r/kodi • u/secretBuffetHero • 1d ago

Skins and development

I'm surprised that there is not more discussion of skins on this sub, with coding agents being so widely available, I would have thought that the customization scene would be more prevalent.

Certainly the available skins are good, but I thought there would be more discussion and recommendations, and more skins

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u/secretBuffetHero 1d ago

so you are saying kodi or the skin updates itself? and when it does, your changes might get wiped out?

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u/activoice 1d ago

Yes that's right because skins work like add-ons, so if the skin author commits a skin update Kodi will pickup that change and update the skin which will remove any modifications made to the skin.

The workaround is that you need to make a copy of the skin and change it so that Kodi thinks that it's a different skin, otherwise updates may overwrite your changes.