[Livin]

i can build graphics just fine but i'm not a xml guy so my learning curve would be huge to make a few changes.

i was thinking that it would be cool to see the main menu choices on the main screen.
i like your animations so i'd love if they incorporated something where the menu items seem to "scroll" up and down in a circle pattern (going to the right).
the unchosen options could be faded a bit so to still maintain the integrity of the skin.

then maybe hiding the other, less used items like settings, scripts, reboot, and shutdown.

also, i seem to have a problem where the reboot and shutdown does not work. is there a special button combo to get them to work?


thanks for the great skin!

[bobrooney_78]

the reboot and shut down buttons work for me (xbmc 1.1)

thanks for your suggestions, my ideas for simplygreen 2.0 so far:











if the skin-system-upgrade will progress well (tnx jmarshall), i think it can be done.

what do you think of these concepts?

edit: maybe imagine some sort of background-video (between the two white lines)?

[Livin]

bob,
i definitely like the basic layout and concept:

i love...
the 'current info' and scrreenshot/cover/etc in the upper right!
the bouncing text on the menu... this rocks!

suggestions:

you could squeze a bit more screen real estate by removing the horizontal whilte lines and moving the "header" and the "footer" more towards the top and bottom of the screen. this would allow a few more lines in the center.

i'm not a huge fan of the boxes around the games/movies/etc images. i just think it is too many squares


here's what i was thinking...



the menu items should be a more and more faded as they get smaller too... gives the perception of distance and a curve in the menu


what do you think?

[jmarshall]

that menu is not possible with the new buttonscroller system.

better imo to leave everything the same size and use alpha to fade out the ones that aren't currently selected.

[Livin]

can you make the new button system include sizing/scaling for buttons? this would allow the look 'n feel of distance and such when you include it with using alpha blending.

[jmarshall]

affini:

i've just spent a fair bit of time doing the current one. this was a request from skinners - ie those people who do the work to make xbmc look as nice (and diverse) as it does.

it allows quite a bit of variance for skinners, as well as offering users the ability to configure the buttons.

i'm not going to redo it all at this stage, as i don't believe it's necessary - it would just complicate the code unnecessarily.

feel free to do the code yourself - it's opensource, afterall. i think you'll find you'll need to modify it quite a bit to achieve such a look.

[Livin]

i understand.. and thought it would be a nice feature and look. i saw in on a meedio skin. i did not know you'd need to rearchitect the entire bar... i figured you were doing it in a modular way so you could add different methods as needed.

i do appreciate the people that do the work and i was one of those people for other programs such as homeseer and netremote but no longer have the time to do it myself.

i may once again build a skin if/when a fully function skin builder is available, as i'm tired of hand building things using text editors.

[Chokemaniac]

you cant just cover every skinners ida with a preset - so all hes gotta do is change a number to get what he wants - most things ar possible if you just spend enought time playing around with things - and if they're not theres always a workaround - theres plenty of tricks you could try

@ jmarshall - told ya you would make the users expect even more