ubuntuf4n Wrote:WOW, this looks great !
is there also a TVshows-banner view included ?
Good work. Keep it up :-)
At the moment there is no banner view. If there is enough demand I will consider adding one in the future.
nitio Wrote:Very beautiful indeed. I'll be waiting for the first release.
Is it me or does it remind of Windows Media Center in W7? I for one love the look&feel of it and if that's part of your inspiration I'm all for it.
Lots of things have been part of my inspiration. WMC was more of a concious inspiration when I made the original Focus, but surely as a result that came along with the new skin too. At the early stage of what is now reFocus I drew inspiration from the Forza 3 interface for example, but not a lot of that sticked I think. Android was also an inspiration altough more with regards to the dialog windows.
matt1697 Wrote:One very slight criticism I would have would be with the Home screen. To me it doesn't really fit in with the rest of the skin much apart from the similar white bar. If it we're to have the blue overlay like the rest of the screens, although not as strong, I think it would look a lot better.
Only a small thing though, still looks great.
The problem with (colored) overlays (imo) is that it will look good with certain backdrops and outright nasty with others (mainly when the backdrop is very white/light).
One of the main principles of reFocus is to obscure as little as possible of fanart where it is actually used instead of integrating fanart in every single view and covering it up with content or overlays.
So there's just a subtle dark overlay on the left side of the homescreen to improve readability.
Also, you will recognize some of the homescreen elements in other parts of the skin, so maybe it will look less "standing out" to you then