(2014-04-06, 13:18)Scottland Wrote: Can you elaborate a little, I don't understand how it's supposed to work?
Basically you can set any path as a background widget. If you go to Skin Settings > General and turn on Show Debug Info then you can see the path in the top right corner. So for recent movies I just use the library path to recent movies -- videodb://recentlyaddedmovies/
So for example, if I turn on debug info then I can go into Youtube > Explore Youtube > Youtube Feeds > Trending Videos and see that the path is:
Code:
plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?feed=feed_trending&login=false&path=%2froot%2fexplore%2ffeeds%2ftrending
I can then go to Skin Settings > Home Tiles > Customise. Click on a tile and choose background widgets and the select set path and set the path to that and it will then use that youtube feed as the background widget. You can do it for basically any plugin/path that you want.
You can also use paths from here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Opening_Windows_and_Dialogs
The things that work best are things with fanart (xbmctorrent is great for this as many of the feeds have fanart like yify torrents). Things that dont work so great are ones that don't even have thumbs (e.g. genres or years isn't very good because there isn't a background to show).
(2014-04-06, 13:57)da-anda Wrote: jurialmunkey - while reading about the trailers widget - would it be difficult to make the trailer path configurable? I'd like to use the "filmstarts.de" addon instead of youtube to get localized trailers. I know that I could hack the skin files, but I'm more asking about a "custom trailer path" skin setting. But move that to the end of the todo list in case you think about supporting it.
edit: about the home tiles rearrange thingy - would it work with a python script and filling the home tiles with it (using <content> or something)?
I'm actually planning on making them all customisable.
Yeah I thought about the filling from a script -- the problem is that I made each tile as its own separate button rather than using a list control so I had a bit more control over things like animations etc (so no content tag to fill). Plus, using a script means submitting it to the repo which means another thing to maintain.