Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" Incompatibility with all Stardock themes except Windows Default theme

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=218274&pid=2116731#pid2116731
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Just a heads up that Kodi 16 (with native Directx11 rendering) will not be compatible with Windowblinds themes other than the default OS/Generic theme.  Otherwise, the symptoms mentioned in the post below occur.  Based on the developer response, the problem is caused by Windowblinds skins.

So, @Neil.. can you please make sure that WB 10 themes are compatible with the the upcoming Kodi?

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=218274&pid=2116731#pid2116731

Current Full release version of Kodi is "Isengard" 15.2.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I would suggest that you go into WindowBlinds config and exclude Kodi from being skinned. To my knowledge, Kodi has never been skinnable by windowblinds.

Also, Neil doesn't make the skins, he just makes the program. The skins are made by users.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Actually my post wasn't to ask for help.  :)  It's to report a fundamental change in Kodi's next major update which makes WindowBlinds completely incompatible with Kodi.  It's not any particular skin.  This issue affects ALL WindowBlinds skins. 

FYI:  XMBC/Kodi has always been fully skinnable (glass frames and titlebar) with WindowBlinds since even the old XMBC days.   It's not the skins that are the problem, it's WindowBlinds being able to work with apps with a DX11 canvas (Kodi's next release uses a DX11 canvas, instead of old fashioned DirectX9.x).

Surely, I can't be the first person on earth who uses Kodi and WindowBlinds.  From the response I've seen so far... it kinda does.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have used both, never noticed it being affected either way by WindowBlinds.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Can you please post a screenshot with Kodi 16 and WindowBlinds skins working together?  I'd love to see how you managed that. 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Direct x 11 here skinning kodi perfectly fine,no issue with blurring whether full screen windowed mode or resized in windowed mode using halloween & chronos as test.Switch back to the original default kodi confluence skin then try you can't trust skins built upon the original template & expect those skins to be stable

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm confused.. are you guys using Kodi 16.0 alpha 1 or 16.0 alpha 2.. or maybe, one of the nightly builds?

http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-alpha-jarvis-at-your-service/

Just to be clear, it only affects the latest "DX11 builds of Kodi" (and newer) ...not to be confused with just having DirectX11 installed on Windows with any of the older versiona of Kodi.

 

If you guys are definitely using Kodi Jarvis with WindowBlinds, I'd really like to know what you system configuration is; including exact build of Kodi.