(2019-01-23, 01:37)nonJon Wrote: The OP will be proven right in the long run unless the community steps up to support the plugins that make this, and other skins, go. The skin helper, shortcuts. backup, etc, add-ons have been in a state of decay since marcel went MIA and the situation is only going to worsen with the forced upgrade to python 3 compatibility. Hope it all works out in the end but I am not optimistic.
All good skins rely on skin helper (and its dependencies) so what you're describing is not actually Titan-specific. The main reason ppl look at it as a 'bundle' is because it has the same author, and maybe Titan is a bit more reliant on it than others as a showcase of the addon's power. But:
(1) I update the addons as well as the skin. Currently, with the latest updates they work perfectly fine, and when an issue comes up I try to trace it and patch. I hope & believe that kodi's community will not let it die because it's so needed.
(2) The python 3 integration you mentioned is indeed something on the horizon. it will be forced on kodi 19 and supported on leia if i remember correctly, this gives plenty of time for a proper revisit of the code.
(3) Kodi & its derivatives are an open-source project, if people won't stand up to do what is 'needed' maybe it is not so 'needed' anymore as it used too.
On a personal note, we face a different era than we were a few years ago, with the legality issues, streaming options out there (in videos, music & games!) and also conceptual design (by this I mean, that most services are given through a 'cloud', frontend-backend design). This is a good thing overall, and we'll have to sit and wait to see what will be kodi's role in all of this.
In the meantime, it still has it merits.
