[crawfish]

2. No, it look good like this.

I too would prefer an option for the OSD to be hidden completely after (for example) 5 or 10 seconds of being paused. The detailed information screen is great if you only use pause to stop playback while you do something else, but I also use pause to examine specific details, take my time to see onscreen graphics or read fast-moving credits, etc.

While it might not be everyone's preference, would a user-configurable option to hide the OSD after a set delay not be possible, and fairly easy to code? Thanks.

Andre

Why can't you examine specific details with the pause OSD in the screen? I think the current OSD doesn't obstruct the video screen as some of the others do. You don't have to see the movie art or see the plot each time you pause it, only the minimal important info.
Anyway, I don't know if you know it, but if you use the web UI for Kodi, there is an option to take screenshots remotely, so if you are interested in a moment of a movie, you can just press the Screenshot button using that interface while you are watching the movie.

Displaying any sort of Pause OSD can change the appearance of the still image on sets that employ ABL, like my plasma and presumably OLEDs, and I expect LCDs with local dimming are also subject to this. Why is this a problem? Imagine you have Kodi on one TV input and some other source on another TV input, and you want to compare the two. The only way this works is for neither to display any sort of UI. In addition, plasmas can be highly prone to image retention, and the Pause UI can be a major culprit. Thus, I disable the display of the UI in DialogSeekBar.xml. Worse than this is the giant clock in white that appears in most screens in skins like Estuary. That has to go, as does the Kodi logo and name in Estuary. These are major causes of IR. In fact, these were the reasons I went from Confluence to Aeon Nox several versions ago. Its muted color palette was much kinder to my plasma, though it too needed some mods such as killing the Pause UI.