Ellipsis & Ellipsis HD for XBMC Media Center

I'll ever thank all open souce developer for their work, for everything and everytime.
I want only to say a thing; if blackbolt's work (ellipsis) was out during 2009, considering the hipe achieved during the months of 2008 , an year when xbmc team turn conclusively to linux as main develop that caused a big number of new users, the same xbmc would had more popularity , a new explosion. But blackbolts have another vison.

omg i didn't realize that but indeed, the whole future of xbmc depends on elipsis!!!

come on Blackbolt, you gotta release it today...tomorrow may just be too late!!!!


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darkham Wrote:I'll ever thank all open souce developer for their work, for everything and everytime.
I want only to say a thing; if blackbolt's work (ellipsis) was out during 2009, considering the hipe achieved during the months of 2008 , an year when xbmc team turn conclusively to linux as main develop that caused a big number of new users, the same xbmc would had more popularity , a new explosion. But blackbolts have another vison.

What the hell are you smoking and can I have some? Ellipsis will be out when it's done. We want to ensure that it is as good as it could possibley be. I would never have been happy releasing it unfinished. Anyway this is the final time I 'explain' to anyone why ellipsis hasn't been released yet. I'm kind of fed up now with the utter ignorance and negativity about why ellipsis isn't available. Why do people think it should be out? It's selfish to just want us to release the skin unfinished. We want to bring you the best possible interface we can produce, is that such a bad thing?

Also I'd like to address the issue of only allowing allowing donators into the beta program. Firstly, it is not for the money. Both myself and equinox have successful careers and also freelance quite often. So while we're extremely greatful for every penny the very kind people who donated have sent us, it is not the reason we do this. Between myself and equinox, we must have put in over a thousand hours. Now at our current rate, 1000 hours paid would be quite finacially benificial!! Instead we chose to spend that time developing an awesome interface for you fine people to use, for free.

So if we want to preserve the secracy of the skin while we test amongst a wider audience, then we can. By only allowing donators access, we feel this is enough of a barrier to keep out the people that don't actually want to test and just want the skin early. We want people to help us find bugs, issues or suggest better ideas for us. Once we feel this process is complete, We will make a full public release. So if people get pissed off with how long it's taken, you're more than welcome to make your own skins, it's not as easy as you think!

Well said Blackbolt but please don't let the idiots of the world put you off from from finishing your work as that would be a real waste. And most decent folk like myself will wait for as long as it takes for you to get it just right as i am sick of having to either ask for fixes or try to fix a half finished product, and i know you know of what i am refering to. I wish you well with the beta/alpha testing stages with both teams skins

paul Wrote:Well said Blackbolt but please don't let the idiots of the world put you off from from finishing your work as that would be a real waste. And most decent folk like myself will wait for as long as it takes for you to get it just right as i am sick of having to either ask for fixes or try to fix a half finished product, and i know you know of what i am refering to. I wish you well with the beta/alpha testing stages with both teams skins

Be a good boy and Santa reward you...

I only want to say that in oss software is frequently missing a certain "competitiveness". Developer frequently lose too much important time, most of the cases when the people's attention is high. When lost, isn't easy to recover.
I don't want to say that developers must have hurry (specially because developer's work are for free), bugs in software are the worst, but a respected scheduling plain, ever give trust

Blackbolt, if you would smoke, maybe would be better.

darkham Wrote:Be a good boy and Santa reward you...

I only want to say that in oss software is frequently missing a certain "competitiveness". Developer frequently lose too much important time, most of the cases when the people's attention is high. When lost, isn't easy to recover.
I don't want to say that developers must have hurry (specially because developer's work are for free), bugs in software are the worst, but a respected scheduling plain, ever give trust

Blackbolt, if you would smoke, maybe would be better.

This has to be said "you talk a load of Crap":sniffle:

paul Wrote:This has to be said "you talk a load of Crap":sniffle:

I think he's using some kind of translator, which is just lazy as they never work. I believe he's italiano too, maybe I should bridge the gap and try speaking in italian to him! Nah....

Blackbolt Wrote:I think he's using some kind of translator, which is just lazy as they never work. I believe he's italiano too, maybe I should bridge the gap and try speaking in italian to him! Nah....

That would only confuse him all the more(psst we should be carefull or we will end up finding a horses head in our beds as he may be part of the mafia)

If he doesn't make sense, why do you keep responding?

xbs08 Wrote:If he doesn't make sense, why do you keep responding?

I think its only fair.