2011-07-09, 07:10
Do not install or use this skin unless you have either touch screen or a mouse connected or you will lose navigation and have to manually change to another
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NEW VERSION! (24th July 2011)
Obvious changes in this version are
* Redesign of the home screen http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2095/...ot019a.png
*Added a few Meta Data views to the video library which are ironically faster because less images to load on the screen
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4603/sc...t020iy.png
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5214/...ot021e.png
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2028/...t022sd.png
(the look better on the iPad than in the screen shots)
* Added a battery level indicator to the top right of all the main windows (this needs an iOS build greater than 18th July or it will always show 0%)
* Brightened up the background a little
skin.touched.alpha_version.0.7.1.zip
I have also uploaded a nicer weather icon pack to my site that I recommend people use I got the original from here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=50196 so all credit to Bob___ for making it
weather.zip
just copy it over and replace the same zip in /private/var/stash/Applications.CHXuVl/XBMC.app/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media while xbmc is not running
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And here we go very much ahead of the "In a couple of weeks" schedule that I promised is the first Alpha release of the skin for people to test
Bare in mind that only the main things people would use in day to day use are done (and even then maybe not) if you plan on doing other things like setting up sources making play lists and other sort of things do it in confluence then switch back.
Nothing is final
* I don't really want to hear anything bad about Looks or bugs in things that are obviously not finished if you
* I do want to hear about usability issues in stuff that looks like I have skinned it
EXTRA STUFF
* Make sure you are using a iOS from here dated 11-Jul-2011 or newer [AppleTV2/iOS] Unofficial semi-nightly build FAQ/info/issues older versions of XBMC will not work!
* Technically gestures should also work on windows 7 with a recent git master build of xbmc but its not tested so use at own risk
* LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED. Linux does not have the gesture API hooked up yet so you wont be able to navigate around your media with a touch screen its currently iOS and windows 7 only
* I suggest adding this to your advancedsetting.xml and starting with a fresh userdata dir XBMC's default is 512 and a 256 will make your thumbs load much quicker when scrolling and they never get displayed that big int he skin anyway see here http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsett...umbsize.3E
UPDATED!
Ok here's a updated version not a lot has changed in the main windows just a few minor texture tweaking, but more of the sub windows/dialogs are done now you can do things like
Browse for install and configure addons
Add new shares and set content type
Browse around for images and shares
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NEW VERSION! (24th July 2011)
Obvious changes in this version are
* Redesign of the home screen http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2095/...ot019a.png
*Added a few Meta Data views to the video library which are ironically faster because less images to load on the screen
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4603/sc...t020iy.png
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5214/...ot021e.png
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2028/...t022sd.png
(the look better on the iPad than in the screen shots)
* Added a battery level indicator to the top right of all the main windows (this needs an iOS build greater than 18th July or it will always show 0%)
* Brightened up the background a little
skin.touched.alpha_version.0.7.1.zip
I have also uploaded a nicer weather icon pack to my site that I recommend people use I got the original from here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=50196 so all credit to Bob___ for making it
weather.zip
just copy it over and replace the same zip in /private/var/stash/Applications.CHXuVl/XBMC.app/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media while xbmc is not running
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And here we go very much ahead of the "In a couple of weeks" schedule that I promised is the first Alpha release of the skin for people to test
Bare in mind that only the main things people would use in day to day use are done (and even then maybe not) if you plan on doing other things like setting up sources making play lists and other sort of things do it in confluence then switch back.
Nothing is final
* I don't really want to hear anything bad about Looks or bugs in things that are obviously not finished if you
* I do want to hear about usability issues in stuff that looks like I have skinned it
EXTRA STUFF
* Make sure you are using a iOS from here dated 11-Jul-2011 or newer [AppleTV2/iOS] Unofficial semi-nightly build FAQ/info/issues older versions of XBMC will not work!
* Technically gestures should also work on windows 7 with a recent git master build of xbmc but its not tested so use at own risk
* LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED. Linux does not have the gesture API hooked up yet so you wont be able to navigate around your media with a touch screen its currently iOS and windows 7 only
* I suggest adding this to your advancedsetting.xml and starting with a fresh userdata dir XBMC's default is 512 and a 256 will make your thumbs load much quicker when scrolling and they never get displayed that big int he skin anyway see here http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsett...umbsize.3E
PHP Code:
<thumbsize>256</thumbsize>
UPDATED!
Ok here's a updated version not a lot has changed in the main windows just a few minor texture tweaking, but more of the sub windows/dialogs are done now you can do things like
Browse for install and configure addons
Add new shares and set content type
Browse around for images and shares