[EtgarDizz]

Hi all,

I've created a modified version of this awesome skin.
It's based off of version 4.5.5.

Changes from the original skin:

1. Support for 3rd-party: Skin Widgets, Next Aired, Artwork Downloader & more
   
2. Improvements in customization options
   
3. The Skin Settings interface follows the system settings' layout and design
   
4. Various tweaks, check changelog.txt for complete list
   

watch gallery

More details in the README

Download:
Install my repo from there, if doesn't work (let me know! and then- ) download the skin directly from here or here.

Feedback is welcome of course!

[JMB87]

thank you very much! everything quartz related is nice indeed!

[pecinko]

You are getting better and better mate

[djfred]

super awesome thank you

[Haris1977]

Does it work with latest kodi raspberry pi release?

[EtgarDizz]

You are getting better and better mate

Thanks, that means a lot coming from the creator of the base skin

Does it work with latest kodi raspberry pi release?

Sorry to say what it's not tested on Kodi 14 Helix...

For now, I haven't received much feedback on this mod, so I don't see a reason to start testing.
If more people show interest I will consider a full code review.

(welcome to fork on github and create pull requests, of course!)

[ironmanco]

Longtime user of Quarts (especially like the recently added movies list).

I moved to Kodi and although it works I assume there are some updates that are needed.

Would love to have Quartz Kodi compatible as well (iOS)

[mediumdry]

this looks wonderful, especially the shelf items themes for tv shows! I do have a request... can you make it Kodi compatible? (installing from the zip from your github page gave me a "dependencies not met" error)

[EtgarDizz]

this looks wonderful, especially the shelf items themes for tv shows!

Thank you! The TV items themes was the initial reason I started modding in the first place... I'm glad you like it

installing from the zip from your github page gave me a "dependencies not met" error

This skin requires only two add-ons: Favourites and Skin Widgets. Make sure you have those installed.
I suspect that when installing from a zip (rather than from an online repo), Kodi doesn't try to auto-install dependencies.

From the wiki:

When a user installs your add-on from an online repository via XBMC's add-on manager, XBMC attempts to resolve these dependencies, and install anything that your add-on relies on first

In case there is more support and demand for v14 support, I will try to find the time to do a complete overhaul.

[mediumdry]

Unfortunately, on Kodi, even with the two dependencies installed, it won't install from the zip. I would love it if you can try to make a Kodi compatible version, but I understand the work that goes into that..

[EtgarDizz]

@mediumdry,

Could you possibly paste your log file? I might get a better idea of what's going on when the installation fails.
http://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file/Easy

[mediumdry]

I just turned on debug logging and on looking in the log, the only relevant lines are these:

Code:

20:01:04 T:140735141077760   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (FileBrowser.xml) ------
20:01:04 T:140735141077760   DEBUG: GetZipList - Processing zip://%2fUsers%2fkodi%2fDownloads%2fskin.quartz.mod-master.zip/
20:01:04 T:140735141077760   DEBUG: Addon skin.quartz.mod requires xbmc.gui version 5.0.1 which is not available
20:01:04 T:140735141077760   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------

Is xbmc.gui version 5.0.1 related to Gotham?

For completeness sake:

Code:

20:00:15 T:140735141077760  NOTICE: Starting Kodi (14.0 Git:2014-12-23-ad747d9-dirty). Platform: OS X x86 64-bit
20:00:15 T:140735141077760  NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x64 build
20:00:15 T:140735141077760  NOTICE: Kodi compiled Dec 23 2014 by Clang 4.2 (clang-425.0.27) for OS X x86 64-bit version 10.6.0 (1060)
20:00:15 T:140735141077760  NOTICE: Running on Apple Inc. MacBookAir6,2 with OS X 10.10.2, kernel: Darwin x86 64-bit version 14.1.0

[EtgarDizz]

I just turned on debug logging and on looking in the log, the only relevant lines are these:

Code:

20:01:04 T:140735141077760   DEBUG: Addon skin.quartz.mod requires xbmc.gui version 5.0.1 which is not available

Looking at the code for xbmc.gui addon:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master.../addon.xml

I can see there's backwards compatibility only until 5.3.0
Since I'm requiring 5.0.1, that causes the failed install.

I will have to look into this myself in greater depth to check for other errors.

In the meantime, you're welcome to experiment a little and help with testing...
Here's a link to a test addon, after changing the xbmc.gui requirement to 5.3.0. Let me know how it works!

[mediumdry]

That works indeed, although the end result is interesting, text seems to have shifted, as well as the expected on screen keyboard issues:

[mediumdry]

@EtgarDizz, any chance you're going to look into Kodi/Helix support?