2013-01-18, 18:26
I can't tell you how much I love this skin. I use LowList for my primary catalog browsing, but there were a couple of things that weren't quite right for me, so I made some minor modifications:
Let me know if you would like to integrate any of these changes into the official skin code, I'd be happy to share my modified files (really only a few lines needed to change). Thank you again for all of your hard work, looking through the code it is clear this has been a huge effort to create.
-james
- To me, it felt like the view overused IMDB ratings a little bit, with every line show the rating. These movies/shows are already in my catalog, I know I like them. I changed the unselected items to show their year in movies, rather than their rating, and changed the selected item to show its rating using the 5-star images instead of text numbers.
- I didn't like that there was no glance-able way to see the Studio and MPAA rating of movies in lowlist, and I thought that the media format flag images were more of a "show info" thing. So I changed the display such that when showing only the plot, the Studio and MPAA rating images show, just like TV Series/Season views. However, if you choose to "Show Info" from the viewtype settings, or press Right to display the fanart info frame, the flags go back to the media format information. To me this seems the best of both worlds and makes it easier the find the info I want when browsing through my catalog.
- Finally, for TV Series I use the banner LowList setting. Unfortunately the banners show a badge with an unwatched count which is my library is mostly wrong. For some reason this view does not offer a ViewType option to turn off the Unwatched Indicator, and a quick attempt of manually changing the setting in guisettings.xml didn't seem to work either. So I manually removed that indicator from the viewtype.
Let me know if you would like to integrate any of these changes into the official skin code, I'd be happy to share my modified files (really only a few lines needed to change). Thank you again for all of your hard work, looking through the code it is clear this has been a huge effort to create.
-james