[Alanon]

@mikesilvo164:
I think I found a bug in DialogSeekbar.xml. It is the slider in the seekbar.
in line 107 and 108 there is

Code:

<textureslidernib colordiffuse="$VAR[ThemeLabelColor]">listselect_fo.png</textureslidernib>
<textureslidernibfocus colordiffuse="$VAR[ThemeLabelColor]">listselect_fo.png</textureslidernibfocus>

shouldn't that be osd_slider_nib.png or osd_slider_nibNF.png instead of listselect_fo.png?
It is osd_slider_nib.png in AeonNox, btw

Not a bug since images like that need to be changed using themes and I am getting rid of that by using images that can be colordiffused. If you have a suggestion...

@mikesilvo164: Hi, Mike. I have one bug to report, along with two questions.

1. When Arial is used, the font of the main (vertical) menu is really small, and very difficult to read on tv screens.
2. When you hide the artwork in the playback info osd, the text layout stays identical. Wouldn't it make more sense to enlarge the text boxes (widen the plot info, for example, so as to have less scrolling?) when no artwork is selected?
3. I've noticed that all of my media uses up to four backgrounds that scroll. However, for some shows or films I have 5-10 images, some of which I've never seen in the skin. Is there a way to increase this limit?

1) I don't use Arial so I will take a look and if I do not please remind me
2) That was to simplify things... will see what I can do.
3) You can use my forked version of Toolbox script which adds 10 extrafanarts or just modify the current one using the same commit I added to achieve that but having so many introduces lots of possible crappy images, IMHO.

As far as the sliders are concerned, I think it looks better with the standard images (I mean the small ticks), rather than the listselect image, because as is, it just doesn't make sense, you can't see where a rewind might end up on the timeline. On the one hand, it would be best to perhaps redo these images into transparent ones. On the other hand, perhaps it would be easier to use some other image that was already redone, that fits better with the needed narrow shape? Something like thumbnail_focused.png, crammed into smaller dimensions comes to mind, but I'm neither a coder nor a skinner, so I have absolutely no idea if what I've said is even logical.

As far as the toolbox goes, I had no idea you had your own toolbox script! It is a wonderful surprise. It's true that there can be a lot of crappy images, but setting the minimal rating to something like 8 solves this annoyance. In that case, most shows/films will have less than the maximum number of images, and only when there's a lot of good ones will there be more. Now, when I download stuff with artwork downloader, I usually run the script manually, am I right in saying there's no easier or automated way?

Lastly, I'm hoping to bend your ear about the playback OSD. The skin has received a lot of visual upgrades in these last few months, and while I personally don't always like the layout of things (for instance the lack of an info on pause option, etc.), I can clearly understand - and respect - the reasoning behind it. Heck, the very fact that there is reasoning behind it is good enough for me. But as things are now, I really think those darn playback buttons are the ugliest part of an otherwise terrific skin. It's not that they are grey, nor that they are in the top portion of the screen, they seem as if they were meant to look cool a long time ago, but end up being cheap by today's eyes. They're low-res and hide that fact very poorly. Again, it wouldn't bother me at all if there were actual problems with this skin, but when one's experience is bug-free, the eye wanders. And while I am aware that re-imagining the whole interface while keeping true to your vision for the skin is a huge pain (even more so if and when the user requests seem to go against your overall design), do you think there's a chance to at least "update" the buttons?

Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble on.
Cheers, and thanks for all your hard work!