I think it would be better if you used a standard background (one that goes with the skin) and then work on the guide to make it easy to read. I love beautiful pictures of women in the background... but my wife does not. She would be asking me, why isn't her picture there? I don't know if this is a video background or a picture you selected but I think it needs to go with the skin and be easy to read. You are a professional, and we want a professional looking skin.
3DMP - Blue version Beta1 (1 Viewer)
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ASiDiE said:
This background are a video playing on background . I'm sorry if you wife does not.
The background while play video are from the skin. Blue. I try this mod on my tv and without this background the tv guide are unreadable because glass effect.
But now i try with this mod and works and are very readable.
rgs
Croatia
ASiDiE, you didn't get it (and good morning) 
She's talking about blueish background in the area where the guide is, and not the picture of the woman... The woman is live video (tv or video playing).
You're right about guide tho. It seems a bit difficult to read with this glass efect on it... Maybe only current programs should have this effect, or the way around (not current programs), to make better distiction... Or change the colour of the text, or... It's worth play with different settings to see witch suits better...
rgs,
pirlone
She's talking about blueish background in the area where the guide is, and not the picture of the woman... The woman is live video (tv or video playing).
You're right about guide tho. It seems a bit difficult to read with this glass efect on it... Maybe only current programs should have this effect, or the way around (not current programs), to make better distiction... Or change the colour of the text, or... It's worth play with different settings to see witch suits better...
rgs,
pirlone
I think this realy could become one of the best 'lighter' skins Mediaportal has at this moment. It's clean and fast.There is one thing, that automaticly comes with this highly customizable media solution, that could be better, which has nothing to do with your skinning skills ....
I have a lot of plugins installed. For testing and for regular use. I prefer having them in the 'home' screen (not the basic homescreen ofcourse). Not in the homescreen, but one screen beneath it. I don't like to have to select two 'buttons', from the basic homescreen, to start the plugin I want to use. But this means that I have a lot of options in the non-basic homescreen. To much to my taste. There is no specific order, so I can't see howmany times I have to click to get where I want to be. Maybe it would help if the plugins would be sorted by name, if there was a indicator that shows where in the plugins list I am, an/or submenu's are added where the shortcuts to the plugins a catagorized.
In your skin, I can't find the skortcut to the non-basic homescreen, so I can start more parts of MP then listed in the basic homescreen. Am I overlooking it?
edit: Oh....I forgot to mention the sounds used are great too!
And maybe...to my humble opinion....the glass effect in the TVguide is a little overdone. It looks good, but it doesn't realy help with the readebility.
....I have a lot of plugins installed. For testing and for regular use. I prefer having them in the 'home' screen (not the basic homescreen ofcourse). Not in the homescreen, but one screen beneath it. I don't like to have to select two 'buttons', from the basic homescreen, to start the plugin I want to use. But this means that I have a lot of options in the non-basic homescreen. To much to my taste. There is no specific order, so I can't see howmany times I have to click to get where I want to be. Maybe it would help if the plugins would be sorted by name, if there was a indicator that shows where in the plugins list I am, an/or submenu's are added where the shortcuts to the plugins a catagorized.
In your skin, I can't find the skortcut to the non-basic homescreen, so I can start more parts of MP then listed in the basic homescreen. Am I overlooking it?
edit: Oh....I forgot to mention the sounds used are great too!
And maybe...to my humble opinion....the glass effect in the TVguide is a little overdone. It looks good, but it doesn't realy help with the readebility.
Hi again Vanessa!
I don't know if I dare to come with another suggestion... I have used your skin for a while now and noticed that the icons in home.xml is too equal to eachother. When using Media Portal I can't see the differences between My Trailers, My Music or Play DVD if I don't read the text. My suggestion is that you create more unique graphics for each item.
This is not a prior issue and can be done after the stable release. Otherwise, it works flawless and it's not even beta 2?? Great skin!
I don't know if I dare to come with another suggestion...
I have used your skin for a while now and noticed that the icons in home.xml is too equal to eachother. When using Media Portal I can't see the differences between My Trailers, My Music or Play DVD if I don't read the text. My suggestion is that you create more unique graphics for each item.This is not a prior issue and can be done after the stable release. Otherwise, it works flawless and it's not even beta 2?? Great skin!
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mikael said:Hi again Vanessa!
I don't know if I dare to come with another suggestion...
This is not a prior issue and can be done after the stable release. Otherwise, it works flawless and it's not even beta 2?? Great skin!
I will try change but now it's priority number 100
rgs
Wow, you are popular!
vanessa_cl said:This it's better?
Hi,
is this still the preferred solution for home.screen?
I hope it will.
'Cause with the first one, we got a prolem with localization.
'Cause music library is part of the graphics, it cannot be translated.
Regards
Ralph