[Trillian_M1]

Hey there, great skin and its great to see that you have been keepin up the good work for quite some time now.
I was just wondering: Are there any plans to redesign/update the skin to match a more modern flat appearance?
I just love how the skin works in terms of navigation and item presentation. However i also find the new look of the default kodi skin quite appealing and by look i mean the graphical elements them self and the flat feel to it.
I also think a pure redesign in terms of graphics is all it really needs. I already love the functions and layouts in xonfluence just the way they are, just a graphic update would be awesome. So any plans so far?

Trill

 Hi Trill,

I also thought that the skin needs to be modernized, so I already did some work on it for the Leia version of the skin. I don't have plans to roll it back to Krypton or older, as it was quite a lot of work.

However I made it customizable, as other users may prefer to use the 'oldfashioned' xonfluence style. If you go to settings -> skinsettings -> Global skin options and scroll all the way down (I know there are issues with the scrollbar, but they are solved in the next release), you will find some options:

• Dialog look and feel (already available on krypton, but updated and made a lot better for leia). You can select classic (default confluence look and feel) or modern (estuary alike look and feel).
  
• OSD look and feel. You can select classic (default confluence osd buttons), modern (modern round osd buttons) or max (modern square osd buttons).
  
• Button look and feel (how all selected and unselected buttons look). You can select classic (default confluence button look and feel), modern (modern look and feel with more contrast on buttons) or max (maximum contrast, estuary alike look and feel).
  
• Button layout look and feel (how button graphics look, e.g. radiobuttons). You can select classic (default confluence look and feel, e.g. radiobuttons look like LEDs) or modern (modern look and feel, e.g. radiobuttons look like a switch).
  
• Menu look and feel (how the main menu looks, already available on krypton). You can select classic (default confluence look and feel), graphics (only graphical menu buttons), graphics & focused text (graphical menu buttons, but text added to the menu button that is currently focused) or graphics & text (graphical and text for all menu buttons).
  

So you can customize the look and feel as you like. For some of the changes you have to hit the back button before they have any effect (I can't help it, it is how the screen is rendered). Hope this helps.

Helly. 

Hi Helly,

I saw your options to further change the look of the skin and I think they are great. I also agree with you that compatibility with Krypton is no must-have feature. I also love the idea of choices, so the user can choose which "theme" (old or new / 1 or 2) to use.

What I was thinking about is to take this one step further:
Wouldn't it be great if we had two sets of texture.xbt and the user could choose whether to use the "old-fashioned" or the "other" set of textures. I am not sure if this is actually possible as I am not familiar with the inner workings of kodi in detail. However, as we can choose between gray.xbt, krypton.xbt and ZiX.xbt, shouldn't it be easy to incorporate another xbt file? In this file the graphic elements could be changed to reassemble an alternative look. In terms of looks I am thinking along the line of "A Confluence ZEITGEIST". This could be a great model and starting point. Am I thinking any sense at all? If not, I'm sorry...
Sadly my python-skills are somewhat limited but I think this is more the case of adding and additional xbt-file than actually programming new functions. And I think I can help build that new set of graphic elements.

Trill.