(2018-10-25, 04:14)Dark_Saint Wrote: On the main menu for the TV tile I have set the widget (background image) to a folder full of 1920x1080 images. The images show up and scroll through just fine but they are all blurry. If I press up on the tile to bring up the image and hit ok the picture will show in high quality resolution. What could be the issue?

Quote:Hmmm. Are you certain they are blurry? There is a darkening effect on all main menu backgrounds that's removed when you press up and the clock and header disappear. If that's the problem, you can disable it from the skin settings.

 
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(2018-10-25, 17:45)Alanon Wrote:

(2018-10-25, 04:14)Dark_Saint Wrote: On the main menu for the TV tile I have set the widget (background image) to a folder full of 1920x1080 images. The images show up and scroll through just fine but they are all blurry. If I press up on the tile to bring up the image and hit ok the picture will show in high quality resolution. What could be the issue?

Hmmm. Are you certain they are blurry? There is a darkening effect on all main menu backgrounds that's removed when you press up and the clock and header disappear. If that's the problem, you can disable it from the skin settings.    

(2018-11-11, 02:42)Alanon Wrote: @MM10 Yes, after a bit of digging, I can now confirm the issue. The solution is not that simple, however. The reason why the images are blurry is that the mechanic currently utilises the Icon/Thumbnail infobool. As far as I've gathered, that's necessary because Kodi doesn't seem to provide any other way to "dynamically" call full-resolution images to a focused image list item, short of opening the file. Fanart and all the other art infobools are specific properties that are systematically assigned to go around this problem, but generic images inside custom folder structures are a whole other story. I've taken a peek at some other skins, and none of them seem to provide a true workaround. 

The best I can do to mitigate this is to reference the same image path as the image collection, which will display the images as backgrounds in full resolution. The downside to this is that you will no longer be able to scroll through the images in the widget itself, and consequently won't be able to change them manually. The thumbnails in the right widget panel will not match the backgrounds either. Instead, you'll get a simple slideshow. With that in mind, selecting a picture widget in that manner is not that different from selecting a folder to display as a menu background. I'm not at all sure what the best approach is, so I'll leave it up to you. If you consider this an improvement, I'll include it in the next update.

(2018-11-11, 11:25)MM10 Wrote: Thanks. I think that would be an improvement if it could be applied to individual menu items. With regard to the filename displayed in the widget info is there a way to hide the file extension? I have file extensions turned off in Library/General but they still display here. 

(2018-11-11, 13:42)Alanon Wrote: I'm not sure what you mean here. You can already set up any folder of images as a background for any individual menu, and it will return hi-res images in a slideshow. The backgrounds selected only need to be a set of images in a folder, there's no need for them to be scraped to the picture library. There are also settings that prefer those images to ordinary widget backgrounds. What I meant was that "fixing" the picture widget in the way I described will have a similar end result - a slideshow of images that you can't really control, and wondered if that renders the picture widget somewhat obsolete, because all you'd have in that case was a list of thumbnails that did not scroll in tandem with the backgrounds.

(2018-11-11, 15:06)MM10 Wrote: I now see what you mean. I didn't realise that could be done. That is what I was after thanks. Is there any way to caption the images with the filename?