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Theater View Skins
Hendrik:
"Eye Candy" is extremely subjective, you'll never find something that suits everyone - which makes this so hard.
In addition, you really need a developer with a disposition for graphical work and an ounce of creativity to come up with these things. Personally, I lack the graphical skills to design new skins. I could probably rip off someone elses, but hey.
What I would be interested in is hearing from a skin developer what our skinning engine might need to do to be more flexible and more open for new and modern skins to be created.
One of the difficulties MC faces is that we don't have fixed pre-defined views like for example XBMC. Every view is dynamically configured, so a skin couldn't hard-code special behavior for a Movies view for example, which makes flexible skinning so much harder.
Castius:
More control over positioning.
More graphics linked to meta data. Like actors images to actors name.
Bookmark bar that shows how how much you have watched/listened to something. (Netflix)
Ability to disable delete and shutdown options
Maybe support for dynamic transition. So you could apply some simple animations.
Like puling up a CD cover art list.
6233638:
I like the default theme with the backgrounds disabled.
It might be nice if there could be a dynamic background similar to what Sony have with their XMB for example. (animated background, changes color based on time & date)
Don W:
I'm in theater view most of the time and most of that time is in Playing Now. I am happy with it mostly. I really appreciate the thought and effort that went into making it possible to define custom views and I wouldn't want to give that up. But it is strange to me that a product that is SO flexibile and configurable as MC would hardwire the content of the most visited screen in theater view. Why does this have to be? Seems like simply adding a bit more flexibility to what is already in place would go a long way. For what it's worth, if I could I would remove the secondary roller entirely (not needed) and I would remove the ratings (not interested.) In my view this would clean up Playing Now nicely. Just my two cents...
Castius:
Oh ability to turn off/autohide top bar!!!!! So you can full screen webpages . like when you use Netflix as a webpage.
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