Kodi Community Forum - customizing a viewtype

I'm trying to move a few things around for this file: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...FanArt.xml
This shows a file list on the left, with movies and their year of release. Bottom right has the movie synopsis. How do I customize this, like removing the release year?
The plot textbox says "<label>$VAR[PlotTextBoxVar]</label>" but I can't seem to change it. Even when I remove that variable, the plot just stays visible.
I'm doing my best to read the documentation, but I can't find where to look. Any pointers?

(2022-11-27, 02:48)teus Wrote: [ -> ]Even when I remove that variable, the plot just stays visible.

You need to reload the skin for any changes to become effective.

(2022-11-27, 09:57)roidy Wrote: [ -> ]
(2022-11-27, 02:48)teus Wrote: [ -> ]Even when I remove that variable, the plot just stays visible.

You need to reload the skin for any changes to become effective.

yeah, I have reloaded the skin. still nothing. I checked the logs, if there's errors then they show up for that file. I must be editing the right file.
at first I thought I was editing the wrong files, https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=370283

Just tested, works ok for me.

Referring to you other thread, i think you're using the wrong directory:-

Quote:In my user folder C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\addon_data\ I can copypaste the skin.estuary folder with my modified files, and this also makes no difference at all.

That is the skins settings directory not the actual skin directory.

Copy the skin.estuary directory from C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\ into the addons directory where your version of Kodi is installed, for example D:\kodi\addons - then edit the xml files in that new version of the skin.