Previously, i think the splash screen was automatically disabled, but with the new version, the splash screen came back. I tried the splash false setting in advancedsettings.xml but it did not work.
Also, i think previously it was possible to change the splash screen by changing the oemsplash.png file in /flash directory. Thats not working now either.
Ahh that is very unfortunate. I had my bootloader modded so it would display a simple Kodi logo, then i had my CoreELEC modded so it would also display the same simple logo so it would be a clean boot all the way through.
Anyway, it is what it is . I hope they’d let us change the bootlogo, i see no reason why they wouldnt. Branding maybe?
I can’t see the point unless you are re-branding. It’s a 2 second splash screen. CoreELEC team build it, they deserve their own branding to be displayed.
It depends.
Some people are just “different” I am sure rebranding are there also, but I personally take care with some love to boxes, and have splash related to the room, the same logo, but with text Kitchen/bedroom/living room Dont shoot messenger, just sayin there are 10 kinds of people Anyway understand the reason for that, and as it can be arguable (OS code underneath allowing that change) understand reason, and if it helps something, then good for all of us.
What message exactly? One image is visible for a few seconds per day? And the rest of the day you watch some content from nice system. Ignore this change and move on
I perfectly can understand the devs for this step and I guess you will just have to deal with that decision. In my humble opinion there are only (very) few users who seem to have “problems” with not being able to change the splash screen.
It amazes me that during a pandemic with a virus going around killing thousands of people that some people are vexed by not being able to change a boot logo that is displayed for a matter of seconds.
Seriously?
Customize Kodi to your heart’s content, we won’t ever stop that but when people are selling all in one CE setups then we want people to know where the software they are using comes from and that it is freely available, that is why we implemented this change and we imagine it is those sellers that are most hurt by this change.
We take user feedback on board when we make changes people are unhappy with like when we abandoned installtointernal and then brought it back and the same with amremote, but this is one change we won’t revert.