Darklight (Beta v2) release. [ Edited ]

[Steffen_2009]

Thx for your preview Tin.

Yesterday I read we would have to wait for a week for release and I am very curious about that.

I am counting the days ... and what a big suprise we get something now !

Your work looks great, I just want to give some feed-back about the PRE-view (I know, it is not final yet ...).

+ Nice Headline, lot of information, but not taking too much space

+ Professional design

+ Darklight feeling with similar style of window box etc.

Are you still working on

- picture is directly at the text-box, I would like to have some space between text and cover

- flipping text box and cover. The Darklight theme shows covers/folger.jpgs always on the right  side (using list view ). 

  Perhaps it is easier  (using the Hub/SMP for hours), to concentrate on text on the left and cover on the right.

  Or two design variants ?

- making the text box bigger (at the top and bottom). This is depending on what the description field is used for.

  With XML-music  (perhaps ?) this is the only field we can put  (longer) music lyrics in.

Well, I think the options/info is always the same no matter if we are using it for music or movies, right ?

Really curious to find out other things of your fantastic darklight theme ... the most intesting point at the moment is: What are the requirements for showing "view Info" with music  with darklight when "options- view info" is pressed on the remote and what process is behind this ?

Yesterday I made some music XML-data files . Sometimes they are showing  up. But only if I seach for info via internet, then editing the XML-file (created by the WD-search before)  in notepad++ with enhanced data for lyrics. The automatically/manually done XML data files are not showing automatically (even if the have the same XML-file-name like the ones created by the meta-source seach files).

But even the meta-source-seach does not find a file for every song ...

My music data is organized by having a folder for each album, all tracks in that folder.

For each track I would like to use the Darklight "view info"  for  presenting the  lyrics for each song (while playing).

Well, possible or am I just dreaming ??

Is there a strict kind of naming for the file and which is it ?

Sometimes I see "metathumbs"  files in the folders (after using internet seach),

 this is always in case of different file names XML-data and song-file.

[Tinwarble]

Beta v3 coming soon.

[Dariod12]

I'm counting the days, Good Work

[ritaben]

Looks great, you guys are GODS that create these themes for us mere mortals to use.

Cheers

[Dariod12]

Tinwarble, Brings some news there for us, we are distressed, I visit this topic all day waiting for something new. A big hug

[Tinwarble]

Hey Dariod12,

I should have something ready soon, I'm still working on a few things and want to get them done before the next release.  I should have the new version out  between now and this weekend , it all depends on how much free time I have.

[Steffen_2009]

We are all lokking forward exitedly to the next steps of Darklight

Of course it takes the time it needs- like the time it takes untill it's getting dark in the evening, but it WILL sooner or later GET DARK - yes, let's get DARKLIGHT Beta V3 ...

[DeVicious]

the start page looks freakishly awesome

makes me really miss the bouncy menu when I see that.

Great Job TW

[Tinwarble]

Thanks DeV.  I took the "bounce" out of mine though, now it has more of a pop-out style.

[desertwedge]

Looks really good & looking forward to seeing the end result.  Question,  is the "pop-out" based on your home page icons being a full sheet (1280x720) or is there something else you are doing to create the larger focused icon?