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<blockquote data-quote="elliottmc" data-source="post: 836083" data-attributes="member: 14268">Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.I never said it was not coming. I said that my gut feeling is that it will not be ready in time. Please can you try to avoid misinterpreting comments in this way. Otherwise before long, a comment such as yours will become a 'fact' even though there is not truth in it whatsoever.I agree that a massive amount of thanks to Andy for all of his hard work, and I also like what I see so far.As well as releasing new features, we also have to think about the 'MediaPortal' brand. If we announce that genre colouring is a big new feature for 1.3.0, then it simply has to work well. If it only works for 50% of users out of the box, we will be slated for having failed to deliver this feature. That is why I am trying to make constructive suggestions of how we can get it to work for 99% of the users.We all want MediaPortal to be the best software. The more successful we are, the more we attact users who simply want it to work with an absolute minimum of configuration. If we spend all our time on the forums helping people get things configured, we have less time to spend on development and testing.Just my opinion.Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elliottmc, post: 836083, member: 14268"] [b]Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.[/b] I never said it was not coming. I said that my gut feeling is that it will not be ready in time. Please can you try to avoid misinterpreting comments in this way. Otherwise before long, a comment such as yours will become a 'fact' even though there is not truth in it whatsoever. I agree that a massive amount of thanks to Andy for all of his hard work, and I also like what I see so far. As well as releasing new features, we also have to think about the 'MediaPortal' brand. If we announce that genre colouring is a big new feature for 1.3.0, then it simply has to work well. If it only works for 50% of users out of the box, we will be slated for having failed to deliver this feature. That is why I am trying to make constructive suggestions of how we can get it to work for 99% of the users. We all want MediaPortal to be the best software. The more successful we are, the more we attact users who simply want it to work with an absolute minimum of configuration. If we spend all our time on the forums helping people get things configured, we have less time to spend on development and testing. Just my opinion. Mark [/QUOTE]

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