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Hi djh_,
Firstly i'd like to thankyou for your original work in Aeon, i myself am responsible for a version of aeon, titled aeon madnox. Mine is more gfx heavy but some peopke like it. So thanks for what you originally did.
Hopefully you'll continue with the latest version as it would be very interesting to see what you would do today, but understandalbe as well if what has happened changes your mind.
The open source side of things is taken to far sometimes, generally when you add something new it'll be ripped and most of the time without asking permission, a few of us still ask and if no permission then we don't take the code, but only a few of us.
It always goid to see another new skin emerge but soneone who knows what they are doing.
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Hey djh_ imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and you have said that mods will be fine with you. So please don't let that put you off!
Anyway, I have a question - what wil happen if one doesn't have artwork in the movie folder? I have a regular setup without added fanart etc, I rely on scraping. Will your new skin work without artwork, and fall back to the library database?
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I also hope that it doesn't deter you from sharing more previews. Perhaps a notice in the original post asking folks not to mod it until release at least?
By the way, just curious, which skin are you currently using in kodi? (prior to aeon 2017 I mean)
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The community has grown so big now days especially with all the illegal addon attention you get less passionate kodi users and more feature demanding impatient and disrespectful users with kodi also being easily installed on any device now days there is much more novice forum users who don't understand how much work goes into things.
The community has headed towards more of youtube like community than a say raspberry pi helpfully community.
Arcanthur had a little closed community of helpful beta testers for his skin Fusion.
I wonder if a closed wip thread where you show ideas and previews would be better you would get creative criticism, helpful feedback.
Then keep limited previews in the open thread or just disappear until beta testing and get help from skinning part of this forum they stay out of there a bit more anyway DJH cheers for coming back.
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djh_
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I like the idea of setting up a small invite-only subforum for this. It'd be a good place to ask questions/seek solutions without risking a repeat of what happened earlier. Is that something the mods would need to sort out?
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I think we did this for Alaska but can't remember if it was invite only, I'll ask.
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Whoa, hang on a minute!
I know this place is a bit of a shocker sometimes, but I don't think creating a two-tier system where some skinners can control who says what is the right way to go.
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djh_
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It's been used effectively by me about eight years ago, not to mention Blackbolt and the guys behind MediaStream. Not sure where 'control' comes into it.
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