2015-02-13, 01:41
(2015-02-13, 00:17)DjCisco Wrote: Automatically adding Menus is simply not the philosophy of the BOX skin. It simply wouldnt workout because BOX has no standard menus. Each one of the 15 Menus could be the Live Tv Menu.
Indeed, none of the menus on my install are out-of-the-box.
I've got:
- A Live TV menu
- TV shows--using a custom playlist widget to display shows by date aired, rather than date added.
- Home Movies menu with custom playlist widget that displays only movies with a "HomeMovies" genre.
- Movies with widget that displays only movies *without* the HomeMovies genre.
- A Favorites/weather/program menu.
I don't use the scroll down 4/5 boxes at all, and have removed all but Power and Settings from the left-hidden menu. Music is non-existent on this box, as it's purely for video.
While confluence has more options and compatibility, it can't do all of the above easily or simply.
One of my issues with a lot of skins is that they display *everything* on screen. I'm a fan of simplicity in design, and my wife gets frustrated with needlessly complex interfaces, so Box (and previously nBox) are/were perfect. Prior, I was using Bello. I've avoided the mess that is most skins for a very very long time and would hate to see Box go that route. Useability comes with simplicity and intuitiveness, which Box has. In fact, I've held back on moving to KODI until Box was ready.