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fiscus
2004-04-05, 08:51
i like the idea of viewing movie thumbnails but don't like it how the title is always cut off.

i was thinking of a slight layout change to be able to view thumbs as well as full titles and maybe some brief imdb info.

3 mins latest in photoshop here is a possible idea?

what do people think?

http://www.danethomas.net/misc/xbmcconcept.jpg

or a more simpler option (probs better).
http://www.danethomas.net/misc/xbmcconcept2.jpg

i have never skinned but i was just wondering what people thought about a change in the layout. maybe we can take this somewhere - or if people are interested i can looking at putting it together myself.
jaga
2004-04-05, 09:00
personally, i love the latter mockup (w/o the plot info). very nice and i'd like to see this implemented.
--jaga

p.s. maybe remove the date from showing one of the times.
XpLoiT
2004-04-05, 09:04
bigger thumbnail pix! :)
dont want any other info just give me eye candy!
jaga
2004-04-05, 09:13
i assume this would also work well with 'large icons'....
fiscus
2004-04-05, 09:19
yeah using larger thumbs you could have 2 movies per page with nice big thumbs and brief info to the right.

slight update:

http://www.danethomas.net/misc/xbmcconcept3.jpg
runtime
2004-04-05, 15:35
some nice eye-candy on the way soon *hint* *hint* :)
jaga
2004-04-05, 20:04
that is not a hint, it's a tease. and a mean one at that. how 'bout a real hint?
runtime
2004-04-05, 20:22
oh alright then :d

imagine you boot up xbmc, in the background it looks at your video shares and lists your 3 newest movies, queries imdb for their proper names and poster art, creates thumbnails and displays all this information on your home-screen...
jaga
2004-04-05, 20:34
touche. :)
DJLink
2004-04-05, 21:43
imagine you boot up xbmc, in the background it looks at your video shares and lists your 3 newest movies, queries imdb for their proper names and poster art, creates thumbnails and displays all this information on your home-screen...

wow runtime! that would be so kuwl. http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif
Gamester17
2004-04-06, 12:53
imagine you boot up xbmc, in the background it looks at your video shares and lists your 3 newest movies, queries imdb for their proper names and poster art, creates thumbnails and displays all this information on your home-screen...
all optional i hope? (and not enabled by default) ???