Concept: Flexmb


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By the title one can probably guess what the idea is: a COMPLETELY and easily customizable take on the 'xmb' idea.

The main idea here is to create a backend for a simple scrolling type UI along with simple tools to allow users not versed in a coding language to create and explore their ideas of an ideal interface, along with a simple way to share it with others.

This would be great for those of us who want a good balance of function & eye candy in a simple streamlined package for everyday use.

Features -

• Simple tools that accept touchscreen input as a means of defining icon position & movement (such as drawing a path for where a icon should start and end up when moved)
• A module/plugin system for icon animations/transformations
• Easy icon transparency & scaling support (adjustable by slider)
• Animated icon support (as well as defining when they'll be animated)
• Animated/Video background support (think subtle animations like the metroid prime main menus)
• A plugin system for something similar to the 'wave' of the xmb, only much easier to customize & flexible enough to provide other sorts of background 'deformations'
• A built in browser to download & upload new themes directly to/from the pandora.
• Support for both tactile and touch based input
• Control of boot animation, game boot sounds, click sounds & all that jazz (as well as including them in the archive -possibly with some sort of 'preview' feature)


This would be a great way to have a semi-unified theme system that is flexible enough to meet the needs of most.

While I do not have the necessary coding skills to get this started, I do have plenty of ideas and skill enough to design intuitive UI's that could be created easily if something like this is developed. Hopefully some of the UI devs lurking around here would agree to a unified framework.
 
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