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The problem with that is, everyone wants something different. Everyones idea of what isn't appropriate for children is different. Violence, nudity, the rating, genre, whatever. It becomes impossible to add dozens of options. Instead, developers give you tool and let you decide. Besides, making a smart playlist takes a whopping 15 seconds.

well... I disagree, otherwise it would be a waste also to have recent items, you could make a playlist for that, and you could make playlists for everything. Most people using final software don't even understand making a smart playlist.. adding the option to widgets is 4 lines of code in fact here it is:

Code:

def _fetch_info_recentitems(self):
        a = datetime.datetime.now()
        if __addon__.getSetting("recentitems_enable") == 'true':
            self.RECENTITEMS_UNPLAYED = __addon__.getSetting("recentitems_unplayed") == 'true'
            self.RECENTITEMS_UNRRATED = __addon__.getSetting("recentitems_unrrated") == 'true'
            self._fetch_movies('RecentMovie')
            self._fetch_tvshows('RecentEpisode')
            self._fetch_musicvideo('RecentMusicVideo')
            self._fetch_albums('RecentAlbum')
            b = datetime.datetime.now()
            c = b - a
            log('Total time needed to request recent items queries: %s' % c)
            
    def _fetch_movies(self, request):
        if not xbmc.abortRequested:
            json_string = '{"jsonrpc": "2.0",  "id": 1, "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "params": {"properties": ["title", "originaltitle", "playcount", "year", "genre", "studio", "country", "tagline", "plot", "runtime", "file", "plotoutline", "lastplayed", "trailer", "rating", "resume", "art", "streamdetails", "mpaa", "director"], "limits": {"end": %d},' %self.LIMIT
            if request == 'RecommendedMovie':
                json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('%s "sort": {"order": "descending", "method": "lastplayed"}, "filter": {"field": "inprogress", "operator": "true", "value": ""}}}' %json_string)
            elif request == 'RecentMovie' and self.RECENTITEMS_UNRRATED and self.RECENTITEMS_UNPLAYED:
                json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('%s "sort": {"order": "descending", "method": "dateadded"}, "filter": {"field": "mpaarating", "operator": "isnot", "value": "Rated R"}, "filter": {"field": "mpaarating", "operator": "isnot", "value": "Rated R"}}}' %json_string)
            elif request == 'RecentMovie' and self.RECENTITEMS_UNPLAYED:
                json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('%s "sort": {"order": "descending", "method": "dateadded"}, "filter": {"field": "playcount", "operator": "is", "value": "0"}}}' %json_string)
            elif request == 'RecentMovie' and self.RECENTITEMS_UNRRATED:
                json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('%s "sort": {"order": "descending", "method": "dateadded"}, "filter": {"field": "mpaarating", "operator": "isnot", "value": "Rated R"}}}' %json_string)
            elif request == 'RecentMovie':
                json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('%s "sort": {"order": "descending", "method": "dateadded"}}}' %json_string)
            elif request == "RandomMovie" and self.RANDOMITEMS_UNPLAYED:
                json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('%s "sort": {"method": "random" }, "filter": {"field": "playcount", "operator": "lessthan", "value": "1"}}}' %json_string)
            else:
                json_query = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('%s "sort": {"method": "random" } }}' %json_string)
            json_query = unicode(json_query, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
            json_query = simplejson.loads(json_query)

then, given this tool you can decide if you want to use it or not.
I don't necessarily agree with the rating system, nor support it, nor live on US soil.
But I think it's a quick way to exclude movies "generally" considered as inappropriate for children. Then again I don't care if my brother kids come over and watch movies with whopping language, nudity, sex, whatever... but i'm not Everyone.

anyway since this is Martijn's project, I'll leave to him to choose. If this makes it in, good , if not ... still good.
Widgets is a great script anyways.

Thanks.