2005-07-26, 12:59 AM
um this has be kind of discussed before, like when refering to mediaportal and gbpvr, the most common statement it "gbpvr is more stable, but mediaportal is prettier", i was just wondering/pondering how to make gbpvr more pretty (pretty is a fun word to say ), and i was wondering if anyone else has ever thought about this, and if they had had any ideas how to achieve this? like mediaportal does this thing that slides the menus onto the screen (i find this one annoying, but its pretty), and i was thinking of redoing the main menu to look more err informative, like a nice easy way of displaying a lot of information without being to cluttered (like jeffs (i think its jeffs) panel that changes). i want to be able to display a few things on the main menu
- notifications (if someone signs on to msn, or you get a new email, or someone calls, a recording is about to start etc)
- music playback (i want to show this whenever music is playing all the time, so if music is playing this will be shown ALWAYS)
- a newsticker (the current one is very smooth, this could be, and probably is because of how gbpvr does this)
- then just other useful stuff like how much recording time we have left, the current weather etc (this one should change).
- task images (like a video graphic for "Video Library" etc)
now thats kind of a lot of info on one screen so it has to be designed well (and at the moment no skin, well maybe the street etc ones) does this all that well. so whos gots some ideas on layout?
also for plugins do you guys want the selected file to scroll the filename if its to long to be displayed ? (look at mediaportal here, xbmc also does this, and probably mce)
any other ideas? i just want to start making gbpvr pretty (it looks kind of static at the moment).
sure pretty isnt everything, gbpvr is extremely stable (and thats why we all use it and not mediaportal) but we can make it prettier (see i told you i like that word) so thoughts/suggestions/want me to shut up ?
- notifications (if someone signs on to msn, or you get a new email, or someone calls, a recording is about to start etc)
- music playback (i want to show this whenever music is playing all the time, so if music is playing this will be shown ALWAYS)
- a newsticker (the current one is very smooth, this could be, and probably is because of how gbpvr does this)
- then just other useful stuff like how much recording time we have left, the current weather etc (this one should change).
- task images (like a video graphic for "Video Library" etc)
now thats kind of a lot of info on one screen so it has to be designed well (and at the moment no skin, well maybe the street etc ones) does this all that well. so whos gots some ideas on layout?
also for plugins do you guys want the selected file to scroll the filename if its to long to be displayed ? (look at mediaportal here, xbmc also does this, and probably mce)
any other ideas? i just want to start making gbpvr pretty (it looks kind of static at the moment).
sure pretty isnt everything, gbpvr is extremely stable (and thats why we all use it and not mediaportal) but we can make it prettier (see i told you i like that word) so thoughts/suggestions/want me to shut up ?