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Hello everyone,

I have slightly modified the DialogVideoInfo.xml. Kodi/the scraper is set to display the localized movie title, but I still would like to have the original title displayed on the info screen.
For now I have added it to the 'InfoDialogMetadata'-section on the right, and at least on my windows install it does work.

Now I have this questions:
1. would it be possible to replace the tagline right under the title at the top of the information screen with the original title? would it even be possible to do that only if the localized title and the original title are not the same?
2. where do i have to put the file on a fire tv device? I made my changes on my windows install, now i need to copy the modified file over to the fire tv stick.

Thanks in advance,
vonson

Nevermind, I found several suggestions to simply copy the whole skin folder to the addons-folder and rename it. This seems to work.


I also copied the settings.xml file.
It seems the skin color setting is not saved (I use 'charcoal'), I had to manually set it.
Is there anything known what other settings are not saved in settings.xml?

(2021-12-09, 00:43)vonson Wrote: [ -> ]Is there anything known what other settings are not saved in settings.xml?

Some settings are saved in the guisettings.xml file in the Userdata (wiki) folder.

Do you mean that some of the skin settings are saved in guisettings.xml?
But what I meant was settings that don't get saved at all. The color-scheme setting of estuary does not get saved at all. If I return to the unmodified estuary skin, the color-scheme is back to default and I have to reset it.

(2021-12-09, 01:49)vonson Wrote: [ -> ]The color-scheme setting of estuary does not get saved at all.

Its in the guisettings.xml file.

Are you sure it is? Because it never is restored whenever I revert back to Estuary from any other skin - or is it overwritten when another skin is installed?

(2021-12-09, 04:34)vonson Wrote: [ -> ]or is it overwritten when another skin is installed?

Yes, switching between skins sets colours and themes (and probably fonts) back to default for the default skin.

In Colors folder rename defaults.xml to something like old defaults.xml and then copy charcoal.xml then rename this copy to defaults.xml



With this done the charcoal theme will be loaded as the skin default.

Since it is only this one setting I wasn't really bothered or even expecting a solution, but that is a nice suggestion.

But, more important, are there any other settings that will be reset to default when switching skin that I should be aware of?