[FXB78]

Is there a way to remove the back arrow or double dots from every view?
Like when im in a tv show, to see only the episodes.

That's a Kodi setting, I think in Media/Library/Disable Parent folders. I'm not at my PC right now but it's something along those lines.

[beatmasterrs]

Anyone who wants to test, please download this version:

https://github.com/beatmasterRS/skin.arc...esting.zip

I hope I didn't forget anything, because with all the main menu views there are many conditions. The code is now much easier to understand and also allows to make adjustments much easier. It is now possible to adjust the brightness of the Netflix fanart window from 40-100%. If everything works fine and there are no errors, everything will be added to the master branch.

The setting for brightness are in skin-settings -> homemenu, under the netflix-fanart window settings and in view 510/520. The netflix fanart window is now the same for home/view 510/20.

@mark_dj

[PSTrophy]

Is there a way to remove the back arrow or double dots from every view?
Like when im in a tv show, to see only the episodes.

I'm assuming by double dots you mean the unwatched and rating indicators. They are being looked into.

@beatmasterrs  Sure I'll give it a whirl

[FVKey]

Thank you beatmasterrs, great skin. I missed Zephyr after updating to Kodi Matrix (on Mi Box with android tv), so thank you for this.

I have a question... On video osd, there is a way to enable the progress bar (or seek bar?) with a single click? Because currently to knowing the minute I am in my movie I have to do a click then click pause to the progress bar appears.
I dont know if I explain it correctly, english is not my first language.

Anyway, good job!

[beatmasterrs]

Thank you beatmasterrs, great skin. I missed Zephyr after updating to Kodi Matrix (on Mi Box with android tv), so thank you for this.

I have a question... On video osd, there is a way to enable the progress bar (or seek bar?) with a single click? Because currently to knowing the minute I am in my movie I have to do a click then click pause to the progress bar appears.
I dont know if I explain it correctly, english is not my first language.

Anyway, good job!

For now, there is imho only the way to press "i" to show the progressbar and information. The OSD will surely be reworked at some point.

[semool]

@FVKey 
Myself using a own Keymap on my ShieldTV for this behavior.
The Key ID's are probably others for you.
When i click on my Shield Remote "OK" (key id="61453") its open the Seekbar, long press "OK" open the normal OSD.

Keymap:


<fullscreenvideo>

        <keyboard>

            <backspace>Stop</backspace>

            <key id="61453">info</key>

            <key id="61453" mod="longpress">osd</key>

            <key id="61448" mod="longpress">codecinfo</key>

        </keyboard>

    </fullscreenvideo>

[Aaiemron]

Anyone who wants to test, please download this version:

https://github.com/beatmasterRS/skin.arc...esting.zip

I hope I didn't forget anything, because with all the main menu views there are many conditions. The code is now much easier to understand and also allows to make adjustments much easier. It is now possible to adjust the brightness of the Netflix fanart window from 40-100%. If everything works fine and there are no errors, everything will be added to the master branch.

The setting for brightness are in skin-settings -> homemenu, under the netflix-fanart window settings and in view 510/520. The netflix fanart window is now the same for home/view 510/20.

@mark_dj

It's working perfectly!

(Why is this tread moved to the skin archive BTW?)

[HoleyBoley]

I could reproduced that. To be exact, this only occurs with the home menus that have an overlay, so vertical and all multi widget. So i don't know yet if the problem is solvable and if yes, without adding an excessive number of conditions. i'll see

You're a champ! Now that you mention the overlays, I noticed in the picture I posted earlier that the smudge is the same shape as the actual multi-widgets (when they are in use): https://m.imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg

Could it be a kind of visual glow effect intended for the widgets, that somehow got massively compressed? If yes, could there be a way to disable the effect? The smudge is most noticeable against black backgrounds, but it definitely distorts other images as well – even on the widget backgrounds when they are in use (which I think is what the other user was posting about).

No, this is not a glow effect, nor is it meant to be one. This effect comes from 2 images: 

• common/floor.png
  
• common/bg.jpg
  

see the difference:

watch gallery

I was wondering if we were any closer to figuring out the steps required to solve this?

In the meantime, if anyone with an OLED panel is looking for a workaround, I recommend using a dark fallback background image with some contrast such as this:

[beatmasterrs]

You're a champ! Now that you mention the overlays, I noticed in the picture I posted earlier that the smudge is the same shape as the actual multi-widgets (when they are in use): https://m.imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg

Could it be a kind of visual glow effect intended for the widgets, that somehow got massively compressed? If yes, could there be a way to disable the effect? The smudge is most noticeable against black backgrounds, but it definitely distorts other images as well – even on the widget backgrounds when they are in use (which I think is what the other user was posting about).

No, this is not a glow effect, nor is it meant to be one. This effect comes from 2 images: 

• common/floor.png
  
• common/bg.jpg
  

see the difference:

watch gallery

I was wondering if we were any closer to figuring out the steps required to solve this?

Sorry, that seems like it was a while ago. What was the problem?

[beatmasterrs]

It's working perfectly!

Thanks for your feedback

(Why is this tread moved to the skin archive BTW?)

See this post: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3020927

[HoleyBoley]

No, this is not a glow effect, nor is it meant to be one. This effect comes from 2 images: 

• common/floor.png
  
• common/bg.jpg
  

see the difference:

watch gallery

I was wondering if we were any closer to figuring out the steps required to solve this?

Sorry, that seems like it was a while ago. What was the problem?

This had to do with a low-res white smudge that appears in the vertical and multi-widget modes. Makes OLED panels look dreadful. The effect is most noticeable on dark backgrounds.

Here are the pictures I included before to show the comparison:

https://imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg

https://imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg
https://imgur.com/a/6vTPwGy

Edit 1: for link

Edit 2: I believe the below posts may have referenced the same issue:

Sure, here it is. Hope it’s noticeable

https://ibb.co/Hhn1J7V
https://ibb.co/9nP94Lm

Could you please download and the version from this branch here: https://github.com/beatmasterRS/skin.arc...esting.zip

Please let me know, if thera are any issues, also with non blur fanart 

Could you please tell me how I can make the homescreen and flux-bigicons background fanart brighter myself?

And

Is there any way so the background (fanart) are not hazy?

[beatmasterrs]

I was wondering if we were any closer to figuring out the steps required to solve this?

Sorry, that seems like it was a while ago. What was the problem?

This had to do with a low-res white smudge that appears in the vertical and multi-widget modes. Makes OLED panels look dreadful. The effect is most noticeable on dark backgrounds.

Here are the pictures I included before to show the comparison:

https://imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg

https://imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg
https://imgur.com/a/6vTPwGy

Edit 1: for link

Edit 2: I believe the below posts may have referenced the same issue:

Could you please download and the version from this branch here: https://github.com/beatmasterRS/skin.arc...esting.zip

Please let me know, if thera are any issues, also with non blur fanart 

Could you please tell me how I can make the homescreen and flux-bigicons background fanart brighter myself?

And

Is there any way so the background (fanart) are not hazy?

I#ve done a rework on the backgroud section, so it will be easier to modify. So please tell me, when and under which settings/conditions should the under/overlay bis hidden? Maybe i can add a setting or something.

[mark_dj]

Anyone who wants to test, please download this version:

https://github.com/beatmasterRS/skin.arc...esting.zip

I hope I didn't forget anything, because with all the main menu views there are many conditions. The code is now much easier to understand and also allows to make adjustments much easier. It is now possible to adjust the brightness of the Netflix fanart window from 40-100%. If everything works fine and there are no errors, everything will be added to the master branch.

The setting for brightness are in skin-settings -> homemenu, under the netflix-fanart window settings and in view 510/520. The netflix fanart window is now the same for home/view 510/20.

@mark_dj

It’s perfect!
But the Home Screen is still very dark in comparison (like 30-40% I think)?

Is it in any way possible to use a Netflix kind of view (actually something exactly like Flix-BigIcons)? With the faded black on the left and a more popping visual in the upper right corner
Don’t want to ask for too much so if it’s too much work or anything just forget it

I just want to say thank you for your help and investment so far! Glad to see you actively developing with your community

[beatmasterrs]

Is it in any way possible to use a Netflix kind of view (actually something exactly like Flix-BigIcons)? With the faded black on the left and a more popping visual in the upper right corner
Don’t want to ask for too much so if it’s too much work or anything just forget it

I don't know if I understood correctly, but there is no difference in the background, is there?  Perhaps you can also explain this in more detail?

watch gallery

[HoleyBoley]

Sorry, that seems like it was a while ago. What was the problem?

This had to do with a low-res white smudge that appears in the vertical and multi-widget modes. Makes OLED panels look dreadful. The effect is most noticeable on dark backgrounds.

Here are the pictures I included before to show the comparison:

https://imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg

https://imgur.com/a/QC4Sdkg
https://imgur.com/a/6vTPwGy

Edit 1: for link

Edit 2: I believe the below posts may have referenced the same issue:

Could you please tell me how I can make the homescreen and flux-bigicons background fanart brighter myself?

And

Is there any way so the background (fanart) are not hazy?

I#ve done a rework on the backgroud section, so it will be easier to modify. So please tell me, when and under which settings/conditions should the under/overlay bis hidden? Maybe i can add a setting or something.

Awesome! Thanks again for all your hard work. I hope I'm understanding you correctly here, but might it be possible to replace the current darkening/blurring overlay with a transparent image that contains only low-opacity 100% black (ie. 0 out of 0-255) colors? It seems that with the current overlay, parts of the image consist of low-opacity grey tints, which seems to be what's causing the overal effect with low-res haze, as well as the issues with OLED panels (as OLEDs do not handle certain dark-greys well).

It would seem that if the right overlay is used, the desired effect could still be achieved, without the downsides. But as said, I might be understanding you wrong.

Edit:

The above would solve all issues for me, but perhaps to address the other posts I quoted, several overlays could be included with different opacity percentages, selectable from settings, so that users could e.g. switch between several levels of blur and darkening.

Edit 2:

Otherwise, in case I read your posts wrong, hiding the overlay when a fallback background image is shown might also work, but might be a less elegant solution.