The awfull list of dead skins - list 'em here! (1 Viewer)

[Fidoboy]

Hello all, long time since my last visit to this forum. I've decided to discard MP since i've discovered TVedia that in my oppinion it's much better (no tv support, but i don't want this feature). As some of you suggested here, MP doesn't have a well organized system to use skins, in my oppinion, the most important thing in a HTPC software is the interface, and MP has a very poor support for interface designers, the basics are allways changing and if i develop a nice skin, only a few weeks after it doesn't work. Also there is not a skin designer tool and it's very tedious and boring to manually edit all of those XML files. However if someone is interested i can help with the skin doing the gfx part and maybe that other person with more time and patience than me could develop the XML files for the community...

Best regards,

.:FiDo:.

 

[Spragleknas]

Info added to first post

 

[MSMP]

Hi

I've been using Harley's Project Mayhem III skin for a while now, and yes a few little corks but most are not t hat hard to solve. If we all keep working on it and post changes and updates, Harley maybe can all gather it to release an update every x months with the latest contributions.

Honestly, once the major work has been done and all the basic graphics are available it isn't that much work to adjust some blue2 xml's (always updated) to the Mayhem III look.

It would be nice indeed to have it all figured out for us isn't it? Well MCE and vista MCE does that and it is a pretty much static/dead thing not much new, not much exciting happening, and it didn't help paying for it either.

Creating, improving and enrolling a stable version from betas is tough guys and I think the MP developers do a great Job. I have the uttermost respect for the accomplishments so far.

Believe me I've been involved with SW development in corporations for many years and most can only dream of projects as smooth as MP is. And more, it costs multi ...$$$$$ to get anything done.

Be patient, positive, constructive, and helpful to any efforts made to create a nice tool, feature, skin.

Nothing is perfect.


Little anecdote:
Last week I lost a full day trying to get my system running perfect again after Zone Alarm Pro suite messed up and mistakenly deleted some MS dll's and registry entries claiming it was a virus. It was a mistake on Zone alarms behalf. I paid multiple licences for many years to these fellow’s and not even got help to solve their mistake. Open communities helped.

 

[Spragleknas]

The nonafo-skin and gfx is open for editing/modifying by whoever wants to keep this beauty alive!

hi, the nonafo gfx and also the xml files can be used by everyone, even if they don't belong to mediaportal... i dont have any permissions on them. please, everyone who wants to use the gfx should feel free to use it.

i had some hard time the past couple months which took me a little away from mediaportal (well, that's how life sometimes goes), but be sure, i'll be back in time

unfortunately i lost the source gfx (psd files) due to a hdd crash, so i can't provide anything then the files you can already download in the download section...

thanks for keeping the skins alive, and hey - let's see what the future brings

 

[Spragleknas]

Bumping this old thread....

FYI: There is now a new subforum for popular-dead-skins: graveyard - MediaPortal Forum

So start recycling!