MediaStream skin for MP (3 Viewers)

[pilehave]

Well if someone wants what I've done to continue on he just has to ask. ;-)

Well... I thought I already did that, but I'll try again

"Could you perhaps share the current skin-work, I'm sure a few here would like to continue the work..."

I have already made the home screen, but I would REALLY like to not redo the rest of the skin, as this home-screen took like a whole week (lots of animations and stuff)

Regards, Mikkel

 

[Darre]

I liked spucks screenies better then the original ones

Pilehave: Care to send me the files for the basic home? Curious on how it looks in action

 

[spuck]

Actually I think mine look worse than the original. mostly because the non-bold default font is missing. I have no idea where this one is? It's not included with mediastream. There's only 2x bold (2 exactly same fonts ), 1x bold caps, 1x non-bold caps.

 

[Darre]

So when are you uploading spuck?

 

[pilehave]

I liked spucks screenies better then the original ones

Pilehave: Care to send me the files for the basic home? Curious on how it looks in action

Sure...but beware, it's only a crude prototype, if I do the rest of the skin I will make a plugin for MP that will generate the myHome.xml file, by checking which plugins are installed and enabled. Right now, I have to do changes manually and it takes like forever (editing the xml-file manually).

The textures are not quite the same as in MediaStream, but it's more a proof of concept than it is a finished file

ATM I have only included these pages: weather, movies, music, pictures, tv, plugins, system. Plex/XBMC has a lot of settings available in the "blade" in each module, and since these are not in MP (most settings done from the standalone MP Configuration program) I have not put in a blade that slides out when you press enter.

The prototype doesn't remember last opened module right now. If I decide to finish the home-screen I think I'll put it in the plugin.

Download: http://cm3.dk/Streamed.zip

Edit: You need the fonts from the MediaStream skin if you want the fonts to be right. And like spuck I don't know why there's missing a font, and the same font is include twice, but with different names? Perhaps it's just a mistake...

 

[SMa]

Anyone working on this skin?

 

[pilehave]

mattsk88 and I are making progress, but we have to agree what resolution to make it. I think that the original skin is 1280 x 720 and that suits my needs perfect, but I know a lot would rather have it 1366 x 768...so, we may have to do two resolutions.

 

[spuck]

no point in doing 1366x768 imo, you'd just be upscaling the original graphics anyway? MP already does that.

 

[SMa]

²nd that

If we can believe MP's screen survey:
31% of the users uses 1920*1080
20% of the users uses 1280*720
15% of the users uses 1366*768

1280*720 works well on 1280*720 screens, 1366*768 screens, and also 1920*1080 screens.
While 1366*768 only works well on its native resolution.

Imho, there's no point in focussing on 1366*768

 

[revs]

And lower resolutions seem to run faster too