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<blockquote data-quote="enchant" data-source="post: 1246406" data-attributes="member: 72572"><p>That's exactly right. I don't need an indication to tell me what genre a show is. I know completely what a show is about and what type it is before I ever start downloading it and don't need an icon of a spaceship to tell me that Altered Carbon is science fiction.</p><p></p><p>More often than not, it's easy to determine if file is a video or a directory.</p><p>Game of Thrones <-- this is a directory</p><p>Game of Thrones S05E03 WEBDL-1080p <-- this is a video file</p><p></p><p>In the primary directory where my HTPC looks for videos, I divide them into four directories</p><p>pat</p><p>sue</p><p>drama</p><p>comedy</p><p></p><p>Pat and Sue are directories specific to me and my wife for shows that I like and she doesn't, and vice versa.</p><p>drama and comedy could just as easily have been named "hour" and "half hour". For the most part, we're watching dramas. Sometimes we don't have time to watch a full hour, or perhaps we just watched an especially disturbing drama and need something fun, so we go to comedy.</p><p></p><p>Within each of those folders are either subfolders of an entire season that I grabbed, OR individual shows that show up as they air weekly. We tend to first look at that list of weekly shows to watch first, so we want to be able to quickly skip down under the list of folders to the individual video files. This is where having folder icons next to the directories would be convenient.</p><p></p><p>CyberSimian, thanks for the research you did to get me that information. That gets me closer to what I'm trying to achieve. I find the structure of the skins files a bit daunting. I'm not sure what is there for me to change and what might be hardcoded in the MP program itself. I some skins, I can see that the image file I'm looking at is defaultFolder.png (or something), but although I can see it on the screen, I can't find it listed in any of the xml files. I'll see entries such as this:</p><p></p><p><textcontent1>#selecteditem</textcontent1></p><p></p><p>Regular html experience tells me that #selecteditem should be defined somewhere, like a css file, but I don't see that definition anywhere. That must happen on the fly within the program itself.</p><p></p><p>But this gives me someplace to experiment and I thank you for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="enchant, post: 1246406, member: 72572"] That's exactly right. I don't need an indication to tell me what genre a show is. I know completely what a show is about and what type it is before I ever start downloading it and don't need an icon of a spaceship to tell me that Altered Carbon is science fiction. More often than not, it's easy to determine if file is a video or a directory. Game of Thrones <-- this is a directory Game of Thrones S05E03 WEBDL-1080p <-- this is a video file In the primary directory where my HTPC looks for videos, I divide them into four directories pat sue drama comedy Pat and Sue are directories specific to me and my wife for shows that I like and she doesn't, and vice versa. drama and comedy could just as easily have been named "hour" and "half hour". For the most part, we're watching dramas. Sometimes we don't have time to watch a full hour, or perhaps we just watched an especially disturbing drama and need something fun, so we go to comedy. Within each of those folders are either subfolders of an entire season that I grabbed, OR individual shows that show up as they air weekly. We tend to first look at that list of weekly shows to watch first, so we want to be able to quickly skip down under the list of folders to the individual video files. This is where having folder icons next to the directories would be convenient. CyberSimian, thanks for the research you did to get me that information. That gets me closer to what I'm trying to achieve. I find the structure of the skins files a bit daunting. I'm not sure what is there for me to change and what might be hardcoded in the MP program itself. I some skins, I can see that the image file I'm looking at is defaultFolder.png (or something), but although I can see it on the screen, I can't find it listed in any of the xml files. I'll see entries such as this: <textcontent1>#selecteditem</textcontent1> Regular html experience tells me that #selecteditem should be defined somewhere, like a css file, but I don't see that definition anywhere. That must happen on the fly within the program itself. But this gives me someplace to experiment and I thank you for that. [/QUOTE]
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