Quote:Okay, everything except installing Beta 9 is pretty much incorrect. You do not need to install Extended Info, it is installed for you by From Ashes Danvers as it's required by the skin to use. You already have it.

The only thing you need to do to make that dialog appear by default: Settings -> Media -> Videos -> Default Select Action (Under "All" ) -> Select "Show Information"

Then, whenever you go to any of you video media in your library, when you press the "select" or "ok" button on your remote (Samsung SUHD remotes would have this be that inner ring button - basically, whatever you press to navigate through the various menus) the video information screen will appear instead of it immediately starting playback.

(2017-01-18, 08:46)avia Wrote: Need a tip

(2017-01-18, 15:21)Mike_Doc Wrote: Hello Mate,

Seems you are finally realizing what you've taken on and what it requires! I myself are mainly the only person behind Madnox now, schimi2k left us last August RIP and meowmoo is a new father so his time is elsewhere but he only works on music anyway, and just trying to keep a skin current version i.e. V17 now but V18 codes changes are already required is nearly a full time job add to the fact that you don't get much positive comments some days in the thread if even anything in the thread and you start to wonder why you're giving a lot of your spare time to it, I know that feeling all to well.

I hope you find a way and continue, from what I've seen you're very capable and have done some good work in your mod, oh and on that it'll probably always be a 'mod' I don't know what is needed for it to become it's own skin anymore after the work we've done on Madnox it is still a 'mod'

Mike.

(2017-01-19, 07:13)Guardian Hope Wrote: I found myself wondering why is From Ashes trying to please everybody - it has created this situation where now it's becoming unsustainable because of no direction.

(2017-01-18, 13:29)Guardian Hope Wrote: Dated: January 17, 2017

From Ashes Community,

When I embarked on this endeavour handed down to me from @im85288 and @badaas I foresaw nothing more than a skin that would stay frozen in time but work as Kodi evolved. That was 2015. Now, From Ashes has evolved and has reached a scope that I personally didn't think would happen; a point where rather than a skin being frozen in time it has become a skin ever evolving and growing with the audience that uses and loves it so much. A side project - blown into a home grown full project which has taken a lot of time. I have written many times that the goal of From Ashes was to create an environment and ecosystem similar to that of Ubuntu with those capable of helping to contribute, contributing what they would like but that has seldom happened. Instead, From Ashes, and especially From Ashes Danvers, have become the epitome definition of "jack of all trades, master of none."

In someways, I think I know now what @braz may have had going through his mind when he decided to change course from Mimic 4 to Mimic 5. The reality is that as I watched the setting sun from the hills of Moorpark, California I realized that we needed to take a step back and take a look at the direction of From Ashes. How can we create a healthy community of skin users willing to help participate in its development? What is the direction of From Ashes? These, among many other questions, have led us to our current point.

I realize it every time someone asks about a bug from ten pages ago that has slipped through the cracks: the ratio of developers to users is just too low and the tools for developers to keep track of user requests are currently non-existent but have been planned now for some time.

In a week or two, From Ashes Danvers will enter its tenth beta. It won't be a large update. Just something to address glaring issues which you all may not have even noticed. After that, there will be a long interregnum as we cultivate what's needed to actually move From Ashes forward and into For Another Age.

As From Ashes is really the only Arctic Zephyr mod left and with that some have said it's divulged enough to be considered its own skin, the course of the From Ashes Project is rather unclear. With a continually growing demand that three people can't ever hope to keep up with, I will for the first time since the From Ashes Project started interject with a request for those that want to take From Ashes to the next level to PM me or to post here because until we have a decently sized capable team I fear that From Ashes isn't going to go anywhere in the time being.

Here's something astonishing to think about: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes is downloaded approximately 1.2 million times each update from the NortheBridge by Design and Enterprise CDN alone. We can't track Emby and we don't track GitHub. Let's say a fraction of those users, about 500,000 actively use From Ashes Danvers every single day based on those same stats. This thread only has 126,000 views. It's time that we ask for additional help and get an influx of new ideas and people willing to contribute to prevent the stagnation that we see with From Ashes now.

So, in closing, after the release of the tenth beta of From Ashes Danvers, the development of From Ashes will be postponed until a real direction can be laid out and we can get some more help; and if you want to help simply shoot me a PM or post here. Let's see what we can accomplish if we cultivate a healthy, contributor community.

Sincerely,
Guardian Hope

(2017-01-19, 12:43)Mike_Doc Wrote: ...What you should do is decide that any future major updates are things you or the team want personally and then listen to peoples requests for whatever and then look at the request and see if you would actually want it in the skin for yourself, if not then say no or not right now.

(2017-01-19, 12:24)osberg Wrote: It´s extremely sad to see that this project will be stopped, You have done a hell of a job, and I really like the skin that you have made here.

But I do understand what you are going through here, and I guess this is why most jobs like this run out in the sand and nothing happens afterwords.

I truly hope that someone will step up here and help out, so the very nice project can keep running. ( I wise that I had more skills in coding / linux, but I don´t so can´t really help here.)

Thanks for all the things, support, work you have done.

(2017-01-20, 07:21)Guardian Hope Wrote:

(2017-01-19, 12:24)osberg Wrote: It´s extremely sad to see that this project will be stopped, You have done a hell of a job, and I really like the skin that you have made here.

But I do understand what you are going through here, and I guess this is why most jobs like this run out in the sand and nothing happens afterwords.

I truly hope that someone will step up here and help out, so the very nice project can keep running. ( I wise that I had more skills in coding / linux, but I don´t so can´t really help here.)

Thanks for all the things, support, work you have done.

The From Ashes Project isn't going anywhere; I didn't mean to allude to a cessation of releases in their entirety. It's just after Beta 10 goes out the door the From Ashes Project is going to undergo a lot of restructuring to align philosophy with the way we do things and I think Mike, soxisim, and karlshea all have valid points. Especially if the daunting task of For Another Age and the possibility of Project Erso go through. We've been running From Ashes "shotgun" style and that's no longer working. It has outgrown that.

One of the aforementioned said bug tracking, or project management at this point, will likely go a long way towards sanity and while it's been on the 'to-do list' it's been something that's been neglected in favor of continued Danvers updates. It has to stop as a house without a foundation cannot stand and that's exactly what Danvers has become.

After Beta 10 is released which should be pretty stable it will be time to handle things we should have done long ago like getting the From Ashes Project site running, have project tracking with upvoting and downvoting feature requests, and layout the map of From Ashes to For Another Age.

And most importantly, create that pseudo-Canonical/Ubuntu environment where the community can contribute their ideas and what they want to see while we make sure everything works in harmony and add mainstay features that we want. It's probably going to take two weeks (it's a lot of applications and a lot of writing) but just taking a step back has allowed me to figure out where to go to next with From Ashes and while it may be completely unprecedented to do it - it never hurts.

It's going to be an interesting next several weeks for From Ashes but I do want to especially thank Mike for helping me to take the step back and see really where I want this project to go. I also want to thank everyone who gave their insights - sometimes it helps to get an outside perspective to know what to do next.

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