Apollo One (2 Viewers)

[MrTechno]

When it's feature complete I assume there will be scope for themes and variations on Apollo One, much as most skins seem to start off as copies of another?

 

[wizard123]

To provide a perspective from somebody mainly just reading this:

An architect designs a very nice, stylish and modern house, but he cant build it himself. So he asks his friends to help him out build this house. In the beginning everybody agrees with the designers descissions, but after a while everybody has their own ideas. The electrician has some good ideas about some technical features, and the roof guy has some ideas aswell. To an extent thats all nice and the designer is willing to discuss these and compromise. But when more and more people want to change more and more things, it seems he gets a bit frustrated as he sees his baby becoming a blur of thousands of ideas and his disgn guidelines thrown over board.

The question is, what do we/you want? I stylish and thought through skin, or a blur of thousand ideas?

This is a problem in many places. Many movies, series and games had great premises when they where written but the studios/publishers more often then not come in and say they want this changed and that changed and what not, and we all are frustrated we get a worse product because of this.

So my opinion on the matter is, let @wizard123 design and let him decide what goes and what doesnt, because art is not something made in a democracy.

I think you managed to nail it in a much more diplomatic way lol thanks

 

[morpheus_xx]

@ge2301 and @wizard123
are there any pending changes you would like to include for a new Weekly build today?

 

[ge2301]

For the cover flow view there is still an unsolved error, which I want to remove. The cover flow view is compltely empty after start of MP2 and switching to movies. Only changing the the view style once to list or grid and switching back makes the covers appear. I will be back late in the night today and can not fix it in time for the weekly build. If the problem remains, I need your help @morpheus_xx

 

[ge2301]

Could remove the error finally. Here the draft. Problem is, that all items use by standard the focus frame.

@wizard123 Besides the focus frame, does it look ok? I tried to make the covers slightly wider, but then only 4 instead of 5 covers visible.
@morpheus_xx For cover flow view the focus frame needs to be removed.

 

[wizard123]

Looks good nice work, only thing for me is that the covers should be slightly closer together and they should start and end the same as the text below ie. The width of cover flow should be they same as the text below which should fix the width of cover problem.

 

[ge2301]

Looks good nice work, only thing for me is that the covers should be slightly closer together and they should start and end the same as the text below ie. The width of cover flow should be they same as the text below which should fix the width of cover problem.

• The distance between the covers comes from the glow frame, which extends the margin around the covers. I'll try a few things to improve it.
  
• The left offset is shared with the other views, since the vertical scroll bar is for those on left side. Shall I move the vertical scroll bar so far to the left that in all views the covers are inline with the content text?

 

[morpheus_xx]

We can adjust the margins of the horizontal ItemsPanel if needed. First we should remove the focus rect.

To control styles, check my commit https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-2/commit/a7d12a3e7aaeb1f83282db84edb37b942685f25c. I have changed the condition to check from CoverLayout to ListLayout. This should be extended check 3 conditions in principle: "({0} = ListLayout ? {1} : ({0} = GridLayout ? {2} : {3})"

 

[wizard123]

Yea align all posters etc to the text bottom left the scrollbar should be to the left of alignment as its only visible when using a mouse.

 

[ge2301]

I implemented all alignments and removed focus frame for cover view yesterday.
Will upload some screens when I have time.

Edit: Here the view: