Monochrome (for those who like dark skins), updated... (4 Viewers)

[TheBatfink]

I love this skin. So clean and well designed it really does show you dont need all these flashy graphics and effects to have something that looks really good! Thanks!

I am using the new font supplied with the install, however, although I do like it, I'm finding it a little bit too small. Is there a way to increase font size?

Thanks!

EDIT: Found the solution here - https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/change_font_sizes-t4910.html?t=4910&highlight=increase+font (turns out I had just deleted fonts.xml by accident anyway!)

 

[joostzilla]

Hey, been using this skin for the past few days now, and i have a suggestion under the film strip view...

At the moment, you have the 'Back' arrow (which takes up up a directory)
You have five movies shown on screen (perfect) - two either side of the selected title

However, when you move past the fith movie, the 'Back' arrow moves, and a sixth movie is shown, with the active movie being at the far right of the screen. In my oppinion, this looks bad.

My suggestion:

-Only display 5 movies at any time (make the ones already there a little bigger)
-The active movie should always be in the middle. Unless the movie is one of the first two movies, or the last two movies. This also gives a much nicer feeling of which movies you've just looked at, and which movies are coming up.
-Using this method, you can also keep the 'Back' button visible

Great idea. I hope this will be included in the next release.

 

[mickyblue]

Would it be possible to add to the My Videos section all the logos such as video / audio codecs etc as used in the MP-TVSeries plugin


Mickyblue

 

[Darre]

Hey, been using this skin for the past few days now, and i have a suggestion under the film strip view...

At the moment, you have the 'Back' arrow (which takes up up a directory)
You have five movies shown on screen (perfect) - two either side of the selected title

However, when you move past the fith movie, the 'Back' arrow moves, and a sixth movie is shown, with the active movie being at the far right of the screen. In my oppinion, this looks bad.

My suggestion:

-Only display 5 movies at any time (make the ones already there a little bigger)
-The active movie should always be in the middle. Unless the movie is one of the first two movies, or the last two movies. This also gives a much nicer feeling of which movies you've just looked at, and which movies are coming up.
-Using this method, you can also keep the 'Back' button visible

Great idea. I hope this will be included in the next release.

This is a limitation of the film strip view it self and not something you can do with the skin files.. So to get this better you would have to have some dev look at the code. The idea is good, and its been suggested quite some times before in different skins, but as I said you need a dev

Zeflash?

 

[zeflash]

Psycho Reptile: Okay then, so basically you've just confirmed that for this to work, the movies can't be in a separete folder for the info to display properly. I guess this is ok as long as you don't have DVD-rips (Audio_ts, Video_ts) folders. Can I suggest to Zeflash (given he as the time and so on) if the possibility to *also* show info for folders (if in movie database)? There is an option in Configuration.exe, next to the added "Use IMDB data in shares view" for folders, but that does not work for shares.

As the IMDB import works now (within MP), if you go to IMDB when having the folder selected, it will work, but still search for a match of the videofile, not the folder. I can't say how the majority of MP users store their media, but a guess would be in a clean folder hierearchy.

Thanks
Emph

Right, I figured it wasn't working for DVD folders a week ago, and then went in vacation
I'll try to take a look at it and provide updated dlls asap.

This is a limitation of the film strip view it self and not something you can do with the skin files.. So to get this better you would have to have some dev look at the code. The idea is good, and its been suggested quite some times before in different skins, but as I said you need a dev

Zeflash?

Ah well, I'm not in the dev team yet (even though it's being processed), so I'm not going to submit another patch again just for that, I fear it's going to be lost otherwise. Maybe in the future.

 

[aKey83]

Wich size should the cover for the FanArt jpg have to fit perfect in Monochrome? Maybe someone can upload a PSD Dummy File?

akey

 

[Psycho Reptile]

The standard resolution for Fan Art is 1360x768, Here is the link to a post by mirk containing a psd

 

[NewUser]

Hey is it possible to make highlighted objects more visible? I sometimes get lost inside my tv-series plugin. Since the white border is not very visible (from a distance)

 

[rtv]

Hey is it possible to make highlighted objects more visible? I sometimes get lost inside my tv-series plugin. Since the white border is not very visible (from a distance)

+1

especially since the "yes" button's text is a brigher white regardless whether it is highlighted or not..

 

[Psycho Reptile]

I've just uploaded v1.3. I'll see what I can do about making selected items more clear - a subtle gradient or something.

rtv, what "yes" (screenie?) button are you talking about?