Kodi Skins can be changed easily giving it a new look and feel.
Changing the Skin does not effect Addons only the interface and layout.
The default Kodi 17-17.6 Skin is called Estuary but there are many more to choose from including the old default Confluence.
Kodi 16 and previous versions used Confluence as the default interface and can be easily set back up with it.
Confluence is a simple interface with a bar in the middle of the screen with the many Kodi sections to select from.
It is easy to change the Skin to Confluence with many more Skins available to choose from such as Aeon Nox and Xconfluence.
Steps to Change Kodi 17 Krypton Estuary Skin to the Old Kodi 16 Jarvis Confluence
1… Click the System Icon at the top left
2… Click Interface Settings
3… Click Skin
4… Click Estuary
5… A box will come up click Get More
6… Scroll down find Confluence and select it
7… It will download install and ask if you want to keep the changes click YES.
The Skin will now be changed to the old Kodi Jarvis Confluence look and feel.
To change it back to Estuary go to System–>Settings–>Interface–Skin.
I clicked get more however confluence is not listed anymore. Where did it go? What do I do now?
I did the skin change. But now you cant hide programs, music, pictures etc. Like the old one… how can you hide these?? Thanks
I have 5 firesticks with Kodi and I use Amber on all of them. Very simple and easy to use. And perfect for kids and grandparents.
Estuary is a terrible skin. It’s dreadful looking and never remembers the type of view you chose last time. Also, there are 3 extra steps to turn up the internal volume on a video playing, which is necessary with about 9/10 videos I watch. I realize Confluence isn’t perfect, but it’s better than Estuary in so many ways.
Confluence good. Estuary bad!!! Confluence wasn’t perfect, but it was more intuitive than Estuary. Thank you.
Have “downgraded” back to Confluence, but in the “video\add-ons” list views, there is no longer the “Get More” short cut that you could use to view other add-ons and add to the list. Now it seems you must go back to settings and view my addons from there. Anyeon know how to get the “get more” item back in the
click on addons then you have to bring out the side menu.. scroll down and get more is right at the bottom..
I have one problem. Interface Settings–>Skin–> Skin I have a choice of two skins Estouchy and Estuary and a Cancel button , there is no Get More button. Why is here no Get More button and how do I fix it. Please help.
Updated to krypton 17.6. Changed to confluence no problem.
Very easy to fix. Go to add ons, install from repository. Go into Kodi repo, in look and feel you will find confluence skin. It will give you option to activate it.
Thank you thank you thank you