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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 822174" data-attributes="member: 67412">Re: AW: Re: AW: PureVisionHD (16:9)It would be great if you could do that. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Whilst you're looking at it, I've got some other suggestions that I hope will help you make this skin as awesome and user-friendly as possible <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Firstly, I'd like to ask you to consider removing the bottom left RSS button. That also has non-intuitive behaviour, in that if I'm on e.g. the Music menu and go past the last entry and onto the RSS button if I then go up, instead of taking me to where I was, it jumps back to TV which is obviously annoying, particularly if the user accidentally overshot the bottom of the menu and didn't mean to go to the button. I also think it can be confusing for users to lose the cursor from the menu in this way and it's not really obvious that this is where it's gone.I think it's unnecessary to have that button as users can just use the "RSS" entry in the Internet Menu (I've just tested editing it to <hyperlink>16001</hyperlink> and that works fine to open my InfoService feeds, the same as the RSS button does) and if you removed it perhaps you could make the menus loop (i.e. make the cursor go back to the top of the menu when pressing down on the bottom entry) which I think users would find more intuitive (and useful if they're near the bottom of the menu and want to get to something near the top), but if that's too tricky, just letting it remain on the bottom entry when pressing down would be fine as well.On the EPG I think it's rather confusing having the Group box at the top rather than the left, as it's accessed by pressing left when on a channel name, so the user won't expect the cursor to go up to the top of the screen. I also think the highlight on the box is too dark and needs to be brighter, like the highlight on programmes/channel names. I also wonder whether the previous/next day and decrease/increase timeblock arrows really serve much purpose, as remote users can use buttons for these (I use rewind/ffwd for the timeblock and skip back/forward for previous/next day) and keyboard users have F7/F8 and I/U to do the same thing, so it's just an unnecessary area where the user can go off the main track and "lose the cursor". I can see perhaps they'd be useful for touchscreen users, but I'd imagine they're too small and close together to be used like this easily, so perhaps an option would be to remove them and put bigger buttons elsewhere, that can't be navigated to by remote/keyboard users.I've also found a little bug that only seems to affect PureVisionHD Xmas. If I select something that's not installed (i.e. Internet - Comics), the cursor jumps back to the TV Menu (which isn't an issue) but it's not really on that, as if I then press up or down I can see the picture next to the clock cycling through the entries on the Internet menu. If instead of up or down the first button I press is right, it jumps to the video window. I've tested the non-Xmas PureVisionHD and with that it still jumps to the TV menu but navigates normally from there. I wouldn't worry about this much as a) most people will edit the menus to remove stuff they don't use/have installed and b) people will only be using the Xmas skin for a short while and I'd rather you spent what time you have working on the non-Xmas skin. I just thought it worth bringing to your attention in case it's helpful in future <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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