Design Flaws / Missing Features

I already posted this bug as a new thread, but did not receive any reply, so I guess noone knows an easy solution to my problem and it might indeed be a bug.
I use Neon(SVN), version 1332264824, but the behaviour described below can also be reproduced with the stable version of the skin. I set some video add-ons (reddit, icefilms,etc.) as favourites and added them as custom home items in the skin settings. When I open the resulting menu item, the add-on displays a waiting dialog box with a progress bar. After the add-on is done scraping, the progress bar disappears and the results are displayed. At this point, the focus seems to be lost and I cannot navigate to the videos. I can only exit this screen using the menu or back button.
If I access the same menu item for the second time, so the content is already cached and the waiting dialog doesn't show, the focus is fine. So I have to open the menu item two times: one time for loading->back->load again->watch cat videos.
Did I do anything wrong? I already posted this as a bug over at github, but did not get any feedback yet. Did I do anything wrong or is this indeed a bug? Does anyone have a solution for this?
Any help is appreciated!

Ever since I upgraded to Eden from Dharma builds i've noticed this "bug". I first noticed it in Night when I was running that under the beta's. Recently I changed to Neon and I've seen the same issue. I'm 99% sure its not present Confluence.

To reproduce enter either a Movies or TV view. Then escape out back to the home screen and enter Videos now. Instead of being at the root of Videos as you should be (which you get if you start the program and go straight into Videos) you instead get whichever view you were in last in tv or movies. You have to backspace back to the root to see your Files.

Stoli,

As moviesets now are supported in XBMC, would you consider to add a entry for moviesets in the Neon movie submenu?

PR#719 added an entry to the movie submenu for Confluence.

Thanks in advance.

(2012-04-05 13:11)KRKA01 Wrote:  Stoli,

As moviesets now are supported in XBMC, would you consider to add a entry for moviesets in the Neon movie submenu?

PR#719 added an entry to the movie submenu for Confluence.

Thanks in advance.

I second this.. also, while we are discussing movie sets, would it be possible to incorporate the movie set info from Frostbox?
Discussed here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=89163


Right now when you hit <i> on movie sets icons, nothing happens.

Also, what about always listing Moviesets first, and put a <movie set> band on the icons like this:




PS! There is still missing a Check Mark on watched movies in multiplex view.

/om

Just discovered Neon and have been playing around with it for the past few days. I am using the latest SVN version and for the most part everything works well. I have, however, noticed a few minor issues.

The first is related to the information/progress bar display for videos which are not included in the library. While I do scrape most video content to the library, there are a few exceptions. For instance, videos which I will only view once and delete or some for which the episode order is inconsistent with the listings found on thetvdb.org. As you will see in the screenshot below, the title of the video is not situated within the progress bar/information display, but rather slightly above it. The second issue is that while the “finish time” is displayed the current time is not. It would also be preferable if long titles were to scroll from right-to-left, similar to the behavior of confluence.



My final concern is related to media flagging. Files with “WEB-DL” or “WEB-Rip” in their filename are erroneously flagged with the Blu-ray logo when placed within a directory set as containing movies in the library. TV content, however, is flagged correctly.

Apart from these concerns, Neon is by far the most feature-rich and visually appealing skin I have come across. Thanks for all of the hard work.

If I enter album view through the music menu all I get is a blank background. In order to view the list of albums I have to press escape, taking me back to the main menu, then enter taking me directly into albums from the main menu. If I go into an album, then back to album view I get the same thing again, meaning to view albums I then have to hit escape, then enter again.

This only seems to be a problem with the 'shelf' view.

edit: very similar to this problem

Yes, shelf view is broken for some time, disable it in the skin options and it should reset back to the default music view so you can browse it again.

Is there anyway to lighten up the non-selected text? I have a projector with ambient light and it's near impossible to see. The little oval bar does a good job of showing me where my selection is (or It could even be red tint).

I just have two questions:


I did not update neon, because of this view:



It would be nice if this could be added as an option.
If nobody want to integrate it, as an alternative it would be cool if someone could point out how to 'copy-paste' it into the latest 'neon'-build.

Secondly, my volume bar is not visually changing (stays on full-volume), I think this has to do with my old neon-build,
hick-hack solution, anyone ?

Just did a fresh install from XBMC.org repository and yet have the issue with the volume bar (showing always full-volume).
Volume actually changes and Confluence shows the volume bar correctly, but Neon doesn't - it always shows the full green-to-red-pattern.

Env: Windows Vista x64, Eden 11.0 release.

Anyway... Great skin, keep up the great work!

EDIT: Nevermind, today, xbmc finally managed to make an update and the volume display is working now