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[McBainUK]

Looking at the Background Masks:

• BackgroundMasks\CS Blue Background Mask.png
  
• BackgroundMasks\GB-PVR Logo - Center.png
  
• BackgroundMasks\GB-PVR Logo - Large.png
  
• BackgroundMasks\Transparent.png
  

These are all used to add "graphical effects" to the background image, am I right?

[McBainUK]

Have also worked through and made comments on the BackgroundMasks, BaseSkins and IconViewFileIcons. Comments appreciated.

[Fatman_do]

Looking at the Background Masks:

• BackgroundMasks\CS Blue Background Mask.png
  
• BackgroundMasks\GB-PVR Logo - Center.png
  
• BackgroundMasks\GB-PVR Logo - Large.png
  
• BackgroundMasks\Transparent.png
  

These are all used to add "graphical effects" to the background image, am I right?

Yes to the main menu. Such as adding the logo to the main menu screen only, or giving the effect of fading buttons (as is done on blue).

[McBainUK]

Do you really want to drop all the good images? The icon like ones eg MoreItemsButtons could be used for many themes. Seems a shame.

[Fatman_do]

We can keep those.

[Fatman_do]

The task images we are going to completely redo.

Try to trim them down to the essential groups as much as possible.
Not sure if here I am removing the correct ones, but you get the idea.

# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Address Book.png
[COLOR="Red"]# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\AddressBook_Task.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\AniLibrary.png[/COLOR]
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Anime Library.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Calendar.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Calendar_Task.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Cinema.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\DVD.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Email.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Exit.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Games.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Internet.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\InternetMedia.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\MainMenu.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Menu.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Music.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\News.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Organise.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Photo.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Program.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Radio.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Recordings.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Search.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Skin.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Sleep Timer.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\SleepTimer_Task.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\System.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Television.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\TVGuide.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Video.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Weather.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\Web Cams.png
# TaskImages\Reflect - Green\WebCams_Task.png

Some other lists are much longer.

[McBainUK]

I can see that some of the task images are wrong and should be removed eg WebCams_Task.png

What do you mean by " Try to trim them down to the essential groups as much as possible"?

[Fatman_do]

Spending more than 30 seconds looking at it than before, I thought there were more Whatever_Task.png files, and that they could be using Music.png, Organise.png, ect.

The list I grabbed was one of the cleanest ones. GreenOrb had a Music Albums task image and I thought that was a more common problem.

[McBainUK]

Where they are the same then they should be removed. I think PluginName_Task was to allow for specific icons for a plugin, although I'll have to check...

[Fatman_do]

Yeah, I'll look later tonight as well. If I remember correctly, the new "model" for task images is to place image with PluginName.png in the _TaskImages folder. No more use of task.png or PluginName_Task.png