2011-07-11, 00:01
While your approach to ALA support is very flexible I think it's cumbersome for user (just my opinion)
IMHO (I added this views to shade), first step should be to expose the artwork ALA provides (only thumbnails and fanart) and the data. This should require 3 views per layout (square, tall and wide thumbs), any layout created should have this 3 shapes for thumbnails and fanart on the background (or on a window depending on the layout)
After that is done you have covered 90% of the ALA userbase I guess, then you can go for more skin specific features like extrafanart, game studio logos, even trailers are doable.
Anyway just my opinion and my 2 cents, I modded one view to suit my needs (very simple mod)
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IMHO (I added this views to shade), first step should be to expose the artwork ALA provides (only thumbnails and fanart) and the data. This should require 3 views per layout (square, tall and wide thumbs), any layout created should have this 3 shapes for thumbnails and fanart on the background (or on a window depending on the layout)
After that is done you have covered 90% of the ALA userbase I guess, then you can go for more skin specific features like extrafanart, game studio logos, even trailers are doable.
Anyway just my opinion and my 2 cents, I modded one view to suit my needs (very simple mod)
Went from this:
To this:
