[knewknow]

Latest GIT pull and everything seems to be running well on my machines. Looking forward to that plexbmc option in the future

[kaiseruk]

@Jeroen,

thank you for going out for your way to add the necessary font support for pseudotv. Is it possible to have the font size smaller? It looks very big on my screen (it doesnt look too big in screenshot below but on tv it looks very big) and channel numbers with 3 digits do not appear (just show three dots like on left hand side of picture). Or what needs to be done from the pseudotv side of things so that it uses the pseudotv font?

I was under the impression PseudoTV's font references would make the font(sizes) identical, but apparently not. I'll have to look into this and get a picture of how the PseudoTV skinning works. I'll get back to you about it.

that would be great thanks


While i think of it, is there any plans to have the shading that appears during notifications as optional? Again goes back to Pseudotv! This addon has open of background loading channels. So it starts the videos after the first channel has been generated and then gives notifications after each of the following channels is generated. If you have 50+ channels then it can be quite a while that the screen is shaded. If you no plans to make it optional its fine just thought i'd ask.

[Reynald]

I have a suggestion for handwriting fonts. I find accents really a problem in reading the information. The mixing uppercase and lowercase E with emphasis distorts the skin. Is it possible to prevent or letters with accents or to change all the text (except the first letter of words) in lowercase ?

[robweber]

@Jeroen,

thank you for going out for your way to add the necessary font support for pseudotv. Is it possible to have the font size smaller? It looks very big on my screen (it doesnt look too big in screenshot below but on tv it looks very big) and channel numbers with 3 digits do not appear (just show three dots like on left hand side of picture). Or what needs to be done from the pseudotv side of things so that it uses the pseudotv font?

I was under the impression PseudoTV's font references would make the font(sizes) identical, but apparently not. I'll have to look into this and get a picture of how the PseudoTV skinning works. I'll get back to you about it.

that would be great thanks


While i think of it, is there any plans to have the shading that appears during notifications as optional? Again goes back to Pseudotv! This addon has open of background loading channels. So it starts the videos after the first channel has been generated and then gives notifications after each of the following channels is generated. If you have 50+ channels then it can be quite a while that the screen is shaded. If you no plans to make it optional its fine just thought i'd ask.

Aesthetic changes simply to accommodate your use of one addon seems excessive.

[spoco2]

On a fresh install of Gotham Beta 3, when I tried to install reFocus, I got the 'dependencies not met' error.

Following the previous post I install the service.library.data.provider plugin, which made reFocus happy.

Problem is, now the Service Library Data Provider plugin appears in both my Video Add-Ons and Music Add-Ons views, which is less than ideal as it's not a plugin you can do anything with, and will just confuse my wife and kids!

[JoostXBMC]

Little feature request, dont know if more people likt this:

Show audio bitrate in music osd screen..

[Jeroen]

Please Add the option to Add Some custom menu items when possible! Would be Nice!

Maybe, but only as sub-items of the main menu items already available. Either that, or one extra main menu item with sub-items but no custom items in the other main menu items. I highly prefer the former as it just makes most sense to me and it keeps things organized.

Also, in case of the former a choice needing to be made is whether custom items would be added below the other sub-items or above. Providing an option for both really isn't possible while keeping the (amount of) code sane.

Latest GIT pull and everything seems to be running well on my machines. Looking forward to that plexbmc option in the future

Tell Plex to hurry up and add support for ARMv7 based Synology NAS systems otherwise PMS is useless to me Seriously though, that is a considered feature, and no short term plan.

While i think of it, is there any plans to have the shading that appears during notifications as optional? Again goes back to Pseudotv! This addon has open of background loading channels. So it starts the videos after the first channel has been generated and then gives notifications after each of the following channels is generated. If you have 50+ channels then it can be quite a while that the screen is shaded. If you no plans to make it optional its fine just thought i'd ask.

I have been thinking of handling this a little different (visually), however making the notifications itself optional is not something I consider. So, there will always be something showing. If the notifications are affecting your viewing pleasure it is something the add-on should provide a solution for, not the skin imo.

I have a suggestion for handwriting fonts. I find accents really a problem in reading the information. The mixing uppercase and lowercase E with emphasis distorts the skin. Is it possible to prevent or letters with accents or to change all the text (except the first letter of words) in lowercase ?

It's a stylistic choice really. It should only have an effect on headers, small blocks of info, etc. and not things like plot descriptions. You could open up fonts.xml and remove the <style>uppercase</uppercase> tags from the font declarations.

On a fresh install of Gotham Beta 3, when I tried to install reFocus, I got the 'dependencies not met' error.

Following the previous post I install the service.library.data.provider plugin, which made reFocus happy.

Problem is, now the Service Library Data Provider plugin appears in both my Video Add-Ons and Music Add-Ons views, which is less than ideal as it's not a plugin you can do anything with, and will just confuse my wife and kids!

I've been in contact with Unfledged, one of the contributors of this add-on. He quickly provided a change in the add-on which I'm testing. When that change is applied, it should take care of your problem.

Little feature request, dont know if more people likt this:

Show audio bitrate in music osd screen..

Can you give an example of when this is actually useful to see all the time? After all it is available in the codec info overlay if you really need to know.

[JoostXBMC]

Please Add the option to Add Some custom menu items when possible! Would be Nice!

Maybe, but only as sub-items of the main menu items already available. Either that, or one extra main menu item with sub-items but no custom items in the other main menu items. I highly prefer the former as it just makes most sense to me and it keeps things organized.

Also, in case of the former a choice needing to be made is whether custom items would be added below the other sub-items or above. Providing an option for both really isn't possible while keeping the (amount of) code sane.

Little feature request, dont know if more people likt this:

Show audio bitrate in music osd screen..

Can you give an example of when this is actually useful to see all the time? After all it is available in the codec info overlay if you really need to know.

Main menu entries would come handy to make the skin more user friendly. I prefer to have direct access to youtube, xbmc online tv, browser shortcut, xbmctorrent add-on for example. Now i have to access multiple menus. In refocus-big i remember it was done in a slick way. Up to you offcourse.

The xperience1080 skin has the bitrate in the music-osd screen, i found it very handy, but could be i'm the only one on the planet haha

btw; I am not able to make a screenshot, is that also a skin issue?

[Jeroen]

Main menu entries would come handy to make the skin more user friendly. I prefer to have direct access to youtube, xbmc online tv, browser shortcut, xbmctorrent add-on for example. Now i have to access multiple menus. In refocus-big i remember it was done in a slick way. Up to you offcourse.

But that's exactly what the favourites entry does.

Creating one menu, having it support multiple content types AND multiple content sources mixed all together would get messy fast, either code wise or UI wise. I'm not really keen on UI like this:

custom item 1
- choose if it's a video, movie, tvshow, program, etc
- set a label to display
- set a file as destination
- set a folder as destination
- set a playlist as destination
- set an add-on as destination
- set a favourite as destination

custom item 2
- etc...

Adding custom entries takes up lots of code, because there's just so many possible items and combinations you have to take into account.

I understand the desire to have menus tailored to personal use case as much as possible, but imo there's just a limit to where this can be kept sane

Reynald mentioned earlier he wasn't able to take a screenshot either. Maybe it is, but I can't think of any way the skin could cause this. I'm able to make screenshots but maybe it's platform dependent.

[JoostXBMC]

Main menu entries would come handy to make the skin more user friendly. I prefer to have direct access to youtube, xbmc online tv, browser shortcut, xbmctorrent add-on for example. Now i have to access multiple menus. In refocus-big i remember it was done in a slick way. Up to you offcourse.

But that's exactly what the favourites entry does.

Creating one menu, having it support multiple content types AND multiple content sources mixed all together would get messy fast, either code wise or UI wise. I'm not really keen on UI like this:

custom item 1
- choose if it's a video, movie, tvshow, program, etc
- set a label to display
- set a file as destination
- set a folder as destination
- set a playlist as destination
- set an add-on as destination
- set a favourite as destination

custom item 2
- etc...

Adding custom entries takes up lots of code, because there's just so many possible items and combinations you have to take into account.

I understand the desire to have menus tailored to personal use case as much as possible, but imo there's just a limit to where this can be kept sane

Reynald mentioned earlier he wasn't able to take a screenshot either. Maybe it is, but I can't think of any way the skin could cause this. I'm able to make screenshots but maybe it's platform dependent.

Thanks for the quick reply, To best thing about xbmc and refocus is that its open source! So everyone can make changes he likes haha. I understand the code issue and design choises are not easy to make. 1 thing I must say, refocus makes choises and isnt a design compromis, thats the good part!

[Reynald]

Ah yes thank you super ..
How can I increase the size of titles movies in the Movies tab title, I find them too small on my big screen! thx

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I found how to solve the problem for screen capture. I drop box. suppressed entered drop box The screen works now

[Reynald]

Jeroen, how can I change Youtube trailer,per trailers for HDtrailers or Apple Trailers? There is no French for language in the Youtube option! how to change that? Can you help me?

[bosel]

Hi Jeroen,

Thanks for your work on this. I just updated my machines to unstable/ latest refocus and I must say that I am very impressed.

As you are currently working on the home menu I would like to take the opportunity to make a request that would, in my opinion, go a long way toward integrating add-ons a bit more prominently. Please consider adding a few slots for individual addons with corresponding functionality to the existing main menu items. Or, if you decide against adding this, at least a general link to video add ons, such as the one currently available for selection under the "add-ons" main menu item (although I do have my fingers crossed for individual add-on slots).

For me personally having the ability to add a few add ons below In progress, New Episodes etc. under the TV shows main menu entry would be sufficient, but I would imagine that the same might apply for music for instance (from a usage standpoint it makes no difference where the content comes from, TV shows are TV shows whether they are part of the library or provided by an add-on. In my opinion it is just cleaner to list both under the TV shows main menu item). I have been mapping remote buttons to specific add ons since eden, but it would be great to just have a menu entry (as I will not be moving away from your skin in any event).

A few unrelated minor things I noticed:
-Hitting the info button when navigating in the shelve brings up the system info dialogue, whereas it would be more intuitive for the movie/episode info dialogue to be shown.
-Not sure about this one, but "now playing" in the background is dismissed by "backspace" (or actually its remote equivalent), but not "escape" (again its remote equivalent). For some reason this feels as being contrary to usual navigation, and I found that I get "stuck" in a now playing view. As I say, not exactly positive that this is wrong, it might just be me.
-I noticed a greyed-out "watch list" entry, is this due to missing dependencies on my end?

[Jeroen]

Hi Jeroen,

Thanks for your work on this. I just updated my machines to unstable/ latest refocus and I must say that I am very impressed.

As you are currently working on the home menu I would like to take the opportunity to make a request that would, in my opinion, go a long way toward integrating add-ons a bit more prominently. Please consider adding a few slots for individual addons with corresponding functionality to the existing main menu items. Or, if you decide against adding this, at least a general link to video add ons, such as the one currently available for selection under the "add-ons" main menu item (although I do have my fingers crossed for individual add-on slots).

For me personally having the ability to add a few add ons below In progress, New Episodes etc. under the TV shows main menu entry would be sufficient, but I would imagine that the same might apply for music for instance (from a usage standpoint it makes no difference where the content comes from, TV shows are TV shows whether they are part of the library or provided by an add-on. In my opinion it is just cleaner to list both under the TV shows main menu item). I have been mapping remote buttons to specific add ons since eden, but it would be great to just have a menu entry (as I will not be moving away from your skin in any event).

Currently I have this done for videos and movies, and will probably clean this up first and test "in the wild" but I'll add the same to tv shows after that.

A few unrelated minor things I noticed:
-Hitting the info button when navigating in the shelve brings up the system info dialogue, whereas it would be more intuitive for the movie/episode info dialogue to be shown.

Could this be remote setup related? Because info shouldn't do anything in the shelf. Or better said, it's impossible for a skin to add any action to the info button. The dialog info windows can only be initiated in the library windows, and that action is handled by XBMC internally.

-Not sure about this one, but "now playing" in the background is dismissed by "backspace" (or actually its remote equivalent), but not "escape" (again its remote equivalent). For some reason this feels as being contrary to usual navigation, and I found that I get "stuck" in a now playing view. As I say, not exactly positive that this is wrong, it might just be me.

For me "backspace" and "escape" both exit out of now playing to the window I was in previously. To the best of my knowledge this is default behaviour. It can be overridden by skins by specifically adding a <previouswindow> tag in the window to be exited, but I am not doing so here. Or anywhere for that matter. I also checked Confluence and it's working the same as reFocus in this regard for me?

-I noticed a greyed-out "watch list" entry, is this due to missing dependencies on my end?

This would imply you're missing Library Data Provider

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Jeroen, how can I change Youtube trailer,per trailers for HDtrailers or Apple Trailers? There is no French for language in the Youtube option! how to change that? Can you help me?

You can set the preferred trailer service when you set the content for your sources. But this is not skin specific.

[Reynald]

You can set the preferred trailer service when you set the content for your sources. But this is not skin specific.

ah yes ok Thx ! sorry