(2016-08-22, 11:00)Guardian Hope Wrote:

Helping to Design From Ashes: The Busy Spinner

Everyone knows it. Everyone sees it. I am talking about the Busy Spinner which was updated recently to have a more modern look. Now we stand at a design crossroads in terms of whether to change it. I have two mock-ups courtesy of @minus0 and to me the second version seems "odd" but I wanted the opinions of those who use the skin before making a decision on whether Alpha 6 will change the busy spinner.

Mock-up A

(2016-08-10, 22:22)quixote23 Wrote:

(2016-08-09, 15:52)soflip Wrote: I didn't realize until now that music visualizations are not working, e.g. I can't see Milkdrop even I select it. I can confirm that it's working with confluence skin.

I'm using the Jarvis version

Music visualizations *are* working in the Jarvis version, but they take a bit of finagling to get set up properly (I just spent a few days getting them working myself).

Here's what worked for me:

Settings > Skin Settings > Background > Show music visualization in background
Settings > Skin Settings > Background > Don't show now playing video in background*
Settings > Skin Settings > Background > Show fanart*
Settings > Skin Settings > Background > Don't show extra fanart*

(Not sure if these are necessary, but what I prefer)

Settings > Skin Settings > OSD > Show artist slideshow
Settings > Skin Settings > OSD > Show visualization behind slideshow
Settings > Appearance > Screensaver > Use visualization if playing audio
Settings > Music > Playback > Visualization > (Select default, can be changed on fullscreen playback screen)

Start playing a song, go to fullscreen mode (tab) and then pull up onscreen settings (m).
- Ensure that 'Visual Text' is disabled (red). It seems like this can be re-enabled after visualizations are working, but I had to turn it off initially to get them to appear.
- 'Visualisation': select a visualizer.

You may need to stop the song and close and restart Kodi for the settings to be saved and visualizations to start.

(2016-08-22, 23:38)minus0 Wrote: @ Blurayx

A lot of design fixes and design bugs are going to be coming shortly. If you can't enter anything in the keyboard, let me know. I can "Dropbox" a link to new keyboard file.

Thanks for finding the bug.

Sent from my SM-T550

(2016-08-22, 23:48)minus0 Wrote: @Blurayx
@Everyone

Link to new DialogKeyboard.xml
https://www.dropbox.com/s/frj5s04a04lz8no/DialogKeyboard.xml?dl=0

@Blurayx
Let me know if this email file fixes your problem.

Sent from my SM-T550

(2016-08-22, 23:57)minus0 Wrote: @Blurayx

Glad to hear. Thanks for testing.

Sent from my SM-T550

(2016-08-23, 01:14)Blurayx Wrote: There is another problem I have noticed from the very first alpha release. At the moment i'm using Estuary MOD until Arctic Zephyr becomes a bit more stable.

when I set the TV shows or Movies widgets in Arctic Zephyr: from the Ashes everything works fine but if I go back to Estuary MOD I have to reset the widgets because TV shows and Movies are empty.

Estuary MOD TV Shows widget after setting up Arctic Zephyr

Other skins that are affected by Arctic Zephyr: from the Ashes
*Arctic Zephyr
*Mimic

All the other add-ons skins in Krypton work without issues.

(2016-08-23, 05:28)braz Wrote:

(2016-08-23, 01:14)Blurayx Wrote: There is another problem I have noticed from the very first alpha release. At the moment i'm using Estuary MOD until Arctic Zephyr becomes a bit more stable.

when I set the TV shows or Movies widgets in Arctic Zephyr: from the Ashes everything works fine but if I go back to Estuary MOD I have to reset the widgets because TV shows and Movies are empty.

Estuary MOD TV Shows widget after setting up Arctic Zephyr

Other skins that are affected by Arctic Zephyr: from the Ashes
*Arctic Zephyr
*Mimic

All the other add-ons skins in Krypton work without issues.

As far as I know, that's because these skins all use script.skinshortcuts. And while the menu is shared across skins, the widgets are not.