(2019-11-06, 15:03)Captain_Tactful Wrote: I had brief look and it's fairly straightforward to add colours by editing the XMLs rezipping and installing from zip.
But.
There's got to be a better overall way.

I think the Titan Vanilla skin has some great options. Maybe there's some ideas there?
Leia Titan Vanilla

(2019-11-04, 14:21)Captain_Tactful Wrote: Is there a simple way to add more colours/themes to choose from?
Currently there's 4 colours [..]

(2019-11-07, 20:58)bsoriano Wrote:

(2019-11-06, 15:03)Captain_Tactful Wrote: I had brief look and it's fairly straightforward to add colours by editing the XMLs rezipping and installing from zip.
But.
There's got to be a better overall way.

I think the Titan Vanilla skin has some great options. Maybe there's some ideas there?
Leia Titan Vanilla

@Captain_Tactful , this is something that I am not going to take on for a while.  I am not great on the design part of skinning, and doing this the correct and complete way (providing color customization from the skin itself without the user modifying any files) takes a lot of coding.  I will add it to my internal to-do list, but don't expect this in any short timeframe.  My apologies for not providing a more concrete answer.

Regards,

Bart 

(2019-11-12, 16:24)Captain_Tactful Wrote:

(2019-11-07, 20:58)bsoriano Wrote:

(2019-11-06, 15:03)Captain_Tactful Wrote: I had brief look and it's fairly straightforward to add colours by editing the XMLs rezipping and installing from zip.
But.
There's got to be a better overall way.

I think the Titan Vanilla skin has some great options. Maybe there's some ideas there?
Leia Titan Vanilla

@Captain_Tactful , this is something that I am not going to take on for a while.  I am not great on the design part of skinning, and doing this the correct and complete way (providing color customization from the skin itself without the user modifying any files) takes a lot of coding.  I will add it to my internal to-do list, but don't expect this in any short timeframe.  My apologies for not providing a more concrete answer.

Regards,

Bart  

@bsoriano I understand.
Just to add a concept, I think a way would be to provide a colour box pop up for each of the lines in the XML. The colour box could be generated from the colors.xml in the
program files\Kodi\system folder. Each line of the xml relating to an individual component.
I've been through the amber skin default xml and changed each line one at a time to see what is affected.

Line 4 Grey2 - https://imgur.com/Z6vpEtP
Line 5 Grey  - https://imgur.com/isSem86
Line 7 Details - https://imgur.com/tQwntYM
Line 8 white - https://imgur.com/8uwWGUV
Line 12 Black - https://imgur.com/prTOBAw
Line 18 disabled - https://imgur.com/vqOts1N
Line 22 heavy shadow - https://imgur.com/vf5k1O9
Line 23 shadow dark - https://imgur.com/0A1oMTv
Line 24 highlight - https://imgur.com/uEJk2aL
Line 25 selected orange - https://imgur.com/EhXTfip

I'm sure the other lines have uses but I couldn't see the change.

I also looked into unpacking the textures.xbt file, but couldn't find a sure fire way to do that.

regards 

(2019-11-12, 18:48)bsoriano Wrote:

(2019-11-12, 16:24)Captain_Tactful Wrote:

(2019-11-07, 20:58)bsoriano Wrote: @Captain_Tactful , this is something that I am not going to take on for a while.  I am not great on the design part of skinning, and doing this the correct and complete way (providing color customization from the skin itself without the user modifying any files) takes a lot of coding.  I will add it to my internal to-do list, but don't expect this in any short timeframe.  My apologies for not providing a more concrete answer.

Regards,

Bart  

@bsoriano I understand.
Just to add a concept, I think a way would be to provide a colour box pop up for each of the lines in the XML. The colour box could be generated from the colors.xml in the
program files\Kodi\system folder. Each line of the xml relating to an individual component.
I've been through the amber skin default xml and changed each line one at a time to see what is affected.

Line 4 Grey2 - https://imgur.com/Z6vpEtP
Line 5 Grey  - https://imgur.com/isSem86
Line 7 Details - https://imgur.com/tQwntYM
Line 8 white - https://imgur.com/8uwWGUV
Line 12 Black - https://imgur.com/prTOBAw
Line 18 disabled - https://imgur.com/vqOts1N
Line 22 heavy shadow - https://imgur.com/vf5k1O9
Line 23 shadow dark - https://imgur.com/0A1oMTv
Line 24 highlight - https://imgur.com/uEJk2aL
Line 25 selected orange - https://imgur.com/EhXTfip

I'm sure the other lines have uses but I couldn't see the change.

I also looked into unpacking the textures.xbt file, but couldn't find a sure fire way to do that.

regards  

@Captain_Tactful , thanks! I am aware of where each color defined is used, so I understand what the impact would be of the change.  You can create your own file and place it in the colors folder of the skin.  Then you can go to Interface Settings and choose your file from the Color options.  What I am not keen on doing is writing the code so that you can pick your own colors from within the skin, and customize them however you like.  I might do this in the future, but not now.

If you download the skin from Git, all of the textures are unpacked, and you will find them in the media folder of the skin.

Regards,

Bart 

(2019-11-12, 22:45)Captain_Tactful Wrote: Actually adding a theme looks like the way to go for me atm.