[mikeSiLVO]

What I meat is a Variable, where the User can define the transparency, like the slider in "Opacity-Settings" = negative transparency
Variable does mean here, the value can change. KODI variables are something different than bash-programmine variables

Am I right, that "colordiffuse" and "animation" have (almost) the same result: make images transparent (with xxFFFFFF)
Also there are a lot of different "colordiffuse"-values: e.g. none, E6FFFFFF, CCFFFFFF, B3FFFFFF for listpanel_back.png
I want them unified, maybe my obsession

My understanding of programming is to have values set in one place (constants, includes, etc) and used them with "placeholders". So if you want to change a value, you have to do it only in one place without search/replace, like "SettingsFadeAnimation"

Who has enough PS-skills and wants to change transparency? I think changing colordiffuse is a lot easier

Yes variables can be used to change things since it is just a list of conditional values where the first one to match the condition is used but they will not work in an attribute so you cannot use $VAR[Transparency] in place of the end="85" (at least that was the case when I tried it last) but you can do something like I did with the MyFlix Dimmer.

They are all different cause I am not sure yet which looks the best and would prefer to just have someone alter them the proper way instead of changing all instances of the image anyway

It is easier to change the images cause then no additional processing of the image is needed. The fade animation is similar to color diffuse if you do not want to change the color but only the alpha. Colors are AARRGGBB so the first 2 handle the alpha which is transparency/opacity/whatever you wanna call it.

I have no reason to use an include for transparency cause I am not planning on changing that often (or like ever) so like I said... Find & Replace works just fine

I don't have an opacity slider...??

I have a Bug report:
If you have a timer in EPG-view (next), the text is moved to the left, but the image (the clock) is missing.

BTW: If anyone is interested: (Mike?)
I have modded this skin to use skinhelper to scrape Artwork for PVR-entries. Preview Images:
http://picsurge.com/Rvqw1g
The question marks in plot is a issue with my VDR setup and has nothing to do with this changes
No official release yet because there are a few issues left.

I already told you my reasons for not adding it to the skin and literally hours after I posted said reasons you had an issue with the Start Trek movie so

If you are gonna record something and keep it then why not just add it to the library if you want all the nice metadata... Personally, I just don't get it.

EPG next view bug is fixed because they have been removed from the skin

The same set up works correct in 17 krypton only shows up in jarvis

The same code is used for both Jarvis and Krypton...

Hi at all,

right now I used the Jarvis version on my system. But know Krypton becomes Beta 3 and I wnt to test
the new version of Kodi and the skin. I have my own addon wich scraped all TV-Shows from the German telecast and shows me new aired episodes of my DB TVShows... so far so good...
For Jarvis version it works perfect for me...

Now I checked the Krypton Version and it seems that WidgetInfo is gone...
is it right?

Yes, it was removed. Oninfo no longer functions on the home screen, you can use DialogVideoInfo now which is a lot better IMHO. No idea what you need to do to trigger the window opening but extended info widgets do it so you can try to check it's code for inspiration.