[vinzc]

Hi all.

I've been trying for hours to hack the re-Touched skin by changing the icon base color (basically a colour rotate by 180° in Gimp) but am facing a strange error when I install the modified skin from the zip file. If I change just one icon from the /media folder, installing the skin fails with error "incorrect extension structure". One thing I'm certain is that it's not the zipping method I'm using that causes this error for I can successfully zip and install the original structure as many times I want.

So far the only images I could change are the ones from the /background folder. I'm using re-Touched:ditch_4x3hirez as a base. For the sake of the example, I'm trying to replace /media/unknown-user.png with this picture:



EDIT: I shall add that I enabled debugging and checked *all* debugging options. The log tells me *nothing* relevant about the skin structure so I have no idea where to look at first.

EDIT: I tried changing the unknown-user icon using

Code:

gm mogrify -recolor '0 0 1, 0 1 0, 1 0 0'

instead of Gimp (had I done that earlier, I wouldn't have wasted half a day) and now I get another error message about missing files!

EDIT: Now the log has become extremely verbose... Don't know why, maybe because I have restarted OpenELEC, go figure. Anyway here's an excerpt of what I'm getting from /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log:

Code:

10:07:52 T:139911227234048   DEBUG: FileManager: create folder special://home/addons/skin.re-touched/background
10:07:52 T:139911227234048   DEBUG: FileManager: copy zip://%2fstorage%2ftmp%2fskin.re-touched.zip/skin.re-touched/background/tv.jpg -> special://home/addons/skin.re-touche
d/background/tv.jpg
10:07:52 T:139911227234048   DEBUG: FileManager: copy zip://%2fstorage%2ftmp%2fskin.re-touched.zip/skin.re-touched/background/SKINDEFAULT.jpg -> special://home/addons/skin.
re-touched/background/SKINDEFAULT.jpg
10:07:52 T:139911227234048   DEBUG: FileManager: copy zip://%2fstorage%2ftmp%2fskin.re-touched.zip/skin.re-touched/LICENSE.txt -> special://home/addons/skin.re-touched/LICE
NSE.txt
10:07:52 T:139911227234048   DEBUG: FileManager: copy zip://%2fstorage%2ftmp%2fskin.re-touched.zip/skin.re-touched/icon.png -> special://home/addons/skin.re-touched/icon.pn
g
10:07:52 T:139911227234048    INFO: ADDON: cpluff: 'Could not read plug-in directory /usr/lib/kodi/addons: No such file or directory'
10:07:52 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogYesNo.xml) ------
10:07:52 T:139912486000512    INFO: Loading skin file: DialogYesNo.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
10:07:52 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------
10:07:52 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(special://xbmcbin/system/ImageLib-x86_64-linux.so)
10:07:52 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: Loading: /usr/lib/kodi/system/ImageLib-x86_64-linux.so
10:07:58 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------
10:08:15 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x71, sym: 0x0114, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
10:08:15 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: OnKey: left (0xf082) pressed, action is Left
10:08:16 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x24, sym: 0x000d, unicode: 0x000d, modifier: 0x0
10:08:16 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: OnKey: return (0xf00d) pressed, action is Select
10:08:16 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogYesNo.xml) ------
10:08:16 T:139911227234048   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting /usr/share/kodi/sounds/
10:08:16 T:139911227234048   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting special://xbmc/sounds/
10:08:16 T:139911227234048    INFO: ADDON: cpluff: 'Could not read plug-in directory /usr/lib/kodi/addons: No such file or directory'
10:08:16 T:139912486000512   DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
10:08:16 T:139912486000512   DEBUG:   ParentPath = []
10:08:16 T:139911973828352  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
10:08:16 T:139912486000512   ERROR: failed to load requested skin 'skin.re-touched'

Uh?

Code:

# ls -l /usr/lib/kodi/
total 19072
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root           118 Jul 28 19:24 addons
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          1905 Jul 28 19:24 kodi-config
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         42864 Jul 28 19:24 kodi-xrandr
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      19481424 Jul 28 19:24 kodi.bin
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          2918 Jul 28 19:24 kodi.sh
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           190 Jul 28 19:24 system
OpenELEC:~ # ls -l /usr/lib/kodi/addons/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            53 Jul 28 19:24 library.kodi.guilib
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            52 Jul 28 19:24 library.xbmc.addon
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            52 Jul 28 19:24 library.xbmc.codec
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            50 Jul 28 19:24 library.xbmc.pvr

[vinzc]

I *think* I sorted this out by recursively deleting $HOME/.config, $HOME/.cache and $HOME/.kodi directories completely:

Code:

OpenELEC:~ # rm -rf .cache/ .config/ .kodi/
OpenELEC:~ # reboot ; exit

I've just tried to reinstall the customized version of this skin and... Halleluiah! Worked. I'm not releasing my attention though...