2011-08-05, 00:07
PatrickBateman Wrote:I've been looking at re:focus skin lately for ideas as i feel it has some very nice looking menus (pre-eden version) and im sure a variation of them can be implemented into CEv2 without much hassle and it will again give us a very corp/modern feel with the outstanding functionality that we already have. (talk about me wanting my cake and to eat it)
Indeed, with my previous Mac Mini which was very slow, refocus was my favourite skin because it was the most responsive and damn fast (reFocus Grainy Edition running on Plex being superior to the XBMC version) but now I prefer by far CirrusEx, more complete, better looking.
Aeon may be the most eyecandy one, but even on my new Mac it's sluggish.
According to the timeline, AeonMQ3 beta should be released mid-august, with its code rewritten from scratch, therefore incredibly fast according to its developper, with a ridiculous light weight.
Aeon has always been a source of inspiration for other skinners, let's say it is the Cameron's Avatar of XBMC skins, a gigantic but heavy lab.
I'm sure that, after MQ3, there will be new solutions to make things lighter in a code point of view.