ORIGINAL THREAD (OLD): About the X-Factor Skin (2 Viewers)

[buddman]

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback buddyman. What do the rest of you think about the listview. Is it the layout I use for TV-Series better or is the Moving Picture the winner or should I use both (one fot tvseries and and one for moving pictures).

cheers
cul8er

I like the new list view you made and actually like Emph's suggestion, but I think it would look better if the entire thing was somewhat transparent so you could perhaps see the fanart in the background. The only other issue I have is that it seems like the description box is way too big with emph's mock up. Not sure how that could be fixed though...

 

[emphatic]

I like the new list view you made and actually like Emph's suggestion, but I think it would look better if the entire thing was somewhat transparent so you could perhaps see the fanart in the background. The only other issue I have is that it seems like the description box is way too big with emph's mock up. Not sure how that could be fixed though...

Yes, the description box (by this you mean Plot, right?) is somewhat too tall. Perhaps the Director, Writer and Actors fields could have a place under the plot in that same column? If the Genre label has more space thus reaches more to the right, you'll loose the scrolling which might look better. Also, as logo support will come soon enough in Moving Pictures, the space in the right corner towards the middle would be a very nice place to put them. Damn, I guess I'm gonna have to do a refined mockup based on the old one.

Emph

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

This is what I did (see attatchment). Thank you for all suggestions and mockups. Place for logos below rating..

What do you think?

cheers
cul8er

 

[WalkmanAA]

I like it, especially the 24 items per page. The things I don't like are the way the ratings bar looks. There is always going to be one number and there is just way too much space. I think swapping the positions of the runtime and rating would make it look better. Also in general I don't like how you reflect the image of the clock on all screens. It looks weird to me especially reflected on top of the movie poster like on this screen.

 

[emphatic]

Looks good. Though I'd personally prefer to have the title under the poster, as (at least this is the case for me) when you scroll the list, you don't look at it at all, as you're looking at the posters most of the time. If there's a foreign film or a poster without the title, it's nice to have it right below. Also, when you're choosing a movie to watch, runtime is often important, and genre, as movie choice is ever so often based on your current mood, so those are good to have close to the title. Director, writer and cast is what you tend to look at when you decide that the plot is interesting enough. That vertical bar between the poster and the plot, is that intentional, or is part of the poster? Would look much better if the thin line between the runtime and rating just continued up to the top instead.

On another note, try this for your movingpictures runtime:

#MovingPictures.SelectedMovie.extra.runtime.en.pretty

It displays the runtime without the (s) for hour unless it's needed and then it does without the ()'s. Great work as usual man!
Emph

 

[buddman]

cul8er,

That looks pretty slick. Is there no way to make it somewhat transparent though for fanart, or does it not look good?

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

New (final??) attempt. What do you think? About the Logos: this is fake right now but I think and hope that the release of 1.0.1 will make this possible (MediaInfo implementation).

I have also removed the reflection on the clock.

cheers
cul8er

 

[emphatic]

Hi,

New (final??) attempt. What do you think? About the Logos: this is fake right now but I think and hope that the release of 1.0.1 will make this possible (MediaInfo implementation).

I have also removed the reflection on the clock.

cheers
cul8er

Could you bring the movie title up a little bit so the top of the text aligns with the clock and the top item in the list? To me it looks like the title and the items underneath is a couple of pixels too close. Also the rating at the bottom, why is it so big? As it's so wide right now, perphaps it would look better to use the stars instead of a number?

Overall it does look good though.
Emph

 

[WalkmanAA]

Also the rating at the bottom, why is it so big? As it's so wide right now, perhaps it would look better to use the stars instead of a number?

I agree with this idea. Rating still looks odd because there is too much space. Stars would look much better imo.

 

[ysmp]

also the rating at the bottom, why is it so big? As it's so wide right now, perhaps it would look better to use the stars instead of a number?

i agree with this idea. Rating still looks odd because there is too much space. Stars would look much better imo.

i mach like number rating over the stars ...
Great looking skin ...
Ysmp