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Marx1 · 2013-11-21, 09:00

Yesterday were probably update for this skin. I don't have access for XBMC now, but problem of dark screen after skin update happened again. Do anybody have idea how to fight with this problem? I'm near into copying skin under my own name and skip all future updates. It's sometimes hard to explain by phone to child, how to restart XBMC only to recover skin. Maybe it would be possible to add in skin button "restart skin"?

User 34959 · 2013-11-21, 12:12

Cannot help you there, I've never seen this myself. On my living room setup I'm using my own repo and I let the skin auto update normally. How would "restart skin" help in the skin settings if the screen is blank?

Yes there was an update yesterday.

Quote:1.1.5

- New add-on dependency (script.grab.fanart) and a new skin setting (show fanart backgrounds). Uses fanart from your existing library as main menu and library view backgrounds. Disable extrafanart (in some views) and enable "hide item specific fanart" to see it in library views
- Fix artist slideshow visibility at home screen
- Add extrafanart, thumb shadow and unfocus animation to showcase view

**kreeturez** · (This post was last modified: 2013-11-21, 13:58 by kreeturez.)

This is just the way XBMC does skin updates, unfortunately.

Yesterday I had the screen blank - in a video, no less - for about 30 seconds; followed by an update notification.

Hopefully future versions of XBMC improve upon this...

In the meantime, users could turn off automatic repo updating and do it manually. (Alternatively if you don't want to disable auto-updating for ALL addons, you could just temporarily disable the Spacemonkey repo and enable it when you wish to update...)

Marx1 · 2013-11-21, 16:34

brillant idea Smile

thank you!

User 34959 · (This post was last modified: 2013-11-21, 17:23 by User 34959.)

(2013-11-19, 06:26)Murnz Wrote: Can someone help me with 3 issues?

Issue 3:
How do I change the Main Menu Font colour from White to Yellow?

If you're fine with it being always yellow, and don't mind the home menu color skin setting not working:

Open either IncludesVerticalHome.xml or IncludesHorizontalHome.xml depending on which one you use, and replace <textcolor>$VAR[HomeMenuColor]</textcolor> with <textcolor>selected</textcolor>.

djstallion · 2013-11-21, 18:01

SpaceMonkey, I like Your modified skin very much, thank You!
There is Estonian translation to add next updates: http://pastebin.com/Mx4Gs4cL

Now I have one question. Is there any possibility to add media flags to audio library like media flags are in video library? When You are in video library, You can see active title media flags in right pane (e.g. 1080 h.264 DTS). If You're in audio library, You might see active album title files format flags in right pane (FLAC, APE, MP3 etc). Because in most cases file formats within one album is the same, I think it's possible? Now You can see audio file format only in full screen mode. Audio file format flags might be visible in tracklist too, in right pane.

PS. Sorry about my weak english...

User 34959 · (This post was last modified: 2013-11-21, 19:45 by User 34959.)

Should be possible but only at song level and with a small hack. I'll think it about it.

djstallion · 2013-11-21, 20:03

(2013-11-21, 19:44)SpaceMonkey Wrote: Should be possible but only at song level and with a small hack. I'll think it about it.

Thank You!

FrodoPL · (This post was last modified: 2013-11-22, 13:00 by FrodoPL.)

Is possible added animated background or some animated effect in menu? background picture scope effect?

WayneFlix · (This post was last modified: 2013-11-23, 03:03 by WayneFlix.)

(2013-11-19, 06:26)Murnz Wrote: Issue 1:
Movie plot summaries are not showing, and it only seems to show for 3 movies which I have just scrapped today using Ember Media Manager.
Not sure if there is any issues with the scraper, might have to try scrape them again - but if someone can give some feedback regarding this would be great? As it is frustrating not having the plot summaries.

Update: tested it using the XBMC's default skin and it's not showing up either apart from the ones I did today.

Make sure you have a scraper defined in XBMC or make sure to scrape the information for all your movies. Reimport/refresh your library when the proper .nfo files are present.

Quote:Issue 2:
i.e movie called "The Adjustment Bureau, is sitting in the A's yet it has "the" in-front, shouldn't it be sitting by the T's?

Not skin related. Usually articles like A and The are not included in the alphabetical sorting. You can turn this off under Settings -> File Lists. However most people would just look for "Adjustment Bureau" which is why this convention was adopted.

Quote:Issue 3:
How do I change the Main Menu Font colour from White to Yellow?

Don't know the specific answer to this. You would have to edit the files for the skin as far as I can tell. Currently it only offers white, blue and dark blue options in the settings.

User 34959 · (This post was last modified: 2013-11-23, 09:50 by User 34959.)

^ Those questions were already answered in the previous page.

(2013-11-22, 10:42)FrodoPL Wrote: Is possible added animated background or some animated effect in menu? background picture scope effect?

Not by me. I get sick, i mean physically sick from the Ken Burns effect.

robin8 · 2013-11-25, 08:39

I've made several smart playlists for movie genres and I wonder if it is possible to add them as subfolders to "Movies"?

User 34959 · 2013-11-25, 08:42

Yes, should be, in the skin settings.

The menu customization page could use a major re-organization and re-thinking but it would be quite a bit of work.

WayneFlix · (This post was last modified: 2013-11-25, 08:44 by WayneFlix.)

Can you provide a hint on centering the vertical widgets on the x-axis please?

User 34959 · 2013-11-25, 09:00

You mean when for exmaple only recent is visible move it to the center? Conditional slide I guess? When recommended and random are not visible move it x pixels right.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ani..._your_skin