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<blockquote data-quote="elliottmc" data-source="post: 834994" data-attributes="member: 14268">Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.Hi,I guess there are two aspects - configurability and looking nice with the chosen skin.My preferred implementation would be less configurability to make life easier.Let me explain what I mean.Let's say we have 10 genres defined. It doesn't really matter what they are called. We basically have 10 colours (+ variations for on now/later) defined in the skin.Then all we need to do is define which of the genres (from the EPG) are used for each of the colours.Assuming MP config can be modified to retrieve the colour choices from the skin, then all we need is a drop-down menu in config to select which genre you want to edit. When you select one, it will shown the colours used for that genre in the skin (with no option to change it - IMO there is no need - let the skin designer make this decision, and advanced users can change it there. At this point you will also get a text box in which you can type the genre strings you would like to associate with this colour.If we populate this with the TsWriter genres, many users will not need to do any configuration.IMO this would be simple enough and powerful enough for a first implementation. Then we can refine things as we get feedback.Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elliottmc, post: 834994, member: 14268"] [b]Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.[/b] Hi, I guess there are two aspects - configurability and looking nice with the chosen skin. My preferred implementation would be less configurability to make life easier. Let me explain what I mean. Let's say we have 10 genres defined. It doesn't really matter what they are called. We basically have 10 colours (+ variations for on now/later) defined in the skin. Then all we need to do is define which of the genres (from the EPG) are used for each of the colours. Assuming MP config can be modified to retrieve the colour choices from the skin, then all we need is a drop-down menu in config to select which genre you want to edit. When you select one, it will shown the colours used for that genre in the skin (with no option to change it - IMO there is no need - let the skin designer make this decision, and advanced users can change it there. At this point you will also get a text box in which you can type the genre strings you would like to associate with this colour. If we populate this with the TsWriter genres, many users will not need to do any configuration. IMO this would be simple enough and powerful enough for a first implementation. Then we can refine things as we get feedback. Mark [/QUOTE]

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