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RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - realcopacetic - 2023-12-10

(2023-12-10, 13:16)gwynnned Wrote:
(2023-12-09, 23:11)realcopacetic Wrote: Hi, I can add a setting if you have a particular value in mind. I found anything less than 50% and light backgrounds clashed with white text but if you have a value you like I'll add it, otherwise your changes will be overwritten every time you update the skin

Well, I prefer to see a big, bright fanart picture (and a very minimalistic interface). You're absolutly right that it makes some text not readable (but, ultimately, I don't care).

Here are the changes that I made. It's really dirty hacks, but maybe someone else will find this helpful (if he have such strange tastes as me Smile

Code:
Colors.xml

ligne 173 : no dark on home screen
    <variable name="Home_Artwork_Diffuse">
        <value condition="Skin.String(Home_Background_Brightness,50)">$VAR[Brightness_100]</value>
        <value condition="Skin.String(Home_Background_Brightness,25)">$VAR[Brightness_100]</value>
        <value>$VAR[Brightness_100]</value>
    </variable>


ligne 197 : no dark on pause screen
    <variable name="Transparent_Dialog_Mask">
        <value condition="VideoPlayer.IsFullscreen">$VAR[Alpha_0]$VAR[Dark_Hex]</value>
        <value>$VAR[Alpha_50]$VAR[Dark_Hex]</value>
    </variable>

Templates_Artwork.xml

Ligne 45 : no dark on billboard and list views
                <include content="Dialog_Over_Artwork_Fadediffuse_Animation" />
                <animation effect="fadediffuse" end="01808080" time="0" condition="$PARAM[art_diffuse]">Conditional</animation>

Components_Home.xml

Ligne 116 : Home list at bottom

        <param name="top" default="95%" />
Wow 100% brightness, haha. Ok, let me see what I can add as options in skin settings. If it's anything I don't want to make generally available, I have a section called experiments which is like a 'not recommended' section for requests that aren't officially sanctioned. So at least you don't have to worry about updates overwriting your code.

I actually have similar reservations about the dim artwork for billboard view. But the base code needs to work for any scenario and 50% was the lowest I felt I could get away with seeing as text and most logos tend to be white. I don't know if you read the artwork guide but a while back I added an option for clearlogo-billboard.png, which lets you use a variant clearlogo that only shows on billboards. The reason for this was specifically for scenarios where a bright background looks better with a dark logo, like here.

Image

At this point there's no need to have the dim effect for this particluar item at least. So one thing I've been thinking about, seeing as I have a background service running and monitoring each selected item, was to have a user definable flag in the context menu that would then disable the dimming effect for that item. So you can opt certain items out based on the artwork in question, like the Kill Bill example above. 

Since Nexus it's actually possible to apply fade in/out animations to the colourdiffuse, which controls the dim, so it could even look kind of smooth fading out for certain user selected artwork, then back in for the rest. But not sure when I'll get around to that. Should be feasible though


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - tjost195 - 2023-12-28

I like this Skin a lot. it is sleek and clean.
but PVR / LiveTV is not brilliant.

in the info Panel I do miss a TV-Station Logo. maybe at the Top in the middle so I can see what channel it is.
Also I would love the media flags in the views as well.

Can someone help?


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - loveart - 2023-12-29

i updated this skin and when choose cjk font, it look like this :
Image
maybe wrong font, so system fall back to aria


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - realcopacetic - 2023-12-29

(2023-12-28, 20:15)tjost195 Wrote: I like this Skin a lot. it is sleek and clean.
but PVR / LiveTV is not brilliant.

in the info Panel I do miss a TV-Station Logo. maybe at the Top in the middle so I can see what channel it is.
Also I would love the media flags in the views as well.

Can someone help?
Hi, I've only just started PVR / Live TV. It's very much a work in progress and most screens are still completley empty. I had to take a break for a couple of months because of work/life commitments, but hoping to finish it in the next couple of months after closing out some bugs that have been raised. I will make a note to add this information into the Info Panel view. Thanks


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - realcopacetic - 2023-12-29

(2023-12-29, 14:38)loveart Wrote: i updated this skin and when choose cjk font, it look like this :
Image
maybe wrong font, so system fall back to aria
Yes that's a fallback font. Can you confirm if you have resource.fonts.copacetic enabled? It should be mandatory but I've tested on a few devices and it seems to be working fine for me.


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - loveart - 2023-12-30

(2023-12-29, 22:24)realcopacetic Wrote:
(2023-12-29, 14:38)loveart Wrote: i updated this skin and when choose cjk font, it look like this :
Image
maybe wrong font, so system fall back to aria
Yes that's a fallback font. Can you confirm if you have resource.fonts.copacetic enabled? It should be mandatory but I've tested on a few devices and it seems to be working fine for me.
i think i found out the problem.
im currently change to linux a few day ago. when i check resource.fonts.copacetic folder, it have a sub folder name have "+" character. this is problem with linux. so i try to copy all fonts in this sub folder to resources folder and change path in font.xml and it works
Image
Image
hope you change this to default in next update


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - tjost195 - 2023-12-30

Hi, thank you for your answer. Yes work/life Balance is hard to archive.
Can you tell me the xml of the info window?


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - realcopacetic - 2023-12-30

(2023-12-30, 03:36)loveart Wrote:
(2023-12-29, 22:24)realcopacetic Wrote:
(2023-12-29, 14:38)loveart Wrote: i updated this skin and when choose cjk font, it look like this :
Image
maybe wrong font, so system fall back to aria
Yes that's a fallback font. Can you confirm if you have resource.fonts.copacetic enabled? It should be mandatory but I've tested on a few devices and it seems to be working fine for me.
i think i found out the problem.
im currently change to linux a few day ago. when i check resource.fonts.copacetic folder, it have a sub folder name have "+" character. this is problem with linux. so i try to copy all fonts in this sub folder to resources folder and change path in font.xml and it works
Image
Image
hope you change this to default in next update

Thanks I'll get that fixed!


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - loveart - 2023-12-31

(2023-12-30, 18:26)realcopacetic Wrote:
(2023-12-30, 03:36)loveart Wrote:
(2023-12-29, 22:24)realcopacetic Wrote: Yes that's a fallback font. Can you confirm if you have resource.fonts.copacetic enabled? It should be mandatory but I've tested on a few devices and it seems to be working fine for me.
i think i found out the problem.
im currently change to linux a few day ago. when i check resource.fonts.copacetic folder, it have a sub folder name have "+" character. this is problem with linux. so i try to copy all fonts in this sub folder to resources folder and change path in font.xml and it works
Image
Image
hope you change this to default in next update

Thanks I'll get that fixed!

good news ! thanks


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - rspag - 2024-01-17

Hello,

First off I absolutely love this skin.  Beautiful but not bloated.  Thank you.

I'm having an issue with performance that I have been trying to find the root of the problem but maybe you could provide some guidance/assistance please:

When loading into Movies view it takes about 5 seconds to open the page (acceptable to load list of movies), but then it immediately shows the list of movies but then has a horribly long wait time before it starts populating any art.  Time is proportional to number of movies: ~500 takes 45 seconds before art is shown, ~2k takes a few minutes. Interestingly, if I open the TV show view with the same list view type selected, art starts populating nearly instantly whether I have 10 shows or 1000. I can't find what component of the XML skins to disable to mitigate this speed problem.  TV Show view and Movie view are pulling from the same windows/controls anyway with only a few minor logical switches in there.

Note that this issue is occurring to me with multiple different hardware types from low to high power.  I have disabled every view type except list and grid, disabled as many features as I possibly can related to the skin but still no luck.

Also to note (possibly this is related, or possibly a completely different issue) but I have multiple profiles with different advancedsettings pointing to different databases.  If I login to profile 1 and then into profile 2 and quickly go to look at the movies it shows me a list of movies that don't belong to this profile.  If I keep exiting and returning to movies view it eventually shows me the correct movie list.  Its like it is caching the actual movie list and not getting replaced between profile changes.  If I do the same with TV Shows I do not note this behavior but this may be because the query is much faster?


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - realcopacetic - 2024-01-18

(2024-01-17, 20:46)rspag Wrote: Hello,

First off I absolutely love this skin.  Beautiful but not bloated.  Thank you.

I'm having an issue with performance that I have been trying to find the root of the problem but maybe you could provide some guidance/assistance please:

When loading into Movies view it takes about 5 seconds to open the page (acceptable to load list of movies), but then it immediately shows the list of movies but then has a horribly long wait time before it starts populating any art.  Time is proportional to number of movies: ~500 takes 45 seconds before art is shown, ~2k takes a few minutes. Interestingly, if I open the TV show view with the same list view type selected, art starts populating nearly instantly whether I have 10 shows or 1000. I can't find what component of the XML skins to disable to mitigate this speed problem.  TV Show view and Movie view are pulling from the same windows/controls anyway with only a few minor logical switches in there.

Note that this issue is occurring to me with multiple different hardware types from low to high power.  I have disabled every view type except list and grid, disabled as many features as I possibly can related to the skin but still no luck.

Also to note (possibly this is related, or possibly a completely different issue) but I have multiple profiles with different advancedsettings pointing to different databases.  If I login to profile 1 and then into profile 2 and quickly go to look at the movies it shows me a list of movies that don't belong to this profile.  If I keep exiting and returning to movies view it eventually shows me the correct movie list.  Its like it is caching the actual movie list and not getting replaced between profile changes.  If I do the same with TV Shows I do not note this behavior but this may be because the query is much faster?


Thanks. Ahh that's strange. Can you confirm this is only happening in this skin?


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - rspag - 2024-01-18

(2024-01-18, 21:23)realcopacetic Wrote:
(2024-01-17, 20:46)rspag Wrote: Hello,

First off I absolutely love this skin.  Beautiful but not bloated.  Thank you.

I'm having an issue with performance that I have been trying to find the root of the problem but maybe you could provide some guidance/assistance please:

When loading into Movies view it takes about 5 seconds to open the page (acceptable to load list of movies), but then it immediately shows the list of movies but then has a horribly long wait time before it starts populating any art.  Time is proportional to number of movies: ~500 takes 45 seconds before art is shown, ~2k takes a few minutes. Interestingly, if I open the TV show view with the same list view type selected, art starts populating nearly instantly whether I have 10 shows or 1000. I can't find what component of the XML skins to disable to mitigate this speed problem.  TV Show view and Movie view are pulling from the same windows/controls anyway with only a few minor logical switches in there.

Note that this issue is occurring to me with multiple different hardware types from low to high power.  I have disabled every view type except list and grid, disabled as many features as I possibly can related to the skin but still no luck.

Also to note (possibly this is related, or possibly a completely different issue) but I have multiple profiles with different advancedsettings pointing to different databases.  If I login to profile 1 and then into profile 2 and quickly go to look at the movies it shows me a list of movies that don't belong to this profile.  If I keep exiting and returning to movies view it eventually shows me the correct movie list.  Its like it is caching the actual movie list and not getting replaced between profile changes.  If I do the same with TV Shows I do not note this behavior but this may be because the query is much faster?


Thanks. Ahh that's strange. Can you confirm this is only happening in this skin?

Correct.  Only occurs when I use this skin.  Any other skin I start getting art within a few seconds of when views are displayed.


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - realcopacetic - 2024-01-21

(2024-01-18, 23:35)rspag Wrote:
(2024-01-18, 21:23)realcopacetic Wrote:
(2024-01-17, 20:46)rspag Wrote: Hello,

First off I absolutely love this skin.  Beautiful but not bloated.  Thank you.

I'm having an issue with performance that I have been trying to find the root of the problem but maybe you could provide some guidance/assistance please:

When loading into Movies view it takes about 5 seconds to open the page (acceptable to load list of movies), but then it immediately shows the list of movies but then has a horribly long wait time before it starts populating any art.  Time is proportional to number of movies: ~500 takes 45 seconds before art is shown, ~2k takes a few minutes. Interestingly, if I open the TV show view with the same list view type selected, art starts populating nearly instantly whether I have 10 shows or 1000. I can't find what component of the XML skins to disable to mitigate this speed problem.  TV Show view and Movie view are pulling from the same windows/controls anyway with only a few minor logical switches in there.

Note that this issue is occurring to me with multiple different hardware types from low to high power.  I have disabled every view type except list and grid, disabled as many features as I possibly can related to the skin but still no luck.

Also to note (possibly this is related, or possibly a completely different issue) but I have multiple profiles with different advancedsettings pointing to different databases.  If I login to profile 1 and then into profile 2 and quickly go to look at the movies it shows me a list of movies that don't belong to this profile.  If I keep exiting and returning to movies view it eventually shows me the correct movie list.  Its like it is caching the actual movie list and not getting replaced between profile changes.  If I do the same with TV Shows I do not note this behavior but this may be because the query is much faster?


Thanks. Ahh that's strange. Can you confirm this is only happening in this skin?

Correct.  Only occurs when I use this skin.  Any other skin I start getting art within a few seconds of when views are displayed.

Very strange. Grid is built using standard Kodi containers but other views are created differently. Can you disable all views except grid in settings (Settings > Copacetic > Views) and then disable all views except strip?

Does this have any impact on how long the artwork takes to load? Does this happen every time you load the movies view?


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - pucknell - 2024-01-25

Just wanted to say thank you. Being an Arctic Zephry for many, many years, i just moved over to this skin and i am loving it.


RE: Copacetic for Kodi Nexus - realcopacetic - 2024-01-26

(2024-01-25, 22:44)pucknell Wrote: Just wanted to say thank you. Being an Arctic Zephry for many, many years, i just moved over to this skin and i am loving it.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it. Still a fair few kinks to work out and I haven't had a lot of time the past couple of months due to work commitments, but please bear with me. I have a lit of bug fixes pending and then I intend to finish PVR and port to Omega!