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- sialivi - 2011-05-26 00:54
DazNoonan Wrote:Personally I don't think you should add one either as it can cause issues if you select it, there is no hard in having settings along the top to be honest as its something almost everyone will always need.
Most skins have a link to Settings in the Shutdown Menu (Press 's').
- sialivi - 2011-05-26 01:03
[Layout]
Not sure what this is called, so perhaps it's already mentioned in the first post. When going into a Pictures folder with a lot of content there's a "Loading media info from files" popup that doesn't seem to be finished.
[Folder Shadow]
When browsing Pictures the shadow is the same for folders and pictures. This looks very weird for the folders since the shadow doesn't match it at all. Maybe a folder looking background image could be added behind the 4 thumbnails?
[Correction]
Turns out that this issue I reported earlier was also because I was using a nightly build:
Quote:[Home Screen Navigation Unintuitiveness]
You press "Down" to get to the "Latest <whatever>", and then you press "Down" again to return to the main menu. This feel unintuitive, my instinct was to press "Up" to return to the menu since it's located above the "Latest".
[Navigation]
Pressing 's' will give the non-existing Shutdown Menu focus. This is of course only an issue if you decide not to implement the menu, which I still hope you will at some point
- Jezz_X - 2011-05-26 01:35
sialivi Wrote:Most skins have a link to Settings in the Shutdown Menu (Press 's').
This will actually cause them to fail on iOS devices like the atv2 because the shutdown menu is hard coded to exit xbmc instead of appearing
- Japaja - 2011-05-26 03:54
-setting Add-ons - Currently downloading - there is no percentage
-scrollbar - one side has a gradient?
-vertical scrollbar in album review (autoscroll OFF) - strange glitches, jumps around, hard to describe
-this happens when scanning pictures media info too
![[Image: videos.jpg]](http://www.pohrani.com/f/k/7a/4azwfk8Z/videos.jpg)
-can't go down to scroll movie plot (autoscroll OFF)
![[Image: no-way-to-scroll-plot.jpg]](http://www.pohrani.com/f/1y/JZ/44D3DXhj/no-way-to-scroll-plot.jpg)
Main menu long name movie cut off
![[Image: long-name.jpg]](http://www.pohrani.com/f/1a/A0/4yDg8He5/long-name.jpg)
and then it goes in weird autoscroll (BTW, yes that was the movie with longest name in my library that I could find)
![[Image: long-name2.jpg]](http://www.pohrani.com/f/F/e8/2708tpQa/long-name2.jpg)
these I don't consider bugs.. just suggestions
- Add-ons Auto update and Notification toggles should be easier to access (just left) not left, up, right (same as accessing view options in movies/TV shows)
- now playing text appears/disappears and scrolls too fast, I think this too should be slowed down and the time between appearing and fading increased
Director, Credits, Runtime - can this be watched xx unwatched xx next airing/show ended xxxxxx or something like that?
![[Image: tv-show-details.jpg]](http://www.pohrani.com/f/15/UO/MFVavo1/tv-show-details.jpg)
And last Movie Collections.. no love there?
![[Image: collections.jpg]](http://www.pohrani.com/f/J/Q4/2Eg8qoaW/collections.jpg)
- Broads - 2011-05-26 08:54
Congrats on this release.
It was always going to be tough releasing such a skin to a community that have been slavering over this one for months, however for an early alpha it looks and feels great.
I too of course would love an OSD but I think I can manage with my remote controls for now.
All in all its usable enough for me, and I look forward to the future enhancements and bug fixes along the way..
- liquidskin76 - 2011-05-26 09:56
sialivi Wrote:Most skins have a link to Settings in the Shutdown Menu (Press 's').
Hey sialivi,
Leave it with me. I'll sort that one out.
Cheers
- liquidskin76 - 2011-05-26 10:01
sialivi Wrote:[Layout]
Not sure what this is called, so perhaps it's already mentioned in the first post. When going into a Pictures folder with a lot of content there's a "Loading media info from files" popup that doesn't seem to be finished.
[Folder Shadow]
When browsing Pictures the shadow is the same for folders and pictures. This looks very weird for the folders since the shadow doesn't match it at all. Maybe a folder looking background image could be added behind the 4 thumbnails?
[Correction]
Turns out that this issue I reported earlier was also because I was using a nightly build:
[Navigation]
Pressing 's' will give the non-existing Shutdown Menu focus. This is of course only an issue if you decide not to implement the menu, which I still hope you will at some point
Cheers, i've made a note of these.
- DazNoonan - 2011-05-26 10:03
sialivi Wrote:I personally would rather go directly to the view options. Reasons:
1) I'm so used to going back to the Home Screen to switch between sections that I keep doing it in welo even with those shortcuts available.
I actually like the idea that you don't have to go back out to go to another section, yes it can take some getting used to but its defiantely better how it is now. I mean how often do you need to get into the view options? Usual you keep with the one you want don't you...
I personally would like to keep it how it is.
- DazNoonan - 2011-05-26 10:05
sialivi Wrote:Most skins have a link to Settings in the Shutdown Menu (Press 's').Really? Settings is completely different to shutdown though so it would make no sense at all to have them in the same place really...
It woudl also cause a problem on ATV2 if you put it in there... please don't move it.
- liquidskin76 - 2011-05-26 10:09
Broads Wrote:Congrats on this release.
It was always going to be tough releasing such a skin to a community that have been slavering over this one for months, however for an early alpha it looks and feels great.
I too of course would love an OSD but I think I can manage with my remote controls for now.
All in all its usable enough for me, and I look forward to the future enhancements and bug fixes along the way..
Cheers Broads. You're right on it being a tough one, when everyone knows about it and is waiting for it! I expect the 'Paper Street Company' team are feeling the same.
It's still early days for Welo. and there's a little way to go yet!
