[DuMbGuM]

You don't want to have a "media" folder in the xpr file. Think of the xpr file as the media folder. Therefore, you want to only have the "backdrops" folder in your xpr.

If you need an example, try using XPR Express to extract the "Red Slate.xpr" or any of the other skin xpr files to see how they are set up.

Good luck!

I think it's something wrong with XPR Express for me, maybe it isn't compatible with 64-bit windows or something because I get 'unhandled exception' errors whenever I try to preview .png's within any .xpr and when I attempt to extract I get:



I'll give it a shot on an x86 system later on.

[DuMbGuM]

Okay it works fine on 32-bit, thanks Amra once again.

Here it is for anybody that wants it, cheers!

http://dumbgum.deviantart.com/art/Grey-N...-152675805

[Juanflaco]

Has anyone noticed strangeness with List & File colors? I haven't quite figured it out, but the latest version of Alaska seems at a minumum to be taking the global "Text" value for non-focused list items.

In any case, I have a new color scheme in the works and would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.



Disregard the icon and background changes in the screenshots above for now. I'll release them as a packaged theme if anyone is interested in dirtying up the otherwise meticulously clean Alaska, but I've got some work left to do and I need to find out if I can distribute icons which I didn't create from scratch. For now I'd just appreciate any suggestions on the colors alone...

Code:

<colors>

    <!-- Standard Colours -->

    <color name="Black">FF08090D</color>
    <color name="White">FFFFFFF1</color>
    <color name="Red">FF660D00</color>
    <color name="Green">FF00ff00</color>
    <color name="Blue">FF0000ff</color>
    <color name="Clear">00FFFFFF</color>

    <!-- SVN Colour Hack - Same as ListTitleFO colour -->

    <color name="FFFFFFFF">FF2B2830</color>

    <!-- Theme Colours -->

    <color name="BackgroundColor">AAD9D7A3</color>
    <color name="BackgroundFilterColors">DDC7BE88</color>
    <color name="ButtonFilterColor">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="ArrowFilterColor">FFD9D7A3</color>

    <!-- Home 1 Colours -->

    <color name="HomeWindowFrameColor">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="HomeWindowTextBackgroundColour">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="HomeWindowTextColour">FFD9D7A3</color>

    <!-- Home 2 & 3 Colour -->
    
    <color name="MainMenu">335C504F</color>

    <!-- Global Colours -->

    <color name="Time">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="TimeAMPM">FF5C504F</color>
    <color name="Date">FF5C504F</color>
    <color name="RSSBody">FFC7BE88</color>
    <color name="RSSHighlight">FF5C504F</color>
    <color name="RSSHeadline">FF5C504F</color>
    <color name="RSSTitle">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="NowPlayingTrack">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="TextFocused">FFD9D7A3</color>
    <color name="Text">AA2B2830</color>
    <color name="TextDisabled">77ABAB8E</color>
    <color name="TextSelected">FFC7BE88</color>

    <!-- Flags -->

    <color name="FlagDiffuse">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="CodecDiffuse">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="StudioDiffuse">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="FlagText">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="StarRatingDiffuse">FF2B2830</color>

    <!-- OSD -->

    <color name="OSDNowPlayingBack">FF000000</color>
    <color name="OSDNowPlaying">FFC7BE88</color>
    <color name="OSDNowPlayingTitle">FFD9D7A3</color>
    <color name="OSDProgressBar">FFABAB8E</color>
    <color name="OSDPlayingDuration">FFD9D7A3</color>
    <color name="OSDBackground">FF000000</color>

    <!-- Window menu colours -->

    <color name="MenuValue">FF5C504F</color>
    <color name="MenuValueFO">FF2B2830</color>    

    <!-- Poster/Panel/Landscape view colours -->

    <color name="PosterTitle">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="LandscapeTitle">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="LandscapeText">FF5C504F</color>

    <!-- Episode view colours -->

    <color name="EpisodeLabelFO">FF2B2830</color>    
    <color name="EpisodePlot">DD2B2830</color>
    <color name="EpisodeNF">AA2B2830</color>
    <color name="EpisodeWatchedNF">AA261E1B</color>
    <color name="EpisodeWatchedFO">FF261E1B</color>

    <!-- Info dialog colours -->

    <color name="InfoTitle">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="InfoPlot">DD2B2830</color>
    <color name="InfoYear">DD2B2830</color>    
    <color name="InfoGenre">DD2B2830</color>        
    <color name="InfoDetails">DD2B2830</color>
    <color name="MovieInfoLines">882B2830</color>
    <color name="InfoRating">DD2B2830</color>

    <!-- Progress dialogs -->

    <color name="ProgressDialog">FFD9D7A3</color>
    <color name="ProgressFilterColor">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="SettingsHeading">ff2B2830</color>    
    <color name="SettingsDetail">CC2B2830</color>        

    <!-- List & File colours -->

    <color name="ListTitleNF">AA2B2830</color>
    <color name="ListTitleFO">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="ListSelectedNF">AA660D00</color>
    <color name="ListSelectedFO">FF660D00</color>

    <!-- Wall colours -->

    <color name="WallIconDiffuse">895C504F</color>
    <color name="WallArrowBackDiffuse">FFFFFFF1</color>
    <color name="WallArrowDiffuse">FF5C504F</color>
    <color name="IconDiffuse">898A7D7C</color>
    <color name="InfoPanelPictureDiffuse">ddFFFFFF</color>

    <!-- Watched colours -->

    <color name="WatchedIconBackFO">862B2830</color>
    <color name="WatchedIconBackNF">86FFFFF1</color>
    <color name="WatchedIconDiffuseFO">86FFFFF1</color>
    <color name="WatchedIconDiffuseNF">862B2830</color>

    <!-- Dialogs -->

    <color name="DialogBack">FFC7BE88</color>
    <color name="DialogBackground">CCC7BE88</color>

    <!-- Panels -->

    <color name="PanelDiffuse">BB2B2830</color>
    <color name="PanelDiffuseDivider">FF5C504F</color>
    <color name="PanelListTitle">FF2B2830</color>
    <color name="PanelListLabel">FFABAB8E</color>
    <color name="PanelListItem">FFABAB8E</color>
    <color name="PanelListItemSelected">FFC7BE88</color>
    <color name="PanelListItemDisabled">77ABAB8E</color>
    <color name="PanelListItemFocused">FFD9D7A3</color>

</colors>

Thanks!

[ichAlex]

really like this dirty look

i also like Rialto very much. i would suggest using it with the cdArt mod and the tape reel fallback. looks gorgeous

[fostewi]

I really like this too (and Rialto!)...looking forward to when it is finished.

[KingPsycho]

Holy Crap! I love it!!! I want this whole package bad, I'll be waiting anxiously for the the release. Thanks for the awesome work!

[328iGuy]

Has anyone noticed strangeness with List & File colors? I haven't quite figured it out, but the latest version of Alaska seems at a minumum to be taking the global "Text" value for non-focused list items.

In any case, I have a new color scheme in the works and would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

Love this scheme!!!

[Riderzzz]

Looks amazing!!! nice custom look for an already great skin alaska!

[sonic00]

Looks so great!! Can't wait for your package release

[diemos]

my god, these themes are stunning. its amazing to see themes for a skin. amazing job everyone.

[NotShorty]

Thanks!

Awesome! Some really great themes here guys.

NS

[reaven]

do you really need to replace the icons ?
you can't have both so the theme select the icons to use ?

[junesix]

do you really need to replace the icons ?
you can't have both so the theme select the icons to use ?

You need to replace the icons manually if only the theme.xml file is provided. If the icons are packaged into theme.xpr media file along with the the theme.xml file, then the icons are separate from the default icons and are specific to the theme. You can see this in Juanflaco's Rialto theme that contains both files and thus Rialto-specific icons.

[Juanflaco]

do you really need to replace the icons ?
you can't have both so the theme select the icons to use ?

Yes, at least for the themes I'm working on - the icons will be part of the theme so you don't have to manually replace anything.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on my latest effort; I'm still plugging away at creating replacement icons for home 1 and 2 and have started looking into altering studio flags as well. I hope to batch process them so they'll match the stencil look of the home icons. The other flags were easy enough to do by hand but damn there's a lot of studios.

[hcopp]

Quick question about Blue Mosaic - and I apologize if I am just completely missing the boat on this one.

I finally got to updating my XBMC from Beta 2 to RC1 and subsequently updated Alaska - Now using the Blue Mosaic theme, the OSD seems to be very difficult to read - text is very light... if you were watching something wider than 16x9 then it would not be an issue, but if it is full screen it makes it extremely difficult to see.

Question is... Is this how it is supposed to be? My concern may be that I am not using a nightly build as it seems that xbmclive isn't updated nightly like others, and this is a side effect of not having the most up to date version.

one more... In files view for TV season, the text seems out of alignment, the selected seasons text seems to be left justified while all the others are centered. (this might not be the right place for this question, thanks though)

Thanks for all the work y'all do, truly amazing.

Hayes