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If you’re running “stock” KODI 16.x on any Ubuntu derivative you’re probably use to the default skin: Confluence. Confluence has been the default skin for several versions of KODI. I like Confluence because it has a number of nice features: • Recently viewed Movies and TV Shows appear on the main screen when select Movies or TV Shows. • It packs a lot of features into a minimalist menu structure. For example: when you click Videos a flyout appears below the Videos text so you can also select Files, Library or Add-ons. • You can customize the menus to show a selection of add-ons below most of the menus.
As great as Confluence is the number of other skins available for KODI seems to indicate that not everyone is enamoured with the default skin. The following skins are available in KODI 16.1 by clicking System > Appearance > Skin > Skin > Confluence > Get More : Aeon Nox, Amber, App TV (Apple TV), Black Glass Nova, Box, Cirrus Extended, Chroma, Eunique, KOver, Metropolis, Mimic, Nebula, Phenomenal, Rapier, Refocus, Retouched, Revolve, Titan, Transparency, Unity, XPerience1080.
Skins are not just for show, some provide more menu options while others include add-on functionality within the main menu options. When you first install and activate the XPerience1080 skin it downloads an XKCD add-on which when you hover over the Pictures menu displays an XKCD comic.
Confluence, the default skin, doesn’t have a Favourites text menu option, instead opting to use a star in the bottom left. The Cirrus Extended skin includes Favourites as a text menu option, making it much more obvious to new KODI users. I think I used Confluence for at least a year before I even knew about Favourites because it’s not totally obvious where it is or exactly what they’re for.
Briefly, if you hover over a show and activate the context menu (c on a keyboard) you’ll get a pop-up menu that will let you add that show/movie/media to the Favourites menu. To bring up all the items you added to Favourites on the Confluence skin use your remote or the arrow keys on a keyboard to navigate to the Star on the bottom right, then click it to open up the list of Favourites. On Cirrus Extended you just navigate through the menu as you normally would until you get to the Favourites option.
Other skins often also can display media different ways. Confluence can display movies and TV shows using a number of “views”: List, Big List, Thumbnail, Poster Wrap, Fan Art, Media Info, Media Info 2, Media Info 3, and Wide.
The Aeon Nox skin has other ways to display/view the same content:
List, Low List, Tri Panel, Big List, Icons, Wall, Info Wall, Banner Wall, Logo, Posters, Shift, Landscape and Showcase.
To change views on Confluence first navigate to your content then hit the right arrow (or the right button on your remote) to activate the Views side panel. Within the side panel there are a slew of options for Changing the View, Sorting, Filtering, Hiding Watched material, or just updating your library.
The amount of information for each movie or show on the screen depends on the View. Views can include information such as whether the movie is 1080p, has 5.1 Surround Sound, or which codec has been used to encode the video. But Views can also be something as simple as an image grabbed from the show or movie.
Confluence is a great skin that hides a lot of options, but I’d encourage you to check out other skins and other views - it’s a bit like checking out a new Linux distribution, sometimes you find out about features you didn’t know your distribution had, just by checking out something else.