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Bleazle

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Sure thing :) But remember this effects all screens where the detailed information appears so it may give undesired results depending on how you use backdrop i.e. there might be some screens such as MovingPictures etc where you want the detailed info to appear automatically...

But if you don't here's what I did:

1. Open BackdropMenuEditor.xml with Notepad or similar (C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal directory)

2. Find this line "<entry name="IdleTimeOther">X</entry>" (where "X" will be the timeout in seconds that you set in the menu editor)

3. I changed "X" to "300" but you can choose whatever you want.

Save, close then restart MP. That's it :) If you change your BasicHome menu you'll need to repeat the above steps. If you don't like the results just change "X" back to whatever you want it to be :)

Note: I have modified several screens where I prefer to see the details straight away, the 4TR Recorded TV screen being one of those but if you haven't modified this screen this "mod" may not be such a good idea because you will have to manually bring up the details of your Recorded TV (for example).

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AW: Backdrop - Skin (RELEASED!!!)

Hey cul8er,

I've been following (and heavily using) this skin closely since the beginning and really like the focus on the Fanart! Period.
One thing that really bugs me though (and from reading over this thread it seems some people would agree) are the watched/unwatched colors...

The problem for me is:
My eyes tend to be drawn to the items with the brightest text first and my mind assumes that these must be the most important in the current list or view.
Therefore with the background skin I always tend do focus on the white (watched) items first and then when the resume dialog pops up I say something along the lines like - Damn, you Anthrax! Look at the slightly darker blue text first when looking for unwatched items!!! (well, lot's more swearing going on to be honest)

Anyone else in favour of switching watched/unwatched colors? (Or is my eyesight-brain wiring to blame) ;-)


kind regards,
Anthrax
 

rekenaar

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    Re: AW: Backdrop - Skin (RELEASED!!!)

    Anyone else in favour of switching watched/unwatched colors? (Or is my eyesight-brain wiring to blame) ;-)

    my wife :)
    (main user of TV Series & recordings in my (her) house)
     

    Bleazle

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    + 1 but I'm running a Bleazle'd version of backdrop and have already changed the colours (+font face, font sizes and a bit of other stuff) so my vote doesn't really count - it's still backdrop at heart though :)
     

    anngi

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    AW: Backdrop - Skin (RELEASED!!!)

    [EDIT] I found the bug...was looking through the forum and saw that the bug came from the installer itself. so great job cul8er for that skin - it's my new Nr. 1 [/Edit]
    hello..

    I've a problem with the installer. it crashes all the time. I tried it 1 week ago and after 100 times of crashes i installed the backdrop theme but after 2 days i've to reinstall mp again because nothing worked anymore...alway "Appcrash" error.

    now i tried to reinstall backdrop theme again but same error as always:


    Problemsignatur:
    Problemereignisname: AppHangB1
    Anwendungsname: MpeInstaller.exe
    Anwendungsversion: 1.1.7.0
    Anwendungszeitstempel: 4dac987e
    Absturzsignatur: bde6
    Absturztyp: 256
    Betriebsystemversion: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
    Gebietsschema-ID: 1031
    Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 1: bde6ae044021672242dfffc233c4e7b7
    Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 2: 3a05
    Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 3: 3a05269d99e6940f0fb80a0747ce931c
    Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 4: bde6
    Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 5: bde6ae044021672242dfffc233c4e7b7
    Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 6: 3a05
    Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 7: 3a05269d99e6940f0fb80a0747ce931c

    My PC:
    Window 7 Enterprise x64Bit
    Intel Core2Duo E8500
    4GB RAM
    ATI Radeon Hd 4570

    I'm going nuts not to use this skin because it was perfect. Now I'm on StreamedMp again and everything works..also other MP Installer works for me.

    anngi
     

    plasibo

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    I know your going for minimalism in this skin (which I love) and I was just wondering what you think of the Night skin for XBMC, specifically the main menu, and if you like it if there is any chance you would incorporate something similar into backdrop.
     

    userjan

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    I've tride to add some backgrounds to the online video plugin.

    So far the Countries folders and English sites have backdrops, for most of the websites i could not find large logo backgrounds so i made printscreens for this from the websites.

    If you want to give this a try please download and extract attachment, and add the image files to:
    C:\Users\All Users\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Skin FanArt\Scraper\Movies



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    ferlandsen

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    Hi!

    I'am trying to install the backdrop skin but the installer just stops. (Not responding)
    Do you know anything about this problem?
     

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