[maui917]

I was really playing around with the Skin last night and first things first, Great work!!! Seriously this is a fantastic skin, the team should really be proud of creating a great piece of work.

Now onto a few suggestions, and that is what these are just suggestions so take them or leave them at that.

First I know there has been some discussion about what views to have and where, but I would love a showcase, or coverflow type of view in "videos" and "music". I have video sources that aren't going to scan to the library (mainly skateboarding and snowboarding videos) but I have nice "DVD cover" style thumbs set up for them and would love to see them in that kind of view.

Next because I have other video sources, Kids Shows, Snowboard Videos etc... I really like to add them to my home page, makes it easy for my kids to browse to them and watch their own shows etc... I can edit the xml myself to add this like I have done with other skins before, but I was thinking it would be really cool if you created the option to add custom additions to the home page. I don't know how realistic this is, but AEON does something similar how ever you can't choose a custom title for the addition, you just have to edit "clips" and "adult" in the XML.

So here is my design idea, you have the ability to disable several menu's on the home page, so you have an option to add custom menus. First you would be presented with a choice of what type of media you are adding, Audio, Video, Games, based on that choice the skin would display "watch your" or "listen to" or "play" above the title of the new menu. Next you would enter a custom title for the menu ie... Kids Shows, Snowboard Movies, Adult, Audio Books, Games, Arcade etc..., the third choice is to direct the custom menu to a source that has already been set up.

Next it would be a great to be able to customize where each menu points... so for example if I wanted to set up "music" to go right to my "music" source so it just cuts out one click instead of going to the "my music" page and then selecting my music source to open it.

I realize the are highly customizable suggestions, and that this probably doesn't cater to the broadest user base, but it would be a great addition I think, as I don't think I am the only person with sources, other than TV and Movies that I like to have on the home page. My other hope would be if these options were built into the skin, then it would increase the updatability, with out having to go in and edit XML's etc... every time I update the skin, which is sounds like may be quite often if it's included in the T3CH builds.

Once again just a few ideas I had, but over all great skin!!