Arctic: Zephyr – Advanced Launchers Support

Quote:INTRODUCTION

We all know why we love this skin, it’s clean, simple, beautiful, modern and right to the point, oh my god, does it look good! However it always lacked the support for some Addons namely the Advanced Launcher (AL) and know the “successor” Advanced Emulator Launcher (AEL). So I decided to go to work and made this mod. Keep in mind that I’m a beginner, and it needs more work to fully support the addons. For now it shows all the metadata and the main artwork.

Quote:INSTRUCTIONS

1. Download and extract
2. Paste all the .xml files to the folder %appdata%\Kodi\addons\skin.arctic.zephyr\1080i
3. Remove the comments from the views that you want to enable. You just need to open “MyPrograms.xml” and remove the “<!–” “–>”
   for example, <!–<include>View_Queue</include>–> becomes <include>View_Queue</include>
   On the album you can find the correspondent names that you have to enable for the different images (views).
4. Save
5. Done!

Quote:KNOWN ISSUES

• When using views with trailers the videos still play when the user leaves the addon, like the movies or series when you leave the player, it still plays on the background. Don’t know if it is possible to disable this just for the addons.
• The “now playing” on the top right corner. I know it can be disable, but I wanted to disable just for the addons or program section, don’t know if it’s possible
• Release date doesn’t appear on the “Media info” view
• It’s not actually a problem but it would be cool if the trailer started, for example, on the 5 sec mark to skip the PEGI stuff.

Quote:CONSIDERATIONS

• Everyone is welcome to help on this mod even because I’m a beginner in skinning so I could use a little help from more experienced people. If you have some solutions for the problems that I mentioned, feel free to share them.
• Advanced Emulator Launcher is currently under active development so may be subject to change that can cause some issues with this mod. I think it will be easy to fix.
• When the Arctic: Zephyr skin is updated it can change some of the views or disable some on the addons.You may need to copy the files again (Excluding MyPrograms and Includes) or the MOD could need some minor updates
• I really want to add more stuff, namely the clear logo but don’t know how to test it because I don’t know how to add it to the AEL. The addon it’s still in the beta phase, maybe with time it will be easier to add clear logos manuals, and so forth

Quote:CREDITS

• jurialmunkey
• RazorFR
• Wintermute0110
• loggio