[BETA] Shade - A new skin for XBMC

WhyS Wrote:Lovely skin. Been trying it out for the last couple of hours.

My biggest problem so far is when I'm navigating to and from the Home screen. The transition has no smoothness and it also takes about 2 seconds. When in 'Movies' and returning to 'Home' (pressing esc) I see the Video-backdrop for about 1-2 secs before being returned to the Home screen.

Also I couldn't find an option for changing backgrounds.

- when at the home screen, at the top right corner there's a "10..."
What's the significance of this?

Great, great skin. (new default)

I would love for someone to help me fix that smoothness issue when exiting.

I have the code done for changing backgrounds but it doesnt work right and I cant figure it out.

The 10 is the temperature on the home screen.

Thanks for all your kind words.

2.1 uploaded for you testers.

Just downloaded, and god am I good, deffinatly looks a lot better without the black bras there, ooops I mean bars.

I now have a picture of Avatar for Movies, Dr Who for TV Shows, and you can see the whole lot, apart from obviously the icons.

Future suggestion, having the icons either, top, middle or bottom.

Just found a bug.

When you press up to show the menu bar, it blacks out most of the screen at the bottom.

Apart from that, totally love the skin. Just thought of another idea not sure if this is possible, but you have movies.jpg but having say the skin grabbing different images from movies, or if you have movies1.jpg movies2.jpg etc, it randomises the views.

So glad I became a tester on this skin, top notch.

MarkTaunton Wrote:Just downloaded, and god am I good, deffinatly looks a lot better without the black bras there, ooops I mean bars.

I now have a picture of Avatar for Movies, Dr Who for TV Shows, and you can see the whole lot, apart from obviously the icons.

Future suggestion, having the icons either, top, middle or bottom.

Just found a bug.

When you press up to show the menu bar, it blacks out most of the screen at the bottom.

Apart from that, totally love the skin. Just thought of another idea not sure if this is possible, but you have movies.jpg but having say the skin grabbing different images from movies, or if you have movies1.jpg movies2.jpg etc, it randomises the views.

So glad I became a tester on this skin, top notch.

Fixed the bug. Thanks for catching that.

I will look into moving the menu, gotta run it by djeglin (if i ever hear from him again).

New file uploaded (redownload 2.1)

The menu is really fine where it is, but I know some people like it in different places, so would be a good optional thing to have time permitting.

Pretty much this is ready for release as a beta, and just updating as you can.

** Update **

I am not sure for why, but I am using Shade for Master User and I am able to turn off Movies, but when I log into TV Shows, then I am not able to turn off Movies?

You might have to upload again. Just downloaded the new file, but when I try and extract it, it stops at 74% saying corrupted file, and downloaded twice now and both the same spot.

Regards

Mark

MarkTaunton Wrote:You might have to upload again. Just downloaded the new file, but when I try and extract it, it stops at 74% saying corrupted file, and downloaded twice now and both the same spot.

Regards

Mark

Uploaded.

Sadly still no go for 2.1 the download seems to finish way to early, I'm not sure if someone else is having the same problem, but once downloaded still stops at 74%.

I have tried downloading 2.0 and that downloads correctly and unrars with no problems at all.

Regards

Mark

MarkTaunton Wrote:Sadly still no go for 2.1 the download seems to finish way to early, I'm not sure if someone else is having the same problem, but once downloaded still stops at 74%.

I have tried downloading 2.0 and that downloads correctly and unrars with no problems at all.

Regards

Mark

You're not the only one, attempting it again right now, grab it in a few.

Yep that one works