[ZombieRobot]

The button prompts are optional. It just happens that I *am* running this with an Xbox controller.

The buttons are great for me using the nvidia shield my kids will know what button to press and my wife haha you would think after 10 years of using kodi she would have learned by now I guess changing skins on her every couple months for 10 years could confuse her though.

[djh_]

Part of the reason for me doing this was just how unintuitive the Plex UI is. No one in my family, including me, can get to what they want in it without a dozen wasted button presses. I'm not sure which is scarier: the idea that they did no usability testing on a commercial product, or that they did loads and still managed to make it so bad. The Android interface is actually okay, but the PS4 one is ugly as sin in every area.

So yeah, ease of use is quite a priority here.

[badaas]

Ugh, horrible word 'Plex', horrible horrible. Meh... Terribad.

[gonzolak]

Looks stunning I have only one question : will it support skin shortcuts and widgets from addons on homescreen??

[iRubin]

That's a good question

[henrikyo]

Hi djh

Love the video, everything was so smooth. One question, those keyart pictures from movies, are they stored as posters or in folders with the movie? Im just trying to prepare my media folders before this release, and i really like the look of those keyart without text on them.

Secondly, and i dont want to bother you about this, but do you have a time frame for the release?

Thanks alot

[willemd]

This is looking really good.

[aptalca]

Just wanted to volunteer my services beta testing the skin if need be [emoji4]

[thegreaterikku]

Just from the video alone, there is all I need for Kodi. I just can't wait to use this.

[Yankee23]

Cuando sale y para que version es?

[ferent]

Cuando sale y para que version es?

This is an international forum, please use English in your posts.
FYI there is no release date.

[freebs]

Looks awesome Can't wait to try this out!!

[Shinjiru]

Thanks for all the interest and feedback. Please don't be offended, though, when I say that I'll be ignoring pretty much all feature requests. That stuff's best left to modders once the thing is actually out. Pandering to a community wishlist would only make the skin more generic, and there are plenty of all-singing, all-dancing alternatives out there. What I'm trying to do with this is make an alternative to the usual kitchen sink style of UI - a very streamlined and personal set of features which, as I said earlier, won't be for everyone.

The list view is indeed the only one for movies. I find it the most comfortable and intuitive way to browse, and it means Aeon can exclusively display 1080p posters and keyart 1:1 at all times. I'm actually so keen to avoid Kodi's image resizing algorithms that I'm probably going to bin the album cover art from the home page, as there doesn't seem to be any way to improve the horrendous scaling quality.

Aeon's going to be very simple in terms of metadata, with the important caveat that it's a skin for ppl who are very pedantic and hands-on when it comes to which art they're using. No banners, then, no clear art, and no 16:9 fanart beyond whatever folders you assign to the home page. It will happily fall back to regular posters for movies and regular fanart for TV shows, but prefers a system of having each movie in its own folder, with 'posters' and 'keyart' subfolders. This will no doubt piss off people who expect the skin to obey whatever consensus system they happen to be using, but them's the breaks. I greatly prefer using multiimages and folders because it's such a simple process: you drop an image in, it shows up; drop ten images in, they show up; take an image out, it goes away.

Only thing to add for now is that the backend side of Aeon will not be as minimalistic as the frontend. If the frontend is a case of form over function then the opposite is true of the settings 'area', which'll be a bit busier in terms of buttons, panels, etc. It'll feel like quite a different environment and will probably take a lot of time and planning.

Wait, you mean this skin will not compress/resize or otherwise mess up movie posters anymore? If so, that is awesome!

[djh_]

Just popping in to confirm that I'm still working on this, even if Proper Work has got in the way over the last few weeks. The skin is progressing and will certainly not be abandoned, though there is still no release date.

I'll post a video of the newer features in a few days.

[Scott00007]

Fantastic news!