(2014-03-25, 21:05)DerekCuster Wrote: 2 small requests

1 - can a new download (zip) be added to allow us to grab the latest version.
2 - is it possible to change/set a global wallpaper/background? I can't seem to find the ability to do this anywhere?

Any advise?

(2014-03-27, 10:57)DerekCuster Wrote: Hmm. I can't extract the corrupted zip file. It says corrupt and stops the extraction?

Weird...

Never mind. It's a shame to see this kind of being abandoned though, it so close to being a complete and beautiful polished product.. Hopefully it will be revisited soon.

(2014-03-27, 10:57)DerekCuster Wrote: It's a shame to see this kind of being abandoned though, it so close to being a complete and beautiful polished product.. Hopefully it will be revisited soon.

(2014-03-27, 20:07)DerekCuster Wrote: That's why I said "kind of" as it is "kind of" being abandoned as:

A: You can't actually download anymore (corrupt zip)
B: It's not as actively updated as the new WIP
C: The thread is very inactive in comparison to previously.

I'd say an unfinished skin, with no means to download, while a new skin is developed and then a complete rewrite of this one would constitute it "kind of" being abandoned at this particular moment in time

I wasn't being mean or anything, just one minute is was all a buzz in here, then silence, no way way to down load and no further updates.. Our views may differ, but is say it's ok to say that it seems that it's "kind of" being abandoned

(2014-03-27, 20:52)furii Wrote: well, A is flat out wrong. i was able to just download and successfully extract the zip from here: https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arctic/archive/master.zip
and even if the zip is corrupted for some people one could actually use git the way it was intended and clone it.

i guess one place where we disagree is how complete the skin is. aside from a few bug here and there i would hardly call this incomplete. every xbmc core function and then some is included.

where i have issue is the use of the word abandoned as it is incorrect. if jurial had no intention of ever updating the skin again, then you'd be correct. there are plenty of skins that have been abandoned, just look at anything by hitcher. development of arctic might be on hiatus but it's not abandoned. i think it would be unfair for someone just learning of the skin to come here, go to the last page and see someone say the work has been abandoned when that is not the case.

(2014-03-27, 13:21)DerekCuster Wrote: Fantastic!

Is this the latest version with the latest commits? If so that's great of you to have posted it for us.

Thank you for sharing this version

One last thing,
I noticed on my old machine (non updated) that there is an option for "backgrounds" I think it's shown in the screenshots section stop on the first post, this allowed us to set a global wallpaper etc? Is this still possible or was this removed for some reason?

(2014-03-27, 21:38)DerekCuster Wrote: Oxford English states abandoned as having many meaning, one of which is to "cease to support" but not indefinitely. So "kind of" and the quotes are incredibly important there... Indicate that while not semantically abandoned, it's kind of abandoned right now.

We can argue semantics all day, interpretation is a very personal thing, but as far as the use of my words, I stand by them as abandoned by definition does not mean indefinitely, and "kind of" abandoned emphasises that point even more

Quote:to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: to abandon one's farm; to abandon a child; to abandon a sinking ship.

Quote:give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking).

Quote:To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely; to renounce
utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on;
to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or
fidelity; to quit; to surrender.