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RE: Arctic: Zephyr - Vaneska - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 06:39)Natz Wrote: I propose we add a menu icon and now playing widget.

example:
watch gallery

+ for Icon Menu (like Eminence) with the option to disable the Text Big Grin that would be great


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - disrupted - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 09:45)Vaneska Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 06:39)Natz Wrote: I propose we add a menu icon and now playing widget.

example:
watch gallery

+ for Icon Menu (like Eminence) with the option to disable the Text Big Grin that would be great

+1 this looks really slick


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - matze276 - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 12:47)freem@n Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 09:45)Vaneska Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 06:39)Natz Wrote: I propose we add a menu icon and now playing widget.

example:
watch gallery

+ for Icon Menu (like Eminence) with the option to disable the Text Big Grin that would be great

+1 this looks really slick

-1 because i think it gets more and more like eminence^^


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - butchabay - 2015-02-19

Agree, love the Home Menu as shown in the OP. I'm sure Jurial thinks about alternative Home Menus Smile


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - vegeto9092 - 2015-02-19

If you do add icons please make it an option. I personally don't like it, to me it takes away from just how slick this skin is.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - pseudoheld - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 02:35)jurialmunkey Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 00:34)pseudoheld Wrote: sneak peak preview? pretty please? Big Grin
You actually test it on latest git version. Still a few bugs that I need to fix up and only works for movies/tvshow type widgets (this is the same with the other widget style too -- just need to get around to adding music widgets).

watch gallery

please excuse my language but F*CKING AWESOME!

guess today im gonna update to kodi on my HTPC Big Grin


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - somawhite402 - 2015-02-19

I'm not sure if I caught you between commits but I appear to have series posters showing in place of season posters for TV shows. Like so...

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Also, is there any chance of something similar to the Lovefilm view from Mk II at some point in the future? I used that for the episode view so much that I may possibly have spent a ridiculous amount of time making 1280x720 thumbnails for several thousand episodes... not that I'm obsessive or anything Rolleyes


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - kyotocafe - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 12:48)matze276 Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 12:47)freem@n Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 09:45)Vaneska Wrote: + for Icon Menu (like Eminence) with the option to disable the Text Big Grin that would be great

+1 this looks really slick

-1 because i think it gets more and more like eminence^^

+ 1

btw, Arctic mk. ii also had Icon Menu


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - magy77 - 2015-02-19

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When you put the weather widget into the header it would look more modern, like eminence, i guess. (Somthing soft and colorless)
What do you mean?

Image

Why do you not integrate the clock something like this? Maybe push the the stars also and put the weather over the clock.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - furii - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 07:42)jurialmunkey Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 06:21)furii Wrote: so happy to have the classic widgets back Smile

spitballing a few ideas you've likely have already tried. i wonder if it might look better if the space between the bottom panel and the poster panel was removed. maybe then have the plot information slide up from between them. i like how the home screen cycles the through the movies/shows. it was a little strange to press up and not have the first poster highlighted like it is in mkii but after thinking about it it seems right to have it the way you have it now.

a small request. any chance of getting a version of the fade covers from mkii coupled with the dark theme at some point?

all in all i can't say how happy i am with what you've done. cheers.
Yeah I'm on the fence about which item to focus onup... I could force the first one, but then you lose the spot you were on and you cant press up to select the movie that the fanart is etc.

Fade covers are a maybe, but not priority right now.

What about something like this for not having spaces... You can try it on latest git commit -- let me know what you think. I'm not sure if it makes the navigation more confusing or not.
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just gave it a try and i like it much better with the spaces eliminated. i use the disable header option and it's nice to see a bit more of the fanart.

i seem to have been unclear regarding onup. originally i was expecting the first selection to be highlighted like in mkii but definitely think it makes the most sense to select whatever was being featured in the widget. so not proposing anything there, just an observation.

keep up the great work Big Grin


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - DruTheFu - 2015-02-19

A couple of things I was wondering:
  • Will there be a feature to adjust the transparency of the header and footer 'bars'? I'd like to see more of the artwork without it being chopped off.
  • I do not see an option to customize the header text. I'd like to rename "Home" to "Druflix" Wink like I have done in eminence.
  • Is there an option to auto-adjust font sizes in the main menu? For example, I created a Main Menu item/shortcut with custom label "Documentaries", but the screen only displays "Docume..."
  • I like to tinker, so I switch back and forth between this skin and eminence. But each time I make the switch, I have to reapply the color scheme in each skin; the skin color setting doesn't seem to stick.
  • Any chance for an option to relocate the weather widget, to say inside the header, or included within the clock/time section? While I want to view the weather, it seems to be a little distracting, and my eyes seem to wander to it...like looking at a pimple in the mirror as a teenager.
  • For Videos, I have the Playback option set as "choose", but I seem to only be presented with 'play', and not a secondary option to 'resume' when I've already stopped a show some time into it.
  • For the Main Screen "Spotlight", I see there is an option to cycle through "Movie Spotlight" and "TV Show Spotlight" (or something similar, sorry I'm not in front of my TV). This otion is to cycle through one of the other. Can there be an option to cycle through BOTH together, so the spotlight will display both movies AND TV Shows?

I'm still very much liking this skin. Your hard work and time do not go unappreciated.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - bollstedt - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 17:12)magy77 Wrote: Image

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I would like to see the weather widget right under the clock (maybe smaller in font size) instead, since not everyone is using the header.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - magy77 - 2015-02-19

(2015-02-19, 17:43)bollstedt Wrote:
(2015-02-19, 17:12)magy77 Wrote: Image

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I would like to see the weather widget right under the clock (maybe smaller in font size) instead, since not everyone is using the header.

Ok thats a good compromise


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - FREAKJAM - 2015-02-19

I also disagree. The header setting is optional. I'm not using the header, thus when moving the weather widget inside the header I won't have the weather widget at all.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - magy77 - 2015-02-19

Read it one more time! subline not header: "I would like to see the weather widget right under the clock (maybe smaller in font size) instead, since not everyone is using the header."
Maybe jurial can switch the background from the fullscreenplayback also in black and white like the rest of the skin?!