Why the skin is not working in merge version of xbmc ?

costa · 2010-06-19 19:28

as the title says !

Why ?

AnalogKid · 2010-06-24 12:53

costa Wrote:as the title says !

Why ?

Search, then search again.... the answer exists, your quest my friend, is to find it.

Arnaud · 2010-06-24 15:42

Cause it's not compatible with the new addon directory (a skin is now considered as an addon like a scrapper, ...)

Blackbolt · 2010-06-30 22:41

Well the skin IS compatable and we will update the official SVN version asap with the update. Possibley this coming weekend.

garyi · 2010-07-07 20:32

Sorry to sound stupid but I used to get my updates for this skin via the actual program in the SVN repo thing, well that appears to have disappeared so how do I actually get the update?

My main rig is still running an older XBMC because I cannot be without Ellipsis.

p.s. what happened to your forum?

Blackbolt · 2010-07-07 22:53

garyi Wrote:Sorry to sound stupid but I used to get my updates for this skin via the actual program in the SVN repo thing, well that appears to have disappeared so how do I actually get the update?

My main rig is still running an older XBMC because I cannot be without Ellipsis.

p.s. what happened to your forum?

With regards to the SVN repo thing, not a clue what happened to that, you'll have to ask some XBMC folks.

Our forum was becoming such a hassle to use, because we where getting spammed daily and it became obvious that the annoyance was out-weighing the usefulness of that forum, so we decided to just use XBMC.orgs sub-forums, after all they gave us our own sub-forums for a reason! Smile

garyi · 2010-07-08 07:54

So from that can I assume the update is not ready yet for this new plugins thing?

AaronD · 2010-07-12 15:31

I noticed a skin.xml file after checking out the skin from SVN. Does this mean it should work?

It's not on either of my XBMC installs - one a nightly build from just a few days ago. Assuming it should work, anyone know how to get it appearing?

Waffa · 2010-07-12 15:45

Skin.xml is for old builds.

Addon.xml is for new builds.

Make yourself an addon.xml see confluence for example.

Skin will work but will not have the addon features Wink

>>X<< · 2010-07-12 15:58

Good grief Rolleyes

addon.xml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<addon

  id="skin.ellipsis"

  version="2.2"

  name="Ellipsis"

  provider-name="Team Blackbolt">

  <requires>

    <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="2.11"/>

  </requires>

  <extension 

    point="xbmc.gui.skin"

    defaultresolution="720p" 

    defaultresolutionwide="720p"

    defaultthemename="textures.xbt" 

    effectslowdown="1"

    debugging="false"/>

  <extension point="xbmc.addon.metadata">

    <summary>Ellipsis skin by Team Blackbolt</summary>

    <platform>all</platform>

  </extension>

</addon>

Name the ellipsis folder "skin.ellipsis" and stick it in addons

You only have to look to find the answers Wink

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=74818

costa Senior Member Posts: 107 Joined: Nov 2008 Reputation: 3	2010-06-19 19:28 Post: #1 as the title says ! Why ?
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AnalogKid Fan Posts: 644 Joined: Feb 2009 Reputation: 141	2010-06-24 12:53 Post: #2 costa Wrote:as the title says ! Why ? Search, then search again.... the answer exists, your quest my friend, is to find it.
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Arnaud Member Posts: 51 Joined: Aug 2009 Reputation: 0 Location: France	2010-06-24 15:42 Post: #3 Cause it's not compatible with the new addon directory (a skin is now considered as an addon like a scrapper, ...) XBMC.EU : Download officials and nightly-builds skins
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Blackbolt Skilled Skinner Posts: 334 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 3 Location: Cheshire, England, UK	2010-06-30 22:41 Post: #4 Well the skin IS compatable and we will update the official SVN version asap with the update. Possibley this coming weekend. Currently working on Ellipsis 1.3 Updates. Update Requests Here. Ellipsis for XBMC 1.2.1 Click here to download & for SVN details. Twitter.com/TeamBlackbolt \| Facebook.com/TeamBlackbolt1 \| TeamBlackbolt.co.uk
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garyi Posting Freak Posts: 1,196 Joined: Oct 2008 Reputation: 0	2010-07-07 20:32 Post: #5 Sorry to sound stupid but I used to get my updates for this skin via the actual program in the SVN repo thing, well that appears to have disappeared so how do I actually get the update? My main rig is still running an older XBMC because I cannot be without Ellipsis. p.s. what happened to your forum?
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garyi Posting Freak Posts: 1,196 Joined: Oct 2008 Reputation: 0	2010-07-08 07:54 Post: #7 So from that can I assume the update is not ready yet for this new plugins thing?
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AaronD Senior Member Posts: 252 Joined: Jan 2007 Reputation: 0 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates	2010-07-12 15:31 Post: #8 I noticed a skin.xml file after checking out the skin from SVN. Does this mean it should work? It's not on either of my XBMC installs - one a nightly build from just a few days ago. Assuming it should work, anyone know how to get it appearing?
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Waffa Posting Freak Posts: 1,163 Joined: May 2008 Reputation: 7 Location: Netherlands	2010-07-12 15:45 Post: #9 Skin.xml is for old builds. Addon.xml is for new builds. Make yourself an addon.xml see confluence for example. Skin will work but will not have the addon features
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