2008-05-15, 20:15
I'm on a mac (and a noob to this whole thing) so I have no clue how to do that. All the examples I've seen for downloading from the svn and building the skin are for windows.
platanito21 Wrote:I'm on a mac (and a noob to this whole thing) so I have no clue how to do that. All the examples I've seen for downloading from the svn and building the skin are for windows.
Jezz_X Wrote:And for all those people saying it should have this and that the screenshots above are not a complete representation of everything in the skin you do realize plus its not finshed
ChoccyHobNob Wrote:If you are uncomfortable with the terminal window but want to get stuff from svn, get SCPlugin from http://scplugin.tigris.org/ this is a finder plugin that allows access to svn (fashioned after tortoise-svn), you don't have to install anything command line, this is a dmg with a pkg in it, very mac user friendly. Its 10.3.9 and up compatible and a universal binary.
Once installed you will have to log out and back in again, then you can access the svn commands from the context menu in finder (Look in "Context Menu"->More->Subversion" for the commands)
If you want to get a copy of everything in the svn:
1. Create a folder to put it all in.
2. Right click/control click (whatever, get the context menu up) and Select "More->Subversion->Checkout"
3. enter the url of the svn in the "Repository URL" box, leave everything else alone
4. Click "Checkout"
5. Wait a while for it to finish (it will open a window showing you what is going on)
6. Profit
ChoccyHobNob Wrote:Yes of course Jezz, we were asked in the OP for suggestions and comments good and bad, I think that's all people are doing
It's looking really amazing, NineT9 and yourself should be rightfully proud of what you have achieved so far!
Competes2win Wrote:scplugin did not work for me on my new macbook, I heard that it's because the xbmc svn is a secured database?
Jezz_X Wrote:Oh some of it came across to me like you are doing it wrong do it this way guess I misunderstood
As for Lower def 4x3 this skin will never work on that the text is just too small and compact this is really design for TV's with lots of screen space and high pixel count
szsori Wrote:My main criticism is that you have a lot of "wasted" space in some areas. Not that every area needs to be filled with something, but the main info area for TV series and games has a pretty wide border around it. I'm guessing that's limited due to the dimensions of the banner art, but if not you might want to consider expanding the box out a bit.Your correct that its due to the dimensions of the banner art. I didn't want to sacrifice losing quality on the banner by increasing it. You will notice a lot of empty space thruought the skin, which is all pretty much planned for a few reasons... 1) To give it a 'glass panel' feel over a background. (I'm not the best with words sorry! I know what im thinking in my mind though, hopefully you can understand hehe) 2) Custom backgrounds for those that want to still see their custom backgrounds while browsing 3) Music Visualizations that will be shown behind the panels, as you can see in some of the screenshots (Like music)
szsori Wrote:I like your main menu, but something about it seems just a bit off to me. I think the full labels for each selection are part of it. I'm a minimalist, so I think having the title pop up at the top when you scroll to a section would be enough. Or just reduce the text from "Listen to music & audio CD's" to "Music". Remember that not everyone uses the sections the same way, so the more generic the description, the better.I completly understand where your coming from, and I can relate as I like things pretty minimal... but the Full Labels will stay. I just prefer the detail over 1 word Sorry... But you might like another theme for Vision2 that wont include those labels... and its a lot simpler then this PM3 Theme
szsori Wrote:cycling custom background images, similar to Aeon. Allow people to select a folder that contains the background art for that menu section. People could use the same backpacks as they use for Aeon, so it'd piggyback some work that's already been done.I totally love this idea. I really like that part of AEON, but, I think it might be too late to do this for the skin. As it would require a lot of rework on XML, which I know Jezz_X just doesn't have time for. Perhaps someone out there can do a mod for Vision2 when its released to add this feature, because as I said, I like it
szsori Wrote:Consider changing it so it doesn't use the PMIII mesh texture in the background. Yes, it looks nice, but I think you could use a texture that matches your entire skin a little better. Or just allow people to disable it or use a different option?Good suggestion... Maybe I'll come up with something
szsori Wrote:Finally, there are a handful of us that can't run at 720p due to our televisions not handling it. The work to make a skin work in 480p mode is pretty much limited to modifying the fonts file and minor position adjustments. Can you consider throwing us a bone and trying to get it working?Read my above post about this... The 4:3 part... its not that we dont care, or we dont want to... its just that it wouldn't fit with how the skin is