Metropolis Development

Stoli - Just sent a pull request for the Music Panel View. It's just a quick fix for the Artist/Album info showing in 2 areas. Been a while since I've used git, so let me know if I did anything wrong.

(2012-04-28 00:04)knewknow Wrote:  

(2012-04-08 20:05)jingai Wrote:  

(2012-04-08 18:38)knewknow Wrote:  Banners are the default thumbnails no? I have to select "prefer posters" in the TV scraping options under settings, otherwise it will pull the banners.

Oh, yeah, you're right. I've had that option selected for years and just forgot about it.

I'll add an option to use external poster.jpg to the settings. Not today, but soon

In the meantime, you could set Prefer Posters and rescan to get the result you want, obviously.

Did you happen to get around to looking at adding the poster.jpg?

The problem is that Metropolis kind of assumes in a lot of places that the default image it gets from the scraper is going to be a poster and that the banners come from the Artwork Downloader. I realize that is the opposite of what Confluence assumes but that's just how Metropolis was originally designed. IMHO Confluence is the one that has it backwards (movie posters are default, I think tv shows should match that), but that's neither here nor there.

Honestly I don't think this should happen within the skin at all (both images should be scraped) but I'm not sure what the issue is there either.

That said, I haven't had a chance to get to this issue. There are a couple of fundamental problems I saw when I looked at it originally. One that stands out is what do I do if the user selects Banners by default but doesn't have the Artwork Downloader installed or hasn't manually downloaded posters for his shows? The Info dialog, for instance, doesn't have a layout conducive to banners. Should it just not display an image? Should I make an alternate Info dialog if banners are the default?

Is it acceptable to have all of the poster views (all five of them) not work out of the box in this configuration?

(2012-04-28 00:30)jingai Wrote:  

(2012-04-28 00:04)knewknow Wrote:  

(2012-04-08 20:05)jingai Wrote:  Oh, yeah, you're right. I've had that option selected for years and just forgot about it.

I'll add an option to use external poster.jpg to the settings. Not today, but soon

In the meantime, you could set Prefer Posters and rescan to get the result you want, obviously.

Did you happen to get around to looking at adding the poster.jpg?

The problem is that Metropolis kind of assumes in a lot of places that the default image it gets from the scraper is going to be a poster and that the banners come from the Artwork Downloader. I realize that is the opposite of what Confluence assumes but that's just how Metropolis was originally designed. IMHO Confluence is the one that has it backwards (movie posters are default, I think tv shows should match that), but that's neither here nor there.

Honestly I don't think this should happen within the skin at all (both images should be scraped) but I'm not sure what the issue is there either.

That said, I haven't had a chance to get to this issue. There are a couple of fundamental problems I saw when I looked at it originally. One that stands out is what do I do if the user selects Banners by default but doesn't have the Artwork Downloader installed or hasn't manually downloaded posters for his shows? The Info dialog, for instance, doesn't have a layout conducive to banners. Should it just not display an image? Should I make an alternate Info dialog if banners are the default?

Is it acceptable to have all of the poster views (all five of them) not work out of the box in this configuration?

Well I know the way it works with other skins is in settings there are options like "use posters for posters views" or "use banners for banners views". So if the view expects a banner, and the banner setting is checked, then it will display the banner.jpg image. Otherwise it just displays whatever is scraped into cache (this will be very distorted/stretched).

The thing is though, Metropolis has views that have both. Additionally, as I said, the Info dialog would need a separate version for people that have only banners.

This is all doable, I just want to think it all through before tackling it. Stoli and Amra: any opinions?

Issue 13, 16, 48, and 49 are taken care of now.

Issue 21 is taken care of as well, but doesn't include support for Random Items because it's not yet fully integrated into Home1 either. A separate ticket should probably be raised for that (I'll file it it you want).

Fixing up DialogContentSettings, MyMusicPlaylist, and MyMusicPlaylistEditor next. Those are the last that I see that need real help.

This is a great skin, so I want to thank all involved in bringing this skin to the masses.

But like most everyone, I want more!

I have HTPC's (6 of them!) So I use a mouse more times then not, one think I can not get used to it when I move the pointer towards the center of a view, the popup menu comes up, and gets in the way of whatever I may be doing. Is there a way (Other then disabling the mouse in settings!) to stop this from happening?

Also, the weather feature does not work on any of my setups, (It works good with other skins!) every time I go to the weather screen, or refresh weather, the temperature reading goes up. I have seen it read well over 6 million degrees, while showing snow, or rain.

Other then these two issues, I love this skin, and will more then likely be using it for some time to come.

Thanks for a great piece of perfection!

(2012-04-29 00:20)hdmax Wrote:  So I use a mouse more times then not, one think I can not get used to it when I move the pointer towards the center of a view, the popup menu comes up, and gets in the way of whatever I may be doing. Is there a way (Other then disabling the mouse in settings!) to stop this from happening?

As far as I can tell, I don't think Metropolis was designed with mouse users in mind.

(2012-04-29 00:20)hdmax Wrote:  Also, the weather feature does not work on any of my setups, (It works good with other skins!) every time I go to the weather screen, or refresh weather, the temperature reading goes up. I have seen it read well over 6 million degrees, while showing snow, or rain.

I haven't seen this on any of the 6 machines I've tested on. Which weather add-on are you using? And if you don't mind sharing it, what's your general geographical location so I can test?

-j

(2012-04-29 16:12)jingai Wrote:  

(2012-04-29 00:20)hdmax Wrote:  [quote='hdmax' pid='1089569' dateline='1335651635']
Also, the weather feature does not work on any of my setups, (It works good with other skins!) every time I go to the weather screen, or refresh weather, the temperature reading goes up. I have seen it read well over 6 million degrees, while showing snow, or rain.

I haven't seen this on any of the 6 machines I've tested on. Which weather add-on are you using? And if you don't mind sharing it, what's your general geographical location so I can test?

-j

I've actually seen this before and it happens when there's no active internet connection or dns resolution isn't working.
Hdmax - are you sure you have an active internet connection and/or nothing is set in the xbmc proxy settings that might be interfering?

I live in Ohio. As far as the weather addons I use, I have tried Weather Plus, and the default Weather Underground.

(2012-04-29 16:12)jingai Wrote:  As far as I can tell, I don't think Metropolis was designed with mouse users in mind.

I haven't seen this on any of the 6 machines I've tested on. Which weather add-on are you using? And if you don't mind sharing it, what's your general geographical location so I can test?

-j

(2012-04-30 00:41)Aenima99x Wrote:  

(2012-04-29 16:12)jingai Wrote:  I haven't seen this on any of the 6 machines I've tested on. Which weather add-on are you using? And if you don't mind sharing it, what's your general geographical location so I can test?



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I haven't seen this on any of the 6 machines I've tested on. Which weather add-on are you using? And if you don't mind sharing it, what's your general geographical location so I can test?

-j

I've actually seen this before and it happens when there's no active internet connection or dns resolution isn't working.
Hdmax - are you sure you have an active internet connection and/or nothing is set in the xbmc proxy settings that might be interfering?

I do not have any proxy settings on my machines. And yes I have internet, as I stated, this is only happening with Metropolis skin. I have used Aeon MQ 3, and Confluence, and the weather info is correct with no issues.

Try being more specific with your location and not just selecting 'Ohio' . eg.. 'Ohio City, Ohio' or 'Ohio City, Colorado'..
Even in Confluence with just 'Ohio' selected as location you will get script failed and have the same problem, (Weather Underground)..

Confluence with just 'Ohio'



'Ohio City, Ohio'



Metropolis with just 'Ohio' as location.. same as Confluence, script failed and temp rise after each refresh..