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[kimgitz]

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Hi was going to start a poll on which skin to use for which function. I can not figure out how to make the polls in this forum..not because i dont know how to, but it simply wont let me....If anyone figures out maybe they can do it for me.

Lets say u have 2 or more xboxes, it goes to say that u probably use them differently.
one might be in ur living room next 2 ur 42" screen
one might be in the bedroom
one in the car
one in ur home office
whichever the case......what skin will u use in the various situations or do u choose one skin that covers most well.

Was going to do the poll as follows

Easiest skin to use
easy to navigate.....works well with both a remote and pad..(lcd screen)
but the most important is wen u update u know it works without having to do extra tweaking.
should be easy to customise as well...if customiseable

Best looking skin
The interface of such a skin should make other drop down. here the graphics look good. No missing graphics or unpolished work...everything should be where it is meant to be and look the way they are meant to.

Best support from developers
Here we are voting for the people responsible to the skin. How co-operative are they..do they listen to what the end-user wants...do they give good explanations to why something is not possible..how quick are they to resolve issues with the skin and deliver updates...how easy is it to get help from them...how sensible and committed  r they to developing the skin...

Best maintained skin
i hate it when a good skin is released and then left to die and comletely phased out.
vote for the skin that is well maintained with neccessary updates...(they dont have to be frequent)
which skin is constanly improving......constantly adding features and functionality

Most customiseable skin
which skin is most customiseable....also here some skins are also used in other applications so that u seem to have the same interface for ur xbox bios and applications.

the most important poll is
the most stable skin!

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We have had polls of which skins are used most but we have never found out why....perhaps the devs can use this pools to evaluate themselves but mostly their skins

[conners]

it`s gonna be the default skin PM3 cause thats standard, so includes the features etc that they added to the skin

[dhrandy1]

I would have to say MC360 for all.  It does it all.  Works and looks like the XBox 360 interface.  The skin is awsome.  The developers are always improving it.  They always make sure it works with the latest release of XBMC. I would definitly says it's the most customizable and stable.  It's the only skin I know where you can actually change your wallpapers and download themes.  There's a guy that made a mod that's like xbox live. There are people on the mc360 forum always adding mods, you can pretty much make it the way you like it.

MC360

[kimgitz]

If you are looking for a media center sort of skin, how about the Ceomr Mediacenter ?

I was testing it this week and you can tell a lot of work has been done. I like the work done to the skin and the added scripts.

I think it has the best wife factor as well as, my patner thinks its the best so far. She totally agrees with jjshabadoo.

[edwinmcdunlap]

QUOTE(LadyEowyn @ Sep 8 2006, 06:30 AM)

Depends on my mood
I use PMIII, and then MC360, and then PMIII again etc ^^

yep, same here I change skins a lot

[bluegamble]

HI

what about the PDM Skin, you can change a lot of things in the system settings like hide the buttonscroller after 5 seconds, so you don´t have to look at it all the time like in PMIII.

You can enable/disable Date and Time, XBMC Logo, System infobar, RSS Feeds, Weather and so on.

And after all you can change the backround Images to your own. Even for Music, Pics, Videos and so on if you edit one file.

It´s really my only skin since i got them once.

[kimgitz]

Hi,
I like PDM as you have control over a lot..It has some minor bugs as well and in my opinion not completely stable. Dont forget it is still a beta.

I would say in terms of customization it is in the same legue as MC360....would recomend it for active gamers who don't mind having to frequently update stuff. Also Gamer's tend to like changing things regularly.

It is also a good way to start learning how to edit the xmls and change looks. It is based on PMIII initially. So if u like Choke's skin but want more customizations...check it out.

If u like to fiddle around and constantly change stuff then this is the skin for you....Smokehead is brilliant and has a good following.....

Enough of that..there are two skins I'd like to bring to ur attention...very new in development but great skins.
from what I can tell they both have black backgrounds which might be customizeble in the end.

the eX by Blackbolt..(this guy never stops..he just released MC360....) and a skin based on apple's iTV...not sure what they decided to call it..I think last checked they had settled on xTV.
Both skins use little text..if any..and have briliant icons and graphics.

I would prefer this skin to use in my home cinema becoz of the dark backgrounds and the little or no text usage.

Don't expect to see or use these skins any time soon though, but it is great to look forward to them.

Regards

PS...
Anyone with any idea on where I could get hold of the various versions of Jacksor's skin Xbmac? esp the Rotax version!