MediaPortal 2 Weekly snapshot (2016-08-20) (3 Viewers)

[ge2301]

It won't appear under skins, because it's a theme Select BlueVision and go to the settings selecting change Theme. Then you have the Win10 and Titanium Extended theme.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Win10 is a theme

Ah, right.

Well, I am concerned that at least 50% of users will not even discover the existence of themes and run their system with either Default or BV.

We could consider to display themes on the same page in a two-column view where the right column content changes when the main skin is selected in the left one. Alternatively we should take a look at the explanatory text, provided an attribute exists for the screen and its sub-contents.

 

[ge2301]

I'd also prefer that. When the focus is on a skin it should directly offer the themes. If you want just the skin, user can select default in the list.
At the moment Win10 and TE theme are hard to find. Essprcially the TE theme

 

[HTPCSourcer]

I'd also prefer that. When the focus is on a skin it should directly offer the themes.

So this is coming down to updating/modifying skins (looking around for anybody capable of doing this... )

Will we continue to use the current "Default" as default in the future?
A fresh install uses BV, right? So it would be sufficient to start updating BV and fix themes later.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

IIRC only the uninstall 0.53 part is not fully done?

I just checked if Dokan's latest installer would remove existing older versions - it doesn't . Not really an issue, we simply need to define which Dokan version we are distributing and uninstall any older one.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
ATM we have two Skins, Default and BlueVision. Default is a very simple basic skin, normally only used as "fallback". And for this it must be included. Every Plugin that needs skin files must bring "Default" skin files with. As every Skin even the Default skin has themes. In case of Default skin only in three different colors.

And as every skin has at least one theme, the "default theme" also Blue Vision has a "default theme" This theme is selected after a fresh installation. BlueVision has a lot more themes to offer. Like you can see here.

All themes excerpt for the Cloudy theme are included in the installation package. Cloudy Theme is done by me to fit my personal taste and is available for separate download in the Forum... The Grey theme only is a color variant of the Default theme and Default large is a variant with bigger font sizes to offer better readability. Windows 10, Titanium Extended and Cloudy are more different in look and feel. But they are no separate skins, only themes of BlueVision as they all need the BV menu structure (the bluevision.dll) to work...

So it would be sufficient to start updating BV and fix themes later.

I'm pretty sure to alter this some modifications on the underlaying c# code has to be done first... Skinning for MP2 is not that easy, as you need a designer and a developer at the same time... That's why such changes are often that hard to achieve or never done at all... I believe this is something that should be done during the settings overhaul, that is planed (and necessary) nevertheless...

 

[ge2301]

I see it also part of the settings overhaul, on the list its @lopez.tuparles But he'd need a bit help in the beginning

 

[aspik]

IIRC only the uninstall 0.53 part is not fully done?

Yes, its the only missing thing. The rest should be already working with DokanY 1.X.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

[The rest should be already working with DokanY 1.X.

Now I am confused. This build is not working with Dokan 1.0.0 and simply replacing 0.5.3 by 1.0.0 is not sufficient. I assume that some merges would be required, right?

@morpheus_xx , the "Repair" option does not restore a missing Dokan. Is it correct to assume that the current setup package controls both install and uninstall/repair process?

 

[aspik]

I assume that some merges would be required, right?

Yes, this branch has to be merged. Without the changes from the branch, the current MP2 Version does not know anything about DokanY 1.X, it works only with dokan 0.5.3.