2020-01-10, 01:03
(2020-01-09, 16:50)Consumer Wrote:(2020-01-03, 19:37)pkscout Wrote:(2020-01-03, 17:24)Consumer Wrote: No worries! I actually figured out a way to swap out the font files for thicker-weighted ones.
I'm curious about a couple of things:
- The submenu items have .xsp files that correspond to them which I like to customize. I'm stumped on one though. The "In progress TV shows" doesn't seem to have a matching .xsp file. Do you know where it lives?
- Is there a way to make other submenus have a layout like that of the "Favourites" submenu? That is to say, all in a grid on-screen and no off-screen scrolling. Is this a limitation?
Thanks for the support!
It looks like the In progress TV shows widget (which is a default Estuary submenu that I didn't touch) is built using a video node and not an xsp file. So if you want to customize that you'd have to change the TV Show node. If you're not familiar with Kodi Video Nodes, here's some info:
https://kodi.wiki/view/Video_nodes
Alternatively, you could modify my mod to use an xsp file for that widget as well. In xml/Includes_Mod.xml on line 349 you would just need to change the path to an xsp file (and create the xsp file). You can use line 357 as an example of how to do the path so it looks for the file in the playlist folder of the skin.
As to the layout change of the list, I can't quite decide if it's possible or not. The widget containers are defined as panels, and the wiki page makes it sound like you could have a panel with multiple rows, but none of the example code showed how you would do it. If you really want to look at it, you basically need to change all the WidgetList includes in xml/Includes_Home.xml. Here's the wiki page on the Panel container:
https://kodi.wiki/view/Panel_Container
I took a stab at changing the playlist location but I think the in-progress TV shows goes a bit kooky when you try to omit a certain show from appearing in it. Nothing showed up. It's alright though.
Also I decided against the panel conversion. It would definitely have to be set per submenu item since having all expanded into panel arrays would make scrolling down take forever.
I really like the tweak you made to the music visualization layout. One thing I noticed that seems to be a regular arrangement in most skins is that the artist is on top in larger font while the track number and song title are small and beneath the album title. Do you think it would make more hierarchical sense to swap the track number/song title with the artist on top? I imagine most would want to know the name of a song before looking for the artist.
Cheers!
I didn't change the size of those items, just the location. Interesting, my spouse and I are usually just interested at a glace who the artist is. Just goes to show there's no pleasing everyone.
'-)