Front-row (pdm Skin Mod) Options

[Sharpe]

Yeah it was late last night - I altered wide icons a bit - increased the text size for the normal wide icon view and added a couple of placeholders for the big view. Nothing massive.

I can't really see it being added to to svn list though. It's still more of a mod/hack skin. I'd need to clean up a lot of my earlier code before getting into decent enough shape for that.

[djdafreund]

Well, i can't argue with ya about cleaning up the code, as i don't personally notice anything like that with average usage, but you should give yourself more credit, as i think it's better then a few skins in SVN i can think of currently. In terms of creativity, advancements, constant updating, and features, and usage. Thanks for the great work, and being so cool about always being open for suggestions and idea's.
I love it and use it solely now. That says a lot, considering there's a lot of great skins out there. Keep up the great work. Mostly i love that it feels tailored to me, with all the views i love, the style some of them are done in, and the overal layout, and keeps getting even better all the time.

[uli666]

Hi Sharpe!
Just one more little request. Could you add a button to go to the modded dashboard (in my case EvolutionX) in the Exit screen? I think it's a useful feature for who doesn't use XBMC as a dashboard.

Will you to take my suggestion about CD&DVD overlays into consideration?

Thanks!

Uli666

[maximusoctavious]

I just started finishing my movie collection and added another folder for wide icons. There is a bug in the big wide icon view on the 4.3 tv. The arrow on the right can be seen but the arrow on the left is almost cut in half
and can't be seen? Also, bro could u make the arrows thick glass & semi transparent. This will look much better than plain ol white. Nice job with the big wide.

[Sharpe]

Hi Sharpe!
Just one more little request. Could you add a button to go to the modded dashboard (in my case EvolutionX) in the Exit screen? I think it's a useful feature for who doesn't use XBMC as a dashboard.

Will you to take my suggestion about CD&DVD overlays into consideration?

Thanks!

Uli666

Hiya - okay I've added the dash button to the exit screen.

Yeah certainly am considering the CD/DVD overlays - will probably do something along those lines.

@ Maximus - that's strange I'm not seeing it here:



Check your screen calibration perhaps? or maybe you've got your skin zoom set different -make sure it's at 0%.

[maximusoctavious]

I can't find my screenshots for some weird reason. But I just used Sharpes pic to show how the big Icons look on both my tv's. At first I thought it was just my living room tv, untill I checked my xbox out in the garage tv. By example this is the way I see it on both tv's?

http://www.4shared.com/file/27492252/7a0d1...igwideicon.html?

[uli666]

Hiya - okay I've added the dash button to the exit screen.

Yeah certainly am considering the CD/DVD overlays - will probably do something along those lines.

Thank you dude! You are great!!!

Can't wait do see the new features.

Uli666

[Sharpe]

Just a quick update - I've added an extra wrap view with CD/DVD overlays, as requested by uli666.

[maximusoctavious]

Wow....Pisses on himself. Got more icons coming Sharpe. Music ones....
The bad thing is I can't see this on my build(newest). Becuase my xml's are edited. I will have to wait till my buddy has some free time to get to it.

This post has been edited by maximusoctavious: Oct 28 2007, 02:20 AM

[Kautious619]

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How can I get my home screen to work and look like this (not the background)
I did I miss an update.

Great work BTW

This post has been edited by Kautious619: Oct 28 2007, 02:54 AM

[maximusoctavious]

Download the newest build from his signature. In the skin settings check or uncheck the home screen at the bottom of the list. Then exit out. You will see this screen now. Hope this helps. I can't wait to see the new cd\dvd overlay. Sharpe knows I like overlays.

[Kautious619]

Download the newest build from his signature. In the skin settings check or uncheck the home screen at the bottom of the list. Then exit out. You will see this screen now. Hope this helps. I can't wait to see the new cd\dvd overlay. Sharpe knows I like overlays.

Thanks for the quick response maximus I will try it out when I get home.
This set-up has the WAF
(Wife Acceptance Factor)

[uli666]

I've added an extra wrap view with CD/DVD overlays, as requested by uli666.

Yeah!
Thanks for your work Sharpe! Your skin is getting better and better every day!

Just two little remarks for the DVD overlay visualizations:
- the reflection on the cover (the semi-trasparent white part) doesn't look very "realistic" imho. I don't know how you could improve it... maybe changing a bit the shape? Or doing it a little less sharp?
- could you keep the different thumbs more distant one from another? Like that in the background you just see the thumb coming before and after the selected one?

I hope that you can also add a new screen (instead of the little CD icon that appears in the left bottom corner) showing the cover (with CD overlay) quite big (with all related info about album, song, duration, etc.) when playing music.

Thank you again!

Uli666

[djdafreund]

I like the covers myself to a degree. I might suggest to have the reflections a TINY bit more like a reflection and not so much like a tint overlay, or at least a little less noticable (or maybe slightly more a gradient and not come down so far) , but thats very minor, as it's looking good already. I like the smaller film reel icon for the 'waiting..' icon. I can't count how many of those i had growing up. Neat effect accomplished though. Thanks. And the fact that it's done as another view, letting us still have both views to choose from.

I'm sure that will improve though. The covers already look good now though. Just something about the dvd covers. Thanks, as as always. Great job!!!

[maximusoctavious]

Thanks for getting back to me Sharpe. Yeah, I guess I didn't really think of a case within a case? That would be to much there. Good thing I have another xbox in the garage. I think the dvd will have to be adjusted slightly. The movie pics are square at least 256x256 square. Get back to you later on that one though.