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Thanks for all these insights DaVu! Maybe some/somebody decide to go for it anyway even if it's not easy (I wasn't suggesting that it is). I think it could be very useful to many and improve Kodi a lot.

It's probably not so much a feature request for Estuary than a general Kodi feature request (but available with the default skin).

I just hoped that such feature requests were easily findable and in separate issues like on GitHub (where one can also subscribe to them). Here it'll probably just drown instead of facilitating or making it more likely that motivated people interested in this develop it.

The usefulness of that view wouldn't be as large if one had (or could easily add) a main menu entry for Documentaries and could exclude Documentaries (and short films) from the Movies view (which they would clutter especially if one has many documentaries) - that's a separate proposal linked above.

Currently, one has to basically to decide beforehand which genre to watch and then go to the view showing all entries of it, rather than just browsing your organized library and deciding what to watch during doing so (like in film distributor stores, popular streaming sites, checking TV scheduling or zapping TV channels). I never watch movies this way, except for sometimes when I feel like watching a documentary (or short film) instead of anything else. I'm sure it's the same for many others, including because it makes much sense and because all other similar ways and alternatives (named earlier) allow for this and many people are used to this (and probably looking for such a feature and consider it "basic" functionality).

An advanced versions of this, like showing two rows when pressing the right arrow once, could basically be a moonshot-type effort but still be worth it. More basic versions aren't that far from what's already implemented: the Movies frontpage (just hovering over Movies and not pressing enter) already shows these rows for "recently added", "recently viewed" and so on. Just not genres. So this would basically only require the left panel to autocollapse after a while for a fullscreen view of the frontpage (a separate task) and adding these genres-rows, which in the most basic form wouldn't require your described 32 settings but could simply show the genres in order of which have the most marked as watched.