Which XBMC skin would you rather see ported to MediaPortal? (6 Viewers)

[kiwijunglist]

Maybe we can get another poll going?

 

[cane]

Voted for Alaska because it looks different from the ones already available. And I'm also for 720p, I've got 1080p display but 720p skins upscale beautifully.

 

[ixdvc]

Have you already seen Confluence? I think it is also very good.

 

[AgeOfPanic]

I think Confluence looks too much like Mediastream of StreamedMP. It didn't impress me too much when I tried it.

 

[kiwijunglist]

+1 very similar, slightly more minimalistic/clean, but not necessarily better.

 

[joostzilla]

All great looking skins. Especially to show off your system. But imo the readibility is far from perfect on all skins. To much info with to small fonts. Fine for a computer screen but try using it from 10 feet. Eye candy and animation wise they are well designed. better then what we have ever seen on mp
As a htpc user interface they leave a lot to be desired. And keep in mind that a great deal of the experience of these skins comes from the the skin engine's capabilities. Mp 1 simply does not offer this.
In our skin Maya we try to tackle the above mentioned problems but man its hard. Just when you simplified some screens for better usability there is someone who wants more info, more logos, more fanart, more rss feeds, more views, more weather etc on that same screen. And offcourse we try to satisfy everyone with making some featutes optional.
We try to strive for a skin that has both great usability and design.

 

[Dadeo]

joostzilla +1

I totally agree! I try to support up to 18pt default font for small 4:3 TV screens in aMPed! You don't have to wait long for insanity!

But it is not all the skin engine's limitations, plugin developers don't have much information to go on, so they don't support even basic GUI properties, and sometimes set fixed widths for fadelabels, don't support anything but label type controls, don't support #itemcount or #currentmodule, the list goes on and on!

I don't think people realize how much a skinner has to know - not only the arcane idiosyncrasies of the skin engine, but they have to become almost an expert in every plugin and the way it was coded if they want to create a display different than the default. And let's be honest, plugin developers are not usually designers, so the default skin files are often pretty bare bones at best.

I appreciate you are taking your time to give us a really great skin. I can't wait to see it!

 

[Sphero]

Any updates yet?

 

[dgsgc]

Would love to see Alaska especially with some of the awesome colour options being modded over on xbmc

 

[emphatic]

Time for a lil' bump. I don't know where the party interested in doing a port has gone off to though. It's quite clear what skin is in the lead now, so perhaps skinning should start?

I voted for Aeon Stark myself, but have since tried out Rapier in XBMC and I really love it. So if someone wants to port that, I'd be very happy.

Emph