If you update from the current stable release to one of these test builds, you will find that the new skin is automatically installed and available to select from Settings. If you have been using one of these builds before we announced the skin, then you’ll want to run the following commands:
Please note the above commands will only work if you have been running Krypton test builds already. If this is not the case, you’ll need to change your /etc/apt/sources.list file depending on the version that you would like to install.
We’re looking forward to your feedback and improvements.
You have to enable the Skin as you would an Addon, just FYI. It’s not just there…
If I want to do some changes myself for personal use, where would I find the Skin on the SD (it isn’t in the default Addons folder) and is there a source available somewhere?
Did an update on my pi, did see the upgrade pulling the new Skin but upon reboot, it’s nowhere to be found. I click on “Get More” but I can’t seem to find it anywhere…
Highlight the menu item you want to delete in the list on the left, and bring up the context menu.
Yes, the list has to be generated first time.
Nice spot. Added to to-do list.
All the widgets that are used by the skin by default should have no dependencies. If you install additional widget providers then their dependencies should be installed by Kodi automatically.
1 minor niggle
The un-selected font is too light to read from a distance
The larger, darker yellow font of selected items is great!
3 icky show-stopping niggles
1 - the skin must be re-enabled via the Add-Ons screen upon each reboot
2 - Only the ICON view is available… kiddos and the elderly require the Big Icon / Grid view (see New Kiddos vs Old Kiddos)
3 - Custom menu shortcuts now persist from a backup recover… However rather than being persistent and view-able to the right (see Old Videos) you MUST press left to see the shortcuts (see New Videos) which are otherwise hidden from view.
I haven’t installed the test build but one thing I would love to see is for the “cleaning library” message to be made less invasive. In the current skin it pops up a modal so if I run a clean while a video is playing it is very disruptive. Something more like the “scanning” message in the bottom right would be perfect.
New skin looks good so far! I’m testing on a Pi3. I did have a bit of trouble while doing video calibration. My cursor wasn’t showing and the arrows to adjust the screen kept disappearing. Also the screen was black instead of blue with grey instead of white arrows, screen, subtitles. No Kodi logo in the middle of the box. I switched back to default Estuary skin for a sec to fix it. Osmc crashed to screen shortly after. I haven’t really messed around with it much yet. I notice the background keeps resetting after restarting the Pi. I know it’s still in development and there are a few things that I miss from the old one (like “My Osmc” main menu side tiles) but overall it’s a breath of fresh air from the old skin. I’ll be sure to post anything else I find and I look forward to watching the progress of this new skin.
Historically If a user clicks OK on one of the Main Categories (Videos, Shows, Music, System) nothing happens. They press right and down/up to highlight the shortcut they are interested in. To me, this is intuitive.
Pressing left on one of the Main Categories to make the Shortcuts visible is not intuitive… however pressing OK on one of the Main Categories to make the Shortcuts visible would be perfectly acceptable
Having the Shortcuts hover OVER the Main Categories (like the Maintenance/Context Menu) makes it rather difficult to read from the couch. If the shortcuts may no longer be persistently visable and navigable to the right of the Main Categories… would it be possible to move the ‘Context menu’ to the right?
@sam_nazarko will it be possible to keep the OLD OSMC skin as a user selectable option while any wrinkles are ironed out on the NEW OSMC skin for the initial Krypton release? The NEW OSMC skin is very pretty
Just to be clear I have the following main menu structure Videos
-Children (Folder Shortcut 1)
-Comedy (Folder Shortcut2)
-Etc Shows
-TV (Folder Shortcut 1)
-Music Videos (Folder Shortcut 1)
-TED (App Shortcut 3) Music
-Music (Folder Shortcut 1)
-Pandora (App Shortcut 2) System
-My OSMC
-Settings
-Power
-Etc
If nothing’s happening when one of the Main Categories is being clicked, it probably shouldn’t be visible (for example, a link that takes you to the Movies library won’t do anything if there are no movies in your library.) Most likely an issue with the Skin Shortcuts script.
From the menu customiser, ‘Change action’ > ‘Custom item >’ (last item in the list) > Type ‘SetFocus(9001)’
screen shortly after. I haven’t really messed around with it much yet. I notice the background keeps resetting after restarting the Pi. I know it’s still in development and there are a few things that I miss from the old one (like “My Osmc” main menu side tiles) but overall it’s a breath of fresh air from the old skin. I’ll be sure to post anything else I find and I look forward to watching the progress of this new skin.