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

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