Archive:Default skin guidelines

This is a list of elements that a skin should have to be the default skin in Kodi, as defined by Team Kodi. This is a work in progress.

Technical guidelines

Skin should be open source and allow for commercial use. For example, GPL 2.0 or CC-SA-BY 3.
- This includes all images as well as the python code.

Should run reasonably well for basic use on our lowest performing target device, which is currently the Raspberry Pi.

Should avoid requiring lots of other add-ons for basic use.
- Any "hard-required" add-ons must be distributable with Kodi. If additional add-ons/modules are deemed nessesary then they must be using a compatible license so they can be distributed with Kodi, without requiring additional downloads.
- The total file size for the skin and anything it requires must be reasonably low Editor note: should we have a rough estimate here? -Ned .
- Optional features that use other add-ons might be okay as long as those add-ons don't need to be installed for basic usage. For example, Confluence in v13 can optionally use TvTunes, but still works without it.

"Easy to use" Editor note: Broadly speaking, as we will probably want to break "ease of use" out into more specific examples. -Ned