Mint: Skin Release Thread

jzbruno they will need a button inthe skin to click or they can't xbmc has no remote button mapped to open the shutdown menu

Good to know. I will put an option in the skin settings and conditionally show a button for the remote users.

It seems I am too clever for my own good. I thought editing my first post would bump it to the top and also found that it didn't edit the threads title. So just to let you all know check the first post for a new release and info.

jzbruno Wrote:also found that it didn't edit the threads title.

No only forum moderators can do that. What would you like the title to be?

How you changed it is good. Thanks.

To save someone time in the future here is a tip. If you are going to have more than one scrollbar on a screen do NOT put default values for onup/ondown/onleft/onright in Defaults.xml. It makes the scrollbars unusable even if you redefine those values.

As for updates. I think I found the layout I want to use for the skin. I still have decided on colors or graphical details but I have set it up in a way that allows me to just edit the images, fonts, and default color values. I have also added remote support. Custom scripts in the media windows will also be available. I plan on adding all this and more to the next SVN commit. A release should come shortly after that.

Later,
JB

P.S. Are there many people following this skin?

I 'follow' everything, but am currently not using your skin. but very solid work.

Thanks for your comment. I am just trying to gauge whether I should update the skin more or less frequently.

hey just checked out the skin... I really like it alot actually, I thought the screen shots were a bit dark but in actuality it looks quite nice the way it is I believe. I did my "testing" in 720p.

Things I like:

1. I especially like how the home screen doesn't have a "settings" button and instead you have to push the right thumb stick. I always felt that having a settings button kind of gets in the way of the media/essential and most used areas of xbmc...

2. I like the font.

3. I like the panel view for somethings.

4. I like the colors.

Just a few issues/questions (I see that some of these things are probably related to your "todo list")

1. When you select a song in the music library the text disappears for the selection, I thought that odd.

2. similarly, in the final manager only one side of the manager is actually visible at any given time, if you cross over to the other side, the previous side disappears.

3. You definitley need more view types... and I see it's on your todo list so thats good... My suggestions: A Media view type catering to big big wide icons kind of like this ...
towards the end of the page.
Also perhaps a wrap view of the movie covers similiar to that used in xtv and front-row with the plot as well.

4. Also I believe is on your to do list is to add a "skin settings" window. would be nice to be able to change the backgrounds, as well as set where the tv/movie/arcade buttons link to.

I think that's all I can think of for now, It's rare that a skin will come out with all the stuff I like to have in the home menu (movies, tv, arcade, and games) usually have to add that stuff myself, only thing missing is a "music videos" button... which I probably would use more than others anyhow.

keep up the good work. and as for you judging how often to release updates... more often is always better than not.

1. Yes that was a bug with the selected color not being set in the default.xml. It will be fixed in the next svn commit and release.

2. Similar issue to 1, will also be fixed.

3. I have added many view types since the last release. A lot of them focusing on the library. Some of them are original, most are not . I don't have one like the one you showed but I will add it.

4. I have a basic skin settings working now to toggle remote use and add custom scripts to the media windows. I like your idea about being able to set the default source for the home links. I will add that too.

Thanks for your comments.

JB