Simpler Mediaportal Skins/Interface

[nnifty]

I'd like the ability to remove stuff from the interface I don't need, playlists / different views / different sorts / different icon layouts. I'd like a very simple Mediaportal, preferably one with a menu layout that's consistent across all plug-ins. I understand that this a job that skinners take upon themselves. But I'd really like to see just a few skins supplied with Mediportal with differing layouts, and for skinners just to work on the colours, icons and backgrounds. That would really work for me.

[sleepycol]

A good idea. I would like to remove some buttons from being displayed that I don't use. The playlist menu is pretty crowded so I would like to remove certain buttons (I think "account username" is on there? which I don't use and also "music menu" button and "eject" button when browsing music).

I think consistency is important too. I've already mentioned in other posts about the "info" button being consistent across all media browsing. Eg When viewing tv programme, browsing music, watching movie or browsing pictures when you press the info F3 button then the info for that media should be displayed. TV prog description, MP3 tag info, movie info from database, and EXIF info. This should all be in an OSD.

Consistent layout methods would be nice too. Eg in music playlist view it might be nice to also have the album view available, so that you can have a list view but see the cover art. I don't like the icon views as the text is always chopped.

[mikael]

Just open the xml-files in a text editor and remove these few lines of code that's showing the button.

Example: mymusicplaylist.xml

Remove:

      <control>
        <description>scrobble user button</description>
        <type>button</type>
        <id>29</id>
        <label>Scrobbler: </label>
        <onright>50</onright>
      </control>