(2013-09-18, 08:45)efty.edge Wrote: @jurialmunkey

since yesterday i thought about the in my opinion not so good choosen watched flag (check mark) for movies and tv-shows. And i think the following idea is a clean and nice way to integrate watched content into your skin. I hope you agree and in some way it's technical possible.

The major colors of your skin are black, white and greyscales. So simply change the colored movie poster or the episode thumb of an watched one to greyscales and fade it a little bit out. Maybe the same way as you do it to the background fanart but a little bit darker.

It's just an idea...

Efty

(2013-09-18, 08:40)Ferdi-T Wrote: What you could try is put the clips in one folder, concerts/dvd in another. Scrape the latter with ConcertDB. In case of missing entries and/or wrong info, rename filename to the title of the concert/dvd on moviedb.org. Works like a charm. ;-)

It allows to add anything (playlists, addons etc) to the main menu and even rename them from the skin settings. Which would be an awesome addition to Arctic one day.

(2013-09-18, 09:01)Kokonutcreme Wrote:

(2013-09-18, 08:45)efty.edge Wrote: The major colors of your skin are black, white and greyscales. So simply change the colored movie poster or the episode thumb of an watched one to greyscales and fade it a little bit out. Maybe the same way as you do it to the background fanart but a little bit darker.

Not a bad idea that at all and would make this skin even more distinct from the rest .

Jurialmunkey I've just noticed a config setting to remove labels from favourites. When I do that I just have blank thumbs displayed. I may have missed it in the thread but have you enabled thumbs or artwork for favourites so you don't need labels?

(2013-09-18, 09:44)ferent Wrote: Maybe the flag it's not the best integrated and we can find one more integrated in the skin (I like the white eye in this web: http://dribbble.com/shots/563816-Menu-Icons)
Of course it's my personal opinion :-)

(2013-09-18, 09:47)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-18, 08:40)Ferdi-T Wrote: What you could try is put the clips in one folder, concerts/dvd in another. Scrape the latter with ConcertDB. In case of missing entries and/or wrong info, rename filename to the title of the concert/dvd on moviedb.org. Works like a charm. ;-)

It allows to add anything (playlists, addons etc) to the main menu and even rename them from the skin settings. Which would be an awesome addition to Arctic one day.

I'll have to give that a go with music vids.

You can already pretty much already add anything to the main and sub menus. The only limitation is that the menu has to be limited to five main menu items because the menu style is static (rather than the carousel style of Aeon Nox et al.). But those five categories (movies, tvshows, music, pictures, programs) can all be customised and renamed to whatever you like.

Go to "Skin Settings > Home > Mage custom home items". If you go to the left of that dialog, the tab slides out and you can choose which category you want to customise. Then the top item is the main menu item and underneath are its 10 sub menu items. Just change the "type" to what you want it to be (e.g. video addon, video playlist, custom, favourite etc.) then click path and select the thing you want. Then you can rename it and set an icon etc. etc.

(2013-09-18, 09:47)jurialmunkey Wrote: Its not a bad idea, but the issue still remains regarding consistency (i.e. what do you do for all the list views). Also, it isn't technically possible anyway -- there is no way to desaturate an image with the skinning engine, they can only be colorised, dimmed or made transparent. Also, what about black and white covers or very dark covers. edit: I see ferent has beaten me to the punch.

(2013-09-18, 10:18)Ferdi-T Wrote: To which XML are these settings saved, btw? In case I'd want to mirror the settings to different machines.

(2013-09-17, 03:21)jurialmunkey Wrote: [...] one of the basic thematic elements of the skin is softly rounded, consistently sized rectangles with a soft shadow behind [...]

(2013-09-18, 09:52)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-18, 09:44)ferent Wrote: Maybe the flag it's not the best integrated and we can find one more integrated in the skin (I like the white eye in this web: http://dribbble.com/shots/563816-Menu-Icons)
Of course it's my personal opinion :-)

I quite like the eye one myself.

(2013-09-18, 15:12)cruse Wrote: .... Right now it's a triangle in the upper left corner. What about using the "outer" rounded corner with a new internal corner, creating a new rectangle within the original one. This could either be a square for icons or a rectangle for text.

... move em to the lower right corner. Upper corners are a prominent position for something that is more confusing/distracting than helpful for a lot of people imho ...

(2013-09-18, 20:20)PatrickBateman Wrote: Call me crazy, but currently, the green tick indicating something is watched and displaying nothing for un-watched is absolutely perfect IMO!
I think the current implamntation it's the best, most obvious, simplistic, fuss free, user friendly option around.

(2013-09-19, 00:58)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-18, 20:20)PatrickBateman Wrote: Call me crazy, but currently, the green tick indicating something is watched and displaying nothing for un-watched is absolutely perfect IMO!
I think the current implamntation it's the best, most obvious, simplistic, fuss free, user friendly option around.

Well that's my opinion also

(2013-09-19, 07:05)xecutionx Wrote: Any chance of including a PseudoTV skin based of your LiveTV guide? That would be amazing.

(2013-09-19, 00:58)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-18, 15:12)cruse Wrote: .... Right now it's a triangle in the upper left corner. What about using the "outer" rounded corner with a new internal corner, creating a new rectangle within the original one. This could either be a square for icons or a rectangle for text.

... move em to the lower right corner. Upper corners are a prominent position for something that is more confusing/distracting than helpful for a lot of people imho ...

Originally I was going to make it a rounded rectangle: the thing is that it takes up 2x the space of the triangle with no real change to the watched indicator icon. I use the rounded rectangle for unwatched tvshow counts in the "reel" view, but I find it takes up too much space even there, so I'm thinking about removing it and figuring out a better way to show the count.

I also actually much prefer the lower right corner for indicators. Its not this way only for a technical issue: the reflections -- because the reflections start already partially transparent, then the watched indicator reflection also has to be transparent -- but then you see part of the reflected poster artwork underneath and so the reflection doesn't look right. There is a way to do it, but it is a lot more complex.

(2013-09-18, 20:20)PatrickBateman Wrote: Call me crazy, but currently, the green tick indicating something is watched and displaying nothing for un-watched is absolutely perfect IMO!
I think the current implamntation it's the best, most obvious, simplistic, fuss free, user friendly option around.

Well that's my opinion also, but it seems to be the hot topic at the moment so I'm always willing to entertain suggestions. So far, however, I haven't heard any that meet all my criteria: (1) simple; (2) easy to understand without explanation; (3) unobtrusive; and (4) able to be applied to all available viewtypes.

Text banners fail 1 and 4.
Dimming posters fails 3 and 4
Eye icon is beaten by the checkmark in terms of 2

(2013-09-19, 07:45)deletedpenguin Wrote:

(2013-09-19, 07:05)xecutionx Wrote: Any chance of including a PseudoTV skin based of your LiveTV guide? That would be amazing.

+1