[RELEASE] Alaska

jamesdew Wrote:This skin is fantastic looking, but of course I have a few criticisms.

In various situations you need to press left or down to get extra menus. The user has no visual indication that they need to do this, a good UI should not assume a person is already familiar with the software.

I'm not exactly sure how it should be implemented, but I miss being informed of new things right on the front page without having to enter another menu like I could in confluence. If there could be a way of doing this it would be fantastic.

Sometimes in settings windows, like when you configure a plugin the ok cancel and defaults text is displayed over the rest of the menu options.

Separate favourites icon?

Finally, all the pictures display options are quite bad, none of them let you simply see your picture without full screening it.

Those flaws aside, beautiful skin, nice work. The first one ever to tempt me away from confluence.

Fixed the plugin settings problem.

'Separate favourites icon?' - not sure what you mean?

All of the picture views show you your pictures without having to fullscreen them.

Djape Wrote:Can we disable add-on update notifications on the screen?
My friend calls me every time there is an update

Thx

Disable 'Auto-updates'.

jamesdew Wrote:one more issue, this one is so annoying that I've gone back to confluence.

In the recently added TV shows page, only the episode name is shown and not the TV show. This is very irritating as it prevents you from seeing what new TV shows you have, probably the feature I use the most.

Can anyone suggest a simple change I could make to add the TV show name to the displayed name?

Would appreciate some feedback.

The show name is shown in both Recently Added lists -

Hitcher Wrote:The show name is shown in both Recently Added lists -

Yes but only when you actually select the show, the title of an episode is meaningless when you just want to see what new stuff is available. As per your example screenshot, what is "episode 2" "episode 3" "in the red" i have no idea and unless you select each one neither would you.

I know "to keep us safe" is another episode of the event but only because I have already seen it, the whole point of the recently added list is to see new things that you have not seen yet.

I understand you can just press up on the homscreen but I often have more than 4 items, and sometimes you just want to look at the list to see whats new, not necessarily to actually watch it.

See how confluence handles it. The list is %showname% - %episode name%

I did try to modify this myself but it seems im not very good at xml

Hitcher Wrote:Fixed the plugin settings problem.

'Separate favourites icon?' - not sure what you mean?

All of the picture views show you your pictures without having to fullscreen them.

Thanks for fixing the plugin issue, appreciated.

I meant a favourites icon on the home screen with the default view but I see I can add one if I want to anyway, so never mind about that.

As for the pictures view

Files: shows pictures but very small and duplicates picture as a faded background image
panel wide: shows thumbs on right and on left shows picture but it is faded around the edge and the whole picture is faded into the background
grid: picture is shown on the background like fanart and is very faded and hard to see

jamesdew Wrote:Yes but only when you actually select the show, the title of an episode is meaningless when you just want to see what new stuff is available. As per your example screenshot, what is "episode 2" "episode 3" "in the red" i have no idea and unless you select each one neither would you.

I know "to keep us safe" is another episode of the event but only because I have already seen it, the whole point of the recently added list is to see new things that you have not seen yet.

I understand you can just press up on the homscreen but I often have more than 4 items, and sometimes you just want to look at the list to see whats new, not necessarily to actually watch it.

See how confluence handles it. The list is %showname% - %episode name%

I did try to modify this myself but it seems im not very good at xml

I could quite easily do it how Confluence does but with Alaska we like to separate the Episode Number and Title by design. What I can do however is add the TV Show Title to the the Episode Title when, and only when, you're in the Recently Added section.

As for the Picture modes, that's just how they're designed. Maybe use Files mode for the largest image.

Hitcher Wrote:I could quite easily do it how Confluence does but with Alaska we like to separate the Episode Number and Title by design. What I can do however is add the TV Show Title to the the Episode Title when, and only when, you're in the Recently Added section.

As for the Picture modes, that's just how they're designed. Maybe use Files mode for the largest image.

that would be fantastic if you could do that, I agree you dont need the showname when you already navigated to that show since you should know where you are.

i can put up with the pictures modes

Thanks again for replying to my comments and for your excellent work on this skin.

Hitcher,

I have a file that doesn't show audio channel flags. When given command "file movie.avi", it shows:

RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 1280 x 688, 23.98 fps, video: XviD, audio: Dolby AC3 (4 channels, 48000 Hz)

But playing the video says that it has 2 channels. Who knows what XBMC tells you what the channels are, but whatever it is Alaska doesn't show the channel flag for this file (it shows the codec flag).

Another file with 3.0 channels also doesn't show the channel flag. It has two different tracks:

+ A track
| + Track number: 2
| + Track UID: 1964812946
| + Track type: audio
| + Enabled: 1
| + Default flag: 1
| + Forced flag: 0
| + Lacing flag: 1
| + MinCache: 0
| + Timecode scale: 1
| + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
| + Codec ID: A_AC3
| + Codec decode all: 1
| + Default duration: 32.000ms (31.250 fps for a video track)
| + Language: eng
| + Audio track
| + Sampling frequency: 48000
| + Channels: 3
| + A track
| + Track number: 3
| + Track UID: 1960414360
| + Track type: audio
| + Enabled: 1
| + Default flag: 0
| + Forced flag: 0
| + Lacing flag: 1
| + MinCache: 0
| + Timecode scale: 1
| + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
| + Codec ID: A_AC3
| + Codec decode all: 1
| + Default duration: 32.000ms (31.250 fps for a video track)
| + Language: eng
| + Audio track
| + Sampling frequency: 48000
| + Channels: 2

Is this DD or DTS?

Hitcher Wrote:Is this DD or DTS?

Both files are DD.

Incidentally, I converted the avi file to mkv and mkvinfo shows 4 channels for it fine, but Alaska doesn't show it. That's weird because I have other 4.0 channel movies and it shows the flag for them fine (and at least one of them is DD too).