Thanks for all the feedback and kind words!
You need to understand that I have to consider each element of the skin, I'm trying to leave out as many unnecessary ones as possible to keep the skin as simple as possible. So while I will consider some of your ideas, I cannot add everything, because the skin would quickly turn into a huge mess.
The whole 287kb size thing is not entirely true, by the way. The zip file is about that size, but once unzipped it's a bit bigger. On the other hand there are some .PSD files of some of the resources, which take up some space. The reason for the skin being so small besides all that, is the amount of image. I'm currently only using ~20 images, some of which are only 1x1 pixels in size.
@fabiomello
a banner view for TV Shows
Although I have never used (or really appreciated) the banner view, I'll consider adding it at some point.
option to hide description on fanart view (useful for online video that don't have a description)
Something like this?
(this view bothers me a whole lot, it's 1px shorter than the other views... :p)
idea: on poster view: show item info for the selected item after some time (on a overlay inside the poster, like on windows 8 metro tiles/optional feature that can be enabled or disabled)
I figured the videoinfo dialog (
i) would suffice, provided it opened fast enough. I'll think about adding something like this, but it's going to be difficult to keep it tidy.
option to add a global background (fanart/user-specified image folder)
It seems everybody wants to have fancy background images.. I'll try it out and see what it looks like, and add it if I like it.
subtitle selector: add a little transparency, so you can still see the video in the background when selecting the subtitle
This isn't particularly important for the subtitle dialog, because the video automatically pauses, but it is for the video and audio settings, which is why I already added this to my to-do list!
@carmenm
some posters are not showing.
I'll need some more specifics to solve this. Do the posters show up in other skins? If so, in which skin?
when i move around and the skin loads new posters sometimes i end up in an endless fadeout/fadein of all posters. Can't easily reproduce it though
Loading posters is handled by XBMC itself. But if this ever happens again, please post the details of what you were doing (view type, playing video, etc.) so I can fix it.
the video OSD is perfect! you did not implement video and audio settings right? (which i absolutely don't care about)
Not yet, but it's mostly going to be a copy of the settings XML files, so it shouldn't take particularly long.
i have moved and (not at they were already)renamed the fonts correctly. Though i am not sure they draw correctly.
Do you happen to be running the skin in a resolution other than 1920x1080? Because XBMC has some weird scaling glitches. This is not likely to be a mistake of your placing of the fonts.
recently added for movies and tvshows (maybe even watchlist in the future...)
home menu widgets for those recently added (unwatched) items would be AMAZING
may be now playing somewhere on homescreen for when using airplay
I do want to redesign the home menu to become more of a hub, and I'll of course add those widgets.
@regnets
I would love to use that skin, the only thing i am missing so far (from the screenshots) is live-tv support.
I'm not going to be working on PVR support for a while, so if you really want live TV you're better off using a different skin until then.
@Mesoptier do you got a donation button for you great work?
Not until it's even remotely finished, and probably not after that either!
Superfast, very minimalistic. I wonder how it will perform on the raspberry.
It's very small indeed, but I am using a bunch of animations and variables, which (I believe) can cause some problems on the Pi.
This grey is a bit depressing. I would like to see some more color like in the conq skin from hitcher.
I'll have a mess about with this. Back when I was still only working on this in Photoshop I actually had more of a blue-greyish background, but one night I decided to go with plain grey after all. But yes, different colour themes are a possibility.
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i didn't see it because the other skins show the fanart when no poster.
