Transparency! SVN for XBMC nightly builds

Ronie,

I noticed that the trailer icon not always works, and when they don't work and you press I and choose play trailer, the trailer plays.

Btw that icon sucks a bit,

can you please do a view ala big cirrus, where there is a list on the right and info at the bottom with the movie rating (r, pg etc) kinda like T! fanart view but the big cirrus one is much better and when you press left the movie info shows at the bottom, and there is a nice trailer icon to the right of the movie title. further more when you press I in big cirrus is much nicer, the transperancy one is showing a bit its age.

I hate comparing and still think yours is the best skin overall and that is why i tell you so you get the best ideas of other skins and merge them into transperancy.

Thanks for the hard work and continious updated ronie

Pang

pang Wrote:I noticed that the trailer icon not always works, and when they don't work and you press I and choose play trailer, the trailer plays.

in which view...or does it work for some trailers and not for others?
also, a debug log would help a lot. :-)

pang Wrote:Btw that icon sucks a bit

i've recently replaced it...a week ago or so.

pang Wrote:can you please do a view ala big cirrus, where there is a list on the right and info at the bottom with the movie rating (r, pg etc) kinda like T! fanart view but the big cirrus one is much better and when you press left the movie info shows at the bottom, and there is a nice trailer icon to the right of the movie title. further more when you press I in big cirrus is much nicer, the transperancy one is showing a bit its age.

will see what i can do. can't make any promises, but updating several views is on my list of things to do.

Yes i know you changed it the trailer icon i have latest svn but still sucks a bit, dunno why. and yes it works for some trailers and not works for others but when you press I its always works

i installed the next aired script and enabled it in settings, should i see something? since everything remained the same.

very nice skin indeed, i always fall to this skin.

pang Wrote:Yes i know you changed it the trailer icon i have latest svn but still sucks a bit, dunno why.

come up with a better one and i'll add it. ;-)

pang Wrote:and yes it works for some trailers and not works for others but when you press I its always works

need a debug log then.

pang Wrote:i installed the next aired script and enabled it in settings, should i see something? since everything remained the same.

you should see a notification when the next episode is aired, as can be seen here.
this won't work for tv shows that have ended of course, only running series.

when it doesn't work, it might be a script error, or the shoe isn't listed at http://tvrage.com/

changing the recently added / weather / system info on the home screen to something like this:



like? don't like? suggestions?

I like it much better.

I'm diggin' it

The cross faded box you have now seems pretty reasonable...when I roll my mouse over any area of the screen that horizontally intercepts with the info, I get new fanart... kinda unexpected, but nice. I'm of the minimalistic approach...less is more. I always ask myself, if I'm adding a box, line or graphic... what does it add to functionality, asthetics, or comprehension. That said, the graphics are more compatible with other areas of the interface.

I'd be much more interested in a script on start-up that brings a full blown short video/animation that instantly grab the eyeballs and a Bing Bong tad da noise to let you know the sound system is turned on before settling back into a more mundane homepage. I'd like to see the transparency effect somewhat clearer.. at 20% it's still to dark in the daytime... any chance we could have an infinite slider from 0 to 100% ?

I'd like to add, from my point of view this is the 'BEST' skin XBMC has to offer, might not be as light, compatible or bug free as others... but being best is pretty hard to top, at this point visual enhancement is kinda of secondary, I see functionality and presentation taking precedent.

I like, any change is good,

if you keep the old and let us choose style would be even better

if you could make the recently added a bit bigger and with more then 3 last added , like 5 or 10 it would be great

even the weather icon it would be nice if it was bigger and some stats would also be nice

keep up the great job,

btw about the pictures can there me fanart for geners, like holidays, birthdays, beach etc so we can organise the pictures like in an album

thanks you ronie for your work

now this is why i love transparency...