2019-08-07, 19:28
Thanks @mikeSiLVO for your dedication at this great skin.
I use it after trying others skins and the look of your skin is the best, although I would like to make you some suggestions to improve it for lower-powered devices:
1) Add setting to disable slide animations
Other skins have a setting to disable slide animations (for example: Estuary skin has the option "Use slide animations").
Because they aren't friendly with lower-end devices, it would be proper to add this setting to your skin too.
2) Add setting to set static the vertical home menu
Almost all skins with vertical home menu (Estuary, Amber, Mimic, etc.) are static menu (if all menu options fit on the screen) and so their menus are very fast because they don't have to scroll all menu options (refreshing that part of the screen) when changing from the selected menu option to the next.
Amber skin has a setting to set static the vertical home menu and I think this setting is nice.
3) Change some services required as dependencies to optional
Running background services on lower powered hardware can have a big impact on CPU load and the services "script.grab.fanart" and "service.library.data.provider" are required as dependencies, but I am not using their functionality, so it would be a good idea if these services were optional and only installed if their functionalities are used.
4) Add the standard Favourites widget
To use the Favourites widget it's necessary to install "script.skin.helper.widgets" and it doesn't allow to delete, rename or change thumbnails in Favourites widget, but it's possible to have this missing functionality using the standard "favourites://" shortcut without installing anything adding this line inside the second <node label="1036"> on shortcuts/overrides.xml file:
5) Add the Settings widget
Currently, there is no a Settings widget, which would be great to access configuration options from Home without having to load a new configuration screen.
I hope you find these changes useful and add them to the skin.
Thanks.
I use it after trying others skins and the look of your skin is the best, although I would like to make you some suggestions to improve it for lower-powered devices:
1) Add setting to disable slide animations
Other skins have a setting to disable slide animations (for example: Estuary skin has the option "Use slide animations").
Because they aren't friendly with lower-end devices, it would be proper to add this setting to your skin too.
2) Add setting to set static the vertical home menu
Almost all skins with vertical home menu (Estuary, Amber, Mimic, etc.) are static menu (if all menu options fit on the screen) and so their menus are very fast because they don't have to scroll all menu options (refreshing that part of the screen) when changing from the selected menu option to the next.
Amber skin has a setting to set static the vertical home menu and I think this setting is nice.
3) Change some services required as dependencies to optional
Running background services on lower powered hardware can have a big impact on CPU load and the services "script.grab.fanart" and "service.library.data.provider" are required as dependencies, but I am not using their functionality, so it would be a good idea if these services were optional and only installed if their functionalities are used.
4) Add the standard Favourites widget
To use the Favourites widget it's necessary to install "script.skin.helper.widgets" and it doesn't allow to delete, rename or change thumbnails in Favourites widget, but it's possible to have this missing functionality using the standard "favourites://" shortcut without installing anything adding this line inside the second <node label="1036"> on shortcuts/overrides.xml file:
Code:
<shortcut label="1036" icon="favourites.png" widget="addon" widgetType="favourite">favourites://</shortcut>
5) Add the Settings widget
Currently, there is no a Settings widget, which would be great to access configuration options from Home without having to load a new configuration screen.
I hope you find these changes useful and add them to the skin.
Thanks.