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- stoli - 2011-02-04

You may want to work with these guys too - http://fanart.tv/. With a little work the movie logos could be downloadable just like the TV show logos.

If you want to send me your xml later I'll tweak it and and it in as a new movie view.

Thanks,


- sokar666 - 2011-02-04

yeh sure, once ive got a final release ill get it to you as best i can.

(remember this is just an edit of your showcase view, what ill do is try and highlight the parts ive edited)


- stoli - 2011-02-04

No problem - I can do string compare easily enough with notepad++.


- moosenoz - 2011-02-04

was there an update today? reason i'm asking is, i have two systems, both enabled with the neon skin and both reverted to confluence today...

when i went into my settings the skin displayed as "skin.neon.svn" and yet confluence was installed ( behaving kind of weird i might add ). had to go back and reinstall neon to get it to work

anything i can do to prevent this from happening again?

i'm really enjoying this skin. keep up the great work.

while i'm at it... is there a way to get the main menu bar to display at the bottom of the screen instead of the middle? that would be a nice option to have.


- stoli - 2011-02-04

moosenoz Wrote:was there an update today? reason i'm asking is, i have two systems, both enabled with the neon skin and both reverted to confluence today...

when i went into my settings the skin displayed as "skin.neon.svn" and yet confluence was installed ( behaving kind of weird i might add ). had to go back and reinstall neon to get it to work

anything i can do to prevent this from happening again?

i'm really enjoying this skin. keep up the great work.

while i'm at it... is there a way to get the main menu bar to display at the bottom of the screen instead of the middle? that would be a nice option to have.

Grrr. This is a bug in the auto-updates. If the skin is loaded when the update happens, 98% of the time it doesn't update all of the skin, leaving it corrupted. You'll have to download the skin again. As for preventing it, I believe you can disable auto-updates.

You can move the menu bar in settings > skin > Home Settings > Set Home Menu to bottom.

UPDATE: Looks like the auto-update bug is fixed in the latest builds: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10876


- sokar666 - 2011-02-04




- stoli - 2011-02-04

I only have 300+/- movies so that's only around 50 hours or so. Smile

http://sharethe.tv/stoli/movies

Good Work - Now get going on those titles! Big Grin I'll roll this into the skin this weekend.


- sokar666 - 2011-02-04

nice collection m8.

just like the tv clearart and logos just takes a few to like it and there will be loads before you know it, what i might do is setup a basic website for now and upload as i go until i can get some more help.


- Swifty - 2011-02-05

stoli Wrote:No pvr support as I don't have one to test with. Does Confluence support it? If so I can probably adapt what is there pretty easily.

+1 from me Smile

Confluence has support, not sure if it's in the mainline but it's definately in the PVR development branch; https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc/tree/master/addons/skin.confluence

PVR support would rock Nod


- stoli - 2011-02-05

Swifty Wrote:+1 from me Smile

Confluence has support, not sure if it's in the mainline but it's definately in the PVR development branch; https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc/tree/master/addons/skin.confluence

PVR support would rock Nod

Downloading it now - can't promise much as I don't have pvr - a lot will depend on how much I can do in the skin without one.


- Swifty - 2011-02-05

Thanks stoli, really appreciated!
I have PVR already setup, so if you need any bits testing just shout.


- stoli - 2011-02-05

Swifty Wrote:Thanks stoli, really appreciated!
I have PVR already setup, so if you need any bits testing just shout.

I took a quick look - there's no way for me to even see the pvr aspect of it. I'll hack around in the xml and see what I can find. I use a lot of Confluence as it is, so I should be able to make some changes to get Neon's flavor and then put it out there for testing. It will just take a lot of screen shots for me to work from. Smile

Can you go ahead and upload some pvr specific screen shots to imageshack and then pm some links?

Thanks,


- stoli - 2011-02-05

@Swifty - thanks for the screen shots. Once I finish cleanup and tweaking for 1.0 release I'll work on the PVR support. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks.

Updated Time/Date/Weather/Library totals widgets. Now to redo the now playing to something smaller...

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- stoli - 2011-02-07

IAmNotAUser Wrote:Back on topic though of this amazing skin, 2 things I feel I should give feedback on having used it for a while now, and in return for all the help you've given me. Firstly, adding a new rule using the smart-playlist editor is difficult in it's current colour scheme. The white text blends into the metallic background too easily, especially at 6'+ viewing distance on a TV. Also, when the highlight moves over the rules section it doesn't appear. The rules in the screenshot below are highlight as an example. The second picture shows the outcome of pressing down once, and the highlight is clearly visible.

Using the addon "TV-Shows Next Aired" from the Passion repo together with the 16x9 skin view seems to cut some of the text off...

[snip]

Seriously, thanks for such a great skin, and for all your assistance whilst I was being an idiot and making life hard for everyone Blush

- Playlist and Smartplaylist editors have been replaced
- Completely forgot about the 16x9 - game time now though. Smile

SALAMINOMACHOS Wrote:But now i see that when i am in the movies i do not see any more at the right and low position of the screen the total number-summary of my movies and the date-time as well as it was shown before.
The global date and time is enabled.
What am i missing?

Date / Time / Objects widgets have been updated and replaced. There are still a few positioning issues I need to work out along with the Now Playing dialog.

I 'touched' a lot of files with these latest updates, please let me know of any bugs you find.

Enjoy!


- tormi - 2011-02-07

I'd like to know if the following is possible:

I use the addon listenEulive for a couple of radio stations. I would like to add a custom menu item called: "Radio" and then add a bunch of radio channels under this menu item.

I can mange to add the Custom Menu item, but it seems I am only able to select one favorite that will automatically start playing when choosing the menu item.

Basicalli what I'd like is a setup something like this:

Radio (main menu item)
|
Radio channel 1 - Radio channel 2 - Radio channel 3 - etc etc (theese are favourite items)

Is this at all possible?

It would also be ok if I had the channels placed below the Music home menu item. But preferably it should be placed in its own "Radio" menu item.