new skin: black

[reboot]

tipmeister, I hope this is just a bit of a pain, and nothing more serious!

About designing skins...I only have a measly 25" TV to test on, my 27" is too far away in another room.
The stuff I've been doing, looks pretty good on a computer monitor, and the smaller TV, but I have NO idea what it would look like on anything bigger.
What's this about "flat" skins for MCE?
Making stuff work, with the visual effect one wants, is relatively easy, using the default Blue as a template. But everyone seems to want EVERY plugin from Wiki to work flawlessly, with every skin.
Obviously (or maybe it isn't), this is a huge task for the skin designer.
Just when I think I've covered most of the bases, someone comes along with a different plugin/version, and yet 3 more people email me, asking for thisorthat skin to be "adjusted" to work with yetanothernewfangled plugin.
If I did nothing else all day, but load up every plugin, and then port my skins for all of them, I'd be restarting the service so much, I'd never get to record anything, nor would I ever get to do any editing, authoring, or burning.
I'm thinking about setting up another system, just so that this one can do what I normally do, and do all the skin stuff on the other one...but then I have to figure out how to clone myself, or go without food and sleep for weeks at a time I have a feeling my wife and kids would phone the police, reporting a stranger using their dad's computer.

[reven]

good news is im not planning on changing anything in the my series of plugins for quite some time, the skins are skinnable enough and no new features planned.

[dottore]

good news indead ;-) -> i know, i might be boring, but as you are talking about features: would it be possible to take a look at the "audio-cd-not-being-added-to-playlist" - problem?

and concerning skinning: the my-series is perfekt for skin-designers, you make one and copy the settings to the others..that was a good idea.

[reven]

yeah im going to look at the problem in a few weeks. im doing anything until then (uni is keeping me busy).

[cginzel]

Ideally it would be nice if sub made a basic skin change to create defaults, but couldn't the plug-in/skin community define one of their own until sub decided the time was right for GB-PVR?

If most of the plug-ins looked for their skin files in a sub folder under the plug-in folder with the same name as the configured GB-PVR skin, then plug-ins could go their own way on that regard... skin developers would only have to update the base GB-PVR and root plug-in skins...

-Charles

P.S. I'm sure if you guys worked out something cool... sub would probably just copy it over!