2019-09-24, 06:28
OPINIONS WANTED:
I would like to hear from users of Lyrebird regarding two potential changes. One of which critically changes Lyrebird's feel and another which is just a result of some experimenting... Even if you're somebody who sits silently on the outskirts, using the skin, but not commenting, I'd still like to hear feedback as one of the changes, if liked enough, would be a radical deviation from the Mimic origins of Lyrebird and once it is done, it won't be undone.
1. Lyrebird retains the "blue haze" from Mimic over the background images, the muted look does have positives but the lushness and radiance of the background images is totally lost. Cirrus Extended, by contrast, allows backgrounds to take a much more dominant role in the visual experience allowing for way more "pop" but can have the negative of making things look a little busy. I'll post a comparative screenshot of the Big List view in the legacy Mimic styling and the slightly retooled version to work with the full colour backgrounds shortly. I would like to know what users prefer, if they like the muted background look or want the saturated look akin to Cirrus. If the latter is preferred, this will be applied to all views skin wide.
2. This one is for gamers / users of AEL. I created a "proof of concept" view called Two Step. The concept of Two Step is simple. Unlike regular views which simply display your games and metadata and upon clicking / pressing buttons launches the targeted item, Two Step instead has a simple navigation view for shuffling between your games but upon clicking it doesn't launch the game and overrides this command instead directing the user to a second screen which shows all the metadata, artworks, plays the trailer and allows the user to launch the game and various other options. While still in an experimental phase, if the idea is liked enough I would expand this functionality to other views going forward.
Thoughts?
I would like to hear from users of Lyrebird regarding two potential changes. One of which critically changes Lyrebird's feel and another which is just a result of some experimenting... Even if you're somebody who sits silently on the outskirts, using the skin, but not commenting, I'd still like to hear feedback as one of the changes, if liked enough, would be a radical deviation from the Mimic origins of Lyrebird and once it is done, it won't be undone.
1. Lyrebird retains the "blue haze" from Mimic over the background images, the muted look does have positives but the lushness and radiance of the background images is totally lost. Cirrus Extended, by contrast, allows backgrounds to take a much more dominant role in the visual experience allowing for way more "pop" but can have the negative of making things look a little busy. I'll post a comparative screenshot of the Big List view in the legacy Mimic styling and the slightly retooled version to work with the full colour backgrounds shortly. I would like to know what users prefer, if they like the muted background look or want the saturated look akin to Cirrus. If the latter is preferred, this will be applied to all views skin wide.
2. This one is for gamers / users of AEL. I created a "proof of concept" view called Two Step. The concept of Two Step is simple. Unlike regular views which simply display your games and metadata and upon clicking / pressing buttons launches the targeted item, Two Step instead has a simple navigation view for shuffling between your games but upon clicking it doesn't launch the game and overrides this command instead directing the user to a second screen which shows all the metadata, artworks, plays the trailer and allows the user to launch the game and various other options. While still in an experimental phase, if the idea is liked enough I would expand this functionality to other views going forward.
Thoughts?
