[RELEASE] reFocus 0.9.5

hold on, google code decided to merge the files. this is getting on my nerves.

Allright, take 2.5...

Download 0.8.1

The Banner viewtype should now be available (enable it in skin settings).

Please, delete the entire reFocus folder you downloaded earlier to rule out any conflicts.

I like the skin. Thanks for sharing, Jeroen. The welcome screen is a very nice touch.

This Is Fantastic! It might just be me but it seems a lot faster than a lot of other skins I've tried! Quick question tho, I was wondering if you had any plans to incorporate the logo.png files for tv shows thats been used in the night skin.

Running great on the XBOX! I'll wait for the 1.0 release before uploading it to xbmc-xbox-skins. I love the animations.

great skin... it just replaced alaska

keep up the good work... it's clean, fast and simple (in a good way..)

As a sucker for new thoughts on design I am currently testdriving this. Although it will not replace my main machine's skin it is on my test machine right now.

Quote:probably some of overlapping label issues

Indeed, when playing a TV series the channel logo will overlap with the resolution (e.g. 720)icon

Also what was your reasoning behind having an "unwatched" overlay since it is counter intuitive to me comming from a "watched" overlay. Bear in mind not critic just wondering what your train of thought was and hoping it's not "just wanted to be different cause I'm Dutch "

MeqTrader Wrote:Also what was your reasoning behind having an "unwatched" overlay since it is counter intuitive to me comming from a "watched" overlay. Bear in mind not critic just wondering what your train of thought was and hoping it's not "just wanted to be different cause I'm Dutch "

Because it is counter intuitive for me to do it the other way around really.
I guess it's what you're used to.
Best way I can explain it is: why have a visual indicator there nearly 100% of the time, while having a visual indicator there n% of the time gives you the exact same visual indication.

Only things i dislike is, as mentioned before by jmarshall, exiting videonav to the right especially when you can exit the view chooser both left and right. Why not making it able to do the same?

Have seen 3 different clocks. Home clock, Library clock and weather clock. Personally i prefer the library clock. Date and time.

But overall many thanks for your work Jeroen, truly a wonderfull skin and run really well on low specs machines. Thanks again

xbs08 Wrote:Only things i dislike is, as mentioned before by jmarshall, exiting videonav to the right especially when you can exit the view chooser both left and right. Why not making it able to do the same?

The thing is, you expect that type of behaviour just because of the way it is in another skin. And I would not be surprised that if I would change this now, there's going to be people that are going to say they thought the other way was better.

Take the first Focus skin, it was the first skin to have submenus on the homescreen menu. It basically was a horizontal version of the type of menu you see in Confluence. So you had to push down instead of right to get to the submenu. I had people ask to have it open on clicking it back then...

Besides that it's not just a matter of why not. The way the menu is built, it's simply not possible to use right to open the submenu. I have tried to do it differently when I was building it, but believe me when I say it's not as simple as it seems. I could explain in length what limitations I would encounter and why the way Confluence does it won't work in reFocus but I would only bore you and myself.

And last but not least, I just prefer it this way. I don't want to sound mean (this is not directed at you personally, but in general) and I hope people like the skin, but my own preferences matter too.
Sometimes it's simply going to be a matter of accepting why I did things a certain way.

Quote:Have seen 3 different clocks. Home clock, Library clock and weather clock. Personally i prefer the library clock. Date and time.

In the weather screen it's not the time, but the time the weather was last updated. The clock on the homescreen looks a bit different because otherwise you wouldn't be able to read it when there's a light background behind it. This is going to be the same for weather. And adding an option to show the date too is on my todo list.

Quote:But overall many thanks for your work Jeroen, truly a wonderfull skin and run really well on low specs machines. Thanks again

Thank you

Jeroen Wrote:And last but not least, I just prefer it this way. I don't want to sound mean (this is not directed at you personally, but in general) and I hope people like the skin, but my own preferences matter too.
Sometimes it's simply going to be a matter of accepting why I did things a certain way.

Ofc it's your skin, ofc ist's not directed at anyone in special but to all xbmc users, i'm just saying that if you have the view chooser menu that exits both left and right maybe the videonav menu could exit both left and right.

I just think it's not natural to have 3 submenus that exit one left, one right and one both ways. I think they should have the same behaviour, that's all.