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- Sharpe - 2010-09-27

Hi tripkip

Thanks man - it's actually in the repo already!


- djdafreund - 2010-09-28

Yessir, in fact, due to a lot of hard work, it was actually the 1st skin to be added, and we're very proud of that. Smile


- ubuntuf4n - 2010-10-04

Hi Backrow-Devs, how are ya doin' ? :-)

I noticed that the pictures in the homescreen-menu and also in the settings-menu are always reloading, everytime I enter or leave the menu.

They're not looking like static pictures like a few time ago.
Is this the way it should be ?

btw, movie countdown is disabled in my options.

Greetings,
Ubuntuf4n


- Sharpe - 2010-10-07

Hello ubuntuf4n

The home and settings menus were changed to make use of image background loading. I'm not noticing any issues on my regular PC, Mac Mini or Acer Revo.

I wonder if anyone else is seeing this?


- ubuntuf4n - 2010-10-07

Sharpe, many thanks for the info.

Is the mentioned image background loading a new feature or do I misunderstand something ?

btw, I am talking about this phenomenon--> http://tinyurl.com/2w73ys8

I also noticed that my ratings (just the symbols) are not displaying in any views (not even in the info-screen),
would it be possible to integrate such symbols?

Concept

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Maybe I am mixing up something, but wasn't there already support included for this in the pre-merge builds of backrow ?

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Regards,
Ubuntuf4n


- Sharpe - 2010-10-07

The background loading isn't new but is new to the home and settings screens - it speeds things up.

Yes there is support for German ratings in the skin still and the following screens have it:

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- ubuntuf4n - 2010-10-07

Sharpe,

I checked it once again and there is still the same problem.

The mentioned Ratings are even shown in Aeon65 and others (Night/Transperancy :also but without symbols).

In my point of view there seems to be something broken, but I am not sure how you could check that..?!
I am using the latest backrow-build (from the SVN which is mentioned in your sig.).

Everything is correctly tagged (with the ember manager) and also my old pre-merged backrow-build was able to show the ratings
(as shown in your above posted screenshots).


Greetz,
Ubuntuf4n


- Sharpe - 2010-10-08

For some reason everything was set up to display if the certification began FSK..etc looking at how ember handles German ratings I've replaced "FSK" with "Germany:" and that seems to work ok. Strange - I'm not sure if ember has changed how it handles German ratings or whether I'd just always had it wrong.

Try it now.


- ubuntuf4n - 2010-10-08

Thanks Sharpe,

..now it's working!

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btw, I checked the icons in (the media folder of) aeon65 and they are also named wth 'FSK...', but in the skin they're shown as Germany:xx .


Greetings,
Ubuntuf4n


- Sharpe - 2010-10-09

Okay I thought it best to summarise here the most recent changes.

These are the skin updates that have been made since the last Repo release of the skin.

They are available now in the SVN and the Dharma mediafire download link. The main repo itself should be updated in a couple of weeks.

Version 2.9.2
- Updated favourite script version number in addon.xml
- Fixed German movie rating image issue
- Complete overhaul of video library view ids to fix the remembering list position issue


- petesmith - 2010-10-12

Hi

ok i feel realy dumb asking this but i have searched and i can not see how i install this skin from what i have read it seems i don't go into the menu and select the skin as its now classed as a addon i am using the lastest stable release downloaded for windows could someone point me to a guide on installing this please

Cheers

Pete


- Sharpe - 2010-10-12

Hi Pete

The latest stable release won't really do if you want to use skin as an addon for that you need to be running the Dharma beta release.

There is a Pre-Dharma version of the skin available (the link is found in the 2nd post of this thread) and you would place it in the skins folder.

However to be honest the beta seems very solid to me I'd try that and install the skin via the builtin add-ons section.


- petesmith - 2010-10-12

Hi

Thanks for that info i'll download the Dharma beta release and see how it goes

Cheers

Pete


- Sharpe - 2010-10-13

Just to keep you guys informed...

Details of the latest updates available in the SVN and mediafire download link:

Version 2.9.3
- Altered the movie curtain wallpaper - went for a darker look
- Updated logo script version
- Reworked the music library views
- Cosmetic Improvements to the music info osd

Version 2.9.2
- Reworked the video and music genre backgrounds

Example of the new Movie curtain views background:

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- djdafreund - 2010-10-13

Darkened it, or blackened it? Looking at the picture it all pretty much looks almost black except for the smaller center spot where you still see the theater curtains. If you want i can mess with it and make it along the lines but with the surrounding area's dark, but more balanced at least. It looks all pretty dark on the screen now. I actually switched to using our single backgrounds like 8-9 months ago, look's better, but for slower machine's, you DEFINATELY see some lag with each picture load.
I prefer it a LITTLE lighter at least around the outer area's, but i'm cool if you just want to keep it the new way also. Guess i can do a mockup shot.