[RELEASE] reFocus 0.9.5

ISYM Wrote:Jeroen please be assured many people love this skin!.
Don't feel down due to some of the comment's people may make!.

Your time, effort, skills and publishing this skin for anyone to use is greatly appreciated.

No no, it's fine really Just felt I need to make a statement about the way I see future development going. I am my own worst critic, and even though this is just a hobby I take pride in my work. So it can be a little frustrating when you thought about something extensively, only to have people ask to do it differently

I just want to make clear though that I appreciate each and everyone's comments. If you have ideas or suggestions on how things can be improved or if you see bugs, do let them be heard. I just can't guarantee I will always agree
For now the goal of development is fixing bugs, cleaning up and refining, new features will be considered after that.

nitio Wrote:BTW, let me know if you need translations for Brazilian Portuguese in any part of the skin - I'll happily help with that.

Sure, that would be great. Be warned though that the strings are subject to changes.

Galefury Wrote:Jeroen, are you going to add support for clearart ? On pause, maybe ?

I'm not very keen on features that don't have core xbmc support. And I'm not sure they will always fit in reFocus.
I could see them working out nicely in the gallery viewtype though. As for other places like the OSD, I'll think about it but it's not very likely.

Jeroen Wrote:Yep. It's a compromise because of the absence of an image dimensions standard for the movie thumbs. It should only happen with movie posters though as thetvd.com does use a standard size. I chose to scale the posters so they keep the correct aspect ratio and not get stretched. Only other option would be to resize and scale, but I want the posters to all have the same size.

ok wasn't sure if you intended it to be that way so thought I'd mention it, don't most skins use 1000x1500 scale for movie posters in any case it would be simple enough for me to change

BTW gallery strip layout looks great

Not sure what other skins use, but let me see if that generates better results in general. If so using that scale should be easy to apply to movie posters specifically. tmdb uses 680*1000, so relatively it isn't a huge difference. Thanks

I already checked what size you had used scaled up it only works out to about 70 pixels width in difference if you have 1000x1500 posters so not a big difference

I have added a sticky to the forum listing what features or changes I am working on or have planned for the next version of reFocus. Please note that it is not a definitive list. What's on there will be in the next version, but the list will be growing as I go.

This way users can get some insight into the plans, and it also serves as a todo list for me

reFocus buildlog

in list view i am getting stuff like
[uppercase]moviename

-andy

really? That's...odd to say the least. In the list itself or outside of it? I will be stripping all the [UPPERCASE] and [LOWERCASE] references as the fonts themselves have been modified. You _should_ have no trouble if you remove them. thanks

Just signed up so I could say how great this skin is. I've been using XBMC on my HTPC for a couple months now and have been only mildly satisfied with the current skins out there. Refocus is everything I've been looking for aesthetically. Keep up the great work.

Been using this for two days now, and im very impressed with what you've accomplished. My new default skin for sure. Minimal, simple, stylish, and mature are the words that come to mind. If you don't mind me asking, do you have an education behind you in design/arts?

Just tried it here and I like the skin as well. A suggestion:

Add

to the ListViewVideo fixedlist, for example. I'm sure it's valid in other places too. Perhaps even the homescreen if there are enough items.

This allows for some movement so that you don't have blank spaces at the top and bottom of the lists. It's used several places in confluence.

Drawback is that you'll have to make the white overlay move around a bit (in the case of the listview).

TheUni