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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1095988" data-attributes="member: 141969">I have attached two screen shots that use the latest xml file.&nbsp; The file &quot;absolute_radio_new&quot; shows a very long programme title with very long genre text.&nbsp; Neither title nor genre needed to scroll (only the programme description scrolled).&nbsp; I think that this is a definite improvement!The second file &quot;bbc_radio_1_new&quot; illustrates a quirk of the UK EPG.&nbsp; The programme title is &quot;The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with...&quot;, and the programme description begins &quot;...Nik Grimshaw&quot;.&nbsp; This suggests that the true programme title is &quot;The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nik Grimshaw&quot;.&nbsp; My Humax PVR displays this in the same way as MP, and I have noticed TV programmes with long titles that also place the end of the title at the beginning of the description.&nbsp; I would speculate that the UK broadcast EPG has a limit on the length of a programme title, and that spilling the title into the description is the way that the EPG providers deal with that limit.What do you think of the new look?&nbsp; As the skin author, you have to take into account the different wants of your users, while any single user (e.g. me) is likely only to be concerned about a subset of the facilities offered (e.g. I do not use channel logos anywhere, so had not considered how they might affect screen layout).If you think that the new layout is an improvement, I hope that you will revise the TV EPG too.&nbsp; The TV EPG currently lacks the programme duration, and when I looked earlier, a TV programme had scrolling genre text even though there was plenty of room to show the genre text in its entirety (presumably this just needs an adjustment of the field length and position).Finally, I would like to thank you for listening to my comments and taking the time to prepare the revised xml files.&nbsp; The time that you spend doing this is appreciated by your users, even though it may sometimes seem like you are being taken for granted.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1095988, member: 141969"] I have attached two screen shots that use the latest xml file. The file "absolute_radio_new" shows a very long programme title with very long genre text. Neither title nor genre needed to scroll (only the programme description scrolled). I think that this is a definite improvement! The second file "bbc_radio_1_new" illustrates a quirk of the UK EPG. The programme title is "The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with...", and the programme description begins "...Nik Grimshaw". This suggests that the true programme title is "The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nik Grimshaw". My Humax PVR displays this in the same way as MP, and I have noticed TV programmes with long titles that also place the end of the title at the beginning of the description. I would speculate that the UK broadcast EPG has a limit on the length of a programme title, and that spilling the title into the description is the way that the EPG providers deal with that limit. What do you think of the new look? As the skin author, you have to take into account the different wants of your users, while any single user (e.g. me) is likely only to be concerned about a subset of the facilities offered (e.g. I do not use channel logos anywhere, so had not considered how they might affect screen layout). If you think that the new layout is an improvement, I hope that you will revise the TV EPG too. The TV EPG currently lacks the programme duration, and when I looked earlier, a TV programme had scrolling genre text even though there was plenty of room to show the genre text in its entirety (presumably this just needs an adjustment of the field length and position). Finally, I would like to thank you for listening to my comments and taking the time to prepare the revised xml files. The time that you spend doing this [i]is[/i] appreciated by your users, even though it may sometimes seem like you are being taken for granted. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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