bhaagensen;410997 Wrote: > I don't think the default skin looks bad overall. But I've been meaning > to file an enhancement request for a while, and this seems like a good > opportunity to air it. > > Of course the interface could look better. How? I propose to let one > particular feature bring the bling/liveliness to the interface. Namely > the way *covers* are displayed. They already bring color and variation > to the interface and are an integrated part of it. But there is some > room for optimising their visual presentation in SC. > > I suggest to let SC do some image manipulation when scanning covers. > This should be one or more of: > > -Add small dropshadow (Other possiblilties could be to add some other > kind of frame/border. Eg. last.fm frames covers in jewel-cases.) > -Normalise colors > -Add reflection to the image. > -Preferably give all images the same aspect-ratio and size (more > below). > > I once tried to add a small dropshadow and it *really* improves the > overall look of the interface. Unfortunately I forgot to grab a > screenshot... I reverted because it needs to be done more cleverly, ie > dropshadow does not look nice on the Controller full-screen display, or > on the popup appearing when hovering the cover in the now playing > section of the SC-interface. > > I'm convinced that this would be a very nice way of improving the look. > Its a subtle change, but the effect is very noticeable. Currently there > are a few visual problems with the covers which in some cases makes the > interface look home-made: > > - As SC uses no standardised location to source covers from there is > potential for deviations in quality, colors, size, aspect-ratio etc. > This looks bad. > - Sometimes covers have white, or some other kind of border. Again bad. > - In general the varying image quality is a problem. > > What do you think. Worth filing an enhancement request? (I actually > think that some of these problems are (UI) bugs as it stands right > now). > > B.
You certainly are more picky than me :) what i have done took 2 hours for complete n00b to accomplish editing a whooping amount of 9 images. You are suggesting a more severe revamp of the interface that is i bit more than I suggested you look like a candidate to write a new skin (hint, hint). The image quality in SC more or less is dependent of the user, everybody is providing there own cover art. Or most uses amazons or amg's covers, amg is mostly to low rez. HD-tracks for example revamps the covers a bit they round the corners and add a silly white background, and finally use very low rez? It looks like cr*p so i try to find alternatives on the net. So when everybody is bringing there own pic's to the party how is one to control the image quality ? and when i searched the net for images to my more obscure CD's i found images with vastly different color rendering ? /Mikael PS don't look to close on how the controller renders pictures with a lot of white in them, they look ok in squeezeplay but awful on the controller. So the controller has an unsolved bug regarding the screen i don't remember the bug nr now. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61900 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
