[User 34959]

Confluence Modified

A modified version of Confluence with lots of customisation options while keeping the Confluence looks.

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Supported addons

Installed automatically with the skin:

Artwork Downloader - downloads artwork for movies, TV shows and music videos in your library.
Favourites - fetches item from your XBMC favourites to populate home menu/submenu with custom buttons.
Grab Fanart - use fanart from your library as backgrounds
Random and Last Items - display recent and recommended content from smart playlists
Skin Widgets - displays recent and recommended content from your library
Video & Audio Language - show all audio and subtitle languages of a video file in the video info dialog

Supported but requires manual installation:

Artist Slideshow - show artist slideshow during music playback
Cinema Experience - plays trailers, slideshows and videos before playback begins
CU LRC Lyrics - displays song lyrics
Global Search - searches your library
Library Editor - edit library details for media
Metadata Actors - displays extended actor and director metadata
TV Show Next Aired - displays air dates for TV shows in your library
TvTunes - plays TV show themes in the background
VideoExtras - add extras-type content to your media
XBMC Subtitles - downloads subtitles

Installation instructions:

- Download the skin
- Go to System > Add-ons, select "Install from zip file" and select the downloaded file
- It should install dependencies automatically. If it doesn't, these are needed: Artwork Downloader, Grab Fanart, Skin Widgets, script.favourites,script.randomandlastitems, script.videolanguage
- Music video views are designed for posters, use of TheConcertDB scraper is recommended.

Changelog

1.1.6

- Fullscreen view
- Support for TVTunes 4.x add-on
- Support for Video Extras add-on
- Coverflow label rework
- Enable coverflow for add-ons (video add-ons is buggy, will fix later)
- Music visualisation: fix visualisation not showing behind extrafanart, show random backgrounds if extrafanart disabled/not available and artist fanart disabled/not available.

1.1.5

- New add-on dependency (script.grab.fanart) and a new skin setting (show fanart backgrounds). Uses fanart from your existing library as main menu and library view backgrounds. Disable extrafanart (in some views) and enable “hide item specific fanart” to see it in library views
- Fix artist slideshow visibility at home screen
- Add extrafanart, thumb shadow and unfocus animation to showcase view

1.1.4

- Optional home menu icon layout (use home menu color setting to change the colour)
- Add script.metadata.actors to context menu for actors/directors
- Slow down background and extrafanart cycling a bit
- Bigger fonts here and there
- Update polish translation
- Dim screen when busy
- Small changes to video OSD, music visualisation

1.1.3

- Showcase view
- Support for script.metadata.actors
- Replace home menu programs with poor man's add-on browser (use programs for Android)
- Simple next aired information for tv shows
- Tune font aspect ratios
- Revert back to Confluence flags, Gotham-style audio and subtitle language info
- Various cosmetic fixes

1.1.2

- New widgets for vertical home
- Optional library stats at home (disable RSS at horizontal home first)
- Submenu for addons
- Show remaining time instead of total time at video OSD
- Cinema Experience support
- I cannot remember the rest

1.1.1

- Horizontal menu reorganization
- OpenELEC shortcut visibility fix

1.1.0

- Workaround fix to hide recommended content if it's not enabled in the add-on settings
- Skin settings cleanup and fixes
- Option to hide global search from the main menu
- Updated skin dependencies versions

1.0.9

- Alternative vertical home and widgets (work in progress)
- Moved things around in horizontal home
- Shutdown menu customiser
- Always use skin widgets instead of builtin recent items
- Random items support in vertical home
- Fix OpenELEC addon shortcut
- Codec info fix for Gotham
- Added EPG timeline infopanel
- Added library update to video and music submenus
- 5->10 addons at home screen
- Renamed some of the settings

1.0.8

- Set video nodes as main menu and submenu items
- New more lightweight busy dialog (credits to Pecinko for the inspiration and for the background graphic)
- Option to automatically activate fullscreen when music playback starts
- Fix artist slideshow not exiting properly when used as home background
- Added a reminder to configure Artwork Downloader when extra artwork is enabled in the skin settings
- Skin code parenthesis fixes

1.0.7

- Home window changes (lowered menu, bigger widgets, logos in tv show widgets, widget item fanart as home background, artist slideshow at home)
- Rename custom home items directly from home by pressing back/backspace
- Recent widget for album type smart playlists
- Toggle widgets on or off for individual menu items
- Support for Library Editor add-on
- Set lyrics as default music OSD button
- Fixed home window mouse navigation for addons
- Option to run Artwork Downloader automatically after library update
- Script.videolanguage support for musicvideos
- More items in shutdown menu

1.0.6

- Skinner retardism release

1.0.5

- Fixed weather widget overlapping with the XBMC logo
- Main menu navigation fixes
- Added system and skin settings to shutdown menu
- Coverflow view mode
- Extrafanart support in fanart, media info & media info 3 views
- Few more bugs, probably

1.0.4

- Fixed non working music main menu entry when there's no content in library
- OpenELEC settings shortcut in system submenu, and an option to hide it
- Choose when to show the weather widget on home
- Change main menu font color in skin settings
- Added missing login screen background
- Do not show widget selector on custom main menu items when the skin option is turned off
- Media flags from PM3.HD
- Transparent list resolution flags (SD/HD)
- Audio and subtitle (embedded only) language flagging support
- Enabled poster wrap, media info 2 & 3 for music videos
- Artist Slideshow support

1.0.3

- New main menu colour, backgrounds and few other graphical changes. All borrowed from other skins, credits to the original authors.
- Widgets for custom main menu items (recent/recommended items from smart playlists)
- Option to not show submenus, widget selector and add-ons automatically. Press up and down to show them.
- Option to use passive scrollbars. Scrollbars are visible only when focused.
- Minor OSD changes

1.0.2

- Showing power and favourites in the main menu disables power and shutdown buttons
- An option to open music in files mode
- Hide view/library statistics (number of item, page count, total duration..)
- LiveTV home addons
- Back to standard seek bar, the modified one was one up to the standards
- Reordered buttons at video info screen
- Slowed down background cycling a bit
- Fixed control visibilities at home screen
- Code cleanup (thanks Phil65)

1.0.1

- Favourites and shutdown in the main menu with submenus
- A button to download enabled artwork in the skin settings
- Tweaked the settings window to improve it's usability with bright custom backgrounds
- Renamed concerts back to music videos. Music videos main menu item shows automatically when you have content in the library. Hide it to move it to the videos submenu.
- New submenu for music videos (instead of using the standard music submenu)
- Added missing root library view as a music target
- "New" graphic for selected items in many of the windows, dialogs and views.

1.0.0

Home menu & submenu customization

- 3 custom main menu items with submenus and addons of your choice
- 3 custom submenu items per submenu, 18 in total
- Custom items above can be either a video/music playlist, a favourite or an add-on
- Disable any default submenu item (genres, actors, years..)
- Customize what library view is entered when you choose movies, tv shows and music from the main menu

Home window options

- Recommended and recently added unwatched movies, tv shows, albums and concerts, provided by Skin Widgets, formerly known as Watchlist script
- Custom backgrounds by media type (Eden-style background customizer)
- Go directly to files view by clicking Videos in main menu
- Music videos shortcut directly in main menu
- Current weather condition based background fanart

Other stuff

- Movie and tv show logos in media info views, poster wrap view, fanart view and movie/tv show information dialog
- TV show Clearart in OSD and seekbar
- Set subtitle plugin download button as the default focused button in video osd
- Additional button to launch Artwork Downloader from video info dialog