[jurialmunkey]

Idea/Request:

On the horizontal home menu, could one click down get you just the sub menu, but an additional click down fully open the hub with widgets and all that. Most of the time, I just use the submenu for quick things but sometimes I want to see the whole hub. Thoughts?

This feature is now available in latest release.
Disable the "Press DOWN to access submenu hub" option.
You should now be able to press down again from the submenu to pull up the submenu widgets (with option enabled it goes immediately to the submenu hub, but with it disabled you have to press twice as first press will only open submenu like normal).

[Jooode]

Is there some option to set widget limit to unlimited? The maximum is 100

put limit and mark none

[david86bcn]

When pulse info does not show me the current and finish time under seekbar. Which may be the reason?

@jurialmunkey  can you help me?

[jurialmunkey]

How can I get genre icons. Only the dutch english overlap words like thriller or western have an icon. But for example action(actie in dutch) doesn't have an icon.

It's because the genre icon resources in the official repo only provide icons for names in English.

Do the dutch genre names have icons in Estuary? If they work in Estuary I can have a look and see what Estuary is doing that I'm not, but if they aren't, then there's not much I can do unfortunately.

[jurialmunkey]

When pulse info does not show me the current and finish time under seekbar. Which may be the reason?

Because the osd controls are in the way.
You need to map a button on your remote to "info".

[puenktchen]

@jurialmunkey can you please do something that pvr skin shortcuts do not get hidden if the pvr backend is offline?

[Mungo]

Hi JM, Love following along with all the ideas being implemented and tweaks being made. Every day is like getting a new toy to tinker with 

Quick question / request of my own - would there be a way to incorporate the TV show title when utilising the submenu widget "recently added"?

For recent movies, there's no other info to show - the title is shown. As there's more info for TV such as season, episode, episode title and date - this is all shown, but I have no idea what TV show it's from if using a view type other than poster.

I understand where this info is shown is already potentially a little cramped, so I'm not sure adding the TV Series title as well as all this other info would suite - maybe if possible, on top of the thumbnail/image of choice? I think if I had to choose info to swap out in the current area, I'd prefer the Series title, over say, the date....recently added already implies it's recent, I personally don't need to see a date in there. Thoughts?



Cheers,

Mungo

[jurialmunkey]

Awesome skin so far!

I came across one detail tho thats keeping me away from using it already, and thats the watched state indicators missing on several views.

In PVR recordings and on most viewmodes in the YouTube and Twitch app VODs I cannot see which VODs are already begun and resumeable.

Not a big deal because this skin is in the very early stages but just throwing this issue into the ring.

Thanks for reporting these bugs. I don't use PVR, so it is good to get feedback about it

Hopefully should all be fixed in this version:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc...alpha5.zip

[jurialmunkey]

Issue 1 completely breaks Kodi view layout as going back to the default skin doesn't fix the issue either, I also uninstalled everything but the default add-ons but it was still broken, had to delete the entire Kodi folder to get it working again. I'm going to try install AZ2 again and see if I can get the same issue because then maybe some dependency is breaking it?

I've found one issue so far that I can replicate with a fresh install: If you lock for example a TV show season layout and go into another season, change the layout there (this will change it for all unlocked ones in your library except the locked ones) and then go back out to the locked one and unlocked it, try to change layout again and it no longer follows the default sorting layout.

Locking something once bugs it. 

You are misunderstanding how the lock function works in this skin.

Locking will lock the viewtype to ALL content of that type (e.g. for ALL seasons views, or ALL movies views etc.). If you then change the viewtype, it will now be unlocked. You can't lock it for only one season or something like that. It is either locked to all season views, or it is unlocked.

All the lock does is disables all views types EXCEPT the selected viewtype for that content type. Because there are now no other viewtypes available for that content type other than the locked one, Kodi is then forced to use the locked viewtype. 

 That sounds really weird because that's exactly what Kodi does without the lock function if I change on one movie set for example it changes on all of them, still doesn't explain why once you've locked something once it will never follow the one you set no matter what skin you use.

Yeah it's what kodi is *supposed* to do, but often it doesn't work correctly. Plus many addons will try to force a different view and the locking ability gives a way to override that.

[jurialmunkey]

Where is the power menu?
And the music control icons (stop, pause, play, ecc......)?

Thanks

You can add the power menu to your home menu:
Skin Settings > Home > Customise Home Menu
Add item on left
Choose item for menu
Common > Power.

I don't know what you mean by music controls. On the music screen when you press OK like they've always been. 

Sorry, but with nvidia shield remote is impossible to control music. If i press OK the song goes back a few seconds.

Then you need to change your keymap. Not a skin issue.

[jurialmunkey]

1. No categories widget - have to use either submenus or hubs. You can open a hub based upon your submenu with ActivateWindow(1135) rather than having to press a direction
2. Not providing options for this. AZ has always been a light and simple skin with only basic options.
3. No colour overlay. Use Aura for things like that.
4. I've found the alphabet strip buggy and adds lots of overhead for some systems, so I haven't included it. However, I do have a "fake" strip which is really just a scrollbar disguised as the alphabet strip. Hopefully sualfred will release his embruary functions as a standalone add-on, because his alphabet strip implementation there is much less taxing and isn't as buggy.
5. There is an artwork gallery at the bottom of the info screen. Trying to keep things simple and minimise additional options.
6. No to genre colours. I felt it didn't suit the skin. 

damn shot me down on everything
i kind of expected it, never hurts to ask.
I am very happy with AURA but do like the Vertical Menu of AZ2.

Wonderful work on both, thank you so much.

Haha yeah sorry

I did consider all of these previously, but AZ has always been a light and simple skin - I think it is important to stick to that philosophy.

[jurialmunkey]

Loving the skin so far, was wondering if there's any way of adjusting the background blur, it's too much for me tbh.

Not currently, but I will add an option.

[jurialmunkey]

Is there some option to set widget limit to unlimited? The maximum is 100

Why do you need to show more than 100 items in a widget. That's not what widgets are for...

[jurialmunkey]

Hi Jurialmunkey. First just want to say thank you for all the work which goes into your skins, its made my experience of Kodi so good and has gone a long way to help me in ways you wouldnt know, so thank you. 

A small issue which you may say isnt skin related, but want to ask. Ive set a widget for my trakt collection via an addon, now through addon i have it as 'hide watched' but on widget it shows all including watched. I have gone into settings of 'skin helper service widgets' and ensured that 'Hide watched items in video widgets' and 'hide watched items in similar widgets' are both ticked but the widget does still show the entire collection. 

Can you advise if this is a bug or a fixable thing?

Many thanks again.

Skinhelper widgets settings only relate to widgets provided by skinhelper widgets. It wont affect any settings of a different addon.

I don't think Kodi allows for hiding watched in non-library containers (e.g. such as widgets). Only way I know how to do it is with a smart playlist, but you can only make smart playlists for library content, not add-ons.

Not much I can do about it from the skin end of things unfortunately.

[jurialmunkey]

What an incredibly great skin.
I like almost everything about it except the homescreen/menu. It it not as intuitive as Aura.

What i miss are the widgets when the horizontal menu is at the bottom of the screen.
For me it's pretty convenient to see recent added media etc as widgets.

Is the homescreen written in stone?

Skin Settings > Home > Multiple widget layout (enable)
Skin Settings > Home > Horizontal menu (enable)