[Humdinger]

@Humdinger , after considering it, I will not be adding another option.  Right now when you pause (without pressing M), all you have on the screen is the seekbar at the top.  This is as minimalistic as I will go at this time.

Fair enough. I understand and appreciate you being frugal with options.

One situation where the seekbar is in the way in pause mode (or when it's shown when playback is buffering), is when the display of "PlayerDebug" is activated.
I use that rather often to get low-level info of the played back source. If you're unfamiliar with it, ssh into your kodi machine and execute
kodi-send --action="PlayerDebug"

Is there any way for the Amber skin to move that text from the left top corner a bit down, so the lines aren't obscured by the seekbar?

Thanks!