2016-06-28, 06:06
If interested in removing the lower 3 buttons & expanding your side menu (vertical menu), this is what i did. At the current "button" width, it allows for 10 buttons utilizing no scroll wheel (for some reason, i just can't accept that on my personal home menu, a huge reason why i dont like horizontal menus either).
Edit the xml file below:
kodi\addons\skin.phenomenal\1080P\home.vertical.xml
change all instances of
<height>980</height> to <height>1080</height>
(i assume this part is to allow the menu area to be separate from the buttons at the bottom.
Remove
find & remove the code for this (both instances of it so it will be the same either RTL or LTR)
<description>Power push button</description>
<description>Settings button</description>
<description>Favourites button</description>
dont just take out the descriptions but the whole code in that area, its fairly obvious as the creator of phenomenal did a good job at putting in notations & separating out code.
then remove this code to remove the bottom line (its a black line used with the buttons that were there, looks funky if leave it in). There are 2 instances of this as well (the code is all basically duplicated for RTL & LTR).
<!-- Bottom line -->
<control type="image">
<left>1630</left>
<top>1000</top>
<width>290</width>
<height>20</height>
<texture>shadow_horizontal.png</texture>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="80" time="0" condition="true">Conditional</animation>
<animation effect="slide" start="290,0" end="0,0" delay="100" time="500">WindowOpen</animation>
<animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="290,0" delay="0" time="300">WindowClose</animation>
</control>
No more 3 buttons on the bottom home menu! Until a better solution comes out (& since i can function fine with this edit so i wont really be looking), this makes the skin exactly what i wanted Transparency (previous skin based heavily on fanart such as Phenomenal) to be.
I really hope he keeps up the skin in future releases. I like official skins, seem to just work & i like that.
Edit the xml file below:
kodi\addons\skin.phenomenal\1080P\home.vertical.xml
change all instances of
<height>980</height> to <height>1080</height>
(i assume this part is to allow the menu area to be separate from the buttons at the bottom.
Remove
find & remove the code for this (both instances of it so it will be the same either RTL or LTR)
<description>Power push button</description>
<description>Settings button</description>
<description>Favourites button</description>
dont just take out the descriptions but the whole code in that area, its fairly obvious as the creator of phenomenal did a good job at putting in notations & separating out code.
then remove this code to remove the bottom line (its a black line used with the buttons that were there, looks funky if leave it in). There are 2 instances of this as well (the code is all basically duplicated for RTL & LTR).
<!-- Bottom line -->
<control type="image">
<left>1630</left>
<top>1000</top>
<width>290</width>
<height>20</height>
<texture>shadow_horizontal.png</texture>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="80" time="0" condition="true">Conditional</animation>
<animation effect="slide" start="290,0" end="0,0" delay="100" time="500">WindowOpen</animation>
<animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="290,0" delay="0" time="300">WindowClose</animation>
</control>
No more 3 buttons on the bottom home menu! Until a better solution comes out (& since i can function fine with this edit so i wont really be looking), this makes the skin exactly what i wanted Transparency (previous skin based heavily on fanart such as Phenomenal) to be.
I really hope he keeps up the skin in future releases. I like official skins, seem to just work & i like that.