[WIP] Metropolis skin

I can't seem to find the selection. Is it "Enable Random Items (default recently added)" under Home Options? That's not ticked now, but if I do the jerkiness is still there.

knewknow, I just realized it's not an option to select it when you're using the Icon view.

Do you have any of the home window items hidden? If you do, can you try it without hiding any of them? I've noticed that if any of them are hidden, it causes the left-most item to flicker when scrolling right. I don't see a slowdown, but it may be related.

-j

First i must say that i love this skin...

I have one question and one request:

1) When i view the info screen for TV shows, the image on the left is pulling the banner and is all smushed together. What image is it pulling? banner.jpg or folder.jpg?

2) Please add the ability to have PsuedoTV added to the home screen. Thanks

(2012-04-08 02:34)boccman Wrote:  2) Please add the ability to have PsuedoTV added to the home screen. Thanks

+1 that.

It would be cool if I could change the TV Guide link to PsuedoTV.

Thanks jingai, I did see something else that could be improved.

When using recently added tv, which is probably the most used of the whole program for us, it looks very nice in fanart list. However it only shows the episode name until you actually highlight the episode. It would be nice if when using fanart list, just within recently added tv, that it had the show name as well as the episode name.

Hi,

I just started using this theme, and great work really like it a lot.

Using XBMCbuntu Eden.

The info and pause screen when playing movies and tv shows seems to be too narrow at the top of the screen.



I have noticed in the screenshot gallery that top bar is much higher. In mine the genre and plot overwrites each other.

I have checked for a setting that might do this. the only one I could find is this,



I originally had the Use Slim seekbar enabled. I have disabled it and found no difference. I have even tried uninstalling the skin and reinstalling. but it stays the same. Any tips that might help?

Also when watching a TV show there is no image in lower left corner of info screen, most skins show the screencap/fanart. Is this normal or is something set wrong on my skin? (worked the solution to this out, enabling show thumbnails in OSD, but still can't get the top bar in OSD to show genre/plot correctly )

(2012-04-07 23:25)jingai Wrote:  knewknow, I just realized it's not an option to select it when you're using the Icon view.

Do you have any of the home window items hidden? If you do, can you try it without hiding any of them? I've noticed that if any of them are hidden, it causes the left-most item to flicker when scrolling right. I don't see a slowdown, but it may be related.

-j

Ok, I'll give it a try tonight/tomorrow... Easter is keeping me away from my xbmc until then

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(2012-04-08 16:41)elsker Wrote:  Also when watching a TV show there is no image in lower left corner of info screen, most skins show the screencap/fanart. Is this normal or is something set wrong on my skin?

There's a setting. Unfortunately I can't check where it is right now, but look or the option ... You can choose poster, logo, or clearart if I remember correctly.

(2012-04-08 02:34)boccman Wrote:  When i view the info screen for TV shows, the image on the left is pulling the banner and is all smushed together. What image is it pulling? banner.jpg or folder.jpg?

It's using whatever you initially scraped when adding your TV library. I use the view that contains both banners and posters and had to "prefer posters" in my initial library pull to have everything looking proper. Unfortunately you'll probably have to re-scrape your TV shows (unless there's a better way that someone can shed some light on).

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(2012-04-08 16:58)knewknow Wrote:  

(2012-04-08 02:34)boccman Wrote:  When i view the info screen for TV shows, the image on the left is pulling the banner and is all smushed together. What image is it pulling? banner.jpg or folder.jpg?

It's using whatever you initially scraped when adding your TV library. I use the view that contains both banners and posters and had to "prefer posters" in my initial library pull to have everything looking proper. Unfortunately you'll probably have to re-scrape your TV shows (unless there's a better way that someone can shed some light on).

As a quick follow up to this... can an option be added that allows posters.jpg be used?

I don't mean to ask too much of the developers, I'm just really excited about this skin and just a few tweaks will make it perfect . I have never looked into skinning these myself, but if it'll help, I can start looking into adding a few features. If no one is opposed that is...

Thanks again.

(2012-04-08 16:41)elsker Wrote:  The info and pause screen when playing movies and tv shows seems to be too narrow at the top of the screen.

I have noticed in the screenshot gallery that top bar is much higher. In mine the genre and plot overwrites each other.

This is fixed in git. You'll see it in the next release.

-j

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(2012-04-08 16:58)knewknow Wrote:  As a quick follow up to this... can an option be added that allows posters.jpg be used?

I don't mean to ask too much of the developers, I'm just really excited about this skin and just a few tweaks will make it perfect . I have never looked into skinning these myself, but if it'll help, I can start looking into adding a few features. If no one is opposed that is...

Posters are the default thumbnails that are scraped. They are stored internally and thus there is no need to store the file externally as well.

I personally use the "Banner Poster" view for my TV Shows and it definitely looks correct. Poster on the left, and it uses banner.jpg from the show's folder on the HDD for the banners.

I think other skins could change the default behavior and force XBMC to store the banners internally instead of the posters. If you scanned your library this way, you might need to rescan, unfortunately.

-j

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(2012-04-08 10:37)kulprit Wrote:  Thanks jingai, I did see something else that could be improved.

When using recently added tv, which is probably the most used of the whole program for us, it looks very nice in fanart list. However it only shows the episode name until you actually highlight the episode. It would be nice if when using fanart list, just within recently added tv, that it had the show name as well as the episode name.

I've made a note of this and will see what I can do.

-j

(2012-04-07 23:25)jingai Wrote:  Posters are the default thumbnails that are scraped. They are stored internally and thus there is no need to store the file externally as well.

Banners are the default thumbnails no? I have to select "prefer posters" in the TV scraping options under settings, otherwise it will pull the banners.

The reason for storing posters and banners externally and having an option to allow the skin to pull them is that you can replace the jpg files easily with custom artwork within each show folder.