[thedeadman]

V0.9.9 pushed to GIT master today.

IMPORTANT NOTE
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SKIN IS NOW GOTHAM ONLY. NO BUG REPORTS FROM FRODO BUILDS PLEASE!

[Gotham] skin repo will be updated soon. I will be requesting that the existing frodo wip repo entry be discontinued.

Changelog:
- [INFO] Skin now preparing for Gotham release. Frodo support discontinued.
- [NEW] Unwatched / new tvshow episode flag (thanks postdeath)
- [NEW] Player controls for video (access: OK / Info during playback)
- [MODIFIED] Settings level indicator (Gotham builds) position and access adjusted
- [NEW] Radio section from PVR now available in music section (thanks Ronie - totally missed that!)
- [FIXED] Music section menu navigation was not transferring focus correctly in some instances (thanks StfAL)
- [MODIFIED] Cast and crew dialog behaves properly with back button (thanks StfAL)
- [FIXED] debugging messaging system revised (pertinent to devs only)
- [FIXED] Various tweaks and fixes to prepare for official skins release (thanks Ronie)
- [NEW] Direct profile switching added to settings->profile (thanks picaresqu3)
- [NEW] Player controls for music playback ('now playing' section)
- [REVISED] Skin settings simplified (thanks bigheeed).
- [NEW] DialogFileStacking.xml
- [REVISED] Weather icons revised.
- [NEW] Video playlists
- Various misc additions, revisions and fixes

[Vustom]

I like the simplicity, every other XBMC seems to be the opposite. This is my second attempt at XBMC (Tried a few months ago, gave up and went back to Plex) so just a few questions..

1. Is it possible to remove the Pictures and Music icons from the home screen? I only want to use XBMC for Movies and TV shows.

2. Can the icon for Movies and TV Shows be split up? So on the home screen there'd be an icon for Movies and another for TV Shows as I'd rather they not be together.

3. When playing a video, some of the animations like when you pause the video are slow. I'm not sure if this is lag or on purpose but is there a way to speed up the animations?

4. After adding my Movies and TV sources, nothing is being displayed in the Latest tab within the Videos section, any ideas why?

5. When clicking the power button, is it possible to make Exit the default selection and to move it to the far left of the screen?

6. With the background art, is there a way to decrease the amount of time it takes to switch to a new one?

7. How can I remove the Trailers tab when viewing specific information on Videos?

8. How can I remove the time from the Home screen?

9. Could you add support for script.service.xbmcresume? It works, but the options are inconsistent as seen below.



Sorry for all the questions.

In the videos tab, if you tab the left arrow key you get the option to update the library (I'm not sure about the other sections) and the text gets cut off at the start of the notification, as seen in the screenshot below. Temporary solution is to just turn off notifications for library updates.

[evandunkel]

Hi again!

I've been tinkering with the skin a bit (disclaimer: complete novice) and I'd like to change an icon on the home screen. So far, I've assigned the far right power button to the login screen but I'd like to change its icon. The objective is to replace the power button icon on the very right with the current profile image. I haven't found any obvious values to change in the Home.xml file. Any idea what I should be looking for in the xml files?

Thanks in advance!

[thedeadman]

@Vustom:

1. Is it possible to remove the Pictures and Music icons from the home screen? I only want to use XBMC for Movies and TV shows.

- Not at the moment. I will add this option for the next update.

2. Can the icon for Movies and TV Shows be split up? So on the home screen there'd be an icon for Movies and another for TV Shows as I'd rather they not be together.

- I'd rather not provide the option to do that to be honest. I want to keep a clear separation on the home screen between 'watch stuff' and 'listen to stuff'. Adding a shortcut to the tv shows can be done, but it would involve your changing skin files manually.

3. When playing a video, some of the animations like when you pause the video are slow. I'm not sure if this is lag or on purpose but is there a way to speed up the animations?

- I'm not sure whether this is a performance issue or not - could you give me an idea of your setup please? Is the animation clearly struggling (stuttering), or do you feel that the animation is just too slow?

4. After adding my Movies and TV sources, nothing is being displayed in the Latest tab within the Videos section, any ideas why?

- Latest items are handled by the 'skin widgets' script. This script should be installed on your system (it's included as a dependency) but the 'recent items' option may be turned off. Please check in settings->addons->services->skin widgets->configure->recent items and activate if necessary. If that doesn't work, please let me know. I agree it's confusing though - i'll look into whether it is possible to tell the script to activate this function as a default.

5. When clicking the power button, is it possible to make Exit the default selection and to move it to the far left of the screen?

- It is possible to do this, but it will require modifying the skin files. I'm a bit reticent to make this the default for everyone as it wouldn't make sense on embedded systems like Openelec etc where exiting to desktop is not possible. I can see why this is important to many users however - I'll have a look and see if theres a better way to handle both types of user setup.

6. With the background art, is there a way to decrease the amount of time it takes to switch to a new one?

- Again yes, but only by changing the skin files. Before I go any further - do you mean the between-images fade speed (which might be a system performance issue), or the amount of time each image is displayed?

7. How can I remove the Trailers tab when viewing specific information on Videos?

- You can't at the moment. If a trailer is available, this option will appear. As a compromise, I'll move the trailers option down the list for the next release, so that 'play' is the first option.

8. How can I remove the time from the Home screen?

- Would require modifying skin code i'm afraid. It's unlikely i'd add it as a user option in the near future.

9. Could you add support for script.service.xbmcresume? It works, but the options are inconsistent as seen below.

- I'll have a look at this. I will include support in next update if it doesn't impact anything for non xbmcresume script users.

10. In the videos tab, if you tab the left arrow key you get the option to update the library (I'm not sure about the other sections) and the text gets cut off at the start of the notification, as seen in the screenshot below. Temporary solution is to just turn off notifications for library updates.

- Text here should scroll automatically so this may well be a bug. Thanks - will check and fix.

[thedeadman]

Hi Evandunkel,

You'll need to modify the menu control (id="9000") in home.xml. The code below will display the current profile in the background of the power option. You might need to tweak it a bit, but to get you started:

Code:

<control type="list" id="9000">
                <posx>0</posx>
                <posy>0</posy>
                <width>24-col</width>
                <height>3-col</height>
                <orientation>horizontal</orientation>
                <onup>ActivateWindow(systeminfo)</onup>
                <ondown>ActivateWindow(weather)</ondown>
                <itemlayout width="3-col" height="3-col">
                    <control type="image">
                        <posx>0</posx>
                        <posy>0</posy>
                        <width>2-col</width>
                        <height>2-col</height>
                        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
                        <texture diffuse="masks/circle.png" border="0">colors/black.png</texture>
                        <bordersize>0</bordersize>
                        <colordiffuse>99FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
                    </control>
                    <control type="image">
                        <posx>0</posx>
                        <posy>0</posy>
                        <width>2-col</width>
                        <height>2-col</height>
                        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
                        <texture diffuse="masks/circle.png" border="0">$INFO[listitem.thumb]</texture>
                        <bordersize>0</bordersize>
                        <colordiffuse>99FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
                    </control>
                    <control type="label">
                        <posx>25</posx>
                        <posy>-38</posy>
                        <width>3-col</width>
                        <height>3-col</height>
                        <font>symbolVeryLarge</font>
                        <textcolor>selected</textcolor>
                        <shadowcolor>-</shadowcolor>
                        <label>$INFO[ListItem.label2]</label>
                    </control>
                </itemlayout>
                <focusedlayout width="3-col" height="3-col">
                    <control type="image">
                        <posx>0</posx>
                        <posy>0</posy>
                        <width>2-col</width>
                        <height>2-col</height>
                        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
                        <texture diffuse="masks/circle.png" border="0">colors/selected.png</texture>
                        <bordersize>0</bordersize>
                        <colordiffuse>ccFFFFFF</colordiffuse>
                    </control>
                    <control type="image">
                        <posx>0</posx>
                        <posy>0</posy>
                        <width>2-col</width>
                        <height>2-col</height>
                        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
                        <texture diffuse="masks/circle.png" border="0">$INFO[listitem.thumb]</texture>
                        <bordersize>0</bordersize>
                        <colordiffuse>99FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
                    </control>
                    <control type="label">
                        <posx>25</posx>
                        <posy>-38</posy>
                        <width>3-col</width>
                        <height>3-col</height>
                        <font>symbolVeryLarge</font>
                        <textcolor>black</textcolor>
                        <shadowcolor>-</shadowcolor>
                        <label>$INFO[ListItem.label2]</label>
                    </control>
                </focusedlayout>
                <content>
                    <item>
                        <label>31000</label>
                        <label2></label2>
                        <thumb>-</thumb>
                        <onclick>ActivateWindow(videolibrary)</onclick>
                        <onclick>Skin.SetString(showRecentVideoItems,true)</onclick>
                    </item>
                    <item>
                        <label>31001</label>
                        <label2></label2>
                        <thumb>-</thumb>
                        <onclick>ActivateWindow(musiclibrary)</onclick>
                        <onclick>Skin.SetString(showRecentMusicItems,true)</onclick>
                    </item>
                    <item>
                        <label>31002</label>
                        <label2></label2>
                        <thumb>-</thumb>
                        <onclick>ActivateWindow(pictures)</onclick>
                    </item>
                    <item>
                        <label>5</label>
                        <label2></label2>
                        <thumb>-</thumb>
                        <onclick>ActivateWindow(settings)</onclick>
                    </item>
                    <item>
                        <label>31004</label>
                        <label2></label2>
                        <thumb>$INFO[System.ProfileThumb]</thumb>
                        <onclick>ActivateWindow(ShutdownMenu)</onclick>
                    </item>
                </content>
            </control>

[evandunkel]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the help!

[Vustom]

4. After adding my Movies and TV sources, nothing is being displayed in the Latest tab within the Videos section, any ideas why?

- Latest items are handled by the 'skin widgets' script. This script should be installed on your system (it's included as a dependency) but the 'recent items' option may be turned off. Please check in settings->addons->services->skin widgets->configure->recent items and activate if necessary. If that doesn't work, please let me know. I agree it's confusing though - i'll look into whether it is possible to tell the script to activate this function as a default.

No add-ons got installed with the skin. I have these installed: plugin.video.mms, script.artistslideshow, script.artwork.downloader, script.service.xbmcresume and weather.yahoo along side with skin.maximinimalism. Is there any I'm missing besides service.skin.widgets?

5. When clicking the power button, is it possible to make Exit the default selection and to move it to the far left of the screen?

- It is possible to do this, but it will require modifying the skin files. I'm a bit reticent to make this the default for everyone as it wouldn't make sense on embedded systems like Openelec etc where exiting to desktop is not possible. I can see why this is important to many users however - I'll have a look and see if theres a better way to handle both types of user setup.

That'd be great - I've already turned my PC off by accident because of it.

6. With the background art, is there a way to decrease the amount of time it takes to switch to a new one?

- Again yes, but only by changing the skin files. Before I go any further - do you mean the between-images fade speed (which might be a system performance issue), or the amount of time each image is displayed?

Amount of time the image is displayed. Also, if you're on the home screen and start a video using a remote (I'm using Remote for XBMC on iOS) and when the video finishes the background is black until you go to another section (Videos, Music, Options, etc) which it then fixes itself.

7. How can I remove the Trailers tab when viewing specific information on Videos?

- You can't at the moment. If a trailer is available, this option will appear. As a compromise, I'll move the trailers option down the list for the next release, so that 'play' is the first option.

Moving it down the list would be good. It also asks me to download the YouTube add-on, does this skin support that?

8. How can I remove the time from the Home screen? I have a clock near my screen so it's not needed.

- Would require modifying skin code i'm afraid. It's unlikely i'd add it as a user option in the near future.

Could you tell me what lines to edit?

9. Could you add support for script.service.xbmcresume? It works, but the options are inconsistent as seen below.

- I'll have a look at this. I will include support in next update if it doesn't impact anything for non xbmcresume script users.

Thanks!

[thedeadman]

No add-ons got installed with the skin. I have these installed: plugin.video.mms, script.artistslideshow, script.artwork.downloader, script.service.xbmcresume and weather.yahoo along side with skin.maximinimalism. Is there any I'm missing besides service.skin.widgets?

- The only essential addon for maximinimalism is the skin widgets addon.

Amount of time the image is displayed.

- OK. It's currently set to 25 seconds. To tweak, look in 1080i/Includes.xml and change the <timeperimage> tag in the following control:

Code:

<!--User setting: rolling fanart slides-->
            <control type="multiimage">
                <visible>Skin.HasSetting(useGlobalFanartBackground) + !container.content(seasons) + !container.content(songs) + [!container.content(episodes) | Substring(Container.folderpath,plugin)]</visible>
                <posx>0</posx>
                <posy>0</posy>
                <include>dimensionsFullscreen</include>
                <imagepath>$VAR[fanartType]</imagepath>
                <timeperimage>25000</timeperimage>
                <fadetime>1000</fadetime>
                <pauseatend>10000</pauseatend>
                <randomize>true</randomize>
                <aspectratio>stretch</aspectratio>
                <colordiffuse>6affffff</colordiffuse>
                <animation type="windowopen">
                    <effect type="fade" start="0" end="100" time="500" delay="400" />
                </animation>
                <animation type="windowclose">
                    <effect type="fade" start="100" end="0" time="300" />
                </animation>
            </control>

Also, if you're on the home screen and start a video using a remote (I'm using Remote for XBMC on iOS) and when the video finishes the background is black until you go to another section (Videos, Music, Options, etc) which it then fixes itself.

- Yeah, I'll look into that. To keep things simple, I stop playback of any videos upon return to the menus. Using a direct remote like yours obviously cocks that process up. Thanks for the heads up - i'll look into it.

Moving it down the list would be good. It also asks me to download the YouTube add-on, does this skin support that?

- Menus have been reordered, will be in next update. All commonly used video addons should be supported - let me know if you have any problems with them.

[removing time from homescreen] Could you tell me what lines to edit?

Yep - the file you want is 1080i/home.xml. Replace:

Code:

<control type="label">
                <posx>0</posx>
                <posy>12</posy>
                <width>24-col</width>
                <font>veryLarge</font>
                <align>center</align>
                <textcolor>selected</textcolor>
                <label>$INFO[System.Time]</label>
            </control>

with:

Code:

<control type="label">
                <visible>false</visible>
                <posx>0</posx>
                <posy>12</posy>
                <width>24-col</width>
                <font>veryLarge</font>
                <align>center</align>
                <textcolor>selected</textcolor>
                <label>$INFO[System.Time]</label>
            </control>

[miappa]

3. When playing a video, some of the animations like when you pause the video are slow. I'm not sure if this is lag or on purpose but is there a way to speed up the animations?

- I'm not sure whether this is a performance issue or not - could you give me an idea of your setup please? Is the animation clearly struggling (stuttering), or do you feel that the animation is just too slow?

Hey!
On Pi this is true, and it´s most certainty the scrolling text (plot) that causes animation slowdowns.
I think it would be good to either have a setting to not scroll, only scroll when highlighted (and not default to highlight) or perhaps no plot in OSD but only the info dialog (they are today identical).

[thedeadman]

Nice one, thanks Miappa. Time to fire up my RPi and get working on Raspbmc support methinks :-)

[miappa]

If I understand this correct: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1665896
I see that GUI (and therefor OSD) is only at ~10fps (on Pi?) when playing video, so it is purposely a bit more laggy.
But the scrolling text is certainly a factor too as it brings CPU usage to a maximum.

[thedeadman]

Hi,

For those of you updating via GIT, i've just pushed an update:

- [MODIFIED] Video info modified to default to 'play' (thanks Vustom)
- [MODIFIED] Default background image changed (previous default retained, available from skin settings).
- [NEW] Czech language support (thanks MarhyCZ)
- [NEW] Record option added to videoOSD.
- [NEW] DVD Menu added to videoOSD.
- [NEW] Skin option to allow prioritising of exit (to desktop) over shutdown as default focus item in power menu.
- Bugfixes to global search and favourites
- Various revisions and fixes

@Vustom: I've now added the ability to switch the default for exit and shutdown as a skin setting. Should help avoid accidental shutdowns :-)

[thedeadman]

V1 just posted to GIT, staging repo to follow.

I'll be submitting to the official repo shortly. Thanks to all posters on this thread for your help and support.

[picaresqu3]

Hey guys,

Anyone have the Cinema Experience add-on working with this fine skin?

[moneymaker]

@thedeadman

What about cyrillic support?