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RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - otcho - 2012-06-30
(2012-06-30, 15:45)Balinus Wrote: I'm not sure Helvetica is open source though. Do you know?
It's not.
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Balinus - 2012-06-30
(2012-06-30, 16:13)otcho Wrote:(2012-06-30, 15:45)Balinus Wrote: I'm not sure Helvetica is open source though. Do you know?
It's not.
ok thanks, so I'll change it for the Ubuntu font then. Too bad!
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - reddragon220 - 2012-06-30
After a little bit of searching I happened to come across http://rachaelmoore.name/posts/design/css/web-safe-helvetica-font-stack/ which lead me to Tex Gyre Heros. Tex Gyre Heros appears to be based on Helvetica and is available under the Gust font license - I'm not sure if that's suitable to our purposes or not. The condensed bold version of this font may be a workable replacement but the one wrinkle is that it's an .otf not ttf so I suppose it'll have to be converted.
Here are the related links:
http://rachaelmoore.name/posts/design/css/web-safe-helvetica-font-stack/
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Heros
http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt
http://www.dailyfreefonts.com/fonts/info/5951-TeX-Gyre-Heros.html
If somebody could confirm that with a little license modification in the readme file I could distribute the font with the skin in my github account I might be willing to go through and adjust the entire skin to accomodate this font.
(p.s. If someone found a unicode version they'd be my hero.)
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Balinus - 2012-07-10
Found this website: http://www.font2web.com/
It: "This little tool converts any .ttf (TrueType Font) or .otf (OpenType Font) file to .ttf, .otf, .eot, .woff and .svg files. It also creates a CSS file and a demo HTML file to show you how to use webfonts on your website - using CSS @font-face."
If you're able to add this font to your skin (could be an optional font on top of your default one), it will ease off a lot of the work needed to port the skin.
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - reddragon220 - 2012-07-11
(2012-07-10, 20:43)Balinus Wrote: Found this website: http://www.font2web.com/
It: "This little tool converts any .ttf (TrueType Font) or .otf (OpenType Font) file to .ttf, .otf, .eot, .woff and .svg files. It also creates a CSS file and a demo HTML file to show you how to use webfonts on your website - using CSS @font-face."
If you're able to add this font to your skin (could be an optional font on top of your default one), it will ease off a lot of the work needed to port the skin.
I actually ended up replacing Helvetica Neue with Tex Gyre Heros, there were some tricky y-alignments in the buttons and both fonts couldn't co-exist. However, as an upshot, people without Helvetica Neue (which is pretty much everybody without a Mac) are no longer doomed to Arial. I'm distributing the .otf version in my git repo, but changing the skin to the ttf version created using that website should be trivial now - I tested and everything lined up correctly, easy as pie.
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Balinus - 2012-07-12
Nice!
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Hudson_Hawk04 - 2012-07-21
kinda got my fingers crossed here, with the font change..will there be a port?
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Balinus - 2012-07-21
I'll give it a go in 7-8 weeks, when I have more free time.
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Hudson_Hawk04 - 2012-07-22
thanks for the info
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Balinus - 2012-07-24
Quick question reddraggon220, does the skin have a DialogFullScreenInfo.xml? I mean the video info for when the movie is playing and you press "i"...
Also, how does the Recently Added items are done under Plex? Can't find anything close to what I know (i.e. "LatestMovie.1.Plot" for example).
I've changed to font to .ttf, as XBMC doesn't support .otf.
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - reddragon220 - 2012-07-24
(2012-07-24, 18:18)Balinus Wrote: Quick question reddraggon220, does the skin have a DialogFullScreenInfo.xml? I mean the video info for when the movie is playing and you press "i"...No sorry it does not, I never implemented that.
(2012-07-24, 18:18)Balinus Wrote: Also, how does the Recently Added items are done under Plex? Can't find anything close to what I know (i.e. "LatestMovie.1.Plot" for example).In my skin I refer to the recently Added/In progress items as quick lists (look for the giant comment) in Home.xml. The actual lists are in group="10999" at about line 226.
(2012-07-24, 18:18)Balinus Wrote: I've changed to font to .ttf, as XBMC doesn't support .otf.
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Balinus - 2012-07-24
(2012-07-24, 18:32)reddragon220 Wrote: No sorry it does not, I never implemented that.
Ah ok! Thought it was hidden somewhere else. Do you plan to add it on a next release? Personally, it's a dialog I use often, so I was mostly surprised to not see that xml file.
(2012-07-24, 18:32)reddragon220 Wrote: In my skin I refer to the recently Added/In progress items as quick lists (look for the giant comment) in Home.xml. The actual lists are in group="10999" at about line 226.
Ok, I'll check about that. As of now, the quick lists doesn't show up.
Thanks for the infos!
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Hudson_Hawk04 - 2012-09-28
are you still planing to re release this skin?
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Balinus - 2012-10-01
It's more work than expected as the recently added are not handled the same way (or that's what it seems).
However, I'll give a shot once my PhD is finished... in a couple of weeks. I'm aiming at 6-8 weeks...
RE: Lithium - Yet another skin in development for XBMC - Hudson_Hawk04 - 2013-01-19
just wanted to check in and see if this is still going to be updated and re-released. Thanks