Release - Transparency! for Nexus & Omega

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RE: Transparency! (WIP) - Karellen - 2024-05-28

(2024-05-28, 11:28)mikeSiLVO Wrote: and chapter markers are on Git.

Thanks @mikeSiLVO

Looks like there is another location for chapter markers code.

Pressing i for the information overlay shows chapter markers...

Pressing m for player controls overlay does not show chapter markers...

And this progress bar is probably too small?

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - kurai - 2024-05-28

(2024-05-27, 22:32)Karellen Wrote:
(2024-05-26, 22:24)mikeSiLVO Wrote: Show one extra icon that prefers Versions over Extras if both are available

I'm done. The skin is looking great, thank you. epg is working well with looping. Just the music fanart needs an update.
Unless @kurai or any other members spot any problems, I think it is ready for the repo?

I'm all good, I think. New Kodi features all present and correct, unnecessary dependencies cleaned away, old annoyances/glitches tidied up.
The remaining things @Karellen has an interest in are not things I use/care about, or are about to be completed so I'll leave those to the pair of you to deal with.
If there are any remaining niggles ... I've been living with them for so long that they are completely forgotten and no longer impinge on my awareness.

I still have a handful of manual edits I will continue to make for my own personal setup - a matter of aesthetics/spacing/timing/menu-ordering in a few places. I don't think they would be of much general interest outside my use case.

@mikeSiLVO Thank you so much for dragging us into the modern skin era! Love

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - mikeSiLVO - 2024-05-28

Chapter markers added to videoosd and I also cleaned up some old code in Includes_Workarounds.

I could've messed something up though, so I bumped the version number again and will wait a bit for enough testing time.

I should probably go through all the skin files... Eek

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - mikeSiLVO - 2024-05-28

(2024-05-28, 14:03)kurai Wrote: I still have a handful of manual edits I will continue to make for my own personal setup - a matter of aesthetics/spacing/timing/menu-ordering in a few places. I don't think they would be of much general interest outside my use case.

@mikeSiLVO Thank you so much for dragging us into the modern skin era!

You're welcome Blush

Want to post your edits?
They might fix something that I haven't noticed or be an improvement.

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - kurai - 2024-05-29

(2024-05-28, 17:55)mikeSiLVO Wrote: Want to post your edits?
They might fix something that I haven't noticed or be an improvement.

Sure thing.

Happy to post the code changes if anyone is interested - let me know what elements.

Added the CPU utilisation bar to DialogPlayerProcessInfo.xml because the basic numeric display was unhelpful on multi-core devices with some operating systems.
Moved the display of the "Next Aired Info" box in the TV Shows listing to fit layout better. (Includes.xml)
Changed the timings of CD cover-art in CD Wall music visualisation so images stay longer and fade slower. (Includes_CDWall.xml)
In Includes_Home.xml moved the graphics for the TV Shows & Movies & Music home screen multi-fanart backgrounds slightly, and the display area offset of the fanart accordingly, to fit layout better. (Only useful with Horizontal instead of Vertical home menu)
Also Includes_Home.xml, changed the order of the categories in Home window so it always starts with TV Shows, and positions other entries in the order I prefer.
Includes_Home.xml again, changed the text label for opening the TV Show Next Aired grid window on the sub-menu where I placed it - from generically unhelpful/duplicated "TV Guide" ($LOCALIZE[4]) to "Next Aired".
SettingsSystemInfo.xml In the Info window removed/hid the Privacy Policy menu entry (easier/faster looping of menu) and added graphical bars for CPU & RAM usage & some version info. Bit of a messy kludge, this one, because of the structure of the entries' code.
Music "Current Playlist" view - replaced Ratings with Play Count (View-MediaInfo.xml)

The stuff relating to "TV Show - Next Aired" (script.tv.show.next.aired) is a bit problematic because although the skin has inbuilt support for it, the addon itself is pretty much abandoned. I've had to trawl through forums and websites to cobble together a more or less working version.
[Update: I thought about creating a Git containing all the fixes gleaned from all over the place, but it seems that the long dead forum thread here has sprung back to life recently : TV Show Next Aired (Script) Addon, now w/TheTVDB data and that @Angelinas has added the barebones changes to get it to run without errors here : Github: kodi-community-addons/script.tv.show.next.aired. It's still a bit of a mess graphically as somewhere along the way, after it was taken-over/forked after the *first* time it got abandoned about 7 years ago, there were some Kodi core changes for layout that the script maintainers didn't fully account for & @ronie never got around to updating Transparency's inbuilt support for. As a result it's window is in someone's hard-coded personalised colour scheme and only works in Vertical mode. Still - it's core scraping functionality and overlay box in Includes.xml work fine with the updates & config changes.]

Screenshots attached below to give a pictorial overview of what I end up with:-

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - mikeSiLVO - 2024-06-01

I can replace script.tv.show.next.aired with plugin.video.themoviedb.helper.

First I need to figure out a tiny issue that I am having with the air time property provided by the script.
It's not working for me.

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - mikeSiLVO - 2024-06-01

I think it's time to get the skin to Kodi repo.
I have PRs open for both Nexus and Omega.

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - kurai - 2024-06-01

(2024-06-01, 16:14)mikeSiLVO Wrote: I can replace script.tv.show.next.aired with plugin.video.themoviedb.helper.

First I need to figure out a tiny issue that I am having with the air time property provided by the script.
It's not working for me.

Interesting! I somehow entirely failed to be aware of the existence of plugin.video.themoviedb.helper
It's a looks a lot more thorough, comprehensive and robust and, importantly for long-term health, has activity from more than the primary Git owner.

re: airtime property - I *do* see the airtime inside the plugin's own window. Does it only become a problem when you display that captured info in the regular Kodi library window ?
This may be entirely unrelated/coincidental and a red herring, but there was mention of "changes in Omega to standard date format" Release - TV Show Next Aired (Script) Addon, now w/TheTVDB data #1.155 (possibly related to Development > Skinning > v21 - Changes to the skinning engine for Kodi Omega (v21) #14 2023-11-01 - New InfoLabel containing Locale information. ?)
I do remember changing `Long date format` in my UK Regional/locale settings to match what script.tv.show.next.aired seemed to expect to get it to work. I don't recall looking deeper at the source of the problem, so it may have simply been bad/hard-coded parsing in the script rather than due to changes in Kodi fundamentals.

[EDIT:] I just saw your query in plugin.video.themoviedb.helper forum - if the ListItem.Property(Air_Time) does turn out to be a hassle because it's Trakt specific thing (and maybe requires Trakt login/API account/credential [although I *do* have a Trakt account, and can be a tester if needed]) I can certainly live without it. The specific airtime is not terribly useful for me anyway, as most of the shows I have in my library are US, and I'm in UK timezone, and I'd rather know a show's primary local air_date/air_day without adjusting it for timezone. Tongue

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - kurai - 2024-06-02

(2024-06-01, 17:52)mikeSiLVO Wrote: I think it's time to get the skin to Kodi repo.
I have PRs open for both Nexus and Omega.

Excellent news - downloaded and running v13.0.0 (11b2f0b) Cool

I've been using 11.99.03 (up to 69204b5 - Cleanup extrafanart) from 3 days ago with no problems.

RE: Transparency! (WIP) - mikeSiLVO - 2024-06-02

(2024-06-01, 23:40)kurai Wrote: [EDIT:] I just saw your query in plugin.video.themoviedb.helper forum - if the ListItem.Property(Air_Time) does turn out to be a hassle because it's Trakt specific thing (and maybe requires Trakt login/API account/credential [although I *do* have a Trakt account, and can be a tester if needed]) I can certainly live without it. The specific airtime is not terribly useful for me anyway, as most of the shows I have in my library are US, and I'm in UK timezone, and I'd rather know a show's primary local air_date/air_day without adjusting it for timezone.

I signed in to my Trakt account to test it, still didn't work. I'll have to wait to hear from jurialmunkey about whether or not that property is available.
I don't plan on abandoning the skin so I will have time to update to use TMDb Helper after the skin is pushed to the repo and I fix any bugs mentioned when more users get a chance to try it all out.

RE: Transparency! for Nexus & Omega - kurai - 2024-06-04

Yay! We're out of the Skin Archive graveyard ! \o/

Good job @mikeSiLVO Big Grin

RE: Transparency! for Nexus & Omega - Chang - 2024-06-05

Thank you @mikeSiLVO for keeping this great skin alive!

RE: Transparency! for Nexus & Omega - sneezing_subsystem - 2024-06-13

Heck yeah this is awesome news! My favorite skin is back alive. I'm guessing it'll take a little while to move through the Kodi system to be committed / published?

Nod

RE: Transparency! for Nexus & Omega - Karellen - 2024-06-13

(2024-06-13, 20:49)sneezing_subsystem Wrote: m guessing it'll take a little while to move through the Kodi system to be committed / published?

It is already in the repo. Use the Get More button in Kodi.

RE: Transparency! for Nexus & Omega - Gazza too - 2024-06-15

Awesome!!!

Thank you everyone for all your hard work.
Works perfectly on Google TV (Sony) once I uninstalled an old 'global search' which was stopping the skin from installing for some reason.