2010-01-17, 20:28
I just started to use Alaska and IMHO it's the best skin, by far.
XBMC has always been a little over-busy compared to other media skins, and Alaska is the first skin that *successfully* compensates for that (IMHO). For example, anyone that's ever used an AppleTV, can tell you that more is not neccesarily better. AppleTV is so extremely simple, yet its beautiful and very capable in its simplicity (and I'm not an Apple guy).
I'm posting here in the color thread, because the *one* issue I have, is how to use a more obvious color for selected menu text. For example, when I scroll from one item to another (on the left-sidebar menus), using the default color-scheme, I am unable to determine which item is highlighted because it's a subtle difference between grey and black.
Unfortunately, this would be my first attempt modifying a skin. Although I'm a developer and technically inclined, I'm not familiar with the framework of skin design, and landed here looking for options on changing the colors for the selected-text.
Is there any sort of "overview" or "tutorial" link for skins in general? And specific to Alaska, is there one tag (in the color XML file referred to here) in particular I should be searching for, to change the menu-selected text, and/or, is there any way to change the font size (or style) along with the color change (bolding the item may be more effective than coloring it)?
Thank you in advance!
XBMC has always been a little over-busy compared to other media skins, and Alaska is the first skin that *successfully* compensates for that (IMHO). For example, anyone that's ever used an AppleTV, can tell you that more is not neccesarily better. AppleTV is so extremely simple, yet its beautiful and very capable in its simplicity (and I'm not an Apple guy).
I'm posting here in the color thread, because the *one* issue I have, is how to use a more obvious color for selected menu text. For example, when I scroll from one item to another (on the left-sidebar menus), using the default color-scheme, I am unable to determine which item is highlighted because it's a subtle difference between grey and black.
Unfortunately, this would be my first attempt modifying a skin. Although I'm a developer and technically inclined, I'm not familiar with the framework of skin design, and landed here looking for options on changing the colors for the selected-text.
Is there any sort of "overview" or "tutorial" link for skins in general? And specific to Alaska, is there one tag (in the color XML file referred to here) in particular I should be searching for, to change the menu-selected text, and/or, is there any way to change the font size (or style) along with the color change (bolding the item may be more effective than coloring it)?
Thank you in advance!