(2016-06-26, 02:26)mdh99 Wrote:

(2016-06-25, 05:51)Guardian Hope Wrote: Q: Slideshow?
A: A lot of the fan art is pretty good depending on where you are scraping it from and what your settings are (I've only ever used MediaBrowser/Emby- I don't know what type of quality generic Kodi has) but I believe the setting is in there somewhere.

It's not just poor quality and inappropriate (I have kids and fan art from a horror or violate movie isn't something they need to see) fan art, it's also the delay in displaying. When I open SPMC the background is black for up to 10 seconds and often when I return to the home screen. I thought Kodi stored/cached art in the local database, but maybe I'm wrong.

The ability to set my own local/smb folder with pictures is a feature I really miss.

Another issue, I had to dig way to too deep into add-ons to disable "up next", can a toggle be added to the skin settings?

Apart from missing the personal slideshow feature of the original skin, this is by far the best skin and many thanks for bringing it back to life!!

(2016-06-27, 20:25)Milhouse Wrote: @Guardian Hope: After your increasingly patronising and condescending posts on the LibreELEC forum, your forum status was changed to reflect your behaviour as it was perceived by other users of the LibreELEC forum.

How you decide to support the users of your skin is of course entirely up to you. LibreELEC users (and users of other distributions) can decide for themselves if they want to use a skin from someone who denies support due to personal animosity outside of their control. My advice would be to choose another skin.

(2016-06-27, 20:45)sparklyballs Wrote: a reply from yourself

"And so that there is no misunderstanding: don't be crass and try to throw around numbers as it's very unprofessional."


yet your first post contains

"We have received reports from users of the Kodi Skin Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes which is currently installed on hundreds of thousands of devices "

^^^ also crass and unprofessional ?

Quote:Of the 50,000 downloads of LibreELEC, about 2,500 people are experiencing issue X, Y, and Z in comparison to all other devices (...)

Quote:I can't believe I am about to teach English on an internet forum but I will and this will be the one and only other time I will dignify a response regarding LibreELEC.

(2016-06-27, 20:58)Guardian Hope Wrote:

(2016-06-27, 20:45)sparklyballs Wrote: a reply from yourself

"And so that there is no misunderstanding: don't be crass and try to throw around numbers as it's very unprofessional."


yet your first post contains

"We have received reports from users of the Kodi Skin Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes which is currently installed on hundreds of thousands of devices "

^^^ also crass and unprofessional ?

I can't believe I am about to teach English on an internet forum but I will and this will be the one and only other time I will dignify a response regarding LibreELEC.

When dictating a small subset of users (Raspberry Pi running LibreELEC) are experiencing a very specific issue compared to the greater usage than it is appropriate to use numbers.

For example, if the following statement was made (this is an example):

Quote:Of the 50,000 downloads of LibreELEC, about 2,500 people are experiencing issue X, Y, and Z in comparison to all other devices (...)

Is a proper use of number indication.

An improper and rather crass way to use numbers is to try and turn a compliment of success (a relatively small distribution justifying its numbers which turned into the only focus rather than the bug report) to try and essentially say "hey, [we're] not a small distribution."

Just accept the compliment of success and move forward to the bug report. It is all in the way it's written as text does not translate well sometimes.

Take for example a statement I made in this post:

Quote:I can't believe I am about to teach English on an internet forum but I will and this will be the one and only other time I will dignify a response regarding LibreELEC.

This is crass as well. However, as I did indicate, dealing with LibreELEC is not worth the time for something that is free.

Now I will not make any further statements on the issue. There is a clear professionalism difference between LibreELEC and OSMC and that difference is something that makes it not worth it as previously described.

1. The bug had already been fixed before your initial post on the LE forum.
   
2. It's cause was actually determined by an LE developer independently several days before your post - this may come as a surprise to you, but LE and OSMC developers are not entirely disconnected from each other
   
3. You made no attempt to contact LE developers through the normal channels, but for whatever reason decided to be openly critical of the LE project and thought that was a great way to start a relationship (it wasn't)
   
4. You like to throw random numbers around in an effort to justify how important your skin is, yet chastise others for doing the same
   
5. You repeatedly made unnecessarily condescending and inappropriate - verging on snide - remarks which you surely knew would only undermine your already tenuous position. Your posts were very tiresome to read.
   
6. Your determination of a distributions user base size (small, large, whatever) based on how many users use your skin is woefully flawed - there is no correlation between the users of your skin and a distributions userbase, other than how popular (or unpopular) your skin may be with any particular distribution.
   

(2016-06-27, 21:09)Milhouse Wrote: I understand and acknowledge the following:

1. The bug had already been fixed before your initial post on the LE forum.
   
2. It's cause was actually determined by an LE developer independently several days before your post - this may come as a surprise to you, but LE and OSMC developers are not entirely disconnected from each other
   
3. You made no attempt to contact LE developers through the normal channels, but for whatever reason decided to be openly critical of the LE project and thought that was a great way to start a relationship (it wasn't)
   
4. You like to throw random numbers around in an effort to justify how important your skin is, yet chastise others for doing the same
   
5. You repeatedly made unnecessarily condescending and inappropriate - verging on snide - remarks which you surely knew would only undermine your already tenuous position. Your posts were very tiresome to read.
   
6. Your determination of a distributions user base size (small, large, whatever) based on how many users use your skin is woefully flawed - there is no correlation between the users of your skin and a distributions userbase, other than how popular (or unpopular) your skin may be with any particular distribution.
   

Please keep your replies civil.

• It may have been fixed but the fix was not released and therefore in good faith and responsibility, we brought it to the attention of LE
  
• This was not indicated by LE Developers prior and the only known distribution we knew of which had corrected the issue was OSMC. In our eyes, it was an OSMC developer who identified the problem and this is why the OSMC GitHub commits were indicated in the bug report;
  
• LE has no indication of how to contact developers through "proper channels" which is of course the first thing we look for. Typically, you can find "proper channels" easily outlined but this is not the case on the LE website. In fact, to this very day there doesn't appear to be any indication. No "/contact" or no "/about" which is where most reputable places keep such information. IRC is not a "proper channel" but they do state on their website that developers can be found on the IRC [normally]
  
• Stating a distribution is "small" does not equate to being openly critical. Statements made now however, are openly critical and I will not deny that. Please note that this was all triggered by one statement: an indication of how small the distribution was in comparison to the larger install base (Windows, OS X, regular Linux, etc.).
  
• Do know that numbers are not random when they are pulled from Cloudfront and other various sources. The random number throwing started with LE and it is important to remember that. I already demonstrated how one way a number throw can be crass and one way it cannot. OpenELEC shows a 450,000 (estimated) install base. This, for example, is not crass. Trying to rebut a compliment (I do believe I said they were successful even for being 'smaller') is however crass. People will normally accept a compliment on success.
  
• Do know that due to the fact internet is text, you can read my text however you feel like it. For example: I write this and in my head I read it normally. You might find it condescending and that is your choice but that is not how I intended it. How you perceive my statements is entirely up to you and has been shown to be a result of life experiences and is a psychological thing. I cannot change that.
  
• I do not know where this keeps coming from where it is believed that I determined LE to be "small" due to how it's used by users of the skin but that's not where I determined the distribution size. I did so by reviewing its general userbase and then compounding it with what I know about these distributions and users who are using it. It's not an exact science; I do not have analytical data (which is also not an exact science) of the three distributions and I will and did freely admit that.
  

(2016-06-28, 16:45)Guardian Hope Wrote:

The Road to Danvers and Krypton

a little feedback from the community wouldn't hurt: