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announcing: reFocus
#1
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Hi,

Well, this place look deserted Wink

Which is no surprise of course since the last Focus update was released well over a year ago if I'm not mistaken.

As I stated before I have been working on a new skin. The development actually started right after the last Focus update. Starting up it was to be a different skin in name and design, and since then it underwent countless mutations and experiments. Gradually I realised that I did want to make a new Focus skin though, using a different approach but still keep some of the style elements and philosophy behind it. So it went into it's final stage of mutation.

I feel reFocus is a major improvement over Focus on every level. Focus was my first skin and because of this I was still very much in a learning stage and things were done in a way that ended up being inefficient or difficult to maintain. And although you never stop learning, I feel reFocus will provide a much better and stable base for future development and evolution.

So, while I am getting the new skin up to a public release standard I thought I would provide a little preview. When released, it will not be fully done (when is it ever?), but it will most definitely be a mature skin (unlike Focus on it's first release) and will probably be dubbed a 0.8 release.

Thanks for reading Smile

Greetings,
Jeroen

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#2
I like Focus very much but i sure like reFocus a lot more! Big Grin

Thanks Jeroen for making such a good looking skin. Looking forward to try it.
 
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#3
This looks very nice. Good job! I like the clean views. I was never too fond of all those busy skins. Makes me want to come back to XBMC.

Please keep the clean style because "less is more" Wink
#4
Wow, this is a very Nice Surprise, many thanks for this great Work.
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#5
Very nice indeed!
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#6
Thanks all Smile currently working on the new XBMC addon stuff, so refreshing to skin new exciting parts of XBMC Smile

@jaaps: coming back to xbmc? why would you ever want to leave it? Big Grin
#7
Where you at percentage-wise?
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#8
I would say that as for being suitable for the present day stable release it's at 95% or so. It's basically finalizing and finding bugs or things I have overlooked or forgotten.
But as a new XBMC stable release is fast approaching I want to have the new stuff done as well so that it can be released shortly after the new xbmc release. I just started work on the new stuff today, but that's coming together quite quickly Smile
#9
Very nice work Jeroen - look forward to giving it a whirl Smile

Cheers,
Jonathan
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#10
Nice, a not too dark but not too bright skin, very nice.
#11
Wow ! Very nice skin and surprise!

Congratulations, Jeroen!
#12
This is the skin I've been waiting for! From just looking at the screenshots, my mouth is already watering! Well done mate.
#13
Where are the screen shots? - nothing in the first post - am I missing something or is firefox that useless? Huh
#14
@Geeba Ad-blocker is useless maybe?
#15
Weird - IE I just get a red X and Firefox I get nothing? Huh
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