Serenity Feature Requests and Mods

Is Matroska chapter support a possibility? It would be great to see the chapter markers on the timeline with name labels, or something like that.

theophile Wrote:Is Matroska chapter support a possibility? It would be great to see the chapter markers on the timeline with name labels, or something like that.

I can definitely look into it when I get home from work tonight.

2-7offsuit Wrote:How about an update feature? Some way to notify and update the skin from within XBMC. It would be especially helpful while your trying to fix bugs to make sure people have the most up to date version before reporting them.

Or maybe just attaching a version number to each build? I can't ever tell if I'm up to date!

2-7offsuit Wrote:Or maybe just attaching a version number to each build? I can't ever tell if I'm up to date!

I know, I know...I'm very disorganized when it comes to stuff like that. Changing the rev # = changing the filename = changing the link on the site = pain in the butt when you're uploading five/six times a day.

TBH, there is an RSS feed now avail via the Serenity site, although I don't know exactly how to get it to go ATM...my friend who made the site is working on modifying the T3Ch updater script to work on Serenity, the hope is to have that working soon and implemented so that updating is fully automatic.


Until then, you can check here for posts on when I update things. Anytime I do anything significant, I make it a point to post here and notify people so there is at least *some* kind of a heads up. I'll try to start updating the first post as well so that you don't have to scan through pages to find out what's been fixed/added/changed. Hell, I'll try to take everything I've done and make up some kind of changelog as well, put that on the main page.

Regardless, the one link is always the most updated version available. Sorry bout the confusion tho...

That's why God invented subversion.

theophile Wrote:That's why God invented subversion.

I have tortoiseSVN installed, but I use it rather infrequently. Perhaps I should do some homework on the subject...it's just that I have so many things I want to do and so little time in which to do them...

I guess this is the place to add requests....

When playing music and the visualization is playing, is there a way to keep
the menu and clock / weather (at top of picture) and the album cover and info (bottom of picture) on screen? After a few minutes they vanish and only the visualization is still there. Could it be configured to stay there indefinately unless you clicked it off? I know with Mediastream there is an option to keep the OSD on screen.

Also, when in the music section, is there a view where the album covers can display in rows, like 5 across and 4 down or some configuration of this?
I can't seem to be able to get to any other views than 'List' and when I push the right button to get to context menu (or try to find other views), it brings up the Artists, Songs, and so on...

I'm a slow reader and and the album covers are much nicer to look at.

Lastly (sorry) at times when looking through the TV episodes and pressing on the right button to see a description of the episode, there is no 'shaded backdrop' behind the description making it hard to read.

I 'found' this skin yesterday and really like it.

BTW - I am using an ATV and the remote is very limited.

The font of the op top home menu I don't like http://s620.photobucket.com/albums/tt289...etest2.jpg . Maybe smaller and other font there would be prettier and the background on top could be darker. And I would also prefer to choose between horizontal and vertical home menu.

And I would like this view of Dirtchamber a project that wasn't finished

Jezz_X Wrote:Yeah looks real nice I like this view lots http://s620.photobucket.com/albums/tt289...leview.jpg

I agree this is my favorite view.

Good luck with making the skin

Hey all!

Thanks for the continued interest. As of right now, I have no time to work on the skin. I have a full-time job, 2-year old son, and also sing for a band. However, this winter promises another 3-4 month period in which I can hunker down and re-do this baby.

So, expect good things come November...