2015-04-03, 04:55
Hi Mike, just want to report a couple of things after this latest update.
First of all, somehow on my 15.1 Kodi installation, your skin managed to "uninstall". By this I mean that I came home to find that the skin had changed to Confluence, and when I went to the Appearance settings screen, your skin was no longer listed. However, the skin folder was still present in /addons, so I just did a force refresh, then went to Get Addons, entered your repo, went to the /skin folder in the repo, and clicked on the skin....that brought me to the install/configure/uninstall screen, and after I clicked "install", the screen went dark for a second, then brought me back to your skin instead of Confluence, and all was well. So that was a bit weird, but everything is working fine now Just figured I'd mention it as a data point.
Second thing to mention--I really like the widgets, but it's hard to see which one is active (I've got mine set to Expanded view btw). I know there's the colour highlight on the active item in the row of widgets, and I know there's a slight graphic effect when scrolling with the remote to indicate which one is being selected, but it's still not really obvious. Also, in the Video Addons widget, when scrolling to the right, the active item is always the one just to the left of the right-most item; but when scrolling to the left, the active item is always the left-most item. That makes for a little confusion too.
I wish I had a good suggestion to make about making the active item in the widget list more visible (don't you just hate it when people complain but never suggest an answer?), but I really don't have any good ideas I thought maybe a coloured bar across the top of the active widget item, but I don't know that that's a good idea.
Anyway just wanted to give you some feedback. Again, in general, this is the happiest I've ever been with a skin since starting using Kodi years ago...truly fantastic work on your part!
First of all, somehow on my 15.1 Kodi installation, your skin managed to "uninstall". By this I mean that I came home to find that the skin had changed to Confluence, and when I went to the Appearance settings screen, your skin was no longer listed. However, the skin folder was still present in /addons, so I just did a force refresh, then went to Get Addons, entered your repo, went to the /skin folder in the repo, and clicked on the skin....that brought me to the install/configure/uninstall screen, and after I clicked "install", the screen went dark for a second, then brought me back to your skin instead of Confluence, and all was well. So that was a bit weird, but everything is working fine now Just figured I'd mention it as a data point.
Second thing to mention--I really like the widgets, but it's hard to see which one is active (I've got mine set to Expanded view btw). I know there's the colour highlight on the active item in the row of widgets, and I know there's a slight graphic effect when scrolling with the remote to indicate which one is being selected, but it's still not really obvious. Also, in the Video Addons widget, when scrolling to the right, the active item is always the one just to the left of the right-most item; but when scrolling to the left, the active item is always the left-most item. That makes for a little confusion too.
I wish I had a good suggestion to make about making the active item in the widget list more visible (don't you just hate it when people complain but never suggest an answer?), but I really don't have any good ideas I thought maybe a coloured bar across the top of the active widget item, but I don't know that that's a good idea.
Anyway just wanted to give you some feedback. Again, in general, this is the happiest I've ever been with a skin since starting using Kodi years ago...truly fantastic work on your part!