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tspeirs:

--- Quote from: Brad on March 24, 2006, 07:28:25 pm ---Tom and others are correct. There is NO perfect frontend as it's almost ALWAYS up to personal preference. You really need to try them all and then make an informed decision. If you don't want to try them all, read the feature-set of each and take a sub-set to try.

Brad

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Yes.
I think the real goal here is to make it EASIER for users to find there choice. That's my real point. It seems like there's a post like this every week, and although its great how everyone helps, I believe in creating things that save time and make things more efficient. That's why I am 110% behind the Wiki. Perhaps it can evolve into a www.topfrontends.com :)

By the way, the domain seems to be available. lol!

headkaze:
It's especially annoying when FE developers bag other front ends when they don't even keep up to date with it's development. Time and time again I hear people say GameEx looks like MCE, GameEx has no skin support. It's had full Theme support with the Theme Editor for a while now. And if I do say so myself, the Theme Editor is the most fully featured, bug free and easy to use than all the others I have tested during it's development. Although I am the author, so I admit I am slightly biased :)

Once an FE has full skin support I believe the look of the front-end becomes the job of the users.

The future of FE's will definately become more like MCE or XBox dashboards with pretty 3d effects and what not.

mccoy178:

--- Quote from: tspeirs on March 24, 2006, 05:14:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 24, 2006, 04:31:49 am ---Also I wouldn't consider gameex a front end.  It's more of a complete and total rip-off of xp media center's gui.  ;)  I wouldn't classify it as a mame cab front end, rather a set-top box navigation menu.  In other words, while it looks nice, it also looks like it should be on a pc hooked to your living room tv, not in a mame cab.  So I don't think it should even be compared with the others. 

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Have you actually tried it? I'm guessing not as at a bare minimum a thousand people disagree.  Here's several of them:

[Cabinets running GameEx]
http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=66


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I'm trying this out now as we speak.  That video is incredible!  Great idea to link that site, as I would've never even looked.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: headkaze on March 25, 2006, 04:44:38 am ---It's especially annoying when FE developers bag other front ends when they don't even keep up to date with it's development. Time and time again I hear people say GameEx looks like MCE, GameEx has no skin support. It's had full Theme support with the Theme Editor for a while now. And if I do say so myself, the Theme Editor is the most fully featured, bug free and easy to use than all the others I have tested during it's development. Although I am the author, so I admit I am slightly biased :)

Once an FE has full skin support I believe the look of the front-end becomes the job of the users.

The future of FE's will definately become more like MCE or XBox dashboards with pretty 3d effects and what not.

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I mean no offense but I wasn't "bagging" anything and I have kept up with it's development.  While the skins are nicely done I've still yet to see anything other than the "text list with images" layout that's been around since the rd days. 

Compared to other fes the skinning features are still more limited.  Easier to modify definately, but that isn't what we were talking about.  It's not there yet... I'm confident that one day you'll get it there, but it's not there yet. 

And while it's hidden well, the basic media center look and feel is still quite apparent.  At least it is to me.  Like I said it resembles a set top interface rather than a front end. 

I will completely agree with you about it being the users fault though.  You can't be expected to make a buttload of skins and write the dang thing as well.  I suggest your users get busy and quit doing the whole "mamewah skinning" thing (namely take the default skin, change it ever so slightly and try to sell it off as a brand new skin.)  I've had a similar problem with dk over the past few years, that's why you only see my skins on the download page.  :)

headkaze:
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