Thank you guys for the lovely birthday wishes!! :)
(2014-02-20, 04:11)st0nedpenguin Wrote: MANY thanks for your work on this skin though, words cannot explain how happy I was just to get a version of Alaska running on Gotham let alone this light version!
thanks for your kind words, I'm glad you enjoy it :)
(2014-02-25, 16:04)spjonez Wrote: (2014-02-25, 02:03)st0nedpenguin Wrote: Are you running on a Pi? Every minute optimization really helps.
What can I say I want both features and speed, and I'm willing to help to make that happen :grin:
I'm pretty sure we will find a solution ;-) I have still a bunch of things on my priority list but when I'm done I may consider merging the option to set custom home menu items back into the skin as long as it doesn't use too much variables and stuff.
(2014-02-26, 14:50)Scott00007 Wrote: I like to use a custom folder to have fanart as the background image on the TV Shows/Movies menu on the home screen but I would like to shorten the time between changes. What .xml file do I need to edit to change this?
you mean a fanart slideshow? this is using way too much resources IMO, that's why there is no such option in this skin. you can of course add it on your own.. but I can't help you at the moment as there are still a lot of things to add or fix.
(2014-02-26, 17:35)Scott00007 Wrote: A couple of things that I have noticed are a bit on the slow side are clear art load time when I pause a video (...)
I have changed the ClearArt animation on the paused Videoplayer screen today. there is now a delay of 2s until the clearart fades in, this should hide the loading time and make things a bit smoother.
also try not to use HD Logos/ClearArts, because it takes longer to load and display them. offtopic: if someone knows how to tell the "Artwork Downloader" to only use SD Logos please drop me a line.
in addition you can use something like MilhouseVH's
Texture Cache Maintenance utility to optimize your artwork cache.
I personally only use ClearLogos on my Raspberry Pi, but I have to admit the ClearArts actually look pretty ace ;-)
(2014-02-26, 17:35)Scott00007 Wrote: (...) the update library item stays on "stop scanning" well after the process is finished.
this has been fixed. only one small tag was missing but it took me almost one hour to realize this :D
(2014-02-26, 17:35)Scott00007 Wrote: Also the blue background for the settings menu/addon menu ect is slow to load. The background is black for a few seconds before the background loads.
I haven't noticed this on my system ever. can you please contact me directly with further information about this issue? (screenshot, tiny video clip, etc.)
(2014-02-20, 07:47)Scott00007 Wrote: The "working" circle that comes up when something is loading, say a YouTube video, shows up the in the upper left corner which is where the YouTube (in this case) name is located. If the coding isn't too much I think that it would be better in the upper right corner so nothing is obscured. Not a deal breaker but an improvement for sure.
fixed in the newest revision as well.
(2014-02-26, 18:01)Scott00007 Wrote: I notice that the white highlight that is used on the main menu to navigate overlaps slightly with the item below. For example when I have Movies highlighted the white part goes slightly into TV Shows which is located below Movies on my home screen.
okay, it was exactly the same as the parent skin. Now I have changed it slightly so it should be better separated from each other.
I have opened the "
Issues" tab on the GitHub page so you can report bugs there directly.
luckily I also found out why some of you had problems installing this skin from zip. You are getting the "wrong file structure" error in XBMC because the zip-file from GitHub is holding an additional parent folder (skin.refocus.light-gotham)...not sure If (how) I can change this behaviour somewhere on Github..?! in the meantime you can of course unzip the file on your computer and copy the skin.refocus.light folder into the "addons"-folder of your XBMC device manually.