From: Dirk M. <di...@fr...> - 2011-08-05 15:27:07
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Hi, On 08/04/2011 09:49 PM, Maciej Urbaniak wrote: > As promised in the "Future of Freevo 2.0" thread here are some screenshots > of the XBMC lookalike skin for Freevo. Nice. > Work on this screen is approx 80-90% complete. This is something that we > should aim for Freevo 2.0. That is my plan. I think we all agree, that the main feature from XBMC are the nice skins. For Freevo 2.0 I also want the large background images as you have in your preview plus user generated background images from the same sources XBMC uses. What I want to have are different background images. They look nice, but they look like XBMC. IMHO we should aim for our own look. It would be nice if someone could draw some nice images, take photos or search for great CC licenced backgroud images on the web. > There are some serious limitations of what 1.9.x can do, and nowhere near > what XBMC is capable of, but the end result is IMHO pretty good and > esthetically pleasing not to mention a big step forward comparing to the > existing Freevo skins. I need two more weeks to finish the latest changes in kaa.candy. The basic logic is working, I need to port the remaining widgets and think about animations. While coding, I thought that it is close to impossible to define everything including animations in XML. Some limitations you had will still be there. Therefore, I will add Python support for the skins to define some additional stuff like complex animations. A skin will contain three parts: the XML files defining the basic layout and colors, the Freevo part of some skin-specific widgets (inherting some logic from the freevo core) and a backend part doing additional clutter specific stuff like animations. IMHO that is the best way to get a skin that can do everything someone wants to do. Speaking of someone wants to do: mockups how Freevo 2.0 should look like in various stages would be nice to help me coding. Dischi -- The trouble with work is... it's so daily. |