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RE: Arctic Horizon - Rijs43 - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 21:41)jdig4240 Wrote:
(2020-03-29, 21:37)drinfernoo Wrote:
(2020-03-29, 21:35)jdig4240 Wrote: Yes, i know. Thats why i said "The rest of the skin" where the views show the trailer button.   

I realize that. The point I was trying to make is that there would be no appropriate place for a button like that on the homescreen.   

Now that im thinking about it, your right, how would you click up to get to a trailer button when its supposed to move through the widgets. I understand that wouldnt make any sense, thanks.

Would be awesome to have buttons on top of widgets (similar to info page) if possibble.. widgets are now just without any interaction.. you have to click on them before you can do anything. The showcase view is something which is something with potential if this can be used when scrolling through widgets.. just my opinion and thinking along the process to improve


RE: Arctic Horizon - hoppel118 - 2020-03-29

Hello again,

I recoginzed some small issues.

The button "GUIDE" looks cut off:

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If you focus the button "GUIDE" it looks as expected:

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Under "TV Recordings" it's in my opinion to less space for the title of the recording and to much space for the station logo:

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This looks much better under "TV Timers":

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In default estuary it looks as follows:

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Maybe you see a possibility to show the description of the recording somewhere.

Thank you so much for this skin.

Regards Hoppel


RE: Arctic Horizon - Rijs43 - 2020-03-29

Hi JM,

Not sure if this is a bug or intention.. when scrolling through widgets of a menu, lets say Movies, at the end it will jump to the next menu, lets say Series.. is it possible to scroll to the begin of the menu Movies rather then next menu?


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 22:29)Rijs43 Wrote: Hi JM,

Not sure if this is a bug or intention.. when scrolling through widgets of a menu, lets say Movies, at the end it will jump to the next menu, lets say Series.. is it possible to scroll to the begin of the menu Movies rather then next menu?

By "scrolling through" do you mean scrolling up/down? If so, it is intentional.

If you mean scrolling left/right, then not intentional.


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 17:50)drinfernoo Wrote: What is the "Common -> Smart Shortcuts" section for? It depends on Skin Helper, but is always empty...

EDIT: "Same" question, but for "Additional Widgets". They're not empty, but depend on Skin Helper and other optional add-ons.

Additional Widgets is for access to other addons that commonly provide widgets - thought maybe a lot of those addons are redundant now. Really I should probably replace that section with some TMDbHelper Widgets.

Smart Shortcuts is a feature in SkinHelper that provides shortcuts for Emby and Plex. I have no idea if those still work or not as I don't use those addons - more that I've always just kept them in the skin setup.


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 20:02)Krismyklebust Wrote: There's some add-ons where we get "no information" when using hub widgets with the landscape aspect.
The screenshot below is a hub widget I've set up using the Viaplay add-on.

Besides changing the widget aspect, is there any way we could get a similar result to what I've illustrated below?
(in this exact use case, square aspect cuts of a lot of the artwork/images, so I've tried to avoid using it)
 

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Added to todo list:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arctic.horizon/issues/89


RE: Arctic Horizon - Rijs43 - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 22:59)jurialmunkey Wrote:
(2020-03-29, 22:29)Rijs43 Wrote: Hi JM,

Not sure if this is a bug or intention.. when scrolling through widgets of a menu, lets say Movies, at the end it will jump to the next menu, lets say Series.. is it possible to scroll to the begin of the menu Movies rather then next menu?

By "scrolling through" do you mean scrolling up/down? If so, it is intentional.

If you mean scrolling left/right, then not intentional.

Thanks, I meant up/down. This is confusing because if I want to go to the first widget of Movies I have to select left to the Movie menu and go back right to the widgets of Movies.


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 20:16)Japangelo Wrote:
(2020-03-29, 18:27)drinfernoo Wrote:
(2020-03-29, 17:31)Rijs43 Wrote: It is not about having all options but to make it as easy as possible to navigate through libraries.. entering the info page,play trailer, exit, navigate to next movie, enter info page, play trailer, exit etc is much more clicks than selecting a movie in widget and play and see trailer on same page in my opinion.. a big company like Netflix would not do this if this was not working in libraries.😉 

I think it's high time people slow down on trying to emulate Netflix. After having used pretty much every major streaming service... they all have pros and cons, and there's no reason for Kodi (an application that is fundamentally different from a streaming service) to try and replicate them faithfully. Certain features are obviously nice to have, and I can recognize that different people have different tastes, but "auto trailers" is a distinctly Netflix paradigm that I haven't seen anywhere else.

It's just a useless feature.. It would just make kodi run slower

I wouldn't say that it's useless, but it will definitely slow things down immensely. Also, it probably is the most complained about "feature" of Netflix. And as someone has already mentioned in the thread, there already exists an addon that can do it - so there is nothing for me to do, people that want this feature just need to setup that addon correctly.


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 20:18)FXB78 Wrote: When using the ITV Player addon the view is set as Poster view with no Text information, making it very difficult to navigate:

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I appreciate that this is probably due to how the addon is written, it is a very old addon after all. However in the addon settings there is an option to define the Viewtype for Season/Episodes etc but these have no effect when using AH, in other skins it would default according to the viewtype setting. I've tried 55 for list view, 53 & 54 for Season/Episode but to no avail. Is there any way around this or do we just have to live with it?

It's because it is setting content to tvshows but doesn't have any posters.
Do you have a link to the addon and I'll have a look.

I'm working on a way to "whitelist" certain addons to use non-standard views -- I'm not sure if I'll be able to achieve what I want to do though. Either way, I can add a workaround for this one.


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 21:16)jdig4240 Wrote: Question, do this skin support the new Artist slideshow yet? Wondering if the error is my fault or if the skin isnt supporting it yet.

Yeah, works fine for me:

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Make sure you have it turned on in Skin Settings > Video / Music


RE: Arctic Horizon - FXB78 - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 23:22)jurialmunkey Wrote:
(2020-03-29, 20:18)FXB78 Wrote: When using the ITV Player addon the view is set as Poster view with no Text information, making it very difficult to navigate:

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I appreciate that this is probably due to how the addon is written, it is a very old addon after all. However in the addon settings there is an option to define the Viewtype for Season/Episodes etc but these have no effect when using AH, in other skins it would default according to the viewtype setting. I've tried 55 for list view, 53 & 54 for Season/Episode but to no avail. Is there any way around this or do we just have to live with it?

It's because it is setting content to tvshows but doesn't have any posters.
Do you have a link to the addon and I'll have a look.

I'm working on a way to "whitelist" certain addons to use non-standard views -- I'm not sure if I'll be able to achieve what I want to do though. Either way, I can add a workaround for this one. 
That's great, thanks. This is the version I am using, as far as I know it's the latest version https://github.com/catchup4kodi/catchup4kodi/tree/master/plugin.video.itv


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 22:18)91design Wrote:
(2020-03-29, 15:30)jurialmunkey Wrote: No. I did try with clearlogos previously but I didn't like how it looked - plus felt a little redundant seeing as the title is already on screen (whereas clearart also has artwork).

Ok, so atm there's no way to disable clearart?
In the meantime for your great job on this skin 😁

No currently but added to my todo list
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arctic.horizon/issues/90


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-29

(2020-03-29, 22:28)hoppel118 Wrote: Hello again,

I recoginzed some small issues.

The button "GUIDE" looks cut off:

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If you focus the button "GUIDE" it looks as expected
It's a Kodi bug with auto width - I haven't been able to find a work around. The only option if you're encountering this issue is to disable auto width buttons in Skin Settings > Home


(2020-03-29, 22:28)hoppel118 Wrote: Under "TV Recordings" it's in my opinion to less space for the title of the recording and to much space for the station logo:

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Maybe you see a possibility to show the description of the recording somewhere.

I would've thought that recordings would show a thumbnail but it seems like they don't - so I've now changed it to square list.
Also for recordings/search/timers you should be able to toggle between list and landscape views from the left menu - landscape will show info.


RE: Arctic Horizon - Edworld - 2020-03-30

possible bug: 4K movies are shown with a SD flag


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-03-30

(2020-03-30, 03:48)Edworld Wrote: possible bug: 4K movies are shown with a SD flag

Ah yeah, I forgot that some 4k movies show resolution as 4k rather than 2160. Should be fixed now Smile