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<blockquote data-quote="Gertt" data-source="post: 809234" data-attributes="member: 98634">Yes to all these questions, though I think you'll need a custom plugin for some of the more advanced features.- LatestMediaHandler and FanartHandler will be able to provide backdrops for random movies/series in database and also provide details and backdrops for the user's latest added movies/series/...- Weather and RSS can be made available to the skin using the InfoService-plugin if I'm not mistakenSo a first limitation would be the need for a custom plugin to get the data you want from the various databases. (Don't know if you've got any programming experience but I'm sure there are tons of people willing to help around here.)I think your second major limitation is going to be the horizontal 'swipe', i.e. going from movies to tv-series in your latest mockup. Sure, you could press the right-arrow until you reach the edge of the movies-page and then press it again to make it swipe to the series-page, but it wouldn't be very user friendly. To make this skin work, IMHO, you'd need to be able to do the swipe thing with one button press and I don't know for sure if this is possible. I'd suggest asking one of the skilled skinners about this.Anyway, awesome skin idea, would love to see it happen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gertt, post: 809234, member: 98634"] Yes to all these questions, though I think you'll need a custom plugin for some of the more advanced features. - LatestMediaHandler and FanartHandler will be able to provide backdrops for random movies/series in database and also provide details and backdrops for the user's latest added movies/series/... - Weather and RSS can be made available to the skin using the InfoService-plugin if I'm not mistaken So a first limitation would be the need for a custom plugin to get the data you want from the various databases. (Don't know if you've got any programming experience but I'm sure there are tons of people willing to help around here.) I think your second major limitation is going to be the horizontal 'swipe', i.e. going from movies to tv-series in your latest mockup. Sure, you could press the right-arrow until you reach the edge of the movies-page and then press it again to make it swipe to the series-page, but it wouldn't be very user friendly. To make this skin work, IMHO, you'd need to be able to do the swipe thing with one button press and I don't know for sure if this is possible. I'd suggest asking one of the skilled skinners about this. Anyway, awesome skin idea, would love to see it happen. [/QUOTE]

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