(2017-09-14, 16:38)horstepipe Wrote: - I think seeing just 3 channels at once is a little less and they look reaaaly big, so maybe making a smaller landscape widget here would be nice. Having some epg info when hovering over the channel icon would be great, too. At the moment you only see the channel name
I've already addressed widget sizing questions multiple times in this thread. Short answer is no. All widgets have the same height. It is too much of a pain trying to manage the code and get the alignment correct when widgets have multiple heights.
If you want more/smaller widgets, then use the square widget. I just pushed an update that will retain the aspectratio of PVR icons rather than scale them for square widgets.
(2017-09-14, 16:38)horstepipe Wrote: - When entering the tv channels window, the picons are squashed:
Fixed
(2017-09-14, 16:38)horstepipe Wrote: - In epg window, I'd like to be able to make the channel names disappear. As I'm having picons I don't need both so this will bring more room for the important epg info:
Is there an option to get into the side menu from epg info? I don't see an option to switch between channel groups etc here.
EPG is actually really picky about sizing of things. Plus I'm trying to avoid settings bloat, so its a no to this request. I don't want to have a toggle for every single little piece of info.
You can open the side menu with whatever button is mapped to the "menu" command in your keymap. On the default keyboard setup it is "M".
On remotes it depends. This command will open the side menu in any screen.
(2017-09-14, 16:38)horstepipe Wrote:
Movie view Media Info 2
I love this view for movies, here is some brainstorming which maybe would make it even better:
I think what should be tried to accomplish, is getting as less running text as possible by eliminating redundant information.
You could remove the (green marked) rating on the right, because it is already available on the (green marked) left info line. Same for the red marked infos. Maybe you find a space-saving way for the (yellow marked) watched/unwatched/set indicator, too. Then the movie titles can be way longer before they become a running text.
Another idea is to remove the brown marked title on the left (if it won't get too confusing then), so the plot would have more place. And maybe putting the whole (blue marked) section more on top, this would give even more room for the plot. When this space is freed, maybe you'd think about adding info like movie tagline (which is currently not available in any view of the skin), budget and revenue (if this is possible without slowing it down too much).
I'm pretty set on how the info displays. The skin reuses the same list layout and same info layout pretty much for every view. This consistency is so that information is always in the expected place no matter what the view type. Still, I will respond to some of your suggestions
-- The rating on the right of the list (marked in green) -- This label is not a fixed label, but rather changes dynamically depending on the sorting of the list. If you sort by duration it will show duration, sort by year it will show year and so on. Also, the rating in the list and the rating next to the imdb info are actually different. The rating in the list is whatever value is scraped to your library (this could come from imdb, or it could come from themoviedb, or it could come from an nfo file depending on settings). The value next to the imdb icon is retrieved from imdb via skin helper. Even if they are from the same source, the imdb rating provides a way to see up to date ratings. (The star rating, on the other hand, is from your library -- but if you set a user rating it will use that instead).
-- I definitely wont remove the large title -- namely because my eyes expect the title to be there. When I'm scrolling through a list, I actually use that part of the screen as my point of reference.
-- In terms of the blue marked section, no I wont be changing the spacing between elements. I have worked hard to make this consistent through out the skin (40px spacing). I have specifically approached the skin with the idea of giving space for elements to breathe. The last thing I want to do is try and cramp things together to jam more information in that is of only a passing minor interest.
Regarding budget/revenue/tagline -- I would like to incorporate these into the info screen somehow. However, I don't think this info needs to be readily available in the library view. I have specifically chosen to display the information that helps me to decide what movie to watch (ratings, duration, genre, classification, plot, end time, number of oscars). Whilst the tagline/budget/revenue is interesting, it isn't really a factor in deciding what I want to watch. I'm really quite against this notion of attempting to stuff every bit of art and info into a viewtype -- put too much stuff in and it all starts looking like a myspace or geocities page. I get the appeal of being able to see lots of different details about a movie, but there has to be some sort of balance...
