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You'll only see this one if you are running Mimic on OpenELEC. When opening OpenELEC settings in Mimic,The heading text is a very dark blue, which tends to become virtually invisible against the background. It makes it hard to see just what your'e doing even on a big-screen.

I've tried to eliminate the effect through the skin custom color picker and have tried different system section backgrounds, but can't eliminate the effect. The dialog looks fine under Aon Nox, so I'm assuming that the heading color is coming from Mimic, although I'm not sure where/how the parameter is being passed to the addon. I see this issue on Isengard, Jarvis and Krypton.

Here's a screenshot of Mimic in case you don't use OpenELEC:

http://imgur.com/7AUHou1

And a screenshot of the same dialog under Aon NOX:

http://imgur.com/fZ2N3V5

Is there a simple fix for this?

That blue color doesn't exist in Mimic, no idea where it is coming from.

Is OpenELEC Settings installed in Kodi like any other addon? There's probably a skin file in its folder that can be customized and dropped into Mimic's 1080i folder. I'm on Windows so I've never seen that dialog before.

It looks like the textcolor is defined as "blue" in the openelec settings dialog.

https://github.com/OpenELEC/service.open...Window.xml

Just guessing, but I'm thinking Aeon Nox has a light blue color defined for "blue", while Mimic does not. So in Mimic blue defaults to royal blue, ie 0000FF.

You can test this by adding the following code to Mimic's default colors (colors/defaults.xml).


Does that fix it?

That fixed it, the headers are a nice legible light blue now. Might this change end up in the Github master, or will it require tweaking on my end after an update?

I can add that blue color to the defaults.xml, but ideally the addon author wouldn't rely on skins to provide the color.

they're not really depending on skins to define the colors.
kodi ships with a colormap that addons can use:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...colors.xml

the colors defined by the skin will override the ones defined by kodi of course.

(2016-03-13, 11:42)ronie Wrote: [ -> ]they're not really depending on skins to define the colors.
kodi ships with a colormap that addons can use:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...colors.xml

the colors defined by the skin will override the ones defined by kodi of course.

Ah, that's where the royal blue comes from. Thanks for the clarification Ronie.