I’d second that suggestion. When i was testing skins, Amber seemed to be the best non standard skin for the ATV1.
That said, I didn’t get to test it much. Other household members were too used to confluence.
Its nice. I was wondering if there’s anything better. Something that has smaller Fonts, thereby allowing more “items” to be visible on the screen at any moment, i.e. minimize scrolling.
This is one thing I wish more skins did.
I find that they either show too much info or not enough.
I’ve always though that the items should be smaller, the once you click on them you get a media info page with full info including a scrolling text description.
Basically a better drill down menu for media with increasing info text/graphics as you drill down. While some skins try this, none seem to “nail it”
Based on many of the skins out there, it seems that people like eye candy, whereas I just want the menus to be clean, simple with full media details when required.
I’ve been running the Beta test version of Eminence 2 on Jarvis for the last 3 months or so and its really very stable and my favourite Skin. In fact any of Jurialmunkey’s Skin’s are superbly designed, minimal and snappy on low powered Hardware.
If you go to the Eminence 2.0 thread I linked, it has full info on how to install it.
You can’t just install the skin though, it has dependencies that are needed.
It needs 3 other addons to be installed FIRST before it willinstall/work correctly.
Those addons are in the first post at the top of the linked thread
When I installed it I had to “force refresh” the official Kodi Repository so that the Jarvis versions of the various addons would be used.
If you do install it, I’d suggest signing up for a Kodi Forum account and asking for help and posting bugs in the Eminence 2.0 thread there.
It’s currently in Beta, and problems could occur. Any bugs you report there will help the developer get rid of them.
xbliss: I wish I could help, but I don’t know of a skin that supports that more item on screen “look”. They are all compromises. I usually end up simply setting some menu views to “list”, thereby disabling the cover art.
I’ve checked kodi wiki and there is a how-to to add a new true type font to the confluence skin, modifiying the file font.xml and adding the corresponding ttf file.