2014-12-28, 18:38
bryanbrazil, I very much like Your work, thank You! Mimic skin have very nice flat and clean interface and good layout and this is definitely one of the nicest Xbmc/Kodi skin! Also I like Your kind and helpful attitude 
Here is some thoughts and suggestions to make this skin even better and more functional:
1. In music library all pictures are with fixed aspect ratio. I think that's not very good idea, because not all pictures exactly or similar to 1:1 aspect ratio. Specially artist pictures and CD-single front covers. This causes left-right side or top-bottom side cutoff and output is not very nice. In music file mode skin shows album covers in original aspect ratio.
SUGGESTION: Please set max width an height to artist/album covers (not fixed size and aspect ratio) or add option to choose picture mode.
2. It would be very nice if there will be option to move rating stars from music library album and track list. For me this is absolutely useless option, it's only wasting space in lists and doesn't look very good (in my opinion).
SUGGESTION: If You don't want to remove rating stars from list, please add option to turn stars off.
3. In music library I like to see artist, albums and songs in list view. With slim list option enabled this is definitely best view mode for me, but this view lacks artist/album/track info. In right there is enough space for that.
SUGGESTION: Please add artist/album/song in list view to right pane, to the top or to the bottom of artist/album picture.
4. If music is playing, You can see now playing info only in main menu and in fullscreen mode. It would very nice to see it in list too, like in basic Confluence skin. Now also You can see only how many tracks in album/list, but can't see total duration of album/list.
SUGGESTION: Please add info to list screens to see now playing track info, track progress info (for example: Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade 4:35 / 7:31). I think best way to do that is add bottom bar (except to main menu and settings screens). That bottom bar will show now playing info on left, total duration, items and pagination info on right. When bottom bar is added, You can keep weather/date/time info to the right of the top bar, even in list screens. Then also breadcrumb have more space, now time is in center of top bar and cutting off wider breadcrumbs.
5. Number areas not with fixed width and that causes pretty annoying surrounded area movement. Some examples: in main menu top bar, when time is changing from 18:21 to 18:22, then date and weather areas are moving, because time area width changing. Same in now playing track time info.
SUGGESTION: Please fix width of areas with changing numbers.
As You can see, all my suggestions and requests are reated with music listening, because I'm a big fan of music and most of time I use Kodi for music listening
EDIT: I found one little bug too. In skin settings, in main menu setup section, select infoline window title is Imdb Top 250.
Here is some thoughts and suggestions to make this skin even better and more functional:
1. In music library all pictures are with fixed aspect ratio. I think that's not very good idea, because not all pictures exactly or similar to 1:1 aspect ratio. Specially artist pictures and CD-single front covers. This causes left-right side or top-bottom side cutoff and output is not very nice. In music file mode skin shows album covers in original aspect ratio.
SUGGESTION: Please set max width an height to artist/album covers (not fixed size and aspect ratio) or add option to choose picture mode.
2. It would be very nice if there will be option to move rating stars from music library album and track list. For me this is absolutely useless option, it's only wasting space in lists and doesn't look very good (in my opinion).
SUGGESTION: If You don't want to remove rating stars from list, please add option to turn stars off.
3. In music library I like to see artist, albums and songs in list view. With slim list option enabled this is definitely best view mode for me, but this view lacks artist/album/track info. In right there is enough space for that.
SUGGESTION: Please add artist/album/song in list view to right pane, to the top or to the bottom of artist/album picture.
4. If music is playing, You can see now playing info only in main menu and in fullscreen mode. It would very nice to see it in list too, like in basic Confluence skin. Now also You can see only how many tracks in album/list, but can't see total duration of album/list.
SUGGESTION: Please add info to list screens to see now playing track info, track progress info (for example: Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade 4:35 / 7:31). I think best way to do that is add bottom bar (except to main menu and settings screens). That bottom bar will show now playing info on left, total duration, items and pagination info on right. When bottom bar is added, You can keep weather/date/time info to the right of the top bar, even in list screens. Then also breadcrumb have more space, now time is in center of top bar and cutting off wider breadcrumbs.
5. Number areas not with fixed width and that causes pretty annoying surrounded area movement. Some examples: in main menu top bar, when time is changing from 18:21 to 18:22, then date and weather areas are moving, because time area width changing. Same in now playing track time info.
SUGGESTION: Please fix width of areas with changing numbers.
As You can see, all my suggestions and requests are reated with music listening, because I'm a big fan of music and most of time I use Kodi for music listening
EDIT: I found one little bug too. In skin settings, in main menu setup section, select infoline window title is Imdb Top 250.
