Apologies, I can't design either! However, you could steal some ideas from Hulu or Boxee. Boxee has a pretty interface, if not terribly usable, and Hulu has an easy interface, if not terribly pretty.
Ease of installation is paramount - if it isn't easy, people won't use it, they'll instead try to install the a convoluted, sql based program called "MythTV" which has a much larger following. On 09/18/2011 03:37 AM, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm done with the GUI changes and the new gui engine is good to go. It > may need sme updates depending on how the GUI should look like. I can > code, but I'm a very poor designer. > > So again, I ask for help: > > 1. I need some large background images. Should they be dark? Blue? > Special images for video/audio/image? If we use special images, nly in > the main menu? Please search the net, your photo collection or whatever > to provide me with images. Please make sure the images can be used in > Freevo (e.g. CC licence) and do not copy images from XBMC, etc. > > 2. How to layout the menu? Special movie/tv related backgrounds? Special > images? Freevo could auto-hook into thetvdb and themoviedb to download > these images and additional information. Please give me a fake > screenshot so I can code the stuff. > > This is a big show-stopper for Freevo 2.0. Right now it looks ugly > because I just used some old images and ideas to changed them to test > different layouts. Without help, there will be no 2.0 :( > > Regards, > > Dischi > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
