(2016-08-23, 07:36)Meatus Wrote: Just wasted an hour of my life with the Beta.
First impression was a frozen menu that, after several reboots, only became operative after I managed to find a remote shortcut into Settings to revert to the default skin.
So much is broken: can't access the add-on repository, can't load third party add-ons, for example.
Don't say you weren't warned.
I have to admit that I ran into the same problem when I first tried Krypton Alpha. The change of skin related parameters in Kodi is generally a problem because you are losing the access to all previous skins (especially the one you are using at the moment) and have to hope that skinners will come up with updated versions (which in a lot of cases does not happen). And you have to remind yourself of changing to the default skin (confluence) before upgrading to Krypton otherwise it will stick with your current skin, which is not working anymore, and you even can't access the settings to change the skin then. In my case I had to use SSH-access to delete the non functional skin folder and restart Kodi. Thereby Kodi automatically switched to the defult skin (which now is the not so beautiful Estuary).
Also I was a little bit confused by the new settings page. The addons settings seem to have disappeared, at least in the default skin Estuary. It took my quiet a while to find them. You have to select "addons" in the main menu and on the next page there is a small box smybol below the addon categories. You have to press this one and will get access to the desired addons settings.
Besides those issues I really hope that Krypton will reunite Kodi and SPMC. There are a lot of features I very much like in SPMC (e.g. voice search), but it is only based on Kodi Jarvis, whereas some Android related skins (Pellucid skin, Shield TV skin etc.) are developed for Kodi Krypton. Especially for Android TV users it currently is a mess. But Android boxes are a growing market. They are cheap, offer 4k/60HZ, HEVC, HDMI 2.0 etc. and they support gaming and Android apps. Also there are a lot of TV sets running Android out of the box (e.g. Sony, Phillips, Sharp), not counting the billions of smartphones and tablets relying on this operating system (global market share 87% as I just read). So development should have a higher focus on that. Just my opinion.