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When it comes to movies, I almost always prefer the plot outline over the full summary. The full summary is always far too long, much less interesting, and usually spoiler-ridden. Since Amber uses the full summary by default and offers no option to change it in the GUI, I had to go into the XML files to achieve the result I wanted. Changing line 140 in Includes_Variables.xml from this:


to this:


did the trick nicely.

The problem arises when it comes to TV shows. It's very rare that IMDB stores a plot outline for television episodes, and unlike with movies, the full summaries are usually perfectly fine. So I need to find a way to use the plot outline with movies while keeping the full summaries active with TV shows.

Any suggestions?

(2015-09-08, 03:33)GStacks13 Wrote: [ -> ]When it comes to movies, I almost always prefer the plot outline over the full summary. The full summary is always far too long, much less interesting, and usually spoiler-ridden. Since Amber uses the full summary by default and offers no option to change it in the GUI, I had to go into the XML files to achieve the result I wanted. Changing line 140 in Includes_Variables.xml from this:

Code:

<value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Plot)">$INFO[ListItem.Plot]</value>

to this:

Code:

<value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Plot) + Container.Content(movies)">$INFO[ListItem.PlotOutline]</value>

did the trick nicely.

The problem arises when it comes to TV shows. It's very rare that IMDB stores a plot outline for television episodes, and unlike with movies, the full summaries are usually perfectly fine. So I need to find a way to use the plot outline with movies while keeping the full summaries active with TV shows.

Any suggestions?

<value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Plot) + Container.Content(movies)">$INFO[ListItem.PlotOutline]</value>

<value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Plot) + !Container.Content(movies)">$INFO[ListItem.Plot]</value>

BTW, I still think this should be option in KODI itself as it should be a general user preference that should be kept throughout all skins.

(2015-09-09, 14:38)pecinko Wrote: [ -> ]<value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Plot) + Container.Content(movies)">$INFO[ListItem.PlotOutline]</value>

<value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Plot) + !Container.Content(movies)">$INFO[ListItem.Plot]</value>

BTW, I still think this should be option in KODI itself as it should be a general user preference that should be kept throughout all skins.

This does exactly what I was intending, thanks a lot! And yes, I completely agree with you. With all the configuration options already available in Kodi, this seems like something that should've been toggleable long ago.