2009-07-26, 17:32
aaronjb Wrote:Fantastic stuff ronie - Transparency! just made a quantum leap forward IMHO, in terms of looks Now it really looks like it's own skin, with all it's PM3.HD heritage shuffled away to the background where it belongs.. if you see what I mean.
i think i get the point ;-)
aaronjb Wrote:Just one thing - I was using 0.27 previously which worked flawlessly, but since switching to v1.00 XBMC has hard locked on me a couple of times when returning to the home screen. In fact, it did it the very first time I launched XBMC, and has done it once or twice since - sadly neither time has left anything interesting logged in the xbmc.log, and I haven't been able to reproduce it with debug logging enabled
Actually I'm not sure XBMC has locked, but it's stopped responding to keypresses (remote or keyboard) and stopped updating the screen (the clock stops) - but it's using 0% CPU.
Each time you you enter the home screen, it runs the recently added script to update the 'newly added items' info on the home window. Not sure if this can bork things on the Mac but it might be something to look into.
If you can find a way to reproduce it, simple disable the three recently added options in Skin Settings and see if it fixes the issue.
aaronjb Wrote:I'm going to try a newer build of XBMC (I'm still using r21138 from Jun 19th) in case it's that, and if all else fails I'll nuke my guisettings.xml (nooo *cries* ) and see if that cures it, in case it's a holdover from 0.27..
Just make sure you keep a backup of guisettings.xml available so you can put it back anytime.
aaronjb Wrote:I wonder if it's a problem specific to the Mac? Maybe even to the Intel GMA chipset in my Mini - I'll give it a bash on my NVidia MBP as well, just in case.
Cheers, i only have a hackingtosh installation to test things, but trying it on the 'real thing' would be much more accurate.
aaronjb Wrote:Oh yes - one last thing Not a usability thing and probably personal taste, but.. I find the switch from the pristine clean 'Movies' background to the post-apocalyptic desolation of the 'TV Shows' background a little jarring. Don't get me wrong, I like both, I just feel like a consistent 'theme' would work better from an aesthetic point of view.
Not that I'm particularly qualified to speak on that level
I know what you mean...it's just that i haven't found a better background for TV Shows yet.
Besides, there's still this topic if you think you can do better ;-)