(QUARTZ RELOADED) - re-released as AMBER

(2013-04-23 19:07)danofun Wrote:  Wow! What a great update to QR! I am running a rPi 512 overclocked to Medium setting and Amber runners faster than anything else, and I've tried them all! A couple of thoughts/suggestions!

1.) I miss the old slide view type but would ideally like to see it updated to be similar to Fusion Migma's PosterFix3. Options to disable fanart and choose a default fanart image would benefit slower hardware.
2.) An episode view similar to what exist in Nox. Again, options to disable fanart and choose a default fanart image would benefit slower hardware.

Thanks for feedback!

1) I don't rule this out, put chances are minimal ATM
2) Something like this is planned just not decided yet on how will it look like

(2013-04-25 20:58)pecinko Wrote:  

(2013-04-23 19:07)danofun Wrote:  Wow! What a great update to QR! I am running a rPi 512 overclocked to Medium setting and Amber runners faster than anything else, and I've tried them all! A couple of thoughts/suggestions!

1.) I miss the old slide view type but would ideally like to see it updated to be similar to Fusion Migma's PosterFix3. Options to disable fanart and choose a default fanart image would benefit slower hardware.
2.) An episode view similar to what exist in Nox. Again, options to disable fanart and choose a default fanart image would benefit slower hardware.

Thanks for feedback!

1) I don't rule this out, put chances are minimal ATM
2) Something like this is planned just not decided yet on how will it look like

I greatly appreciate the response and look forward to what you have in store regarding an episode view!

I'm really enjoying the new Fanart view and think the Down arrow access to Info feature is really slick! Currently, it appears you must return to the thumb view before selecting an item. Feature request: The ability to select an item from the Fanart-Info view.

Any chance of Amber hitting the Development Repo?! Keep up the great work!

(2013-04-25 11:52)pecinko Wrote:  

(2013-04-25 10:54)toiva Wrote:  I'm very picky, problem with the other skins is that poster type music videos are not supported properly, views are designed for landscape oriented thumbs. That's my reason for not using Xperience1080 or Bello. In Amber some of the views look great, some of them not so. I'll post a screenshot of one of the views which has lot's of overlapping text and other elements. I cannot remember which one it was and i'm at work right now.

Well, I'm picky as well and, on top of that, I'm lazy, spoiled and grumpy. This actually disqualifies me in using most other skins because I either don't like the looks (over transparent ones in particular) or I get easily lost navigating them.

Problem with music videos is that you don't know if item will have posters or episode like thumbs - it very much depends on scraper and such. I have zero music videos in library which makes coding very clumsy. Another thing is skin is not yet finished, not even ready for skin dev repo, and truth be said I have not even looked at music videos yet. Because of this, I'm very happy some of the views still look great I'll have a look once other things are in place, provided you can help me test it and possibly make dummy music videos library on my skin pc.

Definitely send those screenshots when you grab some time.

Quote:Manually marking something watched still doesn't update the recommended content. And as far as i know refresh rate switching is the reason recommended content is not updating. I'm secretly wishing this bug gets fixed but i don't have high hopes anymore. So basically it should be fine with laptops, tablets and phones where you cannot switch refresh rates or with HTPC's that has refresh rate switching disabled.

I'll take a look at the code, maybe my modding finger gets itchy again, i've had zero interest lately to do anything modding wise.

In ideal world XBMC would serve on-deck TV Shows, recently added Movies (unwatched + ! recently refreshed) and most used Addons. In reality you use scripts and then struggle with skin user support as things does not work in all cases.

In either case, lets take care of lose ends and music videos first.

Here's how the music video views look with Concertdb scraper. You are right, music videos are a big mess imho at the moment in XBMC since you don't know if you have posters or thumbs. As far as i can tell with my limited knowledge of skinning there's no way to for example calculate a aspect ratio from a poster/thumbnail width and height and use that as a visibility condition for a layout.

(2013-04-25 21:51)toiva Wrote:  Here's how the music video views look with Concertdb scraper. You are right, music videos are a big mess imho at the moment in XBMC since you don't know if you have posters or thumbs. As far as i can tell with my limited knowledge of skinning there's no way to for example calculate a aspect ratio from a poster/thumbnail width and height and use that as a visibility condition for a layout.

Ok, many thanks for screens.

Now, am I right to conclude that music videos are either posters or episodes alike? No banners or squares, right?

I just made a test with the audiodb music video scraper, which i haven't used before, and it actually a scrapes a square album cover for the music videos. So it obviously links the song of the music video to a album and scrapes the cover for that album.

(2013-04-25 13:29)pecinko Wrote:  Fetch the latest version="0.0.9" and report back Quit button customization is still missing.

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0.0.9. All Empty are ok. Only one small glitch: the one between Video and Movies doesn't change status from "not used..." to "enabled".
Weather forecast is unreadable with default background.
Fanart button is disabled in Album info window (from context menu in music library). Does it required specific addon?
And i would agree with Sabish and Smobbo about shelf in Amber, separate stuff to appropriate home entries would be better.

This may be a silly question but where do I get the updated versions? Still on 0.0.1. Tried downloading from your post a few comments back to get the master with a reinstall still on 0.0.1 =/ Would really like to keep testing the newer versions

Available now in skin development repository:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=159372


Follow further development here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=163360