(2024-02-21, 09:23)black_eagle Wrote: PR's to address the profile issues would be very welcome.
i'm sure but ...
i don't personally know how to fix it
i don't personally use profiles (or have a use for them) so the fact they break things is less important to
me
predating my forum account i did try to submit PRs and they were shut down every time for various reasons but mostly because team-kodi doesn't like the way i do things and therefor i don't bother with that sort of thing just to waste my time
(2024-02-21, 10:59)Hitcher Wrote: Not sure if you missed my comment in the other thread but I said you can hide categories in the settings.xml but not sections. And jjd-uk showed you how to hide a sections in a skin.
yes, thank you for your responses but i want the icon in categories to disappear "completely" when a category is disabled, the way Games disappears when it is disabled
that being nothing to do with this feature request only a side effect of the suggestion that was made here to just change the settings level to 4 in system/settings.xml
the feature request here was to have additional settings levels that would
1. be set in guisettings.xml as
Code:
<general>
<settinglevel>5</settinglevel>
</general>
which would determine that the settings are "read-only", meaning no user may change anything but can view what the settings are set to
2. additionally would have a level 4 which would completely remove settings from the skin entirely, as if every category was set to level 4 in system/settings.xml
3. when fixed, that setting could be set and overridden from advancedsettings.xml but settinglevel is not read from advancedsettings like the rest of the settings, there is no override possible
the goal would be to make kodi granny-friendly by locking out settings that granny shouldn't change entirely
yes, i can and do override most from advancedsettings which results in a more friendly interface but still the Profiles and PVR section are left in the settings until i remove them from the skin manually which is more work than just putting an override in advancedsettings
plus i don't really want to keep a custom skin
since this feature request is not possible my only recourse is to just change the skin and remove the sections icons from the skin as jjd did point out, even if it is a lot more annoying to do