ebr 14910 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 The next in the round of freshen-ups in Chocolate will be the detail screen. Here's what I've got so far: I'm not totally happy with the look of the tabs at the bottom yet so they probably will change. The idea is as they got focus a panel would slide up with that content. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagali 62 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 (edited) Looks nice, clean and neat, good background display. Any chance of including a tab for Specials when they're present? Edited December 7, 2013 by pagali Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Interesting. I agree with you on the tabs. They make me think of Diamond more than anything. I like the upper left area and really like the entire right-hand-side. Backdrop, Logo, MI... I'm not sure what to make of the buttons in the movie view. The vertical alignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 To complement the above statement. I'm not saying I don't like the concept of the tabs. Just the fact they look like Diamond controls when inactive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Looking nice @@ebr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 Any chance of including a tab for Specials when they're present? Not until specials are supported in MBC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 The tabs don't look right at all. I'm going back to the drawing board on those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 Squaring them off helps a little but still not really right... @@shaefurr any ideas...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soultaker 225 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 (edited) The reason why your tabs dont look like tabs is because there is nothing giving the impression that there is a tab area available. Imagine you had a 5 pixel line at the bottom of those tabs extending from left edge to right edge that would give the illusion of a tab area. Currently from only seeing that one screenshot it's hard to tell where your tab area is. WARNING: Bad Ascii art follows... Imagine something like this: _______________________ | | | | | ________ | |____| Cast |_________| |_____________________| Edited December 7, 2013 by Soultaker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 LOL - ST - I came to the same conclusion at the same time... Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soultaker 225 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Cool bro, might as well give u a like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaefurr 1337 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 (edited) I would try and match the rest of the chocolate theme with the transparent text over the gradient, personally id try something like this. Edited December 7, 2013 by shaefurr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaefurr 1337 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I like those pop up tabs too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 Thanks for the input guys. While making it look like proper tabs does help, I still don't like the balance of the whole page with those tabs there. So I'm open for other suggestions for how to provide that information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 (edited) You could do what chocolate currently does and add them beside the already present nav items. EDIT: If you did that they could pop as overlays on the right-hand side. Edited December 7, 2013 by Redshirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 Thought about that but there are a couple of issues. 1) There won't be enough room for them 2) It wouldn't be obvious what they do. All the other buttons there initiate an action of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaefurr 1337 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Ya you could go with what Red said and just make them horizontal, how are they in chocolate right now? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 Thanks for the effort but that also looks unbalanced and is getting cluttered with a lot of little icons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 I almost feel like I want to just add another line under genres with text links for Cast and Scenes and Specials or whatever when available. Maybe I'll give that a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesegeezer 3086 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Just athought @@ebr do you have a very alpha'd background for your overview? Have you tried it with quite a light backbrop and seen the effects? If there is no background there is a good chance the text will be lost Edit: forgot to say i love the look!! See what you mean about those pesky icons lol Edited December 8, 2013 by Cheesegeezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yardameus 220 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 You could try something between the overview and the poster. When selecting the "tabs" the overview changes or has a pop-up cover the overview. Or... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigiTM 60 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 The second one looks good Yard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWWestern 94 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) I like the new concept! Only... I wouldn't logo jumps when navigate from coverflow to details. Let logo remains in place as in coverlow view. The current position of the logo in details view may take studio icons (it would be much better). BTW New reborn so changes the whole vision. But exists certain numer of a users who like the old design (I'm not among them). May be IMO better fork under new brand name, and leave the classic Chocolate, adding purely technical changes for compatibility with MBC and MBS. Edited December 8, 2013 by WWWestern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 I understand what you are saying WWW but I can't sign up to maintain two different versions of this theme. Since I inherited it, I'm going to move it forward . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 Cheese - white backdrops are not a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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