[ALPHA RELEASE] Welo - a new skin in development for XBMC

DazNoonan · 2011-05-25 20:25

meridius Wrote:the skin seems to not be as smooth at running to very jerky scroling of posters i am running this on a i5 2.8 with 8 gig of ram on windows 7 and its not smooth

just my thoughts

Seriously? I am running it on my MacBook with 4Gb and its running very nicely indeed, just installed it on my ATV2 and it seems to be okay on there also to be honest. Probably the fastest skin I have installed, and definitely running smooth even on the ATV2.

liquidskin76 · 2011-05-25 20:36

DazNoonan Wrote:Just a quick thing I have noticed...

Star Rating
Looking at the image it makes you think this film only has a 1 star rating when infact it has a 4 star rating... Should it not be that the stars light white with the ratings rather than black and it being backwards? Look at Avatar in your image for instance too, should that not be 5 white stars?

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Cheers

Hey Daz,

That's how Welo designed it. I'll have a think later on!

Cheers

DazNoonan · 2011-05-25 20:40

liquidskin76 Wrote:Hey Daz,

That's how Welo designed it. I'll have a think later on!

Cheers

I see mate, thats no problem... I personally think it will look better if the stars light up white for the rating though. What do you think about it? Also when Hitcher posted a screen a few posts back it looked how I was expecting it would so maybe its a bug?

Or if we do want it to light up in black then it would still look better coming from the left I think rather than the right?

esprit · 2011-05-25 20:54

DazNoonan Wrote:Seriously? I am running it on my MacBook with 4Gb and its running very nicely indeed, just installed it on my ATV2 and it seems to be okay on there also to be honest. Probably the fastest skin I have installed, and definitely running smooth even on the ATV2.

+1, it's running really fast and smoothly on my ION nettop (U2300 celeron 2 cores, 2G of RAM), so not really a powerful computer.

meridius · 2011-05-25 20:57

DazNoonan Wrote:Seriously? I am running it on my MacBook with 4Gb and its running very nicely indeed, just installed it on my ATV2 and it seems to be okay on there also to be honest. Probably the fastest skin I have installed, and definitely running smooth even on the ATV2.

sorry your right it must of been when i installed it it was very jerky but since i rerset xbmc its now smooth sorry about that it must of been when i installed it must of upset xbmc

liquidskin76 · 2011-05-25 21:02

Hey sialivi,

sialivi Wrote:[Home Screen Navigation Unintuitiveness]
You press "Down" to get to the "Latest <whatever>", and then you press "Down" again to return to the main menu. This feel unintuitive, my instinct was to press "Up" to return to the menu since it's located above the "Latest".

That's a bug. Should be an onup command. I've sorted.

sialivi Wrote:[Consistency]
In the skin settings, I suggest changing "Hide Programs" to "Hide Apps" so it matches what it's called on the Home Screen.

Agreed! I've changed this.

sialivi Wrote:[Shutdown Menu]
Not mentioned in the missing features section of the first post but the Shutdown Menu (Is that what it's called?) is missing.

Shutdown options are on a sub menu off the main menu, so up when on the shutdown main menu option.

sialivi Wrote:[Missing Setting]
A "Hide Settings" option in the settings (I don't trust anyone but myself to mess with the settings). This of course require the Shutdown menu to be implemented on the Home Screen first and have the Settings option available there.

I didn't do a 'Hide Settings' option as it can cause all sorts of confusion when gone! Maybe i should add one?

sialivi Wrote:[Scrolling Text]
In the Movie Details in the bottom right corner, the scrolling text doesn't stop when it reach the end of the text, it starts over immediatly. I suggest it stops for a brief period of time before starting over.

I'll check it out.

sialivi Wrote:[On-screen Keyboard]
The On-screen Keyboard doesn't have a background when editing movie titles, making it very hard to see.

That's part of the incomplete stuff (see list in main post)! Will be sorted for the beta.

sialivi Wrote:[Videos Section]
The Videos section is either not implemented yet (not mentioned in the missing features section of the first post) or not working.

It's missing the default art however i was never going to go to town on the video section. How is it not working?

sialivi Wrote:[Missing Arrows]
In the "Latest <Whatever>" part of the Home Screen there are >> arrows indicating there are more titles if you scroll to the right. There are however no << arrows.

I'll check this out.

Cheers for all your feedback.

meridius · 2011-05-25 21:03

another couple of faults i found is with the tv shows logos,

when my tv shows are labeld web-dl they still show up as hdtv in welo but as there not hdtv the skin should look for the name of the file to see if it has web-dl and display a logo for that

also the scrolling of the text is way to fast to read on the info of a tv and movie

liquidskin76 · 2011-05-25 21:08

Hitcher Wrote:The Music > Tracks animation only works once but I had it working in the initial release.

Yeah, got that already. Will be sorted for beta.

Hitcher Wrote:No Stars, Runtimes, etc for Lists anymore

They will be back! Forgot to mention that one. I'll update the main post.

Hitcher Wrote:Also the Wall has lost it's focused border and changed from the original design

Got that one already as well! Lost it when i was playing arround with poster frames. It will be sorted for the beta.

Cheers Hitcher. Wink

DazNoonan · 2011-05-25 21:09

liquidskin76 Wrote:I didn't do a 'Hide Settings' option as it can cause all sorts of confusion when gone! Maybe i should add one?

Personally I don't think you should add one either as it can cause issues if you select it, there is no hard in having settings along the top to be honest as its something almost everyone will always need.

liquidskin76 · 2011-05-25 21:15

Hey krish,

krish_2k4 Wrote:- in the movies section, some movies are missing the resolution icon there is "1080", "720", "480" but is missing "540" or it does not show up.

I'll check that one out.

krish_2k4 Wrote:I like the Apps section but is it possible to have "video addons" included in this section?

I believe the videos, music, etc add-ons are separate to the program add-ons? You can quickly access from the videos and music sub menus. I'll add 'video add-ons' to the movies sub menus as well.

Cheers.