[pstrg]

I'm looking for skins, besides the default Estuary, which enable Directors list in Movies.
Not an easy task; could not find the information on forums, so started experimenting.
Tried at first skins that appear in the Get more... menu and until now found only one that supports Directors: Bello 6.
However, what's worrying me is that many of them just crash Kodi while Installing add-on dependencies:

Amber - Crash
BOX - Crash
Chroma - Crash
Metropolis - Crash
Xperience1080 - Crash

The following ones did not crash (but have no Directors option):
addonic / Arctic: Zephyr / Mimic / Pellucid / Unity

I imagine that skins that appear in the menu are "certified" ones that should not crash Kodi.
What may be wrong?

[scott967]

I just installed every Kodi 17 skin from the Kodi repo as fast as possible and they all installed and would launch. I imagine your problem was in downloading/installing a dependency, but it's just about impossible without having debug logging enabled when this happens and uploading your log.

In general I think you would open "movies" view then focus on "directors" and open the context menu to add as a favourite. Skins often have a way to add a favourite as a widget or menu item on the home window. I took a look at "amber" and see I have a home window widget now:



so in the Amber skin settings I could add this favourite as a new home menu:



Giving this:



I'm sure most skins offer something like this. The same basic process works in Arctic: Zephyr.

scott s.
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[pstrg]

Thanks for the clue.

About the repeated crashing:
Enabled logging then tried to install Amber again... but it installed this time.
A transient problem, perhaps?

[foghat]

Strange.
Enabled logging then tried to install Amber again... but it installed this time.
A transient problem, perhaps?

On a more than one occasion I have had certain dependencies fail on a skin install. Trying the skin install again, the failed dependencies usually install fine. Not sure why it happens, but not losing sleep over it.

[PatK]

Transparency! has been bullet proof for many years for me and it has a sub menu slide out with directors etc, custom buttons on the home page would allow directors on the face.