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@SnakeCRO Feel free to check out the new version.


New releases out now for Kodi 19-22 (17-18 will be following)

Code:

6.7.47 (2025-01-04)

Further refinements to UI font styles (Follow-up to recent Font Rework)

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New releases out now for Kodi 18-22 (17 will be following)

Code:

6.7.48 (2025-01-05)

Minor code improvements for for Add-on Info Dialog (cross-generational code)

Kodi 18+ only:

Minor Game OSD improvements (cross-generational code)

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New releases out now for Kodi 17-22

All 6 Kodi generations now have feature parity again.

Code:

6.7.50 (2025-01-05)

Minor improvements for Video Info Dialog

Code refinements for Font Rework (cross-generational code)

6.7.49 (2025-01-05)

Minor improvements for Add-on Info Dialog

Code refinements for Font Rework (cross-generational code)
Added workaround for Kodi 17.6 (which does not support includes in Font.xml)

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New releases out now for Kodi 17-22

...and some more changes to the SideBar and Video Info Dialog.

Since we have touched all 6 generations of Kodi skin versions with the recent changes, user feedback would be very welcome besides extensive internal testing. :-)

Code:

6.7.52 (2025-01-07)

Improvements for left SideBar
Reworked and simplified "CommonNowPlaying_Controls" within Sidebar

Further minor refinements for Video Info Dialog
Minor code improvements
My Skin: Minor tree restructuring and label improvements

Textures:

Added new icons for SideBar changes (OSDFullscreenFO.png, OSDFullscreenNF.png)

6.7.51 (2025-01-07)

Refinements for Video Info Dialog

- "Movie Set" button is now icon based)
- "My rating" button has been moved to "More options" section
- Custom button label processing (This change is supported by a corresponding update of the "Cinema Helper" add-on)
- Optimized button label dimensions and positioning, Also: Automatically adapting to shorter/longer word lengths of different Kodi languages
- Also adapted changes to PVR Info Dialog

Minor code improvements

Textures:

Added new icons for Video Info Dialog changes (set.png, ratingstar.png)

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New releases out now for Kodi 17-22

Notable change:  See changelog in regards to Externalized Skin add-ons

This will make downloading future skin updates in Kodi much faster since the main Skin .zip size has been reduced from ~48.1 MB to ~3.3 MB)

Code:

6.7.53 (2025-01-10)

Externalized Skin add-ons

- Skin fonts and (large) textures have been moved to two separate add-ons
- Updated Skin folder structure (Removed "backgrounds" and "resources" folders, kept empty "fonts" folder with dummy file)
- Updated addon.xml accordingly

(With these changes Skin .zip size could be reduced from ~48.1 MB to ~3.3 MB)

Minor code improvements

Backported upstream language strings to Kodi 17 skin version (Custom backport; Kodi 17 only)
- Uncommented/re-added strings which have been removed for Kodi 18+ skin language
- Re-added #31328 ("Recently added") which is needed for Kodi 17 skin version since it's only available on Kodi 18+ core language

Textures:

Moved noise00.png and posterwall_fadeout_new_dither_2.png from Textures.xbt to textures add-on
(Renamed to noise00.jpg (png2jpg) and edge_fadeout_new_dither_2.png)

Added new icons for recent SideBar changes (OSDFullscreenFO.png, OSDFullscreenNF.png) to both additional UI color schemes