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- DurhamDev - 2010-01-05

PANiCnz Wrote:Any chance you'd be willing to share those home screen images?

I'd be happy to know how he replaced the images that were there! I thought it might be setting the image from within the extended settings section, but I couldn't find it myself. Is it buried in the code?

- asphinx - 2010-01-05

He? Oh, now I get it.. Babasse should be credited for the icons, as they are a creation of him. The colour theme and xml modifications are made by yours truly... me.

I just replaced the .png's in media/homeicons with the ones I thought would look nice (convey the theme I was going for), easy as pie and no need to fiddle with the .xml's although I did that anyway but that was an entirely different purpose..

Good luck implementing them!

- DurhamDev - 2010-01-05

asphinx Wrote:I just replaced the .png's in media/homeicons with the ones I thought would look nice (convey the theme I was going for), easy as pie and no need to fiddle with the .xml's although I did that anyway but that was an entirely different purpose..

A-ha! Finally someone who gives a subdirectory instead of just throwing out an XML filename! Good on ya! Thanks again!

- DurhamDev - 2010-01-07

Hitcher Wrote:Expect a big update soon.

I haven't seen anything more on this... ...and I'm waiting with baited breath!

- Hitcher - 2010-01-07

I'm off work next week and I'm hoping to get everything outstanding finished in that time.

- dgsgc - 2010-01-07

Farakh Wrote:Inspiration from kuler webpage,Image

Hi, Just switched over from MediaPortal because of Alaska, its exactly what i wanted.

I would love to try out this red theme if you could post your XML.

Cheers
Dave

- PANiCnz - 2010-01-08

asphinx Wrote:--> PANiCnz

I didn't make the icons I only found inspiration to use them, so XBMC would match the rest of my living room.. But I can not share the images just like that.

Credits for the awesome icons/images goes to babasse. I can't share the images, but I can share a link to them. Smile

Thanks for the heads up, greatly appreciated.

- grey - 2010-01-08

how to know what black&white theme is made by taxigps and what is by WJWNL ?

i want to use the one made by WJWNL, but have no idea which one is it ))

- myanek05 - 2010-01-09

Ok, Im a long time fan of XBMC and always try and edit my skins myself. I also try and make it personal to my liking. While editing Alaska trying to get it to fit my own liking I came up with this issue. The overlay for the movie is solid black and id prefer it not to be. I tried editing somethings and different color codes but am not sure what I am doing wrong. The color code which I am using (or wanting to) is 9cFFFFFF. I use this with my music overlay and it works fine. I get this in the following screenshots. any help would be appreciated thank you.

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- Juanflaco - 2010-01-13

Just came over to Alaska from Confluence and immediately found the easy color modification very appealing.

Here's something I put together, it's not fully complete but it works for the views I use. Great work on this skin, Hitcher - I'm really looking forward to figuring out the tags I'm still not sure of, and seeing what you have in store for the future!

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If anyone wants to tweak it to their liking, here's the xml...

Code:
<colors>

    <!-- Theme Colours -->

    <color name="BackgroundColor">CCD5FF9B</color>
    <color name="BackgroundFilterColors">DD8fb87f</color>
    <color name="ButtonFilterColor">FF374e5a</color>

    <!-- Home 1 Colours -->

    <color name="HomeFrameColor">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="HomeFrameDiffuseColor">ff374E5A</color>
    <color name="MainMenuLabel">FFFFFFF1</color>

    <!-- Home 2 & 3 Colour -->
    
    <color name="MainMenu">338fb87f</color>

    <!-- Global Colours -->

    <color name="Time">FF374E5A</color>
    <color name="TimeAMPM">FF5A7B6C</color>
    <color name="Date">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="RSSBody">FF8FB87F</color>
    <color name="RSSHighlight">FF5A7B6C</color>
    <color name="RSSHeadline">FF5A7B6C</color>
    <color name="RSSTitle">FF374E5A</color>
    <color name="NowPlayingArtist">FF374E5A</color>
    <color name="NowPlayingAlbum">FF5A7B6C</color>
    <color name="NowPlayingTrack">FF8FB87F</color>
    <color name="MediaMenu">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="TextFocused">FF374E5A</color>
    <color name="Text">CC5A7B6C</color>
    <color name="TextDisabled">FFcc5858</color>
    <color name="TextSelected">FF5a7b6c</color>

    <!-- Flags -->

    <color name="FlagDiffuse">CC374e5a</color>
    <color name="FlagText">abFFFFF1</color>
    <color name="FlagText2">CC5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="StarDiffuse">FF374e5a</color>

    <!-- OSD -->

    <color name="OSDPlayingArtist">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="OSDPlayingTrack">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="OSDPlayingAlbum">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="OSDPlayingPN">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="OSDDetails">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="OSDTime">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="OSDProgress">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="OSDProgressBar">FFFFFFF1</color>
    <color name="OSDStatusBackground">00FFFFF1</color>
    <color name="OSDStatus">55FFFFF1</color>
    <color name="OSDPlayingDuration">FF374e5a</color>

    <!-- Window menu colours -->

    <color name="MenuValue">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="MenuValueFO">FF374e5a</color>    

    <!-- Poster view colours -->

    <color name="PosterTitle">FF374E5A</color>
    <color name="EpisodeLabelF">FF374E5A</color>    
    <color name="EpisodePlot">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="EpisodeNumber">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="EpisodeWatched">bbfffff1</color>

    <!-- Info dialog colours -->

    <color name="InfoTitle">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="InfoPlot">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="InfoYear">ff374e5a</color>    
    <color name="InfoGenre">ff374e5a</color>        
    <color name="InfoDetails">ff5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="MovieInfoLines">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="OSDrating">ff374e5a</color>

    <!-- Progress dialogs -->

    <color name="ProgressDialog">FFFFFFF1</color>
    <color name="SettingsHeading">ff374e5a</color>    
    <color name="SettingsDetail">ff5a7b6c</color>        

    <!-- List & File colours -->

    <color name="ListTitleNF">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="ListTrackF">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="ListTitleF">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="FileTitleNF">FF374e5a</color>    

    <!-- Poster colours -->

    <color name="WallIconDiffuse">00374E5A</color>
    <color name="WallArrowDiffuse">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="IconDiffuse">FF5a7b6c</color>
    <color name="WatchedIconBackFO">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="WatchedIconBackNF">86374e5a</color>
    <color name="WatchedIconDiffuseFO">FF374e5a</color>
    <color name="WatchedIconDiffuseNF">86374e5a</color>

    <!-- Fanart colours -->

    <color name="FanartTitle">FF374E5A</color>
    <color name="FanartText">FF5a7b6c</color>

    <!-- Dialogs -->

    <color name="DialogLargeLabel">dc8FB87F</color>
    <color name="DialogLargeLabelAccent">CCdadada</color>
    <color name="DialogBack">FF8FB87F</color>
    <color name="DialogBackground">CC8FB87F</color>

    <!-- Favorites -->

    <color name="FavListPanel">eeFFFFFF</color>
    <color name="FavListItem">FF929191</color>
    <color name="FavListItemSelected">FF800000</color>
    <color name="FavListItemFocusedSelected">CCCCCCCC</color>

    <!-- Filemanager -->

    <color name="FMListPanel">eeFFFFFF</color>
    <color name="FM_ListTitle">dc777777</color>
    <color name="FM_ListTitleAccent">CCdadada</color>
    <color name="FM_ListSelected">dc990000</color>
    <color name="FM_ListFocused">FFFFFFFF</color>
    <color name="FM_ListFocusedAccent">00CCCCCC</color>
    <color name="FM_ListUnfocused">dc777777</color>
    <color name="FM_ListFocusSelected">CCcccccc</color>
    <color name="FM_Focusbar">ff777777</color>

</colors>


- nanny07 - 2010-01-17

I like it Smile

- RKMFlorida - 2010-01-17

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!

- Hitcher - 2010-01-17

Basically you need to look at the viewtypes for the following -

<itemlayout>
non-focused items
</itemlayout>

<focusedlayout>
focused items
</focusedlayout>

- uncertainty - 2010-01-17

RKMFlorida Wrote: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).


That has been the overriding goal of Alaska since DJH first developed it and now with Hitcher continuing it. For example people keep adding more eyecandy to Aeon and its turned into mush. The best Aeon mod was Hitchers for one simple reason, he refined what DJH wanted and didnt oversaturate it.

- the_alien - 2010-01-18

Roders Wrote:I've been messing around with the colours and thought I'd share the result. It's more designed with the files view in mind so poster view might not look too great. Open to suggestions/feedback.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zelvnzywfyr/Grey_Blue.xml
http://www.mediafire.com/file/iimnjmymmmo/Grey_Blue.xpr
Using this color style, but the posters and episodes not focused are more a black rectangle then a poster ...

Anyone can point me to where i have to look in the xml?