tropicaltuna Wrote:I joined this forum just because of your lovely skin. It suits my preferences (clean, minimal look, focus on covers/fanart rather than skin aesthetics) perfectly! It looks wonderful in the screeshots and all the new list views you're thinking of are splendid too

tropicaltuna Wrote:I'm using this skin on a Xbox (with main focus on homebrew games and emulation) and somehow - after a short period of testing - I couldn't manage to get it look like yours. So my question is:

-On this thread's first page in the second picture the fanart view is being used, am I right? I like it the most as the icons are quite big and displayed in wide icon format. Is it possible to use this view to display the "default.tbn" from normal applications? "Default.tbn" is basically a .jpg or .png-file that has been renamed and placed in the root folder of the corresponding application.

tropicaltuna Wrote:Generally your skin looks very promising; I have just one suggestion/request for the Multiplex view (post #9): in addition to the current view, the chosen cover would be displayed (if preferred) as big as in your list view mockup (post #20). Just a suggestion, but I just love it when covers have room to come to life.

tropicaltuna Wrote:Also @Bram77: Regarding general memory usage on an Xbox mine is running nicely. Around 35 Mb are free upon launching which is much more than e.g. Aeon (around 25 Mb) that is still sufficient for basic usage (watching DVD's, playing content from local HDD) but network problems may occur with higher resolution videos. So with the "additional" 10 Mb and based on my initial experience (I haven't streamed any content from my pc yet) this skin should be sufficient for every Xbox usage.

reddragon220 Wrote:Yes the second picture is using the fanart view. I'm not too familiar how xbmc handles application icons with the default.tbn. I think a fix on my side of the things maybe to use the normal image of an application if it has no associated background. Does this sound like something that might work for you?

reddragon220 Wrote:I've been toying around with mock-ups some more. Dropping the container and eliminating the footer gives the skin an apple-tv/itunes/phyek like feel.

tropicaltuna Wrote:Every Xbox application or game has a shortcut icon. However initially it is quite small and fuzzy, so adding a customized "default.tbn" manually provides in XBMC the possibility to display something nicer (similarly to "folder.jpg" for music players). I'm not absolutely sure, but I think the original/normal image associated with the application is also default.tbn so your suggestion might work.

Especially first pic looks great!

reddragon220 Wrote:I'll give it a try in the next alpha release, let me know how it works out.

Here's some experimenting with a rough options screen - how does everybody feel about widgets?
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natew Wrote:Did you do a background blur there? Come to think of it, this picture makes me think that wall view would look fantastic if it blurred the fanart behind the posters.

Bram77 Wrote:Great thanks! If you'd pack the textures into a XPR file I'll probably be able to use it on my XBOX.