2010-04-28, 09:34
ekim232 Wrote:Just gave it a good run through and it looked great. I love the angeled view. Overall the skin had very smooth animations and worked very fast. I rarely had any lag on my htpc or laptop. Very cool glow for the selected icons and a fantastic tv section which is often the most overlooked and under developed. [...] Overall the skin presents the media very well. It wasn't killed with options, which can be overwhelming to some.
I really did not see many bugs that I am sure you are not aware of. I think you have done a fantastic job! Much appreciation for the chance to run through it.
I gotta say I very much agree with this.
A few things I noticed: (didn't have much time to test or play with it yet really)
-If music is playing when browsing the Movie library, *Press "X" to Stop*, appears where it would normally say *Press Down to Start Trailer".
-After giving it some time, I realized I like the way the wall view focuses. Free to move around to any item on the wall. However, it would be nice for the rest of the wall to move instead of remaining static (that is the top row, bottom row, and columns on the far right side that are simply placeholders are all entirely static). Oh...just realized the placeholders are actually that. They aren't generated from the library at all and are static images. Okay, well not sure how you would change that then.
-Poster view is absolutely beautiful.
-If a show has a logo (and is being used) in Poster view in TV and there is a trailer playing it covers up the IMDB rating and the MPAA rating.
-The scrollbar in TV "files" view covers the left of the plot
-Now Playing blocks (covers) Movie/TV show info in 16x9 view
There's a good chance you already know all of these things, if so, sorry for wasting your time!
Anyway, the skin looks terrific, good job!