Hat tip to the creator of this skin: pecinko.
Quartz is easily my favorite skin. I've been maintaining it for personal use since Helix.
Time to share this labor of love with the Kodi community...
New or Notable in this Edition:- configurable fanart transparency – 10 levels
- live TV support
- legacy animated Media Info 2 restored
- hide watched progress indicators option – fixed
- custom backgrounds for the home screen
- default theme changed to classic blue/black
- legacy badge scrolling for movie view restored
- other fixes and QoL changes too numerous to list or remember
Download Here:
https://github.com/nonJon/skin.quartz.ce
Please to enjoy!
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2018-05-06
Skin archive now includes
Milhouse's superb
Texture Cache Maintenance utility. The tool can be launched from a new settings option:
Settings>Skin>Advanced>Cache library art
The purpose of this implementation is to cache recently scraped artwork for improved render performance; just as if you went through the tedious process of browsing each texture manually. TCM can do much more, of course. Check it out if you haven't already.
2018-04-19
Today's update brings significant change to menus. The mashup of opaque, transparent and drop shadow menus is gone. Backed by a single new texture, context menus, options menus and pop-up controls are now consistent in appearance and window placement. Last but not least, menu transparency is user configurable via a pair of new skin settings.
Settings>Skin>Views>Menu transparency (Off, Low, MediumLow, Medium, MediumHigh, High, default=MediumLow)
Settings>Skin>Views>OSD menu transparency (Off, Low, MediumLow, Medium, MediumHigh, High, default=MediumHigh)
Transparency parameters are located in the skin color files for folks wanting to tinker.
../<skin_folder>/colors/<color_name>.xml
<color name="MenuOff">ffffffff</color>
<color name="MenuLow">e0e0e0e0</color>
<color name="MenuMedLow">d0d0d0d0</color>
<color name="MenuMed">c0c0c0Cc</color>
<color name="MenuMedHigh">b0b0b0b0</color>
<color name="MenuHigh">a0a0a0a0</color>
<color name="OSDOff">ffffffff</color>
<color name="OSDLow">c0c0c0c0</color>
<color name="OSDMedLow">b0b0b0b0</color>
<color name="OSDMed">a0a0a0a0</color>
<color name="OSDMedHigh">90909090</color>
<color name="OSDHigh">80808080</color>
2018-04-11
Quick note about today's update. You'll want to enable 'Settings>Videos>File lists>Extract chapter thumbnails' for the best experience with video bookmarks.
FYI
There are no further enhancements planned for the Jarvis version of Quartz. I will entertain requests to back-port specific features and absolutely jump all over any reported bugs. Otherwise, it has become too burdensome to keep three versions of the skin in sync.
FYI, I will be back-porting select features in the coming days so keep an eye on the change log for that. This effort is by no means an attempt to reach feature parity with Quartz/Leia. Just a few quick hitters before once again retiring Jarvis to bug/fix only status.
Edit: Quartz/Jarvis is no longer supported. Repo will remain available for use on an as-is basis.