[WIP] The Paper Street Soap Company (mockups and development of a new skin concept)

EVEN BETTER!

Check this out:

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22matt%20...output=rss

I didn't know you could do this with a google news RSS feed until just now.
The q= takes whatever your seaching for news on and returns a custom RSS feed for the topic.

So you could easily create a custom actor RSS feed This could also easily be applied to directors, music artists, etc. as well. I tried for specific movie titles, but that doesn't seem to give reasonable results. TV Show titles seems to result in more interesting things, however.

Of course, there seem to be a lot of false positives thrown in. Look for "Outsourced" and you get a million articles - very few related to the show at all.

Hello!

I really like this skin. When will it be available?
Or, if you where to find it already available.
Keep up the good work!

Mikuc Wrote:Hello!

I really like this skin. When will it be available?
Or, if you where to find it already available.
Keep up the good work!

It will be available just as soon as its complete.

I have no idea when that will be. Everything you see are mock-ups (ie created in Photoshop). Ronie and I have a working deveolpment version, but it is far, far, far from being complete. Like... 5% done.

Maybe 5%

skunkm0nkee Wrote:This looks great.

I don't get too much time to mess about with XBMC these days (I'm still using the Camelot release and a version of the Abel skin I started working on about this time last year!) but I'll definitely be looking to upgrade and download this when it's released.

I just hope the skin gets properly developed to make sure it ends up looking as great as the mockups and that it is smooth and usable for the end user. I would suggest a semi-closed development process would probably help avoid it getting bastardised and diluted by the community (too many chefs and all that). In my opinion developing it away from prying eyes and only releasing updates when ready will help it develop properly and should raise excitement levels for the final release.

I actually kicked around an idea for a paper-related skin around the time when we were finishing MediaStream. Even in my wildest imagination I wouldn't have been able to come up with something as polished as this looks though. Great work!!

Thanks a lot of the feed back, I'm really excited about the direction this is heading. I'm actually going a bit of the opposite direction - documenting development as it happens, at least from the mock-up side of things. I feel like at this point I've got a strong enough vision, and an awesome partner in ronie getting this coded that it can't get diluted too much from the community.

Honestly, some of the feed back and suggestions have helped me re-tool and look at my designs with a critical eye - I think resulting in a better final result.

I may eat my words, but I'm glad for the community involvement and the excitement folks seem to have for the skin. As long as we don't start getting badgered for a release date...

Come on and do it already :-)

Any time in the next four days will be fine

Everyone's a comedian....

Just to be a tease...

I just put 2 more 2TB drives in my system... I think that brings me up to 18TB. Happy birthday to meeee!

A tease? God damm it man, you need a decent size tv let alone another hard drive lol

MarkTaunton Wrote:A tease? God damm it man, you need a decent size tv let alone another hard drive lol

I just can't fit bigger than 55" in that space... Maybe if I just cover up the whole fireplace?