• a number of fixes and updates, including some updates for Matrix
  
• some new music visualization screens
  
• some extras for touch-screen support
  
• some more advanced music icon related features (like the ability to tag Quadraphonic, and other multi-channel music with relevant icons)
  
• ability to put in custom icons for genres and sources (for when you want to view your music library by Source, or tag your media with custom genres or tags, or just plain want to use your own icons
  
• ability to display the actor/role image, instead of a generic actor image (like the images you see in tvdb)
  
• support for my weather.noaa plugin
  
• various other tweaks that I felt I wanted...
  

(2021-04-07, 10:53)ultrax Wrote: "randallspicher" @

Hello randallspicher,

thanks for your great Skin. I love it and now, i changed to Kodi Matrix with your new Skin.


I missed the red Information / Covers in your Skin, how can i changed it? 

The screenshots with green are from Kodi 18.9 / Mimic...

(2021-05-05, 09:33)pcextreme Wrote: Hello again

Thanks for the great work, and keeping this great skin alive.

I am using the latest version of the skin for Leia ( 18.9 ), with "Video Favorites" addon as widget.

Is there some switch or is it a bug, that if I select "Poster" as Art for the widget of my main menu item, I get just "thumbs" on my main menu?

The line in the xml of the addon look like this :
<favourite name="YouTube" filetype="folder" thumb="image://C%3a%5cUsers%5cUser%5cAppData%5cRoaming%5cKodi%5caddons%5cplugin.video.youtube%5cicon.png/">plugin://plugin.video.youtube</favourite>

I tried pointing to a bigger picture in the addon xml, but the displayed image in the widget remained as on the screenshots below :

Any help or pointing in the right directon is appreciated!

(2021-05-06, 15:53)ultrax Wrote: Hello again...

Is this another Bug

Red= Kodi 19
Green = Mimic with Kodi 18.9




https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwfZsmnI_u4hRZhSg?e=4tYf8l

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwgFgVprfUAlO1XcQ?e=QvHEMr

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwi-7JxOn-e8s-hXQ?e=2SgNwp

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwhleJh3oYhVhIOiw?e=Hn4Fa1

(2021-05-07, 01:01)randallspicher Wrote:

(2021-05-06, 15:53)ultrax Wrote: Hello again...

Is this another Bug

Red= Kodi 19
Green = Mimic with Kodi 18.9




https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwfZsmnI_u4hRZhSg?e=4tYf8l

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwgFgVprfUAlO1XcQ?e=QvHEMr

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwi-7JxOn-e8s-hXQ?e=2SgNwp

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkAsLVcVyOBMjLwhleJh3oYhVhIOiw?e=Hn4Fa1

the urls for your screenshots are not working for me.

(2021-05-07, 00:57)randallspicher Wrote:

(2021-05-05, 09:33)pcextreme Wrote: Hello again

Thanks for the great work, and keeping this great skin alive.

I am using the latest version of the skin for Leia ( 18.9 ), with "Video Favorites" addon as widget.

Is there some switch or is it a bug, that if I select "Poster" as Art for the widget of my main menu item, I get just "thumbs" on my main menu?

The line in the xml of the addon look like this :
<favourite name="YouTube" filetype="folder" thumb="image://C%3a%5cUsers%5cUser%5cAppData%5cRoaming%5cKodi%5caddons%5cplugin.video.youtube%5cicon.png/">plugin://plugin.video.youtube</favourite>

I tried pointing to a bigger picture in the addon xml, but the displayed image in the widget remained as on the screenshots below :

Any help or pointing in the right directon is appreciated!

Based on what you're showing , it appears the video-favorites plugin just generates a simple favorites list.  In that case,
the image used for favorites is always going to be the "thumb=" value referenced in the favorite item from favorites.xml.  Other lists may contain multiple images (poster+thumb+landscape+etc) in the results, but favorites would only have 1, so it will always fall back to that image.

The "art" option is really more about the layout, rather than just which image it displays.
The "poster" view is the image (assumed to be a poster, so presented with poster aspect ratio) with the plot/summary/description next to it.  Favorites don't have descriptive text available to populate it, so "poster" isn't a useful choice for the favorites.  The image is not going to take more space in the box, it's going to be scaled into that image space on the left, and leave room for the [missing in your case] text next to it for that layout.

You may find that Landscape or Fanart would be a better art layout option for the images you are wanting to use in the widget

(2021-05-08, 20:40)pcextreme Wrote:

(2021-05-07, 00:57)randallspicher Wrote:

(2021-05-05, 09:33)pcextreme Wrote: Hello again

Thanks for the great work, and keeping this great skin alive.

I am using the latest version of the skin for Leia ( 18.9 ), with "Video Favorites" addon as widget.

Is there some switch or is it a bug, that if I select "Poster" as Art for the widget of my main menu item, I get just "thumbs" on my main menu?

The line in the xml of the addon look like this :
<favourite name="YouTube" filetype="folder" thumb="image://C%3a%5cUsers%5cUser%5cAppData%5cRoaming%5cKodi%5caddons%5cplugin.video.youtube%5cicon.png/">plugin://plugin.video.youtube</favourite>

I tried pointing to a bigger picture in the addon xml, but the displayed image in the widget remained as on the screenshots below :

Any help or pointing in the right directon is appreciated!

Based on what you're showing , it appears the video-favorites plugin just generates a simple favorites list.  In that case,
the image used for favorites is always going to be the "thumb=" value referenced in the favorite item from favorites.xml.  Other lists may contain multiple images (poster+thumb+landscape+etc) in the results, but favorites would only have 1, so it will always fall back to that image.

The "art" option is really more about the layout, rather than just which image it displays.
The "poster" view is the image (assumed to be a poster, so presented with poster aspect ratio) with the plot/summary/description next to it.  Favorites don't have descriptive text available to populate it, so "poster" isn't a useful choice for the favorites.  The image is not going to take more space in the box, it's going to be scaled into that image space on the left, and leave room for the [missing in your case] text next to it for that layout.

You may find that Landscape or Fanart would be a better art layout option for the images you are wanting to use in the widget

Thank You for the quick resposne. I understand these options now clearly.

(2021-05-24, 16:39)Macaroni Slick Wrote: Newbie alert!
Briefly:
Want to use the favorites page as a widget on mimic red k19.
The icons show up but do not function.
Please help?
Tia
Love Mimic

(2021-05-25, 00:17)randallspicher Wrote:

(2021-05-24, 16:39)Macaroni Slick Wrote: Newbie alert!
Briefly:
Want to use the favorites page as a widget on mimic red k19.
The icons show up but do not function.
Please help?
Tia
Love Mimic

I'm not sure what you mean by "mimic red k19"  Are you saying you use Mimic (original)? Or are you using the Lyrebird fork?

I've fixed the favorites issue on the Lyrebird-Rmod fork that I've been maintaining.  I'm not aware of anyone still working on the original Mimic, or updating it for the latest kodi (Kodi 19, aka "Kodi Matrix").  Nothing in the kodi forums for anything but the Lyrebird-Rmod fork recently.