[MOD] Horizontal Confluence Modded

Having loads of custom smart playlists is draining processes so therefore you're limited to two.
If you go into your skin folder and edit Home.xml you can manually add more.

If you search for example:
<description>HD Movies</description>
There you have the different items on your home.
If you copy for example HD movies and give it a unique id-nr you can change it to another playlist.
Change <label> to what you want you home-button to say.
<Icon> is the background picture
<onclick> is the crucial part. Copy HD movies string. but change the "special" in the way it says on the two custom playlist can can choose.

If something is weird about this post it's probably cause I'm on a phone on a train. ^.^

Thizizmyname is right so far...as the skin is especially for low powered systems, there are only two...
Regarding your bug reports:
First of all, thanks for reporting!
Bug one has been fixed a few weeks ago in my local GIT...
Bug two seems to be a leftover from porting the settings dialog to its own window...will be fixed after the wedding...that will be in 14 hours, at least the first part of the wedding

Hi max

First off great skin, best ive tried by far.

one quick question, i have edited my keyboard.xml so that when im watching a film, when i press down on my remote it cycles through the audio tracks ( AudioNextLanguage ), this works but about half a second after the notification ( the one that names the audio track )pops up on the bottom right of the screen the OSD comes up and covers the pop up so i cant read it, is there a way to disable this?
Thanks

Matt

Hello Max,

Very impressive this skin. I've installed XBMC v11 last weekend and I'm still testing some skins. Just one note and one request (if I may) about this skin:

- The mouse behavior over the options upon the main screen (Movies, Videos,...) seems very weak. I have almost to place the mouse near the vertical edge of the screen in order to see the options bar start to slide. Many time it's not enough to pass the mouse over one option to highlight it and be able to select it;

- Would it be possible to have a movie view like the Fanart view but with the movie flags ?
In other other words, something like the Showcase view, without the "floor", a smaller title font with the displayed movies tied more closely and also with bigger dimensions (like in the NEON Showcase view) for a proper look when seating a few meters away from the TV.

Regards,

Rui

(2012-04-02 20:18)matt77303 Wrote:  one quick question, i have edited my keyboard.xml so that when im watching a film, when i press down on my remote it cycles through the audio tracks ( AudioNextLanguage ), this works but about half a second after the notification ( the one that names the audio track )pops up on the bottom right of the screen the OSD comes up and covers the pop up so i cant read it, is there a way to disable this?
Thanks

I'm not sure if this behaviour comes from the skin or your remote...
I have a "AudioNextLanguage" on my Remote to, and by pressing it, only the small dialog appears...
Might it be possible that the remote also sends an "activate osd" or something like this?

(2012-04-04 01:03)RuiF Wrote:  - The mouse behavior over the options upon the main screen (Movies, Videos,...) seems very weak. I have almost to place the mouse near the vertical edge of the screen in order to see the options bar start to slide. Many time it's not enough to pass the mouse over one option to highlight it and be able to select it;

You should have the same behaviour in the default Confluence, right?
This part has never been changed from the default one...

(2012-04-04 01:03)RuiF Wrote:  - Would it be possible to have a movie view like the Fanart view but with the movie flags ?
In other other words, something like the Showcase view, without the "floor", a smaller title font with the displayed movies tied more closely and also with bigger dimensions (like in the NEON Showcase view) for a proper look when seating a few meters away from the TV.

Let's see if I can find time to tweak the showcase view a bit for you...no promises

Hi Max,

The mouse behavior seems very obvious (at least in my system) since I can easily switch between the default Confluence and Confluence-MOD. Something must be different. For instance you've added more initial options. Can you indirectly have change something ? It's a little bit difficult for the main option buttons, other that the center one, get the focus when scrolling with the mouse over them. With the keyboard arrows seems to be fine.

One probably stupid question: How to load the Documentaries ?

I've split my TV Shows directory and created a Documentaries directory. They are most all available at TVDB but I can't seem to filter them from the TV Shows (also TVDB type). Any hint ?

I've seen something about some "smart playlist" procedure. Is this the (only) way ?

Thanks for your time and patience.

Regards,

Rui

Hey folks,

finally I had some time left to do some coding at the Confluence MOD...

(2012-03-18 06:01)RicardoFonseca Wrote:  You are planning to introduce support for XBMC Intro Movie, as the skin Glass?

DONE
see here:
https://github.com/mad-max/skin.moddedco...db591a782c

(2012-03-19 20:05)Mallet21 Wrote:  How do I go about adding Hibernate as an option to the shutdown menu? Switching Standby to Hibernate would also work for me as well.

Also DONE!
commit is here:
https://github.com/mad-max/skin.moddedco...6ae7c68db3

(2012-04-01 19:55)nfusion2011 Wrote:  Also: Potential bug report?



There is no sub menu under these options for "Custom Home Buttons", the text "custom home buttons" is in blue, implying its a title, but it can't be clicked on, and as you can see theres no options underneath that show more options.... so I can't change anything here.

(2012-04-01 19:55)nfusion2011 Wrote:  First, a bug report for you already:


The fan art info theme has non english wording at the rating. Consider fixing.

Both FIXED...
See here:
https://github.com/mad-max/skin.moddedco...cde242b849
and here:
https://github.com/mad-max/skin.moddedco...e15d67a009

I also added two new flags...one for all views--->HDTV based on filename and/or path
and one for 3 views ---> trailer flag (the little "T")



The FF&FR images will have to wait a bit...and 3D gfx will be done this evening...
Hope you like the additions/fixes

HAPPY EASTER 4 ALL!

cheers,
mad-max

How do i get these updates?

Also any news on the uk certs?

Thanks

Matt

Either download the files from GitHub (the hyperlinks) and manually replace the files in your skin directory.
Or wait until he makes a full update to the repo and get it through xbmc itself.

The UK certs will come after I finish my pizzas

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(2012-04-08 19:24)Thizizmyname Wrote:  Either download the files from GitHub (the hyperlinks) and manually replace the files in your skin directory.
Or wait until he makes a full update to the repo and get it through xbmc itself.

Or use a real git client to clone the repo and be always up to date