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i use all my fanarts as background. Change background every 20 sec. When the background is white or realy bright i cant see the menu. so i think a dark background behind the menu would eliminate this issue.
Didnt try to dim will check this funktion
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.tbn files are artworks used by xbmc in a cashed directory, poster.jpg, banner.jpg, fanart.jpg, logo.png, cdart.png etc. are local stored files.
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next version will bring so much functions/design improvements, it would deserve a 2.5 version instead of 2.07!
butcha, when it will be ready could you PM me the english so I can translate it to french? (I have no SVN/Pre-Eden stuff on my setup). thanks
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Good idea foor the translation, because there are a couple of expressions I was embarrassed to translate in french, so other french minds could help
At this point, I think I prefer the low old horizontal OSD, but it's too early to say no. I must first try the new ones, maybe I will change my mind.
I just miss a clock somewhere in the OSD. It's somehow useful when you launch a movie at night. sometimes reading the clock you realize "Aww it's late, maybe I should stop the movie and see the end tomorrow". At least that's how it is useful for me.
A good point is that you removed the play/pause etc buttons, these are useless since everybody here use a remote.
For the slim OSD, I'm just afraid its width is too short: with some big title/ long name of Director there will be a lot of text autoscrolling.
The centered texts in it also disturb a bit my eyes as texts are always aligned to left in the rest of the GUI, but well I can live with this
Finally, what will happen when you fast fwd/rwd? will there still be the x2/x4/x8 speed overlay etc? these are good indications I think
Anyway, I congratulate you butcha, you are making an awesome work!
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@nowall
This is not dialogseekbar, but info screen while pressing "i" ...
I agree for the witdth of the slim info (i think i should rename it so), but as the background picture is centered i like the text centered too, but i can play around and see how it looks alligned to the left. The seekbar will be highered too, because of subtitles.
As said it's not a definitive layout, so i'll try to create some different ones and decide which one looks best.