[toyota12303]

Thanks everyone for all the comments, im just working on a few more changes and should be posting a test release in the next few days

[bakito]

Amazing!
I was impatient but now it is even worse!!
Thanks for the great job I can t believe this is true!
Cheers

[blueshinex]

NICE WORK, I can´t wait to test this

[dgm1960]

Absolutely fantastic work! Thank you for doing this.

[fabiomello]

Faboulous Job! :3
the tiles on the 'my pins' and the other sections will be changeable/customizable like on Xperience 1080?
also, the Games area works with advanced launcher?

[toyota12303]

Thank you and yes once i have finished adding the rest of the updating adverts then i will make them & the pins customizable to videos,music,apps,games,pictures ect and you will also be able to pin websites to them aswell & i might try and add an option to add and position items on the dashboard. e.g. you could pick a video app or movie in the settings and pick the size and where you want it positioned on the dashboard and launch it from there. but i dont know if this is possible yet i haven't tried it out.

[toyota12303]

& yes when you go to games it will open advanced launcher and i am going to try and make the game dashboard adverts feeds from youtube channels like ign. also when you play a game it will show up on your recent on the dashboard and you will be able to launch it from there aswell

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& i have also added a gameinfo window & a feature so when you launch a game it will fade into the game like the xbox and when you return it will fade out back to the dashboard.

[blueshinex]

& yes when you go to games it will open advanced launcher and i am going to try and make the game dashboard adverts feeds from youtube channels like ign. also when you play a game it will show up on your recent on the dashboard and you will be able to launch it from there aswell

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& i have also added a gameinfo window & a feature so when you launch a game it will fade into the game like the xbox and when you return it will fade out back to the dashboard.

That is absolutely perfectly

I can´t wait

[butchabay]

Keeping an eye on this, looks really interesting ! good luck toyota

[Baswazz]

Those last screenshots are great! And just a few days left to try it out. Great work!

Some tip, join Sranshaft and combine the two forces to created the best skin ever

[toyota12303]

Update :

You can download the test release from here : https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C5...0bx5CqssaU
it is still work in progress so alot still needs changing and it may contain some bugs.

some of the things i have added are :

added a search button on the charms bar to search youtube
fixed mouse support
changed animations
some adverts like the main ones get updated every time you log in and the rest i still need to change
integrated the gamertag script - you can enable this in the settings (if you use this feature you will need to change your profile name to your xbox gamertag)
added a dialog for viewing your recent achievements, gamerscore, and avatar - this is far from finished so it looks pretty bad at the moment but works

some of the things i still need to do:

finish adverts
link a ign feed to the games section of the dashboard
add setting for customizable items
add customizable pins
skin the irc chat
change the views for games,videos,music & pictures




These addons are required for this skin to work properly :
modified version of script.extendedinfo = https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3687...edinfo.zip
script.globalsearch = http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=109301
script.favourites = http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/frodo/script.favourites/
service.skin.widgets = http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/frodo/ser...n.widgets/

they should automatically install with the skin but if not you can get them from there.

Here are some other required addons for some items to work properly.

ircchat = https://github.com/divingmule/script.irc...master.zip
webbrowser = http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162544
advanced launcher = http://www.gwenael.org/Repository/plugin...2.0.10.zip
youtube : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=79487


Thankyou for testing my skin & feel free to post any suggestions or anything

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There are a few things i forgot to do :

-- 2 buttons in the settings window = setup controllers & voice control
at the moment they dont work but but i will be linking the voice control to windows so you can browse xbmc with your voice.

- also the downloads button in the charms bar doesn't work at the moment i still need to link that to the currently downloading addons.

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Any problems or bugs could you please email me at : [email protected] and i will try to fix them

[toyota12303]

Update:

i have fixed the recent section of the dashboard so when your watching something you can minimize it to there and open it again like the xbox. - also has pretty much same animations
i have also fixed those buttons that dont work.

you can download it from here : https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=C588BFB68...9684%21433

and if anyone gets problems with the adverts not showing up its because you need this file from here : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3687...edinfo.zip
you can extract this to your addons folder or in xbmc you can select install from zip.

[butchabay]

Thanx, i'll give it a shot this evening

[fabiomello]

just downloaded and tested the zip: that home animation, that home animation is freaking awesome!. kudos!

- i think tv and movies could look/work better as separate pages. and instead of static tiles, you could use skin.widgets to populate the pages with user content (latest episodes/random episodes/watchlist on the recommended sidebar /random tv shows/favorites on the square tiles on the bottom) it would look great with landscape/fanart), for the other tiles, you could use something like black's xperience1080 tile customization (backspace on tile shows customization options/etc),
- disable RSS option is missing.

thanks for releasing it for testing. keep up the good work

[toyota12303]

Here is a little video preview of my skin its a little laggy on the video but thats just the capture software. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBO32DYjg74