2010-05-26, 18:41
I know you guys have lots of things to do right now, so consider this as just a question about a possibility/feasibility for the moment. If this would be an option I'll make a trac ticket for future development.
Skinners have lots of possibilities to incorporate things as fanart, posters and banners.
Different users have different preferences with regards to posters or wide banners for tvshows. So, it's always good to provide support for both types.
I prefer not to make specific viewtypes for either type of art. Someone who uses posters is confronted with a banner viewtype or vice versa. Both will look terrible.
Of course it's not a big deal to create a skin setting that enables either one and disables those not suited for the chosen art type through conditional visibility.
Except XBMC's scraper already registers the user's choice in the content settings dialog.
I think it would be good if skinners can take advantage of this setting and use it to set up the conditional visibility. Also it makes sense from a user's perspective (why express the same preference in two places?)
So to make a long story short: is there any chance of making the user setting "prefer banners" in the content settings dialog available to the skinning engine as a conditional visibility option?
Skinners have lots of possibilities to incorporate things as fanart, posters and banners.
Different users have different preferences with regards to posters or wide banners for tvshows. So, it's always good to provide support for both types.
I prefer not to make specific viewtypes for either type of art. Someone who uses posters is confronted with a banner viewtype or vice versa. Both will look terrible.
Of course it's not a big deal to create a skin setting that enables either one and disables those not suited for the chosen art type through conditional visibility.
Except XBMC's scraper already registers the user's choice in the content settings dialog.
I think it would be good if skinners can take advantage of this setting and use it to set up the conditional visibility. Also it makes sense from a user's perspective (why express the same preference in two places?)
So to make a long story short: is there any chance of making the user setting "prefer banners" in the content settings dialog available to the skinning engine as a conditional visibility option?