2017-02-19, 23:53
Hi everyone!
For the past month or two I've been active in the old Eminence thread, trying to revive this beautiful skin. I thought it was about time to make a fresh thread outlining all the changes and new stuff, so that the skin can really come alive.
The purpose of this mod is to continue enhancing and polishing Eminence, without making the skin too slow or too different from the actual experience. The new features and modifications are already too numerous to mention, you can find a detailed change-log and some galleries below.
New view-types, better overall mouse support, new features like the QuickNav bar, dark and light backgrounds, expanded resource usage, expanded existing views are just some of the most noticeable differences. There's a lot more subtle stuff that you notice only when you look carefully.
I'd also like to thank the translators, Kelexel for the French, reforo for the Spanish strings, and scofield272 for the Hebrew. I also need to mention ZERO <ibis> for his ideas and implementation of some pretty neat viewtpes in the skin. Thank you all very much, together we're making a better skin!
The gallery you see below is by no means complete, so to get the full impression, you really need to experience the skin itself.
BE ADVISED THAT ARTWORK DOWNLOADER HAS BEEN DECLARED BROKEN AND IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED. HENCE, ANY ISSUES YOU HAVE WITH ARTWORKS ARE MOST LIKELY NOT THE SKINS' FAULT. EVERYONE IS ADVISED TO MOVE OVER TO ARTWORK BEEF.
INSTALLATION:
1. Go to "Settings / Addons / Install from Zip file".
2. Select the downloaded ZIP file.
3. Wait.
4. Switch to the skin, or go to "Settings / Appearance / Skin".
If you encounter errors even after manually installing all the dependencies, then you might need to unzip the skin.
1. Unzip the downloaded file.
2. Copy and paste the folder named "skin.eminence.2.mod.Krypton" to:
For Android: "Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/" (Sometimes the exact path will differ from device to device, you need to check this on your own.)
For iOS: "/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/Kodi/addons/"
For Linux: "~/.kodi/addons/"
For OpenELEC: "/storage/.kodi/addons/"
For Windows: Start - type %APPDATA%\kodi\addons - press <Enter>
For Mac OSX: "/Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Application Support/Kodi/addons/"
Skin Dependencies:
Skin Shortcuts: Builds the home menus, sub-menus, quick-menus....
Skin Helper Service: This addon adds a lot of useful skin settings.
Skin Helper Backup: Enables the skin backup and restore features, including the shortcuts.
Skin Helper Widgets: Adds more widgets to use.
Skin Helper Colorpicker: Enables the skin colour picking options.
Script ExtendedInfo: Shows much additional information about movies, tv shows and music.
Script Image Resource Select: This add-on is needed to select genre icons, weather icons, studio logos, etc.
AutoCompletion for virtual keyboard: This add-on is needed to show auto-completion in the keyboard.
Additional Add-ons:
Library Data Provider: This add-on adds a variety of library-based widgets.
Duration Script (axbmcuser MOD): Converts minutes duration to HH:MM format. Works faster than Skin Helper. NOT NEEDED IN LEIA
Next Up Notification: This addon shows a popup notification to prompt for playing the next unwatched episode.
Artwork Beef Forum Thread: This add-on is an alternative to Artwork Downloader. The repo, explanations and links are in the forum thread.
Global Search: This add-on lets you search content in your library.
Artist Slideshow: This add-on displays a slideshow as background for music visualization.
colorbox Script: Shows pixelated fanart on the Music OSD.
TV Show Next Aired: Shows available info regarding tv show airing times.
cu.lrclyrics: This addon is required to display lyrics from songs.
CD Art Manager : This add-on lets you download all ClearLogo and CDArt of your Music Library and export them.
Script PlayAlbum: This add-on is needed to play album from the album info screen.
Resource Images Busy Spinners Titan: This add-on expands the busy spinners the skin uses.
script.toolbox: This add-on is useful for various manual fanart manipulations, as well as automatic color backgrounds in some skin viewtypes.
Downloading the skin repo and the dependencies repo should enable automatic updates and notifications. With these installed, you should have an easy and automatic process.
Should anything go wrong, you can still find the repo zips in the link above, including many of the older versions.
The last link provides the freshest commits that might not have yet been pushed to the repository, because I'm still tweaking them. Bugs are possible!
DONATIONS
After many requests, I've put up this PayPal link for potential donations. I know of no simpler method, since navigating banking legislature in my country is a nightmare...
Just to be clear, I will never request donations, I'm doing this for fun, and will continue to do so for as long as I can. If you feel like you'd like to contribute for whatever reason, be sure that I am very grateful!
For the past month or two I've been active in the old Eminence thread, trying to revive this beautiful skin. I thought it was about time to make a fresh thread outlining all the changes and new stuff, so that the skin can really come alive.
The purpose of this mod is to continue enhancing and polishing Eminence, without making the skin too slow or too different from the actual experience. The new features and modifications are already too numerous to mention, you can find a detailed change-log and some galleries below.
New view-types, better overall mouse support, new features like the QuickNav bar, dark and light backgrounds, expanded resource usage, expanded existing views are just some of the most noticeable differences. There's a lot more subtle stuff that you notice only when you look carefully.
I'd also like to thank the translators, Kelexel for the French, reforo for the Spanish strings, and scofield272 for the Hebrew. I also need to mention ZERO <ibis> for his ideas and implementation of some pretty neat viewtpes in the skin. Thank you all very much, together we're making a better skin!
The gallery you see below is by no means complete, so to get the full impression, you really need to experience the skin itself.
BE ADVISED THAT ARTWORK DOWNLOADER HAS BEEN DECLARED BROKEN AND IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED. HENCE, ANY ISSUES YOU HAVE WITH ARTWORKS ARE MOST LIKELY NOT THE SKINS' FAULT. EVERYONE IS ADVISED TO MOVE OVER TO ARTWORK BEEF.
watch gallery
Code:
LEIA CHANGELOG:
[B]3.0.4[/B]
1. Skin Shortcuts menu fix.
2. Minor widget fixes.
3. Dialog Busy tweak.
[B]3.0.3[/B]
1. GUI bump.
2. Tweaked vertical menu layout and size.
3. Added addon dependency button.
4. Removed Audio DSP related settings.
5. Tweaked startup video.
6. Premiere date tweaks.
7. PVR Recordings fix.
[B]3.0.2[/B]
1. Fixed weather animated icons.
2. Alphabet scrollbar fixes.
3. Reimplemented Netflix backend fonts.
[b]3.0.1[/b]
1. Small infoline corrections.
2. Removed a redundant setting.
3. Bypass menu selection crash.
4. Replaced country flags.
5. Support for ExtendedInfo forks.
[b]3.0[/b]
1. First Leia version.INSTALLATION:
1. Go to "Settings / Addons / Install from Zip file".
2. Select the downloaded ZIP file.
3. Wait.
4. Switch to the skin, or go to "Settings / Appearance / Skin".
If you encounter errors even after manually installing all the dependencies, then you might need to unzip the skin.
1. Unzip the downloaded file.
2. Copy and paste the folder named "skin.eminence.2.mod.Krypton" to:
For Android: "Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/" (Sometimes the exact path will differ from device to device, you need to check this on your own.)
For iOS: "/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/Kodi/addons/"
For Linux: "~/.kodi/addons/"
For OpenELEC: "/storage/.kodi/addons/"
For Windows: Start - type %APPDATA%\kodi\addons - press <Enter>
For Mac OSX: "/Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Application Support/Kodi/addons/"
Skin Dependencies:
Skin Shortcuts: Builds the home menus, sub-menus, quick-menus....
Skin Helper Service: This addon adds a lot of useful skin settings.
Skin Helper Backup: Enables the skin backup and restore features, including the shortcuts.
Skin Helper Widgets: Adds more widgets to use.
Skin Helper Colorpicker: Enables the skin colour picking options.
Script ExtendedInfo: Shows much additional information about movies, tv shows and music.
Script Image Resource Select: This add-on is needed to select genre icons, weather icons, studio logos, etc.
AutoCompletion for virtual keyboard: This add-on is needed to show auto-completion in the keyboard.
Additional Add-ons:
Library Data Provider: This add-on adds a variety of library-based widgets.
Duration Script (axbmcuser MOD): Converts minutes duration to HH:MM format. Works faster than Skin Helper. NOT NEEDED IN LEIA
Next Up Notification: This addon shows a popup notification to prompt for playing the next unwatched episode.
Artwork Beef Forum Thread: This add-on is an alternative to Artwork Downloader. The repo, explanations and links are in the forum thread.
Global Search: This add-on lets you search content in your library.
Artist Slideshow: This add-on displays a slideshow as background for music visualization.
colorbox Script: Shows pixelated fanart on the Music OSD.
TV Show Next Aired: Shows available info regarding tv show airing times.
cu.lrclyrics: This addon is required to display lyrics from songs.
CD Art Manager : This add-on lets you download all ClearLogo and CDArt of your Music Library and export them.
Script PlayAlbum: This add-on is needed to play album from the album info screen.
Resource Images Busy Spinners Titan: This add-on expands the busy spinners the skin uses.
script.toolbox: This add-on is useful for various manual fanart manipulations, as well as automatic color backgrounds in some skin viewtypes.
Downloading the skin repo and the dependencies repo should enable automatic updates and notifications. With these installed, you should have an easy and automatic process.
Should anything go wrong, you can still find the repo zips in the link above, including many of the older versions.
The last link provides the freshest commits that might not have yet been pushed to the repository, because I'm still tweaking them. Bugs are possible!
DONATIONS
After many requests, I've put up this PayPal link for potential donations. I know of no simpler method, since navigating banking legislature in my country is a nightmare...
Just to be clear, I will never request donations, I'm doing this for fun, and will continue to do so for as long as I can. If you feel like you'd like to contribute for whatever reason, be sure that I am very grateful!
