2015-12-04, 18:13
Hi Jayz2k,
been playing around with your latest additions. But I am not quiet sure if logos, cleararts and CD-arts now are implemented the right way:
1. Logos: Having logos in the art bloc makes them much too big and prominent and means losing the option to have another fanart or thumb showing as well. I think there should be an option in the list field to have the logos showing instead of the headline (the names of the movies or tv shows), but fall back to a regulare headline if the respective movie has no logo. (Arctic Zeyphyr even has an algorithm for creating fake logos itself but I think it would be too hard to implement something like that as well). Also you could add the same option (to show logos instead of the headlines) in the info screen (meaning the dialog screen showing the infos for the respective movie).
2. Cleararts: Making them selectable in the art bloc is fine. However, they are usually meant to be showing on screen (when pressing pause or info during movie playback). This way their transparent background does make more sense. In the art bloc you could use thumbs or fanarts instead, which usually look nicer there.
3. CDarts: I think this something mostly suiteable in the info screen of the respective movie and/or when pressing info or pause during playback. For music it would be nice t have it on the playback screen.
But that is just suggestions, no critism!
As to my other PC (which has the problems in selcting the color sets): I checked and skin.helper is 1.0.20. Also the skin-folder is named "skin.KOver" and the color-sets are present in the subfolder "extras/ColorSchemes". So everything should be fine. But still nothing happens when I select any of the color-sets. However, I think I will first try to create a perfect layout of your skin on the one machine where it is currrently running fine. After I am done with that and everything looks nice (main menu, views, including the logos and cleart things) I will distribute the result to all my other PCs and thereby I will just wipe the current skin setup on the problematic machine.
Well, once again thank you very much for your hard work and especially for implementing those logos, cleararts and stuff. Please keep up the good work!
been playing around with your latest additions. But I am not quiet sure if logos, cleararts and CD-arts now are implemented the right way:
1. Logos: Having logos in the art bloc makes them much too big and prominent and means losing the option to have another fanart or thumb showing as well. I think there should be an option in the list field to have the logos showing instead of the headline (the names of the movies or tv shows), but fall back to a regulare headline if the respective movie has no logo. (Arctic Zeyphyr even has an algorithm for creating fake logos itself but I think it would be too hard to implement something like that as well). Also you could add the same option (to show logos instead of the headlines) in the info screen (meaning the dialog screen showing the infos for the respective movie).
2. Cleararts: Making them selectable in the art bloc is fine. However, they are usually meant to be showing on screen (when pressing pause or info during movie playback). This way their transparent background does make more sense. In the art bloc you could use thumbs or fanarts instead, which usually look nicer there.
3. CDarts: I think this something mostly suiteable in the info screen of the respective movie and/or when pressing info or pause during playback. For music it would be nice t have it on the playback screen.
But that is just suggestions, no critism!
As to my other PC (which has the problems in selcting the color sets): I checked and skin.helper is 1.0.20. Also the skin-folder is named "skin.KOver" and the color-sets are present in the subfolder "extras/ColorSchemes". So everything should be fine. But still nothing happens when I select any of the color-sets. However, I think I will first try to create a perfect layout of your skin on the one machine where it is currrently running fine. After I am done with that and everything looks nice (main menu, views, including the logos and cleart things) I will distribute the result to all my other PCs and thereby I will just wipe the current skin setup on the problematic machine.
Well, once again thank you very much for your hard work and especially for implementing those logos, cleararts and stuff. Please keep up the good work!
