a bit. RE: [WIP] metroTV - ZexisStryfe - 2012-08-25 Updated some screenshots above (wish they weren't so blurry, I will have to work on that). Also, something else I have been working on- RE: [WIP] metroTV - j1nx - 2012-08-26 You are making me soooooo happy with that TVGuide screen shot. (Hope it will evolve somewhere into PVR support) RE: [WIP] metroTV - Bkam - 2012-08-26 Looking good RE: [WIP] metroTV - Chris! - 2012-08-26 Looks awesome RE: [WIP] metroTV - baruchin - 2012-08-27 Congrats! Great looking skin Is there support for video addons? RE: [WIP] metroTV - ZexisStryfe - 2012-08-27 Yup. Any particular add-on you would like me to test? RE: [WIP] metroTV - UnderCoverUZI - 2012-08-27 I love the first movie list with the titles on the right hand side. Keep it up, can't wait to test it out! RE: [WIP] metroTV - username145 - 2012-08-27 Not a video addon, but Advanced Laucher support would be amazing (for games particularly!) Loving the look so far |