Skin project: Core

[ThaClown]

I love the skin! really nice work.

For me some fonts are good, and some are too small.
The overall main fonts are good (movie title, main menu tekst, storyline tekst)
The sub menu teksts are too small (music title, Tv series title)

I use a 40" FullHD screen in 1080P resolution.
What about a option to change the font of the various catergories?
I would like to be able to adjust the font in MP itself...

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by ThaClown

What about a option to change the font of the various catergories?
I would like to be able to adjust the font in MP itself...

would be realy cool to have.
but its not possible to add such a feature to our current skin-engine.

the changes would be so major, that you would have to start from scratch with a new one......

So only option atm. is to find a good compromise for the fontsize, or offer skins for differnet resolutions/screensizes......

[Bram]

Originally Posted by djohansson

Thanks for all the feedback! Regarding font size maybe it would be a good idea to have two versions? One with bigger fonts for smaller screens and one with smaller for bigger screens.

With my setup it looks perfect but I also run a fairly big screen.

Can you give me any hints on the font size you would require as minimum on your screens?

For mee the fontsize of the TV-guide, listviews, discriptions and OSD's (and areas I forget with the same fontsize) are to small.
I think it also has to do with the low resolution I have to use because of my CRT TV. This makes it even harder to read.

By the way.... I've mentioned before that in the music filmstrip view folders with no coverart were not zooming... Somehow, now they do. I didn't change anything.

[djohansson]

Originally Posted by infinityloop

would be realy cool to have.
but its not possible to add such a feature to our current skin-engine.

the changes would be so major, that you would have to start from scratch with a new one......

So only option atm. is to find a good compromise for the fontsize, or offer skins for differnet resolutions/screensizes......

I was thinking of the latter in that case. With my setup the font size is just perfect but I understand that a lot of people experience otherwise. Maybe it would be better to make two skins with adjusted font sizes and textures. Could be a nice second project...

[djohansson]

Originally Posted by Bram

For mee the fontsize of the TV-guide, listviews, discriptions and OSD's (and areas I forget with the same fontsize) are to small.
I think it also has to do with the low resolution I have to use because of my CRT TV. This makes it even harder to read.

By the way.... I've mentioned before that in the music filmstrip view folders with no coverart were not zooming... Somehow, now they do. I didn't change anything.

That's good to hear. I was a bit surprised first. How does it look? I have not changed the default thumbnails at all...

[mpfrank]

I had a look at this skin with MP 0.2.2.0 +SVN 14807.
In my environment the zoom function in videos and music has some problems:

- First screen with albums or covers is not zooming, only if I leave the first screen browsing the next album covers. When I then browse back to the first covers they are zoomed. Sometimes the zoomed cover is left hand side, sometimes right hand side of the screen, depending in which direction I am browsing.
Suggestion: Would it be possible to center the zoomed cover like in iTunes

- In music list view (album selected) the viz screen is overlapping the music list e.g. when returning from "now playing" screen. This happens in other music view screens too.

- Some graphics are still from B2 skin (music videos, top menu, TV osd) or has wrong graphic e.g. weather which has the same graphics like settings...

I'll use this skin to find further bugs an will post them...

Hope I can assist you to get this great skin ready.

Kind regards
mpFrank

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by djohansson

Can you give me any hints on the font size you would require as minimum on your screens?

I have been talking with frodo this morning. I also showed him your skin and he likes it a lot

He said that in his opinion the minimum fontsize should be 16.

i will try and fiddle around with the fontsizes when i get some time (maybe friday afternoon).

[mamachan]

Very very nice skin.

This plugin are already supported??:
1) My Lyrics plugin
2) My Films (mesFilms) plugin
3) MyWorldMap plugin
4) Transcoder plugin
5) OnlineVideos Plugin
6) My Last.fm plugin

Good work.

Hi.
massimo

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by mamachan

This plugin are already supported??:
1) My Lyrics plugin
2) My Films (mesFilms) plugin
3) MyWorldMap plugin
4) Transcoder plugin
5) OnlineVideos Plugin
6) My Last.fm plugin

dont that plugins come with skin files for Blue2 and others?
if so, copy them into the Core folder (wont be the same look, but at least your plugin should work).

you can then also get in touch with the authors of these plugins and ask them to make it compatible with this core skin.

[djohansson]

Originally Posted by infinityloop

I have been talking with frodo this morning. I also showed him your skin and he likes it a lot

He said that in his opinion the minimum fontsize should be 16.

i will try and fiddle around with the fontsizes when i get some time (maybe friday afternoon).

Nice to hear such positive feedback about the skin. Can you post some screenshots of your results so we can have a look?