[Technometry]

hi Mike, first off, Thank you for all this work you do. Your skin is excellent.

I have a question that may have been asked before but there is way too much to search through this forum on a wild goose chase, so if it has been answered before and it is too much trouble to answer again, feel free to say so and I will delve into the 428 pages of posts to find it. I already tried searching but it didn't help much.

So I have been tearing through the code looking for a way to change the default Skin Settings to no avail. More specifically, I want to make it to where the skin defaults to "ICONS" and the "LOW" horizontal main menu position instead of "5 items" and "center". I found where to get the skin settings option to say "icons' and "low" by default, but it doesn't actually change the setting on the home menu. So I figured I would ask the master.

Any direction you could give me would be greatly appreciated, even if it is just you telling me the .XML file to look in (which would be a massive help alone). Please don't go too far out of your way to answer, as I know you must be a busy guy, and I actually enjoy going through the code to learn how it works, but I seem to be stumped on this one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for this great skin mod/fork you have made for us!

Why change the default? Once you set the setting it will not revert and if you need to re-install just backup and use the settings.xml file in the addon_data /skin.aeon.nox.silvo folder in userdata (wiki).

Because I am making my own fork of your skin and when I install it, I want it to default to certain settings without having to copy the settings.xml. No big deal if you don't have time to get into it, I completely understand. I have just been tearing out all the conditionals in the Home.xml and Includes_Home.xml files that cause the skin to check the setting so that it just flat out defaults to what I want without a setting. However, I would prefer to just know where to go to change where the skin defaults to as the method I have undertaken rips out a whole lot of your customization features that you worked so hard on. Thanks in advance, whether you have any insight for me to go on or not. Regardless, thanks for all your hard work.