[jurialmunkey]

is it possible to get an option to lock the horizontal menu, like veritcal?

Added on latest.

[jurialmunkey]

Hi @jurialmunkey

Is it possible to show library indicators on posters only when poster is highlited rather than to show for each TV show and Movie constantly? This to have the posters clean but will be visible only when highlited.

Hope this will be implemented.

Thanks.

Added to todo list: https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc...issues/241

[jurialmunkey]

Would you consider adding the option to disable the header in top left (which says settings / movies etc) ? I know you could in arctic but can’t find option in horizon I try and keep the home screen less cluttered 👍🏻

Fantastic skin

Added to todo list: https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc...issues/243

[jurialmunkey]

Since last couple of releases, when I try to update via GitHub (.zip file) Kodi crashes. I have to re enter Kodi and update finalizes. Nvidia Shield 2017 and 2019 Pro. Is this to be expected?

This often happens to me, even on my PC, and even when installing from repo.

It doesn't usually crash Kodi completely, but almost every single update freezes me into a black screen, which either never goes away and I have to close Kodi, or when it does, menus/icons/etc... are "corrupted" and incorrect. If I wait long enough, sometimes Skin Shortcuts kicks in and fixes things, but if not, I have to close Kodi to get it to try again after boot. It's been an issue in every one of @jurialmunkey's skins I've used so far... but once the update is finalized, they're mint, so meh

I think the black screen thing is just because its loading for the skin in use.

The skinshortcuts/corrupted-menu is always going to present because the skin needs to wait for skinshortcuts to build a new includes file after the update. The problem is that after a reload skin command Kodi sometimes gets locked in a loop where no addons can load properly (hence skinshortcuts can't run to rebuild the menu). Not sure what the root cause of this loading loop is though.

I have a suspicion that the python datetime module is the culprit. Don't really have any hard evidence of that though - just an observation about the types of addons that appear to load immediately after the loop resolves (plus there are some issues with datetime in py2 that require some janky workarounds). My basic assumption is that Kodi only loads X amount of addon threads, so if all of those addons happen to be waiting on a module to load (e.g. datetime) then that will hold up everything.

[Rijs43]

The Netflix icon is hard to read due the length of the text 'Netflix'. Is it possible to have an icon for Netflix with just the 'N' logo? This will fit better with movie and TV shows icons.

Thanks.

Added a few variations of netflix icon on latest (text only, icon only, and icon + text) - thanks to @dm21912 for providing the base icon that I used to make these!

@jurialmunkey & @dm21912 both many thanks for this!

[Rijs43]

Hi @jurialmunkey

Is it possible to show library indicators on posters only when poster is highlited rather than to show for each TV show and Movie constantly? This to have the posters clean but will be visible only when highlited.

Hope this will be implemented.

Thanks.

Added to todo list: https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc...issues/241

Cannot wait mate.

A million thanks for your hard work!

[Qirat77]

Loving the horizontal menu! Would you consider having menu items scroll on a central pivot (if that makes sense?) so any highlighted menu item is always in the same position? Thanks.

[FXB78]

Just a quick one I noticed with the Horizontal Menu lock, if I choose Info on a Widget from the Home Screen the menu stays on top, but as expected it's inaccessible. I assume in this scenario it should just be faded out

[baruchin]

Since last couple of releases, when I try to update via GitHub (.zip file) Kodi crashes. I have to re enter Kodi and update finalizes. Nvidia Shield 2017 and 2019 Pro. Is this to be expected?

Are you on Leia 18.8?

I've noticed this the last few times I've updated my htpc in the lounge-room but it's only been since I updated Kodi on that machine to 18.8 - wondering if it's just a coincidence and there's something in my skin code that's bugging things out, or if it's an issue specifically with 18.8

Yes I am.

Edited: I just updated from GitHub, and it happened again on both Shields 2017 and 2019 Pro.

[jurialmunkey]

Just a quick one I noticed with the Horizontal Menu lock, if I choose Info on a Widget from the Home Screen the menu stays on top, but as expected it's inaccessible. I assume in this scenario it should just be faded out

Should be fixed now.

[scr44tch]

this really looks amazing, hope its available in the repo soon

quick questions im just cleaning up my libraries and made some library nodes,
now i cant find a way to add the nodes as a widget or submenu.

am i blind or is this not possible?

You should be able to add it normally.
e.g. Choose item for menu > Video Library > Movies > Your Node (or where ever you put it)

I have a node called "HD Movies" which is in Videos > Movies. I just checked now and I was able to add it both as a menu item and as widget (I tested with main menu, submenu, hub widget, and standard widget, and I was able to add it in all cases).

i made a mistake setting up the widget, its working fine now

one question:

my Movies-HD node

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<node order="1" type="filter">
    <label>Movies-HD</label>
    <rule field="path" operator="startswith">
        <value>smb://192.168.1.11/Movies-HD/</value>
    </rule>
    <content>movies</content>
    <order direction="ascending">sorttitle</order>
</node>

when i go into the node through the library, movies in collections are combined,
when i add the node as widget, movies in collections are not combined,

is it possible for widgets to combine movies in collections?
​​​​​​​this would be great, because its much cleaner

[Mahava]

@jurialmunkey Someone opened an issue regarding profile/skin logo on the horizontal menu, but would it be possible to get an "icon only" mode up there?

Added icon only mode on latest git version. Also reduced the rounding so the style better matches with the rest of the skin.

Rounded looks nicer.  The posters are slightly rounded.

[drinfernoo]

@jurialmunkey Someone opened an issue regarding profile/skin logo on the horizontal menu, but would it be possible to get an "icon only" mode up there?

Added icon only mode on latest git version. Also reduced the rounding so the style better matches with the rest of the skin.

Rounded looks nicer.  The posters are slightly rounded.

So are the "squared" boxes on the menu. They're not "rounded", they're "slightly rounded".

[Mahava]

I like the styling on this skin and tested it out as an alternative to the abandoned Estuary mod I'm using now.   I'm afraid I couldn't get it to stabilize.  Even after restarting Kodi, the busy spinners roll and roll and sometimes the widgets never load.  Sometimes they do.   If I click into an addon, the ocean busy spinner rolls and it never opens.  Then after the the initial time I was able to customize the home page, the "customise home page" button wouldn't open anything.  I clicked it, went away and did chores and came back and it had opened, so maybe sometimes it opens but takes a long time.  I tried installing it to a separate profile, but that didn't improve things markedly.

In skin shortcuts, I tried it with share menus switched off and on and didn't notice any difference.   What version of skin shortcuts does Arctic Horizon support, btw?

I'm on Windows 10, 9th gen i7, 16gb memory and Kodi 18.8  which is to say that I don't think my device is slow.

[jurialmunkey]

I like the styling on this skin and tested it out as an alternative to the abandoned Estuary mod I'm using now.   I'm afraid I couldn't get it to stabilize.  Even after restarting Kodi, the busy spinners roll and roll and sometimes the widgets never load.  Sometimes they do.   If I click into an addon, the ocean busy spinner rolls and it never opens.  Then after the the initial time I was able to customize the home page, the "customise home page" button wouldn't open anything.  I clicked it, went away and did chores and came back and it had opened, so maybe sometimes it opens but takes a long time.  I tried installing it to a separate profile, but that didn't improve things markedly.

In skin shortcuts, I tried it with share menus switched off and on and didn't notice any difference.   What version of skin shortcuts does Arctic Horizon support, btw?

I'm on Windows 10, 9th gen i7, 16gb memory and Kodi 18.8  which is to say that I don't think my device is slow.

It's a Kodi issue - sometimes when Kodi is attempting to load multiple plugin paths it will get stuck in a loading loop. I'm not entirely certain about the cause but I think it's some bottle-neck related to some python module not loading properly -- I assume that Kodi only processes X number of plugin threads at a time and the rest wait in a queue. So if all the currently processing plugins are all waiting on a particular module to load (which isn't loading properly for whatever reason), then any new scripts/addons/plugins (e.g. skinshortcuts) will all just sit in that queue rather than run.

You could try disabling online lists in the info dialog and then restarting:
"Skin Settings > Lists and Other > Customise info dialog lists > Use online information"
(for some reason using lists from plugins in the info dialog cause issues for a lot of people)

RE: version of skinshortcuts. I use 1.0.19 but the one in the Kodi repo should be fine too. The issue isn't skinshortcuts - it's Kodi getting stuck in a loading loop that prevents skinshortcuts from running.