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(2018-03-20, 22:03)docwra Wrote: [ -> ]I kept seeing this question come up with nobody really answering how they actually did it, so I wrote a wiki piece on it as its a common question.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Estuary_Modificat...Menu_Items

Hopefully that explains it all until this is possible through the GUI.

You can actually do more than that. With SSH access to your Kodi box, you can create your custom menu like this:
1. If you're on LibreELEC: copy the entire skin directory with cp -R /usr/share/kodi/addons/skin.estuary ~/.kodi/addons
2. Rename the copied directory to skin.estuary-mod, then rename the skin id and name in the 2nd line of ~/.kodi/addons/skin.estuary-mod/addon.xml accordingly
3. Make the desired view a favourite, for example you want to have a menu item for foreign language movies, so add all foreign language movies into the same movie set and make it a favourite
4. Open ~/.kodi/userdata/favorites.xml and note the ActivateWindow command including the parameters in between the (brackets), this will be the command to open your custom menu entry
5. Open ~/.kodi/addons/skin.estuary-mod/xml/Home.xml
6. Choose a menu item you do not use, for example "Games", find the string "ActivateWindow(Games)" in Home.xml
7. Rename the entry within <label>, and replace the png file within <thumb>, for example with movies.png
8. Remove visibility check within <visible> except !Skin.HasSetting, with which you can enable/disable all custom menu items
9. If you want to remove the text when moving to your new menu item, first open file strings.po in ~/.kodi/addons/skin.estuary-mod/language/resource.language.en_us, and find the string id (for "Games", this is id 31162 as per Kodi 9.0.1)
10. Open Home.xml again and find id 31162, comment out from <include content="ImageWidget"> to </include>, this will disable the text "Play your personal games..."
11. Copy the new menu item and rename the <label> and <onclick> directives, but keep property name (menu_id and id) the same as for the original games menu item
12. Reorder your menu items to your liking and reboot Kodi

have been testing my mods on an android emulator i can not get it to install from zip but if you edit the theme on pc then copy the skin from C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\skin.estuary.custom to kodi folder

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=338955
this is a mod Esturay with some of my mods added
backdrops using (resource.images.skinbackgrounds.silver) this can be changed with notepad++ replace name
mpaa ratings
bold font
upto 6 custom menu items (on off menu) made with custom play list

baby girl rhymes

(2018-03-20, 22:03)docwra Wrote: [ -> ]I kept seeing this question come up with nobody really answering how they actually did it, so I wrote a wiki piece on it as its a common question.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Estuary_Modificat...Menu_Items

Hopefully that explains it all until this is possible through the GUI.

I found this link by search... it's exactly what's i need, put the addons section before games on home menu. I avoid opening a request thread

but you replied to an old thread.... hmmm

Always good to bump an old thread with useful info. 

I've been updating the Wiki guide regularly and will again in the future when I start to do Matrix Mods of Estuary

https://kodi.wiki/view/Estuary_Modificat...Menu_Items

I really hope others will add to the info one day as many people must modify Estuary and find it hard.

(2019-11-27, 19:04)docwra Wrote: [ -> ]Always good to bump an old thread with useful info. 

I've been updating the Wiki guide regularly and will again in the future when I start to do Matrix Mods of Estuary

https://kodi.wiki/view/Estuary_Modificat...Menu_Items

I really hope others will add to the info one day as many people must modify Estuary and find it hard.

that what you would think but i have got little feedback even the one i wrote to be added the wiki https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=344593

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=344394

(2019-11-28, 02:31)the_other_guy Wrote: [ -> ]

(2019-11-27, 19:04)docwra Wrote: [ -> ]Always good to bump an old thread with useful info. 

I've been updating the Wiki guide regularly and will again in the future when I start to do Matrix Mods of Estuary

https://kodi.wiki/view/Estuary_Modificat...Menu_Items

I really hope others will add to the info one day as many people must modify Estuary and find it hard.

that what you would think but i have got little feedback even the one i wrote to be added the wiki https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=344593

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=344394 

Anyone can edit the wiki Feel free to get an account and upload stuff like this as it gets lost in the forum.

I will make a note to do it as well if you don't manage it. Nice guide!

(2019-11-27, 18:27)tjay260476 Wrote: [ -> ]but you replied to an old thread.... hmmm

old thread ? Problably but it's only on two or third page of entire section