Beta - Stretched placeholder icons

[speechles 2055]

When an item has no image shown, a placeholder is shown in place. This is great. The issue is now these are streched to fill the panel they are in. Not so great. I did notice before there was an issue because since the image isnt the right size as the panel you have to do something or it looks bad. The panel color behind shows. I see why you did what you did. But instead, how about on top have a box filled the same color as the background of the icon. This lets the aspect ratio of the placeholder images always look consistent and not skewed.

 

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Edited February 8, 2017 by speechles

[ebr 16169]

Exact image presentation is always going to be a challenge with the way Roku has implemented their SG elements.  Basically, everything in a single list or grid must be the exact same size.  Since we cannot always predict nor control the size/shape of images for every single thing in a single list/grid we are left with some not so great options here.

 

The default settings will stretch and distort the image we have to the size of the particular list item.  If you go into settings and enable enhanced images, however, it will then respect the aspect ratio of the image and fit it into the tile however it can.

[speechles 2055]

Non enhanced

 

Enhanced

 

You see the size of the top image where the stretched image placeholder is? The top image has the image strected to fit. Instead, it should look like the enhanced image, the bottom image.

 

With the bottom image, do you see the leak through? If you know the size of the image holder the image is going into, which you must since you can stretch to this size in the top image, why not underneath these placeholder images have a filled box, the same color as the background of the placeholder image?

 

What I mean is, the bottom image should be used for default placeholders (enhanced or not), with the background filled in to match the same color. So the top part of the tile is entirely green(in this case, others are blue, etc) with an unstretched placeholder icon. Otherwise it looks ridiculous, stretched or with leak through.

Edited February 8, 2017 by speechles

[ebr 16169]

A better solution would be to have two different placeholder images - one portrait and one landscape.  And we do in some situations and use them when we can predict the size.  The problem, as I stated above, is that we cannot always predict this size.

 

But, this is the kind of thing that hasn't gotten a ton of attention yet as functionality is taking precedence.  So, may get improved in the future.