2009-03-04, 18:44
webmosher Wrote:Hello,
Very nice work.
I saw digitalhigh post in reply to someone's request to a music oriented skin, so I thought I would check this out. I have flipped between MediaStream and Horizons myself, but I would definitely try out Serenity once its released. Regarding music - Is there a screenshot of the music player/visualization overlay yet? The overlay options in MediaStream are my favorite so far.
Personally, I am not a fan of the squarish default font. If it would be at all possible to provide at least one alternate that is more "reader friendly", that would be very nice. I know that getting the flow/layout right with different fonts can be troublesome, so if this isn't possible, I understand.
With this and the new Aeon releasing soon, I can see I will probably be back to flipping between skins. However, I really really like the layout of Serenity the most between the two.
Cheers,
Fred
To be honest, I haven't finished the music OSD yet. My intentions are to have the now playing information look as seen in the rest of the skin, where the titles are in the RSS area, time in the upper right, and play buttons in the upper left (like the Video OSD). After looking at the Video OSD for some time, I think I'm going to try using the play/ffwd/etc symbols instead of text, so it's still a bit up in the air.
The basic idea is, as always, to use as little screen as possible while still displaying all the info you'd want to see.
As far as the font goes, yes, that's another one that's a bit further down on my list of things I'd like to do with this skin. As soon as I started using it, I realized that there would still be people that preferred everything being the same.
As far as readable goes, however, the screenshots may be a bit decieving...I really don't have a problem reading anything I've used thus far. Regardless, yes, I hope to have an option down the road for those who prefer the main font.
On another note, here's a ss of the panel view as implemented in the TV section. In the process of doing this, I wound up simplifying the way everything works together as well...meaning that I fixed the reason for the problems some of you guys were having with the movie/tv lib views. Awesome.
The title displays for about two seconds after the item is selected, then fades/slides behind the list, leaving just the tiles. Pressing down drops the list out of sight and brings up w/e info view you've got enabled...but still allows for scrolling between episodes or shows.