2017-01-07, 02:22
(2017-01-07, 01:48)BobCratchett Wrote: However there is an element of once an idea is in the public domain it will be copied - hopefully not wholesale as we've seen, but I've been working on a concept I refer to as 'Aliter' for longer than I care to remember (and will continue to do so for a hell of a long time as it basically ignores all normal Kodi navigational contents - whether thats settings, library, home screen and so on, and needs so many scripts to get it to work in a half-way acceptable way that it will probably never be finished) and see your concept for 'paralax' backgrounds (something I've never considered but can see the benefit of) - as a very useful idea and am so looking creating my own implementation of. I hope this doesn't offend you and, if it does, I hope the fact that my own implementation will probably never see the light of day mitigates that somewhat
They're not really a full-blown manifestation of parallax scrolling anyway, and I'd be insane to lay any kind of claim to a technique that's probably older than I am, not to mention used in loads of other UIs as a matter of course. PlayStation Store is one that comes to mind.