2013-04-28, 10:34
(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).
I guess you can also say that, if colors would be changed from orange to blue, skin would look like Mediastream Redux.
Story is somewhat different - I wanted to do something different than Quartz and my boys voted on colors that should be used. Older wanted yellow and younger violet :-) Violet was a non-go but I could not use yellow and favour older one, so we ended up with orange. Home layout was chosen from Aeon vs Mediastream, were I got over-voted in favour of the former. Rest of the skin basically build on Mediastream foundation, layout wise - code is Quartz derived, while trying to remedy some not-so-great design choices in Mediastream.
To be quite frank, I don't care at all were inspiration came from as long as skin looks properly. I was probably influenced more or less with all skins that I have used in the past and changed countless layouts while skinning in effort to find best one. The fact that skin looks is probably closest to Mediastream is only a proof that Razorfish guys did it right for the most part (settings window excluding) - so big thanks and kudos to those guys.
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
We will see if you will find the time and I will probably push page layouts to final stage in meantime. As for Github, I manage to get by with using only basic functions. SourceTree.app is of a BIG help here and I can't thank developers enough for releasing it.