(2013-04-26, 23:25)relyter Wrote:

(2013-04-26, 21:54)crimsonfury Wrote: Well I love the look of this skin! Looks like an Aeon skin but it is lighter which is good....

But could we have the options for more? Like Extra Fanart, view adjustments, moveable home menu items etc....?

Guess where this lightness of Amber came from? If you want bell and whistles try out Aeons. It's over 9000 of them around including very nice and light enough ACE.

• The positioning of pop-up notifications like changing volume smack in the middle of the screen is a bit distracting. Maybe move to a corner?
  
• It's easier to quickly grasp a volume setting seeing a bar instead of a numerical value. Maybe there could be both. Maybe smaller.
  
• The normal position of the clock is top right. When watching a movie and pressing RETURN or pausing the movie, the info bar shows the current time on the top left and the end time in brackets on the right. It'd be nicer to keep the time fixed in one corner. Maybe the playing time and end time could be overlayed on the progress bar instead.
  
• When buffering is needed, e.g. when jumping 10 min when streaming something, the pop-up sometimes disappears very quickly. Of course it's nice if the buffering is fast, but it's a bit distracting. It'd be nice to have a minimum display time for the pop-up. 1 sec?
  
• If I go back to the home screen (or any screen really) while something's playing in the background, I see a maybe 1 or 2 pixel line of the playing movie at the bottom of the screen (720p output here).
  
• When something's playing in the background and I move to "Player" in the home screen, the title is cut off at the top.
  

(2013-04-27, 11:44)squeegy Wrote: Nice skin!

A few things I noticed that you may want to consider/fix:

• The positioning of pop-up notifications like changing volume smack in the middle of the screen is a bit distracting. Maybe move to a corner?
  
• It's easier to quickly grasp a volume setting seeing a bar instead of a numerical value. Maybe there could be both. Maybe smaller.
  
• The normal position of the clock is top right. When watching a movie and pressing RETURN or pausing the movie, the info bar shows the current time on the top left and the end time in brackets on the right. It'd be nicer to keep the time fixed in one corner. Maybe the playing time and end time could be overlayed on the progress bar instead.
  
• When buffering is needed, e.g. when jumping 10 min when streaming something, the pop-up sometimes disappears very quickly. Of course it's nice if the buffering is fast, but it's a bit distracting. It'd be nice to have a minimum display time for the pop-up. 1 sec?
  
• If I go back to the home screen (or any screen really) while something's playing in the background, I see a maybe 1 or 2 pixel line of the playing movie at the bottom of the screen (720p output here).
  
• When something's playing in the background and I move to "Player" in the home screen, the title is cut off at the top.
  

Hope I didn't come across demanding or anything, just pointing out what struck me in the first hour of using Amber.
Nice work, anyway.

~squeegy

(2013-04-27, 12:49)Bkam Wrote: I have à request Would it be possibly to use fan art from new movies/tv shows and music as wallpapers in the home meny ?

(2013-04-27, 10:37)pecinko Wrote: @relyter That said, git is updated with 7x2 grid :-)

(2013-04-27, 10:37)pecinko Wrote:

(2013-04-26, 23:25)relyter Wrote:

(2013-04-26, 21:54)crimsonfury Wrote: Well I love the look of this skin! Looks like an Aeon skin but it is lighter which is good....

But could we have the options for more? Like Extra Fanart, view adjustments, moveable home menu items etc....?

Guess where this lightness of Amber came from? If you want bell and whistles try out Aeons. It's over 9000 of them around including very nice and light enough ACE.

Without intention of going into long discussion - there are more stuff involved in skin speed than dropping out bells and whistles. Last time I checked, Aeon Nox was performing real nice and it has all the extras you can think about. Those who are around long enough will remember speed difference between old Aeon and re-written Aeon Nox.

Reason all those extra stuff will probably never be part of this skin is not because my HTPC gear is not up to the task, I use Mac Mini, but because I have no use for it. I simply find most of extra art ugly, I tend to get lost in countless options and last, but not least, I have no time to code and support it. I just want to have non-intrusive, logical and uncluttered interface when I find time to watch my media.

@relyter That said, git is updated with 7x2 grid :-)

(2013-04-27, 18:01)crimsonfury Wrote: Well since you posted this in the plexbmc thread, I figured the skin works directly with plexbmc....

Quote:I just want a skin like yours/Nox that works directly with plexbmc and has all the extras.

(2013-04-27, 13:54)donkee69 Wrote: Nice skin i agree with the post above that mentions the volume icon being to large and in the way... also how about a icon for aspect ratio in the movie info?

(2013-04-27, 14:21)da-anda Wrote: I like it. And a very big THUMBS UP for keeping it clean from any clearart, clearlogo, tvtunes and all the other useless crap that's distracting from the content.

(2013-04-27, 18:41)pecinko Wrote:

(2013-04-27, 18:01)crimsonfury Wrote: Well since you posted this in the plexbmc thread, I figured the skin works directly with plexbmc....

Yup, skin has support for PleXBMC add-on. Does this mean all extras that XBMC can offer should automatically be supported?

(2013-04-27, 18:43)Martijn Wrote:

(2013-04-27, 18:41)pecinko Wrote:

(2013-04-27, 18:01)crimsonfury Wrote: Well since you posted this in the plexbmc thread, I figured the skin works directly with plexbmc....

Yup, skin has support for PleXBMC add-on. Does this mean all extras that XBMC can offer should automatically be supported?

of course it should. how on earth can you release a skin that does not support everything that is available and possible in XBMC?

(2013-04-27, 18:43)Martijn Wrote: of course it should. how on earth can you release a skin that does not support everything that is available and possible in XBMC?

(2013-04-27, 20:56)toiva Wrote: You can think anything you want of Plex but the truth is that the interface is very clean and simple, and i like the color choice of black, grey and orrange. That's where the inspiration is clearly coming from to Amber. But you still have XBMC's strengths (and weaknesses).

Quote:Do you accept pull requests if i see if i can do something about the music video stuff, or do you want to have complete control over the development? But first i would have to find some time, and learn to use Github, two very big ifs