[jurialmunkey]

ARCTIC HORIZON 2
Beta Release

Installation
The skin and its required dependencies are available on my 3rd party alpha repository.
Note that due to a Kodi bug on Matrix you may need to install TMDbHelper and SkinVariables (via versions button in addon info) before installing the skin. If you have repository updates set to manual, please make sure that you update to the latest version before reporting bugs.

Kodi File Manager Source:
https://jurialmunkey.github.io/repository.jurialmunkey/

Direct ZIP Install:
https://jurialmunkey.github.io/repositor...ey-3.3.zip

Donate
If you like my work and want to support me, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-Fi
https://ko-fi.com/jurialmunkey

Bug Reports
As this is an beta release, you should expect occasional bugs. Please report bugs and missing features by creating a new issue on github.

Crashes on Nexus due to SegFaults in ElementTree python library (all platforms EXCEPT Windows)
Kodi Nexus uses Python 3.11 which currently has a bug in the CPython ElementTree library used to parse XML metadata. This bug causes unexplained SegFaults which crash Kodi when multiple scripts attempt to use ElementTree simultaneously.

The issue requires an upstream fix in CPython. There is currently no fix available on the Kodi side other than to suggest users limit the number of addons they have installed which rely on ElementTree. Having a lot of unnecessary addons installed is going to increase the chance of experiencing this crash.

TMDbHelper version 5.0.44 added a workaround to parse OMDb XML ratings metadata via a different Python library. Ensuring that you are using at least this version or higher should significantly reduce the incidence of crashes in general day-to-day usage.

Please note that occassional crashes may still occur if both SkinShortcuts and SkinVariables attempt to rebuild the same time. However, this occurs relatively infrequently and will typically only cause a crash if you have a lot of other addons installed which are also using ElementTree.

Additional Ratings

NOTE: Please read the above information about crashes on Nexus before entering your API key. You must be running at least v5.0.44 of TMDbHelper to avoid crashes caused by usage of the ElementTree library.

Ratings from IMDb, RottenTomatoes, and Metacritic require a personal OMDb API key.
You can get a free key from https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx

Enter your API key in TMDbHelper settings
Skin Settings > Manage Dependencies > plugin.video.themoviedb.helper > API Keys > OMDb API Key

Notes
The script.skinshortcuts configuration in this skin is NOT shared with other skins so that you can freely modify it while testing without worrying about messing up another skin configuration.


Screenshots

[ocarror]

Awesome. Can’t wait 👍👏👏

[neunghaha28]

I'm excited to use skin arctic horizon 2, it looks beautiful. And it would be great if you could show us a preview in video format. I appreciate it. 

[ViewAfterReview]

Wow! That is a very clean skin. Looking forward to try it out.

[CookieRG]

Awesome

[titelheld]

Amazing. Your skins are by far my favorites. 😊

[TheFather999]

[drinfernoo]

Looks like there's some really cool new features here! I'm also really digging the "pill-shaped" buttons MD2 -> MD3, amirite?

[Aaiemron]

Nice as always

[jimkaf]

Great news, looking forward to it as always with your work.

[wsx1]

Omg

[blu-rayx]

Excellent 😀

Love the weather GUI.

[Frep]

Amazing!

[timphelans]

I don’t post on here at all, but I had to show some appreciation to hands down the best skin creator on the Kodi platform. Super excited for the release, looks wonderful! Great job!

[jurialmunkey]

Looks like there's some really cool new features here! I'm also really digging the "pill-shaped" buttons MD2 -> MD3, amirite?

Yep, lots of new usability features. Particularly excited about the pop-up menu to switch subs/audio streams on the fly. Even using it in the current *very* alpha state I'm finding it difficult to go back to other skins and not have that feature. There's a lot of other stuff not shown too.

And the button/menu style is switchable between the old squarer style and newer rounded style! There's actually quite a lot of appearance customisation options. These are just for the standard views:



For instance, Flix Art + Blur + Clearlogo + Split Divider:


And info dialog adapts to the style too